it, and i am an attorney and i have some experience with eirs and eis and some understanding of what is going on there and i have a vested interest in doing that i can to improve it and the neighborhoods around it. >> and did you look at the meeting schedule, on the number of meetings and how often they meet and the time, that is involved and investing in those meetings as well? >> i did. and it doesn't seem unreasonable at all. >> attendance is really important to me, and so i just want to make sure that you are prepared to commit to time in order to represent our community, on this committee. and so, thank you for your interest, in serving. and i am happy to support, moving your name forward. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you for being here. so, it sounds like why don't we go and re-scind the vote for item four. so moved. >> moved by breed, and seconded by yee. all right, so we have, and now

commissioner breed do you want a make a motion? >> okay. i would like to make a motion to reappoint is this the are we re-scinding? >> for the whole entire thing. >> i would like to reappoint, richard hoshimoto and also to appoint, william, newsome. >> is there a second to that >> seconded by yee, thank you very much. and why don't we do, i guess that we could take this without, objection or actually you know what? we will do the roll call in case. because commissioner breed was not here earlier. >> and take a public comment. >> okay. >> any members of the public who wish to speak on item four? >> all right. thank you any other members of the public? >> seeing none, closed. >> on the motion to reappoint, hoshimoto and new so many.

>> breed. >> aye. >> far ral? >> absent. >> peskin. >> aye. >> tang. >> aye. >> yee. >> aye. >> the item passes. >> thank you and congratulations to our appointments. all right. and now let's move on to item 7, please. >> item 7 >> introduction of new its ems. >> public comment on item seven? >> good morning, commissioners, representative a short of achieving of the common wealth of society, (inaudible) others to the people. stud j should be agreeable with passion (inaudible) this way. our self-nature and destiny

(inaudible) nature, and so nature (inaudible) rest upon (inaudible) mighty nature (inaudible) personal (inaudible) self-direction on course (inaudible) internally (inaudible) and taking on (inaudible) with time, place, man and affairs. (inaudible) and well adjustment, naturally having (inaudible) >> all right, thank you very much. >> (inaudible) life obstacles. (inaudible) parental love bound ward (inaudible) manners,

(inaudible) >> thank you. okay. any other members of the public on item 7? >> seeing none, okay. public comment is closed on item 7. and that was an information, item and item 8. >> public comment? >> all right, any members for item 8? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> and that leads to our adjournment. >> and the adjournment, thank you. >> our meeting is adjourned.

>>[gavel] >> good morning. today is tuesday, january 12, 2016. welcome to the finance committee . my name is john avalos chairman of the finance i forget i'm doing to my right by commissioner eric mar and by david campos. we will be joined shortly by commissioner melia cohen. is he actually going to be here? i think we'll have a motion to excuse her in a moment. the clerk is stephen say most. could you share with us on office >> no announcements. >> okay. today's meeting is broadcast today by jennifer lopez charles, neck from sf of katie. thank you for your service. if we could have a

motion to excuse commissioner kim. >> some of >> moved and seconded. moved and seconded. we'll take that without objection >>[gavel] . we'll go to our second items. >> local >>[call of the roll] avalos campos cohen. cohen absent mar speeder a quorum is present. >> that's going to second item >> item to approve the minutes of november 3 approve the minutes of november 3, 2015 meeting. >> any changes to the minutes seeing none, will go under public comments. the comment is now open on our minutes. we will close of the comment >>[gavel] . a motion to-do we need a motion speaker just woke about >> on the moment it's been it's avalos aye campos aye

cohen absent mar aye the minutes are approved >> next item. >> item 3 recommended award to a three-year consultant contract to an amount of $150,000 for the planning and visioning services for the san francisco longley chance rotation plan program and authorizing the executive director to negotiate contract payments and nonmaterial contact items p2 >> good morning commissioners. what we have before you today is contact transportation authority in partnership with the defendant planning department and san francisco municipal transportation agency. working with services to support long-range transportation planning program. the presentation for you here today like to start off with welcome back before the end and walk you through the procurement process. we have

melissa espinoza to show you the presentation. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. good morning commissioners my name is melissa espinoza. i'm here to provide you with an overview of the san francisco long-range transportation plan program a multiagency collaborative effort to tackle san francisco's chance rotation challenges now and in the future. a little bit about the program. several key components from the work were projecting. the first is a transportation vision to develop an understanding of the long-term future transit affecting san francisco look at land use and transportation. we undertaken a series of studies on different transportation modes. we'll also look at updating the san francisco transportation plan to look at funding opportunities and strategies and a funding program in the next couple years. all this will involve stakeholders, members of the public and so this is why it's important to have this multi agency collaborative effort

underway. a bit about the patient. it's anticipated completion as early as 2017 again looking at overall goals objectives and evaluation framework and looking at existing conditions and needs. the modal studies will be anticipated to be completed through 2017. an update of the san francisco transportation plan is anticipated to be completed in mid-2018. this will also include an update of the city's transportation elements. in the future look at an update to the overall general plan is part of that. for the near-term schedule and budget our agencies are beginning task now. we hope to come before you for a contract consultants and we expect the first initiation of our beach in the spring or summer of this year. happy to answer any questions >> thank you. colleagues, any

