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year including the last there's a few weeks ago that was focused on the muni corridors at the same time, we're in the process of having an the projects with vision zero the slide said 12 we're up to 14 of the vision zero projects that are completed with more in june and just like as well as others improvements to advanced safety so for all road use workers just to remind you the 2 year capital budgets we're approved we're not here to talk about the second year the operating year budget we're finishing the first year but have those additional revenues to supplement the capital budget it is based on those 3 things the development fees are greater than anticipated and the
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population based general fund baseline increase essential from prop b which thanks to the supervisors leadership as well as additional general fund from kind of our preprop b baseline that because of the increased tax revenues from the city we have available for to exercise our light rail so this is the money associated with those 3 we're on items 9 and 10 first of all, the increase in development fees and the $2.4 million we have thanks to pricilla chan and third appropriate additional $8 million of general fund for the baseline has grown thanks to the strength of the economy the first piece is the development
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concocts and the way they're allocated through the implementation committee process a group of folks from around the city agencies that work with the people in each of the plan areas to determine how the development impact fees that were established in the plan areas should be allocated so this year other revenues coming through emancipation proclamation pick going to parks programs and other city assets ross the ones that are coming to the transportation system that we're requesting our authorization to appropriate the funds primarily in the eastern neighborhoods the largest development area market octavia also a little bit in visitacion valley and chinatown total of 14.3 new revenue and total we're seeking appropriation authority for
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second this is prop b this is $24.4 million that again thanks to supervisor wiener leadership and the rest of the board getting that on the bottle we have this money to invest in our transportation system pub called for 75 percent of the additional funds raised by the population adjustment to go towards transit and what we're proposing is to invest that all in enhanced traffic capacity in transit vehicles a combination of 60 and 40 feet vehicles that support the muni forward recommended service increases that we're doing with our operating budget those are the vehicles that allows us to continue to increase the service particularly on the lines with the most riders the other 25 percent of the prop a revenues we're proposing for safety
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initiatives is number of different things from signals to bike and peddling infrastructure and traffic calming this is flexible money to plug gaps in projects or add additional projects 25 percent prop b third item without prop b there are general fund to the agency through the charter formula this item is seeking our authorization to appropriate $8 million of the alleged general fund so that we can exercise the first option in the light rail vehicle to determine you had authorized i think in december the replacement of hundred and 51 vehicles the expansion to add 24 more light rail vehicles to the fleet and the first option of the an additional 40 vehicles we're
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ready to experience that option we need $8 million for the controller to be sure to certify to have that option the amount of the options is color to $2 million the balance we're hoping from state grant fund we've made our first application to the to the cap & trade program this is items 11 12 and 13 for the approval and issuance and the first prop a the transportation and road improvement bonds and as you can see summarizing it's largely as we said when we came here to seek our approval for the bond advancing muni forward this is a piece of the increasing the reliability on
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caltrain and another other safety improvements as you can see here the high-level breakdown of the information we've provided in the budget analyst report about $66 million worth of projects more than 40 of which are focused on muni forward in terms of the muni forward projects here are the specific projects we're proposing now those are in different states of planning so i know we're working with the offices on some of them and the scopes and timelines may change so generally this is how we tipped to use the first round of prop a money moving forward the schedules are here and those like for the prop b funds are in categories and we have provided more detail on those generally
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for all the bike and pedestrian safety money i'm sure you're aware of we're using the analysis from walk first and our bike strategy to focus those investments and but let me go back because i skipped over a little bit just to remind you ward to caltrain modernization program each the caltrain county sacking, san mateo and san francisco pledged in a 9 party mou of which the city is one of the parties $60 million each the 3 counties putting in $60 million a portion is coming from prop k satellites and geobond funds this is the first bit to meet the cash flow of the modernization practice writing project from prop a
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other thing i've skipped over better market street this is an interagency project that's been lead by public works and this allocation would enable the project to advance very well i think some general fund money you'll see in the mayors proposed budget as well this is bond money that is essential to advancing the market street program so i did want to note that it is not just the line items that talk about bike and public safety that are advancing safety in our streets the better market street project virtual all the muni forward programs are contributing towards the city's goal of vision zero you as the board and the transbay joint
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powers authority have forwarded the bond for the $500 million $300 million will advance vision zero you can see that with the amount of funds for muni forward directly to the better market street initiatives we're making serious investments here and making how streets safer so this is the first of what we anticipate 4 issuance of the $500 million this is roughly what we anticipate the fire chief issuances to look like this is more or less felt next 3 years so that's what i have i want to thank the mta staff and caltrain and particular the controller's office and the mayors and the
