>> good morning and welcome to

had monthly meeting of the san francisco county transportation authority. i'll scott wiener the chairman the authority and want to thank sf gov t jennifer and chals crim nack for todays herem . >> avalos present. commissioner breed, abstant. commissioner christensen, present. commissioner farrell, presentism commissioner mar, abstant. commissioner yang, present. commissioner yee, present. we have quarm >> thank you very much. can you please call item 2 >> item 2, chairs report. this is a

nrfgz item. >> colleague yz hope everyone had a great recess and break. since we last convened in last july of this year a lot has happened around transportation in our satey and region. at the state level as you may have followed in the press we were very hopeful the governor and legislature through the legislative session on transportation would actually produce sig cnts revenue for transpor maintenance and infrastructure impruchbments. assembly members chew and mullen strongly advocateed for transportation to be incrude cloouded and i pressed for transportation and safer streets alt a hearing held in oakland. unfortunately the ledge #14r5i67er waechbt able to secure the 2/3 votes need today move forward a

transportation focused revenue package. subsquentsly the special session was extended and we remain hopeful that some sort of proposeal can which out of the legislature with our serious transportation funding challengesment mean while, we have many positive mile stones to celebrate in san francisco. i was pleased to tour the central subway projects which is making progress on station construction and aquipping the tunnel construction. commissioners ist crian kim and i celebrated the launch of historic trolley service with mayor lee, director chang and many community members including the market street rail way. the transportation authority provided 19 million dollars between the pop b and k programs mptd other great events in augincluded the

initiation of sfmt safer market [inaudible] and the opening of barts civic center bike station all received support from sales tax fungds. i want to thank the sfmta for delivering long overdue improvements in my district along upper market street to make that very challenged corridor safer for everyone and have nor improvements to come on upper markets. i also want to cu-mind bart non smooth transfwai closure over 2 weekend allowing the agency lay 5 miles of track to insure safe operations along the corridor. colleagues this is just the beginning of the huge amount of maintenance and capital work barts needs to do over the next decade. after 40 years of providing reliable service bart is basically operating with that 40 year

old original system and it is coming apart at the seems. bart needs massive investment and the agency needs our support in san francisco to insure this system which is part the life blood our regions economy and quality of life continue to meet the needs of a growing population. san francisco is growing by 10 thousand people a year. the region is project today grow by over 2 million people between now and 20 fourtd and bart has to operating at a glaiter level of reliability. that is quhie i hope next year we insuch join qu alameda and contra costa to pass a very significant bart capital bonds to rehabilitate to improve station squz beginning the plang process for a second transbay tube not just for bart, but for high speed rail and to connect cal train with the capital

corridor. we need to make sure that bond is large number and meets barts capital needs, we should not skimp on the bart bond. given the tremendous demand we see on all our transit systems and in light of the regions grow we need to plan forerally and subway tanst in all of san francisco. as result earlier this month i introduced legislation calling for san francisco to prepare a subway master plan and i know the transportation authority will be a participant in that process. we shouldn't repeat past mistakes where we completed the market street and bart and waited several decades before plang more subway lines mpt we need to insthur successful deliver of our current endeavors including the transbay terminal , cal trainect fiication and

cal train and high speed rail. we had a reliminary report from the transportation commission which i requested along with colleagues on the mtc in terms of cost review the transbay transit center project. i look flward to working with our director to bring the studies findings and recommendation tooz the full authority later this fall. i also want to note that we found out through the grapevine that 2 member s of the assembly [inaudible] introduced assembly bill 24 which dissolves the transportation commission and relace with a directly elected body. i think a lot of us think that is not a good direction for regional transportation planning in the bay uria area so we look forered to having a

dialogue with the author squz sure that bill quh xh to the transpor thaigz authority through our norchlal legislative process and think we need to make sure as we move forward with the transpor thaigz needs in our region we have real solutions without taking major steps backwards which this would end up being. colleaguesthality conclude my cort rort and we'll move to public comment on item 2. any public comment on item 2? seeing none public comment is closed. this was a nrgz item. >> item 3 exponenttival director report. this is a information item. director chang. >> good morning. tilly chang executive director. niges oo see. we remained bus a tracking a number of state and local legislative efforts. chair mentioned the special session it was

disappointing they were not able to reach consensus but haven't given up hope. wree tracking the federal legislation taz moves through congress and hope that will result in a long bill. one bright spot at the state level is ab 1 94 sponsored by assembly member fraisier is moved forward for the governors signature. this sh st. express lane authority bill that reauthorized these lanes throughout the state that we have been coordinate would the self help county to support. this is important because we are looking at our freeway lanes here in and do believe the high occupancy vehicle strategy combine would the express lane can be effective our fr our county. assembly member chews 1287 pass thd assembly and present today the governor for signature. this

is reauthorization the transit only lane enforcement. mta has for the muni system so we have forward facing cameras and enforce the double parking violating so hope that will make it through the governors signature. the 2015 active transportation program was not successful not only for san francisco but the entire bay area region. this was a heavily over subscribed benefit to support bike improvements. there was [inaudible] but only 8 sish projectess received 180 million of funding. there is a huge demand for these type of improvements. the bay area only received about 11 percent the funding versus the 20 percent share the population so we are concerned about that. not entirely

spizeing, surpriseing we knew there was risk where w the disadvantage communities that the bay area wasn't well positioned for the program. that said, we will continue to learn how we can improve our applications awlaung the partners i hope the regional round of active transportation program will yield better results. california high speed rail authority kicked off-the environmental planning wurg. we are very excited to see this mile stone. this is a segment of high speed rail that will enable the service from san francisco for transbay terminal to is san jose and connecting to the central valley. the high speed authority met with a number of agency squz we coordinate behind the scenes to insure good outreach and technical input. there was a open house ateneded on

