2016 >> yes >> divinity what are you? speedup the first component is the vision. the wider stakeholder conversation. what is the vision for our city? what growth and a moment happening in the future, how do we plan for the 150,000 new people coming by 2040. really big policy questions and get a lot of people under the tent. that's not a small thing in and of itself and that's the first piece under way. >> among these consultants give consultants of small businesses maybe a vision, to give you the small business vision, would that be possible? is that going to be part of, kind of the collection of consultants that you're going to be using? >> certainly, as the vision that developed one of the key things we would undertake is identifying stakeholders. as

you mentioned, the small business community is a key stakeholder. so learning more about that and how they can be involved in helping form the development of the vision and the components throughout. i hope that speaks to your question a little bit. >> commissioner dennis zouzounis >> to our existing rfp, we do have existing sp requirements as well. >> okay that's part of that were promised to consult focusing >> there are standards that. >> thank you. >> think of your presentation responding to our questions. if you could just explain to me a little more the major investment analysis by corridor is. what that means >> sure. is there a site you'd like me to reference? >> i'm just looking off the list of elements of the subway

master plan and i don't know what that stands for or that means. major investment analysis by corridor. >> what it means is first identifying which corridor are the ones that warrants further investments. meaning, where are the most demand for travel to and from and of those corridor with their identify, what type of investment would we make it amusing the word investment were globally meeting what type of infrastructure we need. we need a bus infrastructure? would we need a rapid rail infrastructure speakers would read accommodation of the two? >> okay. then they also relates back to what makes up that corridor so would be a

specific-i mean maybe they'll be a pleased to include small businesses or neighborhood associations? >> certainly when you get to the corridor level that's the type of planning work that would be dumb. consulting stakeholders and being informed by the stakeholder input and comments through that. >> thank you. >> commissioners, any other comments? i have a comments. traditional outreach is typically nothing more than a warning shot to tell people what is coming. i think i'd like to see us redesign the experience mentoring these projects. it occurs to me that when an amusement park puts on a new ride they don't shut down the amusement park it oftentimes the construction is amusement is up. apart goes to great lengths what's coming in subway construction project as

well as the outcome. i think you would benefit from bringing in a different type of professional in the early phases , some design professionals which we have some of the most most renowned design professionals and organizations in our city. their expertise is experiential design. i think the problem that i see, especially when i got to union square the experience is rented we put a band-aid on it every holiday season little astroturf, but the minute christmas is over the bulldozers are back in the astroturf is gone and the messes in place again. i just feel for the businesses big and small pattern during this project and still have years ahead of them with this project. yet, people who come to the city have questions. we have questions that translate

terminal being torn down i live in a neighborhood is fascinating to watch. there is no on-site description of what was happening. no signage telling you what was going on. there's only a direction where i could watch a video cam but that doesn't address the issue in the moment when people are looking suddenly torres on to go home and say let's watch a great movie on tv with watch the estate terminal project. but if the information were delivered on-site and it was done in a way in a modern presentation technologies that made it interesting and made it of interest, i think there's so much that the begun to redesign this experience. i would encourage you to bring in some new professionals other than the ones that are always at the table. it's the same old same old and everyone has their own point of view that been carrying around for decades but how these things are done. that's redesign the experience of enduring these projects because we will always be

enduring them. we need to massive infrastructure projects in the city and i think anyone would deny that. i think it's just a fear of the disruption that's going to promulgate itself across the city as we see projects like the ones were undergoing right now. it's pretty abysmal. it affects everyone's life. the people live here. the local work here the people who visit here having to do with the disruption, physical and environmental disruption that these projects cause. so, please reach out to his mother professionals. they have great track records. they're called in to redesign the emergency room experience at the hospital. the travel experience on mass transit. they can go down a laundry list of experiences that they have done deep dives in and said we can make this a lot better. sometimes they're very simple human factors solutions to

making these things less painful and sometimes even enjoyable. projects are fastening. why is the dump truck video fascinating for young kids? because bigger equipment is interesting and bigots like it to. there is an entertainment element to be some sort of absurd but it is a form of entertainment. with active turn it into the because right now it's just a massive disaster. we also bear the brunt of it. big and small businesses. >> thank you, commissioners. i like to add in closing we hope we can come back and seek your advice to the life of the program and appreciate your feedback and conversation today. >> thank you. appreciate you coming back. that concludes the presentation. we now open to

public comment. the members of the public would like to comment on this item? welcome. >> stephen cornell. i think we should look at a different big picture. ridership on muni and all the different transit agencies in the bay area has gone up. but actually has gone down. per capita ridership has gone down for the last 20 years. in san francisco is down 12%. it is consistent over all these years. so, even with all these projects think it has to be looked at differently. how you get more people into mass transit? i don't think were doing a good job of it. even though, again is more people riding we have more people coming in so the percentage of

the people on mass transit keeps going down, down, down. something wrong. that statistic the last 20 years is before the price of oil had gone down. so if anything, we're going to see more people in cars if it's cheaper like this last year with the statistics are not available to me, which statistics are coming out and it's something anybody can look up. it's under vital signs. you cannot down by bay area by san francisco by neighbors. all kinds of them. i love your comments about what you're doing about the small businesses in the area. whenever there's not enough big federal funds or state caltrans funds is no economic impact studies done. i think we should be urging economic impact studies for the smaller projects that we see around san