comments or questions? >> you can ask questions after the procurement buses. this was an rfp issued by the department released on october 22, 2015. we had a pre-proposal conference and was an overwhelming 27 firms ashley to attend for networking event and to sit in for a briefing on the item. our goal is 13%. the firm were awarding this to proposed up with a utilization of 35%. the firm includes women-owned firms and asian subcontinental. this item was advertised with six different newspapers, along with urban planning websites and distributed to all small disadvantage and local businesses that we have identified through the sf

database. this item has not gone before the cac because it was no meeting in december but we have a meeting in december 2. in terms of budget, or plan to pay for this project with accommodation of city funds, federal spe funds and proposition k funds. we can answer any questions you get with that were more than happy to answer questions. >> okay. i don't think we have any questions. go to public comments. the comment is now open on this item. we can close public comments. >>[gavel] >> rollcall vote. next item please speak to item 4 min. approval of the 22nd state and federal legislative program. an

action item. >> good morning. amber with transportation authority. the item before you today is simply as every year our state and federal legislative program. this is a program that general policy-based guidance that we also bring the matrix use to you every month on the specific bills that this program really informs the positions that we take in our overall advocacy at the state and federal level. with respect to the state mark watts is good give you a little more information about what we anticipate happening in 2016. but the big effort is around raise new revenues for transportation. will definitely anticipating in support of raising revenues, but also to ensure transit and transportation get their fair share of revenues moving

forward. there is also policy initiatives. will be pursuing at the state level. probably most significantly, supporting sfmta's effort to get authorization for automated enforcement. basically, cameras see enforcement in support of a vision zero effort. russell going to be working with the other congestion agencies on reform and update of legislation governing the congestion management program which is one of the key functions of the transportation authority. with respect to high-speed rail, of course, we are going to support the project to move forward but also make sure it's in support of caltrans modernization program and that the project definition continue to include the extension awfully to the transbay terminal. at the federal level it's a big

surprise in december was that they actually passed a federal transportation bill a multi-euro bill i think the last 10 years that's been our biggest advocacy point at the federal level. so, we are going to continue to work the program is fully funded with giving us an opportunity to focus on advancing san francisco's ironies at the federal level in particularly with respect to the new start small start and court catastrophe program. we want to make sure that central subway, currently in the pipeline continue to move forward as well as line up the next round of projects to get into the pipeline including the downtown extension and-. michelle is going to give you a little more detail on the transportation bill in the next item. at the federal level, were also going to be looking for new funding sources as part

of policy initiatives. so, explain road uses them of carbon fees, looking for those things to move forward as well as looking for more federal support and for 04 vision zero. some project delivery is another thing we consistently had in our agenda in order to get projects faster and cheaper. one of our, probably our second big initiative this year is worth hoping to have you sponsored legislation to give the transportation authority authorization to pursue construction manager general contractor projects methodology for phase 2 of the project. this is something moving forward very quickly on with the help of mark watts. with that, we are seeking a recordation to approve the lunch program and i'll be happy to answer any questions you have. >> colleagues, any comments

or questions? thank you. we can go to public comment on this item. was there another part of a presentation? public comment is now open. seeing none, public comment is closed >>[gavel] >> s this item passes next item >> imbibed state and federal legislative update. this is an information item. >> good morning commissioners. i was can cover briefly two of the most recent transportation funding proposals that have emerged in the last week or so. just as a reminder, special session for transportation has carried over. the conference committee that was formed is still in condition to move forward if there's a will. this discussions between the two cochairmen esther gomez on the

assembly side and [inaudible] whether they want to rely on newly introduced bills move it back into the conference setting and use the parliamentary maneuvers available under special session and that's open-ended. in the meantime, the governor last week introduced his budget to the legislature and to california and contained in there was a transportation funding plan. basically, it was very similar to what he had allowed to be released by the secretary of transportation at the end of last summer with some modest changes. essentially, just as a reminder and is an update, he is looking-his program depends largely on a new registration

fee. they called the road charge but it will be assessed on every vehicle, including hybrids and electric across the board same level of $65 per vehicle. the reason about $2 billion. another element of the proposal, which we find is now migrated to a couple other proposals, is reestablishing the old tax swap annual board of equalization excise tax setting a forget getting rid of that just reestablishing the tax at $.18, which would be an increase or restoration of 6.5 cents to where it was more than a year ago. that is expected to raise $500 million and very importantly, for cma's in other industries around the state, it would have the effect of replenishing the step funds without this action looks like we will not have much capacity to program against in the next

step cycle. in addition the governor proposes $.11 per gallon increase in the diesel tax, and adjust that for english. that raises about a half billion dollars, and he includes-that is probably what most significant changes-a $500 million increase in and trade dedicated to transit capital purposes, which is i think significant indication on the governor's parts that he wants to get this enclosure on a funding package. the final piece of the funding is $100 million in expected efficiency, that is caltrans get the governor proposes to dedicate that to funding atp programs that are now funded through other sources including federal funds. so it's the augmentation of elite out 75%, augmentation to the atp program in the state. in addition, there is several delivery streamlining opportunities in the bill. one