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budget analyst for their reports i'm available to answer any questions. >> thank you director reiskin colleagues any questions. >> supervisor mar. >> thank you mr. reiskin i have a question of the geobond issuance slide number 11 to the lions share is muni rapid network is that a lot of the network we characterized can you talk about what muni forward is. >> that's exactly what it is the the course of this trial e p was the planning process that really culminated with the mta board of directors in march of april of last year capital projects that are focused on the higher frequency corridor we are reducing the details to improve the
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reliability and safety those capital projects recommended by the t e p are part of the unforward program that includes the additional vehicles and better communications the increased services but the t e p recommends those on the following slides in terms of of the project schedules lists the projects those are the sectors ready for the next infusion of capital both are our letter and the budget analyst report talk about each but the short answer those are the t e p recommendations for for capital improvements to reduce muni on those corridors. >> i'll say at least for my district the 5 fulsome rapid has been a tremendous improvement and a lot of the another improvements i see throughout the city have role important i think that the reframing of it
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as a rapid network is predicament i'm not appreciative of that i want to say making streets safer is a strategic priorities and preflth of the projects moderate but for the 24 percent of prop b new funds there's a about a million dollars perpetuated walk first and bicycle improvements that's on top of what of the already kind of in place and those are additional funds you're using to there pedestrian and bike safety work. >> that's correct this is new money above and beyond what was 90 in our approved capital budget again not just those two line items the line item follow
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the paving we'll attach other bicycle and pedestrian safety to the public works paving projects the signal work is really all about safety so all this money is advancing safety as some of the concoct revenues and, yes this is all above and beyond what was in our improved budget. >> i know the signals at least 3 of them in front of the senior centers i see the traffic signals as part of top 3 that's a lot of additional resources for the safe our streets and vision zero thank you. >> supervisor wiener. >> thank you mr. chairman and mrelg i'll start with the good i'm pleased with loot of the
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work the agency is doing around muni i think any public comment? with all it's continuing challenges is moving in a positive direction and really made good decisions with investments and changes and muni forward and so i'm really i'm pleased with the direction of muni i also really want to compliment in terms of the i guess moving forward called puc is that shawn kennedy has done a terrific job there difficult circumstances working with the community so that is role a good obviously the funding situation is terrific and great we're able to make those investments the investment we're making are strategic i think i mean we've talked
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about this and i had kinetics with others at the agency i have a high frustration level right now with vision zero about project delivery and communication i can identify 3 projects in my district where the agency has really struggled to put basic delivery and basic communication not only in my office but the public i'm really is seems like it is ongoing we have conversation with the agency and we try to work through that and nothing changes and it makes that harder to deliver projects and harder to deliver support and to have the political cover for the agency to make sometimes controversial decisions i want to know what the agencies are doing to
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approve the project delivery i've had many, many conversations not only with you but mr. maguire about diamond and bossing worst that is such a problematic project in terms of the project delivery and communications we're seeing communications challenges after the avenues and now with the upper market project so i'm occurs to know what the agency can do better to deliver those promotions so we have the fund and the great ideas and the strategy but actually getting them to deliver with go communication. >> yeah. well, thank you first of all for acknowledging the good work that is happen on muni and with muni forward but there's a lot we've be able to get done with the boarding and the mayor but with with regard
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to the vision zero and other elements of what we're trying to accomplish first of all i acknowledge the challenges with the project delivery and consumption having come from public works and delivery oriented culture we're focusing on heavy with the mta we've had a number of projects large and small that have been delivered well, this week we celebrated the completion of a $250 million tunnel contract for the central subway but projects they have been delivery and communication challenges those are hard to get support so it is something first of all we recognize and need to improve open there's a number of steps we're taking everything from training putting all the
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prrlgz through enhanced project train and all the capital brokerages into the system so good ways to manage the performances and catch things ahead of time for things off track in terms of scheduling and created what wear calling a public outreach engage team strategy and we're putting our folks through training in terms of better work with the public to better and more efficiently capture feedback and design projects and manage construction impacts and manage delivery we're also as an action placing for new to make sure we're staffed up to deliver the projects and the systems in place to support the delivery that way we'll be more
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transparent in reporting to the public and communicating with the public to our board and your board of the progress no one in your agency didn't want to see those dollars well spent and in the ground efficiently and in ways that community will support we certainly had struggles but are working hard to make sure we're can deliver for the whole capital program to effective in improving the reliability and in particular safety it is the number one goal that strategic goal for our agency adopted by your board of directors directors we were doing everything we can to improve project deliveries to we can be a big contributor in the goals of vision zero.