september 8 so the high speed rail can atened the community meetings. we thank them for compling to san francisco and taking the input from our community. the transbait transit center will be the northern terminus of high speed rail and we coordinate with mtc cost review which is under way. as yoi recall the transportation authority asked for [inaudible] work with us on the mtc cost review and we have reviewed ways to help close the funding gap. several strategies emerged. there was a reliminary report and look forward to seeing the full recommendations as well aathize phase 2 cost review within a 90 day deadline that was set. what has emerged is the need for better risk management, cost estimation and perhaps also cost containment working group

orchange mechanism so we can review the change orders as they which dlou. we are confident we will get to a agreement. on the local front we are happy the geary corridor bus rapid transst will release our environmental document next month thmpt release date is scheduled for october 2, so we are very very excited for this mile stone. this project has been under development for many year jz this will begin the 45 day public comment review period. the mile stone will allow us to get 1 step close toor completing the project which already began design. mta began design the phase 1 portion thf project so we can begin providing reliability and pedestrian safety improvements in the corridor as we complete the environmental process. the goal would be to complete this round of

review by the end of the year and so that we would brin it forward to #3r50u6b8 approval in the summer of 2016. there was be a public comabout meeting october 5 at saint mar y's. [inaudible] our long range transportation planning as the chair mentioned will build off the chairs wequest for subway master plan and our acknowledged need for long range transit planning throughout the silty and county along with various other modes. the county wide transportation plan is track with the regional transportration plan update ment we are irk wg with planning department, sfmta and regional partner tooz create a framework that looks beyond 20

40 so we can imagine what the future could be with more coordinateed land use and transportation and investment and policies and programs to help meet the climate environmental and liveability goals. we'll bring that update in the coming months. [inaudible] we identified a consultant will help conduct this pole so we can be also ready in november 2016 potentially with a revenue measure to the voters in conduction with the bart bond . beyond this i'll mention our muni historal street car service was a great celebration and we were able to provide important fund frg that project and congratulate the f line for its 20 year anniversary which happened september 1 as well. vision 0 we have seen good

project. our committee immet met and we are well under way with the projects the mta committed to delivering. the video we sponsored is release frd large vehicle training program jz encourage folk tooz check that out at vision 0 sf dot org. the presidio park way achieved a mile stone nearing completion and as the transporpation authority [inaudible] for substantial completion the facility. there is one more year of work to do observe we reachfiant acceptance, however, this marks with the opening of the facility and the completion of those substantial civil works and mile stone for the project. a contract made progress on work force. they brought on 376 new hires of which 142 are san

francisco residenceo we are appreciative of that working with the office of economic and work force development and city force. this is a very welcomeed achievement. our fiscal audit is on track and want to thank deputy of finance sintia fong. finally, one great update for you, the 100 million mile stone for prop k was observed last month. the state board of equalization shared results that we have passed the 100 million dollar mark for sales tax for prop k which is a mile ston so thank you and thank you to the san francisco voters for providing this funding for the project across the sit a. >> colleagues are there questions or comment regarding executive director

report? seeing none. any public comment on item 3? seeing none public comment is closed. this is a information item. >> item 4 approval the montsf july 28 meeting >> colleagues are there questions or comment or corrections regarding the july minute? seeing none is there public comment on item 4? seeing none public comment is closed. can you please call the roll on item 4 >> item 4, commissioner avalos, aye. breed aye: campos, aye. christensen, aye. cohen, aye. farrell, aye. kim, aye. mar, absent. tang, aye. wiener, aye. yee, aye. the item passes. >> okay. item 5. >> item 5, adopt position ons state legislation. this is a action

item, >> are there questions or comments on item 5? seeing none is there public comment? seeing none public comment is close jd can we take item 5 same house same call mptd without objection that is the order. >> item 6 execute funding agreement for 3 year period in the amount not to exceed for 406, 00 for san francisco bart travel [inaudible] this is a action item >> any questions or comments? any public comment on item number 6? seeing none we'll close public comment and colleagues can we take item 6 same house same call. without objection that is the order. >> item 7 appoint cyndi baker, joana fong, peaty gal oughta, benjamin

horne, and jolsna john. >> y comment? public comment is closed. can we take item 7 same house same call? without objection that is the order >> item 8 allocate 9, 878, 876 in prop k funds and 120, 800 in prop k funds. >> i would like to make a motion to amend the item to remove line 33. that is theened tip allocation. we want to move forward with that expenditure but center detail tooz work out in the scope and i have spoken to mta and ta and think we can eeurn iron that out >> commissioner christensen

made a motion to amend, is there a second to that motion? second by commissioner tang and if no other comments we'll move to public comment. is there public comment on item 8? seeing none public comment is closed. with regard to the motion which has been seconded, can we take that motion or without objection? without objection the amendment is adopted and can we take the underlying item as amended same house same call. without objection that will be the order. item number 9. >> item 9 introduction of new items. >> colleagues are there any introductions of new items? seeing none pub comment on item 9? seeing none comment is closed. is there general public comment? please

come forward. >> [inaudible] thank you for letting me [inaudible] this afternoon. thefiant voting for the [inaudible] look ing forward to [inaudible] thank you. >> is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. item number 11. >> item 11, adjournment. >> we are adjourned. thank you.