francisco. the impact, i was here for parts. i was here for all of these. we have not seen any change on third street when they went through first-rate, ocean avenue,, i was here for parts. i was here for all of these. we have not seen any change on third street when they went through first-rate, ocean ave., west portal, we live through it all. this hardly any communication to small businesses until the shovels come out and people start screening and it's not even a full band-aid a little dot that happens. i went to my dentist who's on terror bill for the past 20 you could share no idea that there is a program going on on terror bill. where is the communication? thank you. >> thank you. any other members of the public who like to comment on this item? seeing none, public, discos. commissioners, any other comments or questions? thank you very much. >> commissioners, i would like to i will summarize your

comments and discussion and provide that as a beginning bid of information for the department, so they have that information. so thank you for being here. >> moving on to item 6 of them at this point. review of our planning session. >> item number six is a review of the planning session from december 18.. at the small business commission had. strategy goes. commissioners, were going to have an overview discussion. i think we can take -what i'd like to do since i know you have not had an opportunity to take a look at the document is just outline the document from a what is there. we have some discussion and then i can work with it.

present you with a final document prior to the next commission meeting. this does not necessarily have to be ratified document just a working document for you. it's your decision. so, the document starts off with the goal to become more relevant to the community of the small business owners as an office and commission and that the office, we really ensure that identified as the go to the source for the small business informational needs, and the commission is a trusted advocate for all issues affecting small businesses. commission meetings should be a source of central and interesting information to help businesses manage their businesses and san francisco and the form to express their thoughts about issues affecting

small businesses. so, the commission has a public service announcement and we will have that starting generate 25th meeting, and at the close of the meeting. at the start and close of the meeting because of the holidays i was not able to facilitate that this particular meeting. then, proactively exploring big topics. so, the big topics you initially discussed at the planning session work infrastructure. >> were off to a good start on that >> get a good start. portability housing transportation for the service sector workforce, and for businesses, homelessness, long-term commercial vacancies or commercial ownership. those two things go hand in hand. a new development have taken a look at opportunity,, which

also goes with the commercial space as well. he platforms is the businesses assistance center. again, ensuring all of our purgatory agencies and departments know to direct people to the office of small business for new businesses. work without it would economic development organizations to direct businesses to osb. do we have a legacy business fund, small business week, we wanted to restart me thinking about how you want to do with the tuesday board of supervisors acknowledgments the shop and dine and 49 is a year-round campaign now that includes a shop local and partners with

the shop small, small business saturday, bmx program. with the small business portal. we will be be launching our newsletter or to do a newsletter blog and i will be working with staff to come up with some recommendations and ideas to present to you. we have our small business owner e-mail list. so, again, beginning to do with our reach with them. a small, monthly small business recognition program to relaunch that. and then small business acceleration team which is the -which will be launching towards the end of february and this is the program will be hiring a dedicated arson to be working with restauranteurs opening a restaurant. then,

regular commission meetings. again, the discussion in terms of where you want your priorities. obviously, commission is always heard legislation that's been referred to the commission were self referred to the commission. resources, help for small business owners through the agencies and programs and other organizations. so i started to create an outline of what those resources may be in terms of hope ensuring small businesses either no what is out there, things to know what's out there. a lot of those also fall under other departments. then, we have --those other resources. education, what you need to

know, myth busters, best practices, so small business owner tutorials, refreshes, general best practices on interesting topics and trends, small business categories that might be specific to industries , who what why presentations from other departments must back and kind of overlap with what is listed under item number two, and in section 4 would be dense so, it is for small business owners, especially things like small business week, small business saturday. currently, know that carol has returned, we are doing our social media and electronic blasting like contracting workshops the workshops paul pendergast had talked about. social media and electronic blasts workshop opportunities would like google

, though business the state is going to be doing a conference here next week. so, those types of partnerships and then getting involved. how can this business be involved in help advocate for themselves and sort of put in a recommendation that maybe we can invite the different merchants associations and business organizations to present to the commission on projects and initiatives, knowing what their priorities are. then, at the end we talked about a calendar. so, we actually have a calendar now on our website. i have added every single commission meeting, and then in that it will link to the agenda, but you are interested in having things preset. so that somebody could say when is the next presentation on the business portal and search for that. so,

i started to think about the different months, things that can be presented. the business portal, i think it's still going through substantial development this still substantial work being done. i think quarterly updates will be good for you to have. march, if you want to be kept apprised of possible fees, fee increases, new fees that apartments are thinking of them because this is a budget cycle this might be a time to-for our office, first staff to reach out to the province see with their thinking and have them present those to you. healthcare security ordinance the reporting is due and so if you want any-it's due at the end of it. there's any kind of thought or reporting of presentations

on healthcare security ordinance. then, small business week might be good to get a presentation then because most of it will have been formed. then, june, minimum-wage increases annually in july. do we want a presentation from, maybe a presentation from ted egan taken a look at some of the economics of what's transpiring to work numbers that correspond with that. july is, july 1, 2015 is when the state paid sick leave regulation went into place. so, that might be a time to check in with osc in terms of how things are going. what questions, things they've had to field between the two different regulations. then,

also, tentatively dph is targeting the bridge to cover plan. the cities and ari. he received a presentation from calming charter last july. the targeting of the program in place. she said fall. something in september might be a good time to check in and possibly if it's ready to then schedule in september. september is a good time to maybe think about asking-getting a report on numbers to the business registration. however, you might want to receive it in terms of new businesses open, number of businesses closing, number of businesses by category. things of that sort. then, of course any revisit of each cso because the rates go up january 1. december might be

