supervisor fewer. we commend her on the resolution supporting california schools and local community funding act. this initiative to amend prop 13 is supported by every league of women voters in the state of california. we hope that the six of you who have not yet endorsed this will endorse it because as you know, it needs unanimous support. when prop 13 was passed in 1978, many people warned it would hurt our schools and that has proved to be all too true. by requiring big commercial properties to pay their fair share of property tax, it would be an enormous boon to san francisco schools as well as community projects. so we hope that you will give

this your unanimous support. thank you. >> clerk: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is [inaudible] i speak on behalf the [inaudible] buyers. taxi business in san francisco is terrible at the taxi industry has been collapsed. interest is no hope this will improve. we have no hope and it is too late for them to bring business back to us. they look for the baker pay checks. taxi medalon owners are looking to make a living. no one take taxis.

like the demand and supply. 700 medallions you say abundant. you can do that and stop the 700 medallions you sold to us. sfmta employees are -- you is cn advise them. give the taxi owners morn any back as soon as possible. we are dying by inches to make money to pay these medallion payments. we are waiting patiently to get our money [bell rings] >> back from sfmta. today, there is a convention and no one take taxi. we are struggling to get like

$10 ride and we didn't get it. everything is captured by ride sharing companies. bring you to your tax did i agenda [bell rings] >> clerk: thank you, sir. thank you for your testimony. >> thank you, sir. sir, thank you. thank you kindly. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon to everybody. the same issue for the taxi medallion that is been bought from the poor 700 peoples. there are black, latinos, asians, kaw ka caucasian and the there. i have seen that you people are listening here and everything is

seems like very good and specifically president breed i would invite you to come to the airport because the taxi drivers cannot afford $6 parking in the parking garage and come over here and seek your help. $3 after 3:00 p.m. and we want you to come all of the board of supervisors to come to the airport and listen and see the miserable life of the taxi drivers who bought their permit for $250,000. and again, black latinos and hispanic and asian and all kind of peoples. but basically minorities are being crippled. and, it would be if you do not act now then you might have to represent the member ra member .

and my humble request is to change the goals and at least come once to the airport and the talk to the peoples directly. [bell rings] >> clerk: instead of listening from the sfmta, you should confront or talk to the drivers face to face at least you can see and hear the reality by yourself. and another thing before i leave, this item number 23, it is a good thing, but it is only a peanut to the mouth of the elephant. [bell rings] >> clerk: thank you for your comments. thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. supervisors. david elliott lewis. i served two terms on the city mental health board. i currently serve on the boards of nami san francisco, the mental health association, community housing partnership, and also work as a trainer for

the san francisco police department's crisis intervention team training program. i say this because i know something about our city's behavioral health system and i know something about our state's behavioral health system and i have a lot of concerns about your agenda item 55 coming up to support scott weiner's state bill 1045. we already have laws on the books for conserve atoreships and laws for people who can't care for themselves. to enact additional legislation which strips people of their rights is really troubling. we have a system of care that is broken. we do not have treatment on demand. we don't have housing on demand. we need housing and treatment and community supports. and, to enact another law that can deprive people of civil rights to address a political need of seeing homeless people on the street is really troubling. and i hope you will not pass

this resolution. i know there is support on the board, but i really hope you will -- it will give you pause. again, we have the opsconservatorship laws. we need more community supports and housing for those who can't care for themselves. [bell rings] >> clerk: i hope yo. >> i hope you will continue to support housing and demand and not support laws that take away rights and our liberties. no on sb-1045. thank you foryour time and attention. >> clerk: thank you for your testimony. next speaker, please. >> good evening. my name is abdul. i'm coming to file the same thing like for the taxi business. taxi business is so bad and unfortunately we are struggling a lot in this matter. and, most taxi drivers are immigrant and just only move

here with their family like me. i have four young kids going to the school. two go to the school and my daughter go to the university and one go to the college. please help us to bring our money back from the sfmta. we need that money for our business, for our kids. no more business and if you guys not help us, i think very soon we come in to here with the family and with the wife and wee got a divorce because wife need the money and we do not have the money. and kids need the money and we do not have the money. thank you for your time. this is serious matter. do not take this lightly because you know, the taxi business is unfair in the city because the 700 medallion sold by the immigrant people and people used to have the medallion free and if we go by the listings and mostly people i'm not talking

about anything like that but the thing is when the sfmta a list, mostly immigrant people they sold the medallion to the immigrant peoples and mostly still like 1600 to minus 1700 the people have the free medallions. welches. >> this is unfair business. help us. thank you for your time. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your testimony. next speak please. >> honorable supervisors. i represent the bay area armenian national committee. on behalf of the san francisco armenian community we thank you very much for consider, the resolution commemorating the 103rd anniversary of the armenian genocide perpetrated by the turkish government. in the first genocide, armenians lost more thanfu than half of te

