>>[gavel] >> good morning and welcome to the monthly meeting of the san francisco county transportation authority i am scott weiner chairman of the authority. i want to thank sfgov tv for broadcasting this hearing. clerk please take roll call >> commissioner avalos,, present. breed, present. campos absent cohen, present. farrell absent kim absent mar, present. peskin absent tang absent weiner,, present. yee, present. we have a quorum >> thank you. go to item 2 >> item 2 chairs report this is an information item >> november election but mixed

results for our transportation sector along with others in our region the transportation authority was delighted that measure rr 3.5 bond passed handily in november with the sport of 81% of san francisco voters. this measure will ensure bart has the funds it needs to conduct pressing maintenance work systemwide particular the transbay tube. measure rr is important for safety and reliability and also hands capacity to train control upgrades and much needed maintenance facilities than one item not included in the spark bond was relating to recreation and park fleet expansion of 300 vehicles. these were included in local county measures including prop j in san francisco relating to transportation of homelessness

funding. as you note the voters overwhelmingly supported prop j with 60% in 67% of the vote which rejected prop k the measure that would fund prop j and without a funding source mayor lee exercises one-time prerogative to cancel prop j will now need to figure out another way to pay san francisco's contribution for bart cars. as well as other clinical local and regional transportation improvement from uni coltrane cyclist pedestrian street repaving. while contra costa measures also failed, we saw measures passed and many other counties and regions locally and nationally can including ctr., claire los angeles, seattle atlanta and southwark several other cities to carolinas and 100 in others npr reports of 77 transit measures on the ballot 71% with past five dollars voters accounted almost $170 billion in transit spending. this evolution of transportation funding is a long-term national trends and be in san francisco the bay area and california must keep up as the federal

government continues to go in a bad direction on transportation funding. particularly, the state is in such dire straits for example last week gov. brown announced it would be no transportation bill in a special session ending november 30. albany report infrastructure is high on the trump administration's priority list, details beyond tax breaks to incentivize private investment are scant. many are skeptical as this method of financing is hard to apply for the lions share of transportation investments across the nation. the good news is we're coming together as a city to address these new realities. how to join all of you and all of us, and mayor lee to reaffirm san francisco's commitment to being a sanctuary city. while there is uncertainty and other new administration will approach city like ours their strength in numbers with other like-minded communities and their strength of our convictions. that is why as

challenging as this seems i am optimistic our city region are state we can all work together on new local tools and measures to help and so hope such a city upcoming regional measure three, which told talks and to potential return to the ballot with a new local transportation measure in 2018. this will be a challenge but i'm glad that mayor lee's office is already asked our director tillie chang along with at risk and to assess the results and explore our options going back to the voters in 2018. colleagues, as you know this be my last meeting as your transportation authority chairman. i look forward to continuing to work with you in my new capacity in the state senator in sacramento. before i go i want to thank each of you for the collaborative work we been able to get done should i want to especially thank to the vice-chairman,-our committee chairs, as well as my npc

colleague david campos and others worked with me on the golden gate bridge highway and transportation district. also to commissioner yee pers chairmanship of vision zero committee and to all of our staff at transportation authority, transportation is been a focus for me over the last six years and it's been a real honor to work with rta staffed with our mta, planning department with all of her regional departments, regional partners and with all of you colleagues. i also want to give a special thanks to my staff under power jeff-adam taylor, earlier this year in the crime and, and going back to my first year in office julian gillette before she went to work for the mayor. it's been a real honor to work with these amazing group of people and colleagues to move transportation forwarded over the last two years, we been able to publish quite a bit. we provided

funding for neighborhood transportation improvements across san francisco. we have advanced regional priorities such as caltrain electrification in downtown extension. we have provided-we funded or made the largest investment ever in uni's light rail fleet as well as replacing uni's entire bus fleet. we've completed doyle drive and the ybi ramp. we've moved vision zero forward along with van ness and geary bus rapid transit could we are planning for next generation of rail and subways locally and san francisco and around the bay area. we have been work [inaudible] san bay area for a scenario and much more. so thank you again for the honor of allowing me to serve as chairman of the transportation authority for the last two years. colleagues, as i'll be resigning from transportation authority and the board of supervisors on