good time to refresh anything of that sort. so, to kind of start to get your brain thinking in terms of when you might want to think about having presentations. >> let's also add to this, having at each meeting any announcements about events or filing deadlines that affect-things you're going to get better can result in penalties or change or impact your regular operating procedures. for example, during everyone that minimum-wage changes. we should decide whether we want make these announcements, or we should decide to make these announcements by 30-60 day. just remind everybody in 90 days minimal wage missing. come back x month and then hate if you do not change your month and you're in violation. there

are a number of filings and the deadlines that can really bite you if your small business owner doesn't have on staff professionals are hired professionals watching these things for you. steve mayer is on the board of the chamber with me and he's a professional accountant has had to deal with a number of these cases with his clients. so there's two things he's recommended that we deal with. one, is notifying people but also there are some rather punitive issues on the books today that we ought to start entertaining how it might change some of these laws. gross receipts tax. things being implemented through no minimum-wage zone view window gross receipt taxes wanted with go find out with the various fees and tax timing deadlines are so we can have in this we work in progress but we can construct notification that we do. i think would be we should have another website but also

announce it here so goes on the public record and if anyone is watching what comes >> qubits is a business registration fees that are due in march >> i think that's in my what we were talking about business specific >> yes. all businesses small businesses and things industry-specific. if you're in the real estate business or grocery business for manufacturing whatever it might be. i think that would be a truly great value. on the backing up to the rt platform, the system center and getting all that apartments to direct new lease to our department. this should be a new trainer from. as a matter fact they should have an emblem on their window and someone walks up and says i am new here and i want to start a small business they should just they should not have to say anything that's a here is where you go first. right because once you go there

you'll know when to come back to my department and one. even just one to avoid the conversation with new people just say we have a department where you start there it is only one place in the city to start your new business in san francisco is the office of small business. if you go there your defined roadmap inmate in the back your picture be better informed. and will be better equipped to help you. so this i think of it there's a lot of people sitting at desks in department kind of unaware of the fact they could so easily say why don't we just preempt this is a great news go to the office of small business. they're there to help you. i think this campaign, having something like this would be effective for us. no make it a

lot easier for people who are starting businesses. this is a nice inventory of items, regina and i worked on this and we welcome anyone here to add to it and make comments on it. >> you have the inventory, so i know the commission had discussed-i can make recommendations some of these might just be good to have an annual update and one that may be. some of them are little better to have a relationship to certain thymic >> we can modify. we might not always be a quarterly business update for right now i think it's good to schedule the way. it might go to twice year or once here but i think things under development like that weren't especially since an essential asset for developing but for any item, these things will shift and change but i think there are a lot of -there's some of these that

will be be annual discussion of whatever it is. it's every year we go through this. it's not going to be repetitive because anyone's got a new business is going to want to know that. it becomes repetition in the petition builds muscle memory so people don't get caught by not doing the right thing. >> if there's anything that you think is missing you can let me know. any programs. >> are you considering the department of environment programs in a sl in one of these months it presentation? is a recurring topic? >> i mean, that is a question for you in terms of i'm happy to schedule bees on an annual basis. or say, advise the-it

invite the department of environment to make an annual presentation of their programs work could be that some of them you might get an update but they liked the food service waste reduction ordinance that's been in place now, how's it going, what's the affected that may not be unnecessarily in annual update you may want annually. but, you know, you may want to know how the commuter benefits of being enforced and the compliance and what-because that is more of a regulatory program. >> so l's all this take this list in our spare time to get out of your binder review it and feel free to send regina e-mails. with recommendations for enhancing the list or adding to the items already there were even adding new categories. i think is a good

working list. >> quick question. only accounting for the agenda for the mayors courtly meeting as well with small businesses? is that something >> that's a separate effort going on. >> so even if davis: in an individual capacity we don't talk about >> you can do about regina off-line but the tenants we actually have some restriction but attendance >> yes, the number of commissioners of lungs were not in committee you can have up to three commissioners attend. generally, how we have been reporting on it and it could be this actually is a good idea a good sort of suggestion, every now and again perhaps you as commissioners were attending may want to have a more formal presentation, was been transpiring in the past. commissioner dwight has been attending solo provide updates

during his presidents report. commissioners can add to that. you can provide updates of that particular time. we will be developing some more corrugated and intersection with the mayors courtly meeting but were working on having a planning process without. >> thank you. >> all right. let's move on any members of the public would like to comment on this? or congratulate us for our forward thinking make this meeting more effective? >> you should be congratulate on everything you do. it's a lot of work up there. all the time so it doesn't get said all the time you should be congratulated. one thing i do think we might be looking at

with all the stuff that comes in here all the time, x amount of years ago and i think was 24, i was just trying to look up-was a man called establishing an analysis of what legislation is going to do on small businesses. i don't always hear it all the time. i think whatever supervisor brought it up or other things we just heard but the health department one, with the economic analysis that's going happen. i think that's important stuff to know. it should be brought for. i don't. >> good point. it's a responsibility of this commission and the office of keep everyone on point to their obligation to provide economic impact. thank you for that. all right. any of the members of the public want to comment on

this item thinks stupid public, and is closed. we're on to item number seven, directors report >> item number seven directors report. commissioners, i want to does a few things i want to highlight. beiter was the mayor's inauguration. one of the themes of his inaugural speech that stood out for me was resiliency. that resiliency is not just in things like survivor of an earthquake were the only new, but in many different capacities. so, i think it's an interesting theme to work with in light of some of the discussions that you have had as well as a talk about some of the infrastructure projects. i think that's an important thing to carry us through and to work on and focus on what we are doing. today was the golden