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>> i mean, i hope it works it is a frustrate year one thing i've observed when our work with project managers additional f p w our old agency they're very empowered to communicate and make decisions you know that when our talking with the prrlg you're talking with the decision maker so communication has happened with the public happens quickly it's not my experience i don't know if it is a cultural thing why in the agency the project team feels disencountered with communicating with the public for example santa fe avenue we have our pilot project there was significant misinformation floating on next door and other
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places about what the project was to my knowledge mta has not issued and statement so that is one example i'm wondering i would encourage you to try to empower those project teams to communicate without the approval process to get the power to do that arrest that's a fair point it's my observation when i moved to the agents part of the project manager train and what's behind we hired a deputy director in favor of the capital delivery we're hire manage of project delivery for our sustainable streets division to change that culture we've had a culture agency where people with title project manager have been
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empowered as project coordinators not owning the project communications but facility the flow of the work and that is the shift we're making shifting to ownership of the scope, schedule and budget and community process this is which is an absolutely necessary ingredient for affordability and success. >> i'm curious how things are going with the fire department in terms of good street design and not design streets that are overly wide and more dangerous and bulb outs and all that we've had a good result in asking around the blow up of the shipyard design we have designed a few things the fire departments observed on the bulb out and others challenges i know there of the one bulb out last
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year the fire department objected to a school bulb out and the magnifying took the credit and protected it over the fire department i'm curious to know how things are going we had a new example in my district the hundred block of indicating trees the fire department want to take out all the parking spaces on 1 side the street because it was narrow the neighborhoods were not happy just occurs to know how that's going. >> to my knowledge we've had pretty good conversations and collaborations with the fire department i've talked directly with the chief she's assigned an assistant chief to work with us the folks in the enter departmental committees that we staff are communications are
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better only thing i've heard of happening in a few recent issues around mcallister street and some instances individual members of the fire department have been going to community meetings not on behalf of the fire department saying many of the pedestrian safety will pled did fire access by the way we've gotten a written microorganism shotgun the fire department is supportive so your officer is circling us to make sure we continue that way. >> i'll encourage the agency to continue to hold firm, of course working with the fire department because as you stated there are companies that have
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good solutions so i'll encourage them to stay strong in pursuing vision zero goals thank you. >> okay. colleagues questions or comments at this time mr. rose our report on a number of items. >> yes. mr. chairman and members of the committee regarding item 9 on page 7 right revolt of the 11 day appropriation of the concoct revenue 16.2 percent is appropriated to general streetscape enhancements those funds are not allocated to specific funds but will be to projects to other projects under construction to have money available when an opportunity to build pedestrian or bike and other streetscape improvements but not through - in their
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budgets those are non-projects specific funds that don't have an associated budget or spend plan we our recommendations to place the $2 million open budget finance committee reserve pending the selection of the reserve we state that on the bottom of page 7 by 7 we ask you amend this to place the $2 million on reserve specifically one million dollars in impact fee to the pedestrian safety and one million dollars to the market octavia enhancements totally $2 million pend selection of projects the only reason we do that supervisors there's no support for those projects we believe before you release those funds the committee should know
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exactly what our releasing the fund for. >> why not go through all of them sure. >> on page 15 of our report this is regarding items 11, 12 and 13 based on an converter interest rate the office of public finance the average debt services on the transportation and road improvement geobonds is approximately $4.5 million total implemented principle interests is approximately $90 million plus on page 16 of our report we noted the instances will pay afternoon property tax to the city per year if the anticipated 6 of .8 transportation and road
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improvements general fund are i'm sure you're aware of is the policy of the city not to result in increased property tax so existing bops are being redeemed no net increase in property tax on the bottom of page 6 according to the information by the sfmta and dph the 20 two departments use two different numbers san francisco municipal transportation agency rates charge the capitalized projects over 50 percent and not the 1/3rd shown in the report as compared to the rates charged by dph so we've connected table 5 on the page showing the difference direct and indirect charges for the two positions 5502 project manager and 4203
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assistant engineer as shown in table 5 sf is hundred and 57 thousand plus we show 34 percent is 59 percent higher and sfmta labor rates for the engineer is hundred and 33 thousand plus and again, the 35 percent should be 53.8 percent to use it new york no sense we make a recommendation to ask the controller to look at the mta's direct and indirect labor rates and make the elements prior to 9 next issuance of the transportation bonds anticipated in may 2016 we believe that is good legislation we recommend all of the two resolutions be approved. >> thank you to the mta any
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questions or comments on the reserve and the recommendation of mr. rose's. >> on behalf of mta no comments. >> okay thanks very much supervisor tang. >> sorry to add on to harvey's recommendations to items 11 12 and 13 if mta can provide clarity between the difference of public works and mta is calculating. >> sure we is have the office of public finance to address you on the body as well warmed up to the rates we have third party entities that develops our cost plan as development by the state and federal fund participates it's been approved by federal and state and the cal bonds