population. 1.5 million living on their historic homeland. after the killings it didn't end. the genocide continued with the complete dispossession of armenian properties, schools, hospitals, churches, businesses, farms, the entire civilization they had built over centuries beginning before the turks arrived and then all imsimpley erased or appropriated by the turkish government. the da it is effects are compod every day in real ways. as a direct result of the massive government campaign of genocide denial within and beyond the turkish boundaries. denial is the major road block preventing any mod did i come of recovery and reconciliation between the two nations and responsible for the dangerously destabilizing and tense relationship between the two neighboring countries today

serving as an ongoing threat to the security of armenia. [bell rings] >> your remembrance will not only serve to honor the victims and educate the public, but it will also be an important stand against hi historical revisionim which leads to the reputation of the saddest chapters of history. we urge the board approval of the resolution as it has commendably done for many years running. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your testimony. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon i 57 am an organizer with evolve california. i wanted to thank the supervisor for your leadership in introducing the resolution to reform prop 13 and support the schools and communities first act. i want to thank supervisors peskin, sheehy,ee, ronen and kim for cosponsoring this important reform.

we need this now more than ever. my wife is a public school teacher here in san francisco. and, i get to see every day just how heartbreaking it is for her to see her students cheated out of the future that they deserve. i see her every weekend we go down to target and buy classroom supplies for her kids and she is in no, no way unique. all of our teachers have to to this every year. and this is in san francisco. we have it better than most is thofthe states. can you imagine what it is like for teachers, for parents, and most of all for students in other districts around the states who have far less resources than we do? and at this point in time, how can we continue to justify allowing large corporations like chevron to get away with paying pennies on the dollar in property taxes savin saving huns of millions of dollars while the

schools are in the bottom 10 in per pupil funding and we have the most overcrowded classrooms in the nations and the rest of us all pairing four fair share. [bell rings] >> we need california so show a better way. i hope you will adopt the resolution. >> clerk: thank you for your comment. next speaker, please. >> i am with evolve california. i want to thank supervisor fewer for introducing the resolution to support the schools and communities first initiatives. i got involved with this campaign two years ago because i felt it wasn't fair that the young students i was mentoring felt discouraged to learn and stupid when in actuality it is because of the chronic underfunding of our state pub live schools that they were not given enough resources or time to succeed. and, after 40 years it is about time that we reform prop 13 and restore over $800 million every

year to our city's schools and communities. no more tax breaks for large corporations. our students deserve better than that. i urge the board to pass this resolution. thank you so much. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is joshua and i am a richmond district resident, student and an intern with the evolve california. i urge you to pass the schools and communities first initiative. my sister is a new special education teacher in california who hasn't start the her position yet and already told she needs to by supplies for the classroom out of her own pocket which is ridiculous considering the low salaries teachers already make. this will give students and teachers the resources they deseb. it ideserve. it is tame we invest in the students of california. >> clerk: thank you for your

comments. next speaker, please. >> my name is susan van kikens. i grew up in michigan a long time ago and as i was probably a teen i knew somehow we all new that california had the best schools in the nation. what has happened, prop 13 came along and things started to change. i came here in 1994 and i have known a lot of young teachers who had to aah pl supply their n classrooms. i'm a supporter of evolve because i want changes in the city. we need to support our children. how can we expect our country to grow more healthy and more wise if we don't support our children? so please support this resolution. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> i'm here in support of the

resolution to ry form proposition 13. my name is megan able. i am the organizing director of the tech equity collaborate eastbound. we are a membership organization representing hundreds of tech workers in the bay area who think that the tech driven economy can and should work for everyone. while tech didn't create the underlying issues causing the housing crisis we recognize the fast growth of the industry has contributed to the pushing out of long time residents and vulnerable communities have, we feel that we have a responsibility to use our voicee to advocate for a policy that will make it possible for everyone who wants to live here to access housing affordably. that is the i'm here today and why the organization supports prop 13 reform. we are excited to be one of the hundreds of grass rots faith and labor room -- grass roots groups. we believe prop 13 is the root

of california's housing crisis. we forming the law would generate $10 billion in new funding for the state which would go to local governments to support local service programs including housing. this funding is desperately needed to fund antidisplacement services because we know very well what has happened across the bay without adequate attention being paid to antidisplacement. as members of the tech community we want to be sure that all san franciscoansster the resiliency to ride out the wave and not get washed out by it. it is estimated san francisco would receive $800 million in funding from prop 13. [bell rings] >> which could be allocated for affordable housing development, antidisplacement services and homeless supports. we ask that you pass the resolution unanimously to show that san francisco is on the leading edge of the progressive tax reform. thank you. >> clerk: thank you very much for your comments. next speaker, please.