gate restaurant association lobbying day. i attended the meeting with the mayor. a couple issues i brought up was labor shortage, difficulty in hiring labor. affordability and housing . again, sort of talking about the affordability. there's more affordable insurance being able to purchase under, that are aca compliance and the question was is this something that could be revisited. there was--it was a question i would not say there was any commitment because of the the issues in play. then, i also inform them of the

position small business accelerated position because that is cannot directly benefit this industry, and so their participation with part of the training and information that this position will be debriefing with the golden gate restaurant association to hear about some of the issues that new businesses have had worked to mitigate those. was a half-hour session with the mayor. then, we also had a brief discussion after the mayor left about commercial ownership so i think that is something they're interested in releasing what we end up developing with that. i talked about the small business position. i also and i think

commissioner dwight and commissioner zouzounis will be participating in a congestion workshop that the mayor is convening. so, that meeting is meeting next week. go business, the mayors-i mean the governor's small business economic development entity is going to be hosting a workshop also on january 19 here at -across the street at the state building. then, i just wanted to send, let you know and send a shout out to former commissioner minetto and her new business will be opening. >> about commission secretary >> the commission secretary, the position has been posted,

has been sent out to the 1823 of the position. they have i think, 10 days to respond. that 10 days started last thursday or friday. but that is in the works. so, i think for the those are the key things i wanted to highlight my directors report today and next meeting will be meeting with commissioner tour-sarkissian to work on the grant owner and next meeting will have more information for the rulemaking business. >> awesome. okay. next item. my turn. the duke x id. his

presidents report. >> by not much to report. when meeting with adam strauss thursday just a little pre-meeting about small business week and i'm going to the congestion workshop, as you previously mentioned. i think that's about it. that's it for me. >> vp's report >> muscle going to the congestion workshop. i also want to give a shout out to pres. dwight for the awesome-i love the design. it's got a website on here. i like these a lot. >> thanks. give them to all your friends. >> so, i think that's really good. we should be giving these out to our neighborhood incubators and everyone. >> where do we get them? >> i have the only 250 of them.

>> also want to give a shout out to commissioner dooley. because people are always going to-so thank you for doing that i think you commissioner dwight for acting on. >> teamwork. thank you. >> item number 10 is commissioner reports. >> i would just like to reiterate something from public comment amount which is that the mayor's proposal for density housing bonus is coming up soon to the planning commission and i would recommend to any person who is renting their business location should do themselves a favor and attend these many immunity meetings that are being held in

different districts to see what the impacts may or may not be on your business location if this passes, and to ask intelligent questions of planners. but be engaged in this, because small businesses, if this passes, will be affected. this is your opportunity to hear more about it, say your piece, and be part of the process. >> any other items for your report? >> just to say we are still finally slogging through permitting, which is one of the things i had the experience of new business owner who tried to open, was kind of given poor advice which is now we are pushing very hard to say, hey, don't go anybody but the office

of small business right now before you spend a dime on any outside consultants, anything like that could come to us first. may want to hire someone, but you may not. so, thank you, mark. >> hold other campaign. our advice is free. >> yes. our advice is free to come to us first. >> all right. commissioner zouzounis. the two hello. my name is mary and zouzounis. this my first televised meeting. thank you commissioners for being patient with me. thank you for all your guidance. i guess as a brief introduction i'm 27 years old and i live in san francisco. my family has a corner store in delhi i work with a lot of

businesses in the south of market area in the water district 6 community. i'm a board member small business and i know a lot of issues in san francisco. so thank you for having me. >> welcome. next up, anybody else? all right. >> general public comment. >> do we have any members of the public that would like to come and at this point? about any general items about anything? no? okay. seeing none,- >> item number 12 is new business. any new business?

>> is this where i have the opportunity to request future presentation? >> yes. >> so, there are three things that came to my delight to learn more about that think are related to some discussion items today. one, like to request a presentation-isn't there a marijuana legalization task force or something to that degree. i like to hear if they're working on anything in accordance with the tobacco, free tobacco, the coalition said department of health sponsors are having discussions with them in anticipation of something that would legalize marijuana. so there might be some questions around that related to the age limit and so on. i would also like to hear a presentation alluding to the

city laws and regulations automation and specifically in human service and retail industries. thirdly, i heard there was a report, i think it was a uc berkeley in the city joint report on the housing and service industry pipeline and how lack of affordable housing is affecting service industries. i like to see some numbers on that. thank you. >> okay. any other new business? commissioners? we've all been waiting for. adjournment. we have a motion >> i motion. >> moved and seconded. all those in favor say, aye.. first capital of the season. >>[gavel]

we are adjournment. >>[gavel]

>> all right good morning, everyone welcome to our tuesday, january, 12th, plans and programs, meeting of the san francisco plans and programs. i'm the chair commissioner tang and to my right, with he have norman yee and we would like to welcome today, peskin and with that we have our clerk, and with the sfgtv would like to thank. and now if we can go to roll call please. snechlt item one, breed? breed, absent. farrell.