monday, at noon when sworn in to the state senate i like to propose that you finish the year under the leadership of our vice-chairman commissioner eric mar and then in january the full-bodied with elect a new chairman for the coming year so that would be my recommendation upon my departure. that concludes my remarks. thank you colleagues. so are there any comments or is there any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >>[gavel] >> this is information item. item number three >> item 3 executive directors report this is information items >> director chang >> congratulations again to the state center very pleased to continue working with you and appreciate the opportunity to work with all parts returning board members as well. congratulations to commissioner peskin breed and

lease on your reelection to the board as wells looking for to working with the newly appointed and elected members from district 1, eight, nine and 11 in the new year. as a chairman mentioned, we saw the results of the election and we do endeavor to work and bring you our best advice good at risk in and i and our colleagues along with various stakeholders and what we learned and what we can learn from the election and the voters message back regarding [inaudible] and related measures it is important for us to act in a decisively in a timely way in the new year given that we want to be ready for 2017 and 2018 milestones in order to join with other partners in the region and enact overly new revenue transportation investments iin the coming years. in our countywide transportation plan, update will be early in the new york and i will hopefully plan to include a revenue paper which will also inform those options. turning to local updates, i want to present

update on districts two, five, and nine. final reports in those districts for the neighborhood transportation improvement program. we have a presentation on district 10 projects for cesar chavez potrero there are area for the finance committee and working to move those four. in the coming months. we also a really great community outreach in district 2 for the lombard street study with commissioner farrell and mta and other partners. our district 9 work was also moving forward and allegheny and we also have district five community-based transportation planning coming to you in the new year. our child transportation study commissioned by commissioner tang we come into the board presentation on plans and programs in december and we've also had a public study gone to

the mta board and will be bringing up to the board of supervisors as well as this body in the new year. project delivery the caltrain electrification project is nearing its full funding grant agreement. we are hopeful that we secured by the end of the year. there's about $650 million from federal capacity funds anticipated for that project. over the past several months we have been working hard collaboratively with the regional partners to ensure that is secured. in terms of our neighborhood safety will program, i want to just congratulate sf mta on implement in some important safety measures near the cesar chavez elementary school. speed homes were incremented and road striking on chartwell to slowdowns traffic around caesar salad. also, nearby the tenderloin community on the [inaudible] wheezing sf mta along with public works in public utilities commission complete it but old near the turk hide intersection with

large in front. congratulations to bridge and putting those are prop k sales tax and funds to good use. on yerba buena island worker. for this the point opening. this will follow on the touchdown of the bay bridge bicycle and pedestrian path that we saw in october. it will be really nice gathering area and-with warfel said of services including rest areas, benches, and bathroom and watering facilities. that is going to be a really nice opportunity to so they again in the new year. on the management and administration front, our agency was leased to obtain another double a+ rating from fitch could our sales tax revenue bonds. this is something we don't currently have bonds but if we do try to access the bond markets in the coming years this will be helpful. we been able to

maintain our favorable rating based on robust coverage of our sales tax and also a very steady strong sales tax revenue growth trend that is outpaced national gdp trends over the past 10 years. so thank you to pitch for that rating. finally, a note of farewell and thanks again to our chairman best wishes in sacramento. we had the transportation authority on behalf of the staff would like to express our sincere thanks to you chairman weiner for your service on a transportation authority router eight years as chairman of the last two. is he the last six years as chairman for the last two. we wish you all the best and if you join the state senate we are grateful to you for your excellent staff for your guidance and hard work and leadership. both on transportation related when using other issue. both locally here as wells regionally including at the mtc. we are particularly grateful for your advocacy transit core capacity issues that really enabled a

deeper and more substantive work to address those issues as of the last be steady work committed to seeing that through in the next plan bay area. your leadership was also important and much appreciated on late-night transportation to address those needs for the late night and early morning workers and visitors to our city. thank you for your work on affordability, on fares, working with mta, working with sf state and students on affordability issue to an affordable housing of course. as well as our long-range rail and transportation plans. i want to thank you for your outstanding leadership in the tickling on rating funds for transportation weather was the advocacy we did at the national level for new transportation federal bill last year with colleagues around the region weather was developed of the bart bond or passing the sales tax thank you very much for you and your study were grateful for the commitment and effort