>> good afternoon. my name is karen roda. i'm a resident of district 4. and i would like to invite any once who hasn't had an opportunity to sign the petition to put the initiative on the ballot to meet me after class. i will be waiting outside. thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> i currently serve as the president for the san francisco mow flower mart and i want to urge you all to pass the urging of the property exchange at 2000 m200marin for 639. is the critical for the 50 tenants at the san francisco plow flower market to have a location they can thrive while the new market is being built. so i hope you all support it. i also want to thank supervisors

kim and supervisors peskin for helping us to get this exchange. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> my name is otto duffy. i'm a resident of the neighborhood around city hall. i think matt gonzalez was the first person i heard mentioning that corporations never get a bump up in their taxes. the issue that they are bringing up. it isinit is long overdue to che that. i'm also notice something about pedestrian injuries and car accidents and pedestrian fatalities. some time ago, i noticed that while the vision zero is focusing most of the effort on the dense neighborhood of the tenderloin and the downtown area, the fact that there are more incidents in the area is an artifact of it is just a more dense neighborhood. if you look as a pedestrian walking around on the streets in

san francisco, your odds as a pedestrian of getting hit by a car are approximately equal anywhere in the city. and so there probably out to be a little more focus on the other neighborhoods and even in my neighborhood around here, on any given year there is probably about average of a couple hundred, 300, 400 deaths every year, lost years of life and a small fraction of that is actually pedestrian-caused problems with cars. if you wanted to increase life expectancy and quality of life you would be looking more at more housing. particularly for small units for stepup housing for homeless people which is what all of the con at thiconstituents are compg about and universal healthcare and a single standard of care. that is what you would be focusing on. >> clerk: thank you for your

comments. next speaker. >> i'm kelly cutler with the coalition of homelessness. the rest of my comrades are in sacramento regarding the bill 1045. and i thought i was getting out of having to go to meetings today. but then apparently not so i'm here. so we are in very strong opposition to it. and basically, it reminds me of like the tent ban. if there is no resources that are available, it just doesn't make sense. it is really facade. and so i'm here to strongly urge against that. and there is so many people that are service providers that are advocates that are healthcare professionals and so many other fields that are opposing this because it doesn't make sense. that's it. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. any other members of the public who would like to address the board during general public comment? please proceed. >> thank you, madam clerk.

ladies and gentlemen of the board, today we heard about ucsf. warm the coccals of your heart much, i would like to remind you about some facts of which you probably are aware but could bear reminding. about 15 years ago ucsf engaged in a major project of expansion in the mission bay neighborhood of the city. many of the buildings down there, i'm sure you have been down there, are closed to the public. you might have been allowed to go inside because you presumably have security clearances but i am not. this is a campus that has been dedicated to the medical sciences and yet they are doing classified research at the mission bay campus and this is a new step for them. the old campus has no classified

buildings closed to the public. executive order 13-526 of what goes on in that kind of environment. section 1.4, classification categories. information shall not be considered for classification unless its unauthorized disclosure to provide describable damage to the national security? accordance with section 1.2 of the order and pertains to a, military plans, weapons systems or operations. c, foreign government operation. intelligence activities. [bell rings] >> clerk: methods are. >> foreign relations or foreign activist thes united states. e, scientific techno logical matters. f, united states government programs for safeguarding nuclear materials or facilities. g, vulnerabilities or capabilities of infrastructures. i'm out of time, madam clerk.

>> clerk: thank you for your comments. madam president. >> president breed: are there any other members for public comment? they are now closed. read [gavel] >> president breed: read the items for adoption. >> clerk: items 53 -- an a-team may be severed and considered separatory. >> president breed: i will remove item number 55. supervisor yee? supervisor fewer. >> supervisor fewer: i would like to sever item 56. >> president breed: before we take the vote, madam clerk leaks can we entertain to excuse supervisor peskin? without hundred, supervisor peskin is excused and on the remaining items including 55 and