absent. >> peskin. present. >> yee. >> present. >> and tang. necht present. >>tem two, citizen's advisory committee report, this is an information item. >> this is short because of the year end holidays the citizen advisory committee did not meet in december and so there will not be no report today and they will be back here next month to report. >> thank you any public on comment on item two? seeing none, closed. item three? snechlt approve the minutes of the december, 8, 2015 meeting, public comment, seeing none, public comment is closed. and item three, minutes are adopted. >> let's do the roll call. >> item three. >> should i abstain from this since i whats not at the december, 8th meeting? >> we do need three people. ; is

that correct? ? >> i am happy to vote for it. >> i believe that we may have the minutes here. should we just maybe pass them along. >> i reviewed them. okay. since we need three votes, if there are no issues and we can go to the roll call vote on that. >> item three, breed. absent. >> farrell. >> absent. peskin. >> aye. tang, >> aye. >> yee? snechlt aye. >> minutes are approved. >> item four, please? >> recommend appointment of two members to the geary corridor bus rapid transit advisory committee this is action. >> thank you, we have mike here. >> good morning, the project seeks to implement the bus travel time for liability and improvements along the corridor, a public comment, period on the

draft, and the eir was held in october and november and responses to the comments are being prepared now. and the final, eir is planned for release in the spring of 2016. geary project has a dead indicated meeting, that meets to provide input. the structure as shown in the memo and includes, the neighborhood based and at large, seats. and current numbers are shown in the memo and attachment one, there are two vacancies to address, for the seats, with the japan town, fillmore area. hosimoto is seeking reappointment, and one resigns, there are three eligible, candidate, and the information is summarized in attachment two. and found in attachment three. candidates are not required to appear before this committee. push pu

thank you, would you like to come up and speak for two to three minutes. snechlt thank you for having me. my name is william and i have played for the committee, and i will be brief. i have lived there for ten years and i have ridden, ten to 15 times and so i have seen the best and the worst of it. >> i am also an attorney, and i have the experience with. erichlt, and not be lost, when going through that stuff. so i am happy to take any questions, otherwise i will submit my application. >> from my

understanding because these are the japan town, fillmore appointments. we do understand that commissioner breed would like to recommend the appointment of richard hoshimoto who is serving on the committee and don't have a recommendation to the second position and given that she is not here, if it is okay, i would like to postpone that decision, until she has made a decision, or can show up at a meeting to discuss. does that sound good. okay. all right then, so with that, then, maybe perhaps we can go to the public comment, first? any members of the public that would like to speak on ilt em four? seeing none, public comment is closed. if we could get a position to that effect? >> moved. >> moved by commissioner, yee and seconded by peskin and with that, we are going to be

appointing richard to the reappointment and continuing the other seat, until further date. item five, please? >> recommend allegation of $170,000 in prop k funds, to the san francisco municipal, transportation agency for the bicycle safety and educational out reach, and for the cash flow, distribution schedules. >> thank you, we have chad here and the senior, transportation planner and we have john, white from mta as well. good morning, and chad, with the transportation, authority and we have just one request for allocations today and that is $170,000 from the sfmta for the prop k funds for the support and the development of a 20 month, bike safety, and out reach, program, it includes, elbility and specifically for bike, safety and out reach, practice mz in the bike category. and there are $170,000 is just a

portion of the over all, 2.3, million available in the bike category. in the passed, the authority has allocated funds to the sfmta for the classes and the workday events and, out reach, promotional and effort and with this round, sfmta is going forward with a new approach and will issue a request for proposals with the respond goals put together by the sfmta. the program will have three tiers, the largest will be a city wide event and maybe, soming similar to what we have had in the past and in san francisco, as the bike to workday, and a little tooir tier that is less frequent, the issues around biking and looking specifically at commuting to work, and then the third tier will be bicycle education, and delivering in the city for the past years. and so the program, will

probably deliver these, three tiers over 20 months and starting in march of 2016, and be completed by 17, with the sfmta doing evaluation of how the programs are going and to inform the programs that the sfmta will put out there, and it includes, the funding for the contractor and the smfta and that would be used for the procurement process, and the over all project management and evaluati evaluation. and it increases in actual, biking, to which the mode chair in terms of the programs and increases in safety, knowledge by the people who have attended, the focus more on the increase in safety for the people biking in san francisco. with that i am happy to take questions and we do have a staff member on hand to address the questions. >> thank you, i know that commissioner yee has a question, first i would like to ask that you are did explain that we are doing it differently this time

we are doing a one time instead of separate contracts, could you talk about how that might change things and improve, the way that things have been done in the past? through the defense in allocations? >> i am going to have craig, come up and speak to some of those. >> good morning, by adopting a comprehensive approach, we hope to look at them whole list tickly to evaluate them through one contractor rather than having to manage these efforts piece meal. and we can look at doing the out reach sorry. yeah, so it is our, it is our goal to be able to have a more comprehensive approach.