is the extent of public private partnership for 10 years and in addition he would grant to caltrans and additional six projects to be delivered under the cmg see construction manager general contractor authority. how can probably has that but they use all the authority that they were granted and this would expand it. it doesn't roll over and at any regional entities to use so that will be a source of discussion during the budget process, as is measured moves forward. then, thursday of last week the chairman of the transportation committee assembly member fraser, cost accounting county introduced an major new ale. notably, it was not a special session look at the regular session bill. so not sure how that is going to be integrated as we move

forward. his measure raises ongoing amount of about $7 billion a year in contrast to the governor's 3.5, and is largely dependent upon fuel taxes. for example, the gas tax would be increased by 22.5 cents per gallon. under his proposal and he indexed on everything your cycle. a portion of that would be used to stabilize the stipulation as a indicated that the governor is proposing to do. in addition, that 3.3 billion-dollar raised by the gas tax would be split 50-50 between state and local entities, cities and counties for road repair purposes. a small amount, i forget the percentage right now, i've just been reading the dogan-is set aside to encourage stakeholder partnerships through self-help we wards. the

diesel tax under mr. fraser's proposal would be increased by $.30 per gallon and dedicated to trade corridor improvements throughout the state. this is analogous to what was in proposition 1b from 2006 where trade investments were funded through state resources. mr. fraser also includes a $30 registration fee, and those a be dedicated to road maintenance and the state on a 50-50 basis as well. so, by and large, we have gone from a governor's program to about $3.5 billion. a senator bill is rewriting his bill. we will see it later this week. it was around 4 billion, but it's expected to go north of five in total. with a lot more emphasis on transit that has been seen on the past. then that mr. fraser's proposal raises about 7 billion ongoing. there was a focus in addition to maintenance and repair, of

another focus on trade corridor. so, standing here looking forward, neck steps would be senator bill. the revised bill, which is being presented with discussed with his caucus today. will be unveiled sometime in the coming days. oddly the commerce committee will get back together and look at some matrix or solutions that they could try to generate support from all four caucuses. we, hopefully, will have a good discussion with the governor on a final package coming out of the legislature in february or march. so that's how looks at this point in time. cedric thank you. i know this is late breaking news. >> thank you. i would appreciate if you had either the something in writing you could share with us that we can look at and over to when you're telling us. just a follow-up question when you presented, we

are just interested in more funds overall going towards transit pedestrian and bike rather than highways. that's a new trend were trying to promote and make sure the city is also doing well. the legislation you mentioned, is that the trends were seen how this legislation is crafted and structured? >> i think partially. not only to the degree you would prefer that i think at base, there's an attempt to catch up on deferred maintenance on the roadway system. in addition, supplementing it with more transit and active transportation programs. so, i would say in each of the cases, i'm not sure how to estimate the amount, but the underpinning is for roadway repair as opposed to new roadway construction kit and then later on top of that is an ever each cycle, each iteration

of the bill introduction more money for transit and in this case is more money for active transportation. i think it's going in the right direction. i don't think anybody will abandon the deferred maintenance issue at this point in time. >> thank you. colleagues, and you have comments or questions? okay we can go onto public comment. thank you.anyway like to come and we do >> a little additional update on the fastback at the federal level. the first time in over 10 years we have a long-term transportation bill at the federal level. $305 billion bill for five years of projects. we anticipate that this will bring approximately $30 million additional to the bay area over what had previously expected in the prior transportation bill.

also, in december congress passed the omnibus tax extenders bill. which prominently extends the transit commuter benefits to bring it to parity with the parking commuter benefits. so that raises it from $130 a month to $250 and 255 next year. this bill also included $500 million for the tiger grant program which is been beneficial to san francisco in the past. again will continue to work with partners to ensure that san francisco primary projects get funded. thank you. >> thank you very much. we have already open public, so anyone in the public would like to comment. seeing none, public comment is closed >>[gavel] >> mr. clark could you call our next item. >> item 6, introduction of new items. this is an information item >> colleagues, and a new items to introduce? public comment

on new items? seeing none, public comment is closed >>[gavel] next item >> item 7 of the common >> general public comments. >>[inaudible].

>> thank you. i like sisterhood as well as page resume and brother. since there

are no other members of the public commenting will close public almonds. >>[gavel] . next item, please speak up and make adjournment >> colleagues, we are adjourned. the tangle. >>[gavel] and welcome to the tu, december 15, 2015. san francisco municipal transportation agency brooks parking authority president obama director brinkman director heinecke is on his way from the train

director nolan and director ramos describing and mr. chairman you have a quorum please silence all electronic devices. by person responsible maybe asked to leave the room cells set an vibrate you cause interruption for the approval of the minutes regular meeting so moved second. >> technical >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> the i's have it. thank you very much item 5 communication directors please be advised for the establishment of a blue zone on delores regarding the arguable and others - for closed session have within removed from the agenda at the request of s