and look forward to collaborating with you in your new position in settlement best wishes from all us at the sfmta. thank you. >> thank you ms. trinkle you appreciate it. commissioner mar >> i just want to say that i should've mentioned after your remarks mr. chairman, that i want to thank you for the amazing work you've done and the laser focus on transportation improving transportation not just in our city the long-range view and then even from the views of people from the mpc and the association of bay area governments i think the anticipation you will be a strong champion for transportation not just for our city but the whole region and the state. i'm looking forward to your leadership at a level. he was thank you commissioner. >> thank you committed any public comment on item 3 seeing none, public comment is closed. >>[gavel] >> this is an information item. item number four

>> item 4, approval the minutes of the october 25, 2016 the and action items. colleagues, any questions or comments were changes to the minutes? seeing none, any public comment on item for? seeing none, public comment is closed. >>[gavel] >> item number five >> i apologize let's call that warned that >> commissioner avalos aye breed aye campos absent cohen aye farrell absent kim absent mar aye peskin absent tang aye weiner aye yee aye. the minutes are approved. >> item number five. >> item 5, except the audit report for the fiscal year ended june 30 26. this is an action item. >> colleagues any questions or comments bequest seeing none, any public comment on item 5? seeing none, my apologize

commissioner yee >> just a real quick comment. congratulations to the team for having bequest this is not have and to organizations and it's nice to see that it was basically everything was clear and clean and keep up with the good work. >> okay. did i close public comment already? >> not yet >> any public comment on item 5 seeing none, public comment is closed. >>[gavel] >> colleagues can we take item 5 same house, same call? without objection that will be dewatered >>[gavel] >> item number six >> item number six allocate $3,149,000 per prop k funds and appropriate 100,000 and prop k funds subject to the cash flow distribution schedules and commit to allocate $325,000 and prop k funds. action item >> commissioner yee was that from before?

>> commissioner yee >> i'm just curious there's a lot of items for the plan here and i need to see a timeline of any of this but i don't know if generally when we do allocations we would consider how long is this going to take. is it in here somewhere? i did not notice it. >> to the jury commissioner yee the schedules are usually in the proposition k allocation form. there is an a to elaborate. >> so you don't have a general list? with a look through individually? >> supervisor, commissioner yee through the chair, the overall schedule for the entire group of traffic calming measures shows implementation to be complete by december of

2019. however there are 11 or more plans that are being implanted with this funding request that are in various different states of planning, design, or going into constructing what we can do is find out specifically what the schedule is for the traffic calming area wide plan and get up to your office. i believe the schedule by plan is broken down in these materials. it's the overall schedule for the project we will get back to your office >> yes. that would be really useful could my constituents are always asking when that's going to happen. thank you. >> okay. seeing no other questions any public comment on items six? seeing none, public comment is closed. >>[gavel] >> colleagues can we take that item 6 same house, same call? without objection that will be dewatered >>[gavel] >> item number seven >> item number seven introduction of new items >> colleagues, any introduction today? seeing

none, any public comment on items seven? seeing none, public comment is closed. >>[gavel] >> this is an information item. item number eight >> item 8, general public comment >> please come four >> thank you good morning. the good way for national management [inaudible]answer will just get our peoples destiny our peoples wisdom are people's passion national leaders should apply the public way of peace and harmony to fight for the well-being of all people. [inaudible] having good cultivation of virtues. [inaudible] array teaching to educate people to build the integrity of the holy way and in our society. that is not just the outright destiny but one cell. those are the all right [inaudible] for our people. for the promotion of

mercy [inaudible] close to the people and to renew the people with improved accomplishments of holy birches. one is also responsible for the promotion of true principles strict disciplines [inaudible] when will lead us out of also to follow laws of good discipline as good citizens of the nation. thank you >> any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >>[gavel] >> item number nine >> item 9, adjournment >> we are adjourned. thank you. >>[gavel] >>[adjournment] >> >> >>