>> okay. i know that you also, or chad mentioned the piece evaluation, i know from the previous meetings that something that several, of the commissioners highlighted that is important to do, and i am glad that see that is part of it, because we senator certainty want to know how they are, and if we need fine tuning and hopefully we can receive the presentations on how effective the programs are. and commissioner peskin has a question. >> through the chair, have you selected or rfp and has there been a selection? >> we have no the yet. >> so i guess, maybe this is a question to my colleagues on the panel, and sorry, it has been a few years since i have been here, but why would we disburse the funds before they have done the rfp process and we know has been selected? >> i mean, i would like to throw

that question back to the ta and explain, i mean this is a different process than what we have done before. but if you can discuss why. >> okay, if they are going to start? march, which is 60 days from now, and they have not even with the rfp out yet, . >> it is the policy to have funds allocated before a contract is advertised or awarded. and also, the agencies need funds in place in order to procure, the contracts and so, it has been, how we have advanced contracts. there are certainly opportunities for reporting back from the agencies once the contract has been awarded on the scope of work, as awarded, if you wish. i guess the fundamentally questioning that policy.

i certainly think that we should say, yes, go out and advertise it, i mean is there ccy is a w for us to reserve the funds that we know that the qualified outfit has been selected. i mean that is not a question to you, that is a question to my colleagues. >> i guess that through, you know, through the report, i would just ask, i understand that this is how, the ta has been doing things, but is there also potentially a way to allocate the sufficient, funds to the department, to actually do the rfp and then save the remaining portion for the actual, contract for later approval? do we divide it that way? >> we certainly, could, and it would bring the agencies back to the board with the awarded scope, in addition, to the opportunity to weigh in on the scope before it is advertised, which this opportunity provides. so if there are particular, aspects of policy, or direction that you would like to give to the agencies, before they go out, with an rfp on the street

this is the opportunity. we can certainly, do a commitment to allocate, for the portion of funds that are anticipated to be used on the contract. which would allow for the agencies to advertise, i don't know if it will allow them to award a contract. i don't think so. until you, or the board, acts to allocate, i would just want to put out there, that it may slightly impact schedule. whether that has a huge, impact on the progression of the bike program, but it may impact the schedule by a few weeks. >> i think that judging from the tone here, i think that is probably what we would feel comfortable. i don't know if you can tell us now what that break down of the funding would be? >> i believe that it is in the budget, that it allows for the portion that is for agency, staff, verses the contract, that about 150,000 of allocation is

anticipated for the contract. and one other thing, this is maybe, a minor detail, but on page, 31 of the packet, my staff actually wilson did catch this. we want to clarify, whether the tran sit, planner three for the 5290 classification, if you punch that in it brings in the planner four and so i just wanted to make sure that was accurate. >> thank you for catching that. you are correct and it should be a transit planner four and we can up date that. >> okay. so, why don't we go to a question from commissioner yee first. >> when you talked about the allocation of staff time and you mentioned evaluation, where is the cost to indicate, that for the evaluation, through the

20,000 or the 149,000? >> yeah, i believe that it is the $20,000, of the mta staff waiver chl >> so the staff is doing the evaluation. >> working with the consultant, correct. >> and is it something, to get any funds for this? >> the evaluation, specifically? >> yes. >> i believe that there will be developed in coordination with them. and so it would be, the staff would give the evaluation, yes. but we would be, working with the consultant on it as well. >> is there any cost from the consultant? >> and that. >> i am just curious because it is not down where and it is not snowing if we are paying a consultant or not. and it seems like it is, and it is depending on the cost of the consultant, it should be a line item. >> yeah, that i am not sure. but i would be happy to get back to you on that. >> okay. so perhaps, then, the next time

you know, the subsequent, item is before us, then, just to be able to see a better break down. because i know that it is kind of broken down into, you know, the three tiers and the types of events that you want to accomplish. through the contract. and it talks about the types of people, and the number of attendance that you want to reach and as commissioner lee mentioned we want to see a break down in terms of who is going to be doing or funding the evaluations and so forth. that would be great. >> sorry, and part of that will ultimately depend on the response to the rfp. >> okay. okay. any other questions commissioner yee? >> no. >> okay. so, then, at this time, i think that per our earlier discussion, then, i think that we would probably all feel comfortable, again, breaking down the contract and issue the fund that is needed to get the rfp out and save the approvals for the actual, contract awarding at a different time.

okay? >> just to clarify. one option is to allocate, all of the funds at this time and to put $160,000 or you know, everything, except for what is required, to advertise the contract, and put that on reserve, pending the release of funds by the plans and programs committee. and that is one option. or we can put the funds in the commit to allocate box if you will that will require authority board action to allocate. >> i guess, commissioner breed? >> just a point of clarification, is it possible just to allocate the funds and return to the plans and programs committee for the approval of after the selection process is completed? can we add that in the language of the resolution? >> yes. we certainly can. >> okay. >> well i am open to either option. so i will leave it up to my colleagues to decide, i think that will give us the authority to address what the concerns are, we want to make sure if

there is a fair process, we want to make sure that we have inpoo ut in that process and we understand, exactly who the funds are allocated to. and so i think that either, way would work to either include in the resolution, a hold on the specific, amount of funds, or to include in the resolution, final pending final approval of the transportation authority. either one would work for me. >> okay. well would you like to make a motion to that effect? >> it depends. and seconded by commissioner peskin. >> all right. >> so we will amend the resolution. and any other questions or comments, from committee members? i think that my other question, touching upon this contract issue was that i asked, mta to also provide a bit of an up date to you know, the capitol, fito things because as we all know, the prop k funds can go to capitol improvements and i

wanted to better understand where we are on that. >> there will be opportunity for the board and community input and we look for work with your

offices as we move through the budget, process to finalize, which corridors will be moving through the process for implementation. >> all right, thank you very much. so, again, any other questions or comments? then on this item? no? okay, then, so for item four, then, i will at this time, open it up for public comment, then. i am sorry, item five. wait, item five. seeing none and it is closed. we had amended the resolution to part out the funding so that there is further approval needed at the plans and programs, committee and could i have a motion on the entire item itself? all right, commissioner, breed moved to approve the item, and second ld by commissioner, peskin thank you very much. >> and the house is changed and the roll call. >> item five, breed. >> aye. >> fer el. >> absent.

>> peskin. >> aye. >> tang. >> aye. >> yee. >> aye. >> the amended item passes. >> all right. thank you and now if we can move on to item 6, please. and for item 6 we also have ana lafort. >> item six, neighborhood transportation improvement program, up date, this is an information item. >> good morning, supervisors. i am pleased to be presenting an up date on the neighborhood, transportation, improvement program just over one year since its creation. if you will allow me just a few moments to say a few thank yous. i would like to thank you, and your aids for working so closely with sfcta and mta staff on developing the skoepz and the projects. it has been, immensely helpful to get the back back early and i would also like to thank, craig who is here today and he is the

sfmta coordinator who has been a great co-partner in this. and the project manager, that both the ta and the sfmta and as well as the planning department and received the funds for implementing the two projects and lastly, i would like to thank, tad who will be leaving the transportation authority to join, sfmta staff in a few weeks and so we wish him well at the sathly. >> and we know that we will continue to work with him. >> the program as i will refer to it, so, going forward. in 2014, the transportation, authority board adopted san francisco long range transportation plan, or the san francisco transportation plan, sftp, and advanced the investment for the sftp, and it implementation in the first five years with the adoption of the funding priorities and created

the n-tip, program and so what is n-tip and why did we develop it? and so it is really a response to technical analysis that was done as part of the sftp and giving and we found that giving consideration to how we develop the projects and where we build the projects by the projects in particul particular. we heard from the board and the public is that we need to focus on neighborhoods and other under serveda irz that don't have an accomplished pipeline of projects. so that they are able to be implemented when grants become available. and agencies are prioritizing their capitol plans. we also, heard that we need to strengthen the project, delivery pipeline so that we can get these projects in the ground. and so just to recap, it is to

build community awareness, and an ability and capacity, to provide input into the planning process. get establishing a steady pipeline of projects and areas that are typically or have historically been under served and then in the communities of concern rand as an overview, the bus to arm, there is 100,000 predict, per, district, and this is over a five year period thashgs is started in the fiscal year, 14, 15, and soar in year two of the five year period, and prop k, should leverage on funds to deliver, two neighborhood scale projects, small to mid sized projects and levelling is core to the prop k program and it continues to be core to the ntip, primarily on the capitol side. and there is also, funding for

program, development for sfmta and to work together and to help to develop the projects. this outlines the amount of funds that are available predict and the amount that have been allocated to date and the funz that are remaining, we allocated six planning projects and three, capitol projects and in the subsequent, slides i will review what the status of those projects is. this is a map of p the projects that we funded, and the three capitol, and a little blurry on the screen and it shows the spread of the projects throughout the city. we have already, seen a number of positive results from the ntip program. from the projects that are out and run and this highlights a

few of those out comes on the planning side. and we have been working to advance, the projects, possibly sooner, than they otherwise would have advanced. and including a wide range of community involvement that has been taylored for the project and you will see that demonstrated throughout the presentation, and the planning project, recommendations that the envision would become the capitol projects and establishing the pipeline obama the capital size, advancing projects quicker, and such as the v cha vez area or the projects that you will see further in the presentation and improving competitiveness, when the funds were put on the design phase and then it obtained the funds from the active transportation program, for construction. and so, advancing projects to show a demonstration of the

local support. for the district one projects, for the district one project, rather, for this is annual , allocation, and as you heard, craig just describe the work that the mta is doing to prioritize, the capitol projects stemming from the bicycle strategy, this is picking a few of the corridors and the district one, and then advancing those as a stand alone, planning effort and this is for the safe walking and biking along the east and 23rd avenue as well as along a. rguello. and we can mending improvements for further study and the improvements on the corridor and coming up with designs for arguello and has completed that work and has multiple rounds of ouft reach that has been conducted. and the next round of public participation on is schedule for january, 28th, from 4:00 to 5:30

p.m. and for the folks watching at home you can meet at the north east corner for the walk through that will be conducted at that time. and additional for this plan and the final report will come to the transportation, authority, board or sorry for the plans and program's complitty for adoption in june of 2016, as is the ka israel for all of the planning projects they will come back to the board for adoption. district two, the planning project funds have been allocated to sfcta for managing access for the crooked street portion which is determined the crookedest street in the world this is to evaluate and identify the circulation and we want to keep the street's character and manage congestion and avoid, spill over, but recognizing that

there is, there is an issue to be at least, explored for how to manage this street's access. we have completed the condition analysis and we have done a first round of out reach, regarding condition and solutions working closely with superintendent far ral's office and will will work to bring it over the coming months and bring a final report in may of 2016, a lot of these reports will be coming doo you in may june and july that you will be seeing several presentations on these planning studies. for the capitol projects, the lumard street, and this is the larger corridor, project for the pedestrian and transit improvements and this is to be done ahead of the cal transpaving project, schedule

for 2018. the scope of work includes 19 but and pedestrian bulbouts and mta has been working on this for the last several months and working to complete, engineering and working closely with the supervisor's office and with the public and also with cal transto come up with the design recommendations and integrate the feedback into the designs complicated as far as the number of agencies and there is a high level of enter agency, coordination and design and environmental and cost, estimates and construction. and so that is something that has been able to be advanced with the funds, and the prop k, funds are levelling as i mentioned the regional acting transportation grant and the general obligation bonds for the construction phase and it is an advertise indicated to be done this summer. >> the next project is the

kearny street, for transit and performance and bike facilities and the project, limits are on kearny and montgomery from market to broad way and from washington to clay. sfmta has reviewed, existing conditions and has been putting together, work for out reach, and plans to do the final report, approximately, one year out from today. >> commissioner peskin has a question. >> i am new to this panel, and i have done a little bit of out reach to community groups in the area that i think that have actually worked with mta in the past that sounds to me like some of this has already been studied. i would love the opportunity to

meet with you and your staff is maybe we can put a little pause on this until we do that? >> okay. >> certainly, all right. thank you. >> and i believe that the project manager is here as well. so he is hearing it first hand. and will work together on that. with your office. >> for the district five, the western plan, this has been a project that is focused on pedestrian safety, and security, throughout the project area. and i have a map on the subsequent page, but it is geary and fulton are the general areas for outlining the project area. $100,000 has been allocated and these funds are a community, based and so we are seeing the leveraging on the planning side and in addition to the capitol

side. >> mta is partnering with mo magic and the existing condition analysis, and they are nearing the second round of out reach, and completing that and will integrate all of the feedback that has been done into a final report, which is expected in march of 2017 p. and the $100,000 for the study and to minimize the impacts of the potential future development of the reservoir, and the future and current activity at the city college and the activities in the side, and the sunny side,

neighborhoods and it refers to a set of strategies. and that are aimed at reducing the demand for the roadway travel and particularly, the occupant, vehicles and so one of the studies is to come up with an invin tory of possible, measures that may include, transit passes or permit areas, or etc.

and we expect a final report to be issued in october of 2016, and the project team, involved with sfmta as well as cal trans. and just to make a plug, if you were interested in getting involved www.sfcta.org/with a low on the left, high on the right, >> next up is cesar chavez., and this is to advance the design of wider, multiuse or separated bike and pedestrian path to

make-up grades, lighting plans, for the interchange, area. and so the public works has already, surveyed the key areas, and it is coming up with the initial, lighting plans, and mta has had a walking audit of the area and working closely with the bike coalition, and supervisor cohen's office and other stake holders, and has actually performed a walk through of the project area. and this project stems from the transportation, authority, 2015, neighborhood, transportation plan, and for, a weak design for constructing the bulbouts with the planting at five intersections and in the area,

and the terrace and the public housing sites and we are expecting to be completed in 2016, but we are working to get a revised, and this is part of the parks program which has been implementing a host of projects in 2015. >> just a question, who would be responsible for maintenance? >> that is a good question, unless somebody behind me knows the answer, i will get back to you. i don't want to say the wrong, agency, so let me get back to you. >> okay, because i am concerned, always, when we make improvements, and we beautify neighborhoods, and no one takes responsibility this happened to us on corridor with the trees and some of the improvements made and i just want to make sure that things that could be

used to work with the folks who live there to have them actively involved in some way and i just want to make sthur that when the improvements are done, they are maintained and supported by the community in some way, thank you. >> all right, thank you for your questions. >> okay. >> and the final slide, is for the current and the future scoping efforts and so the ntip, planning fund has yet to be allocated for districts 4, 6, 8, 10, and 11, so we have allocated for six and these are five of the districts that remain, to have funds allocated for projects. the ntip capitol funds are available for every district, two of the district to highlight, where there is

active, project, development, and are district six, for the pedestrian, safety, and soma youth, family zone and this is for the planning project that the board will likely see in march. and also, for the golden gate, buffered bicycle lane that you will see next month in february as well as the mid block crossings at bessie and that will be a capitol project, actually the last two would be capitol projects. and in district eleven for the san jose, gene va would be for planning and working with the station area, and cac and mta and bart, ta and a host of agencies on coming up with the best projects scope to advance and working closely with supervisor avalos as well as the traffic calming locations in the area. and we also look forward to

working with chair tang. as well as others, to advance, projects in the other districts as well. so if you have any questions. there are several, project managers here to answer questions, that you might have. >> all right, thank you very much for your presentation. and any other questions or comments from committee members? >> okay, i just say that i do appreciate the ntip program. and if you put in place, and we do look forward to continuing working with you on this. and so, at this time, then i would like to see if there is any member of the p you believe that would like to speak on item six? seeing none, item six, the public comment is closed. and if we can get a motion on item six, please? >> information. >> i am sorry, it is an information item. and since, we have commissioner breed here, i apologize, i would like us to go back then to item four, on the geary brt, cac. and apologize, to keep the am mrip applicants waiting.

>> thank you, and thank you. commissioner tang i just want to express my appreciation to the members here for appointing richard hoshimoto and i know that we have another, seat that we want to fill today. and he has been very involved with all things related to japan town, and geary and the corridor in that particular area and he has been instrumental in helping us, move things forward. and make the appropriate changes and he has been a great, representative for the community. and so i am gla glad that he will be continuing his service and with that, i know that there are two applicants and at this time, i guess, they can come forward to express their interest, starting with fong is the last name is that person here? >> commissioner breed, we just

had one other applicant who was here today, newsome who gave a presentation, if you like to call him up again. >> if you could come up? >> thank you. >> thank you, commissioners. >> sorry i missed it, but i did take a look at your application and the other application, i was really impressed and if you could give me an overview of your desire to serve and what you want to do on the committee, that would be great. i have lived in your district, and the entire time that i have been there and i would love to anything that i can to improve 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

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