56 please call the roll. [roll call] >> clerk: there are ten ayes. >> president breed: adopted unanimously. let's go to item 55. >> clerk: a resolution to support state senate bill 1045 expanding california mental health conservato rship law. severe drug addictions repeated psychiatric committens or excessively frequent use of medical services. >> president breed: i would like to make a motion to continue the item one week to the meeting of

april 24, 2018. is there a second? >> seconded by supervisor tang. can we take that without objection. approved. item 56. >> clerk: a resolution to support the california schools and local community funding act and reaffirming the board of supervisors support for a split role reform of proposition 13 this order to close the commercial property tax loophole and restore billions in revenue. >> president breed: supervisor fewer? >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. this would support proposition 13 reform which would effectively close the unattendant corporate loophole of prop 13. while the intent is to help homeowners loopholes in the system permitted major commercial and industrial properties to avoid reassessment, a windfall to

property owners at the expense of vital public services. as a public school student and parents of three public school students and school board member i have seen the impact prop 13 has had on the ability to fund schools. california schools have gone from some of the best funded in the nation to now being the bottom 10. as a pta president of 12 terms i have raised money through fundraisers of carnivals and bake sales to buy paper, window blinds, pencils and crayons basic necessities that schools should be providing. and also, this prohibits us from being able to serve the neediest students in the community with the resources they need to make their academic potential. corporations have gotten away with not paying their fair share for 40 years and tax cuts by number 45 compounded the growth inequity. a common sense fix that will generate $10 billion per year for schools and public services across the state.

$800 million for san francisco alone. nearly 80% of the revenue will come from just 8% of commercial properties in california worth $5 million or more. long-time commercial property owners will no longer be able to sit on valuable vacant land while paying almost nothing in property taxes and this would help with our vacant store fronts. today, colleagues, i ask for support of the resolution. >> president breed: can we take this item same house, same call without hundred the resolution is adopted unanimously. [gavel] it is my understanding we have one imperative item. >> clerk: yes, madam president. on behalf of supervisor peskin a resolution mending kearney street workshop on its anniversary and proclaiming april 28 to be kearney workshop day in the city and county of

san francisco. >> clerk: supervisor kim. >> supervisor kim: supervisor peskin had to leave due too a family emergency. i have volunteered and performed at one of their events when i was part of a band and this is commending on the location of the 45th anniversary and declaring april 14, 2018 the can workshop day. it was funded by jump an jim ana and michael chin in 1972 at the ground floor of the international hotel on the last block of keen any street that was part of what was then the historic manila town where many manong sunday and filipino seniors lived. it was a strugglingle for decades to maintain an sro hotel that has many of our growing senior population filipino community who worked in san francisco for decades. and, was a place of really just

amazing activism and hi history where women and the black panthers and asian american activists came to protest before all of the seniors were evicted including the kearney street workshop dragged out by the sheriff. we were able to rebuild the hotel as a site for affordable housing for seniors here in san francisco. it is the triumph and victory, of course, an immense loss that for 40 years this housing did not exist. but amazing that we were able to bring it back and just want to commend kearney street workshop for their role in the hotel struggle and their continuing work to support emerging asian pacific american artists the last 45 years here in the city and county of san francisco. >> president breed: supervisor kim, are are yo you going to may motions? >> supervisor kim: thank you, president breed. i would like to make a motion to add this to the imperative

agenda. >> president breed: and certify that it is purely commendatory and that there is no need to take any further action because it doesn't violate the brown act. >> supervisor kim: yes. >> the board before acting must make motions that it is purely commendatory and also that it came to the attention of the board after the publication of the agenda of today's meeting. >> supervisor kim: the motion to move it forward as imperative item and it is purely commendatory and i didn't hear. >> and that it came to the attention of the board after the publication of the agenda for today's meeting. >> president breed: okay. so supervisor kim has moved what was said by our deputy city attorney. and is there a second? seconded by supervisor yee. supervisor yee.

>> supervisor yee: i'm glad this was brought to you our attentio. is slipped my mind also. i was a member of the kearney street workshop in its infant stages in the mid 1970's. being a teacher of arts and crafts type of things and eventually joining their photography sort of unit i guess and she helped publish books and document what was going on around the chinese or the chinatown community. it has been that long. i didn't realize that. but my goodness. i actually almost forgot i was a member of it. so, i'm glad we are doing this today. >> president breed: thank you. so there is a motion and second. and can we open it up to public comment. are there any members of the public who would like to

comment. seeing none, public comment is closed. can we take the motion without objection? without objection the motion passes unanimously. on the actual item, same house, same call. without hundred the resolution is adopted unanimously. >> clerk: even behalf of supervisor peskin for the late players ernie bile and mr. steven fong. and for the late miss merial dunaway. and on behalf of supervisor tang for the late ms sharon balmier. and for the late doris ward former assessor, recorder and president of the board of supervisors and on behalf of president breed and the entire board of supervisors for the late mr. james hennessy.

>> president breed: supervisor cohen. >> supervisor cohen: i have a question that has to do with the imperative agenda that is item number 5 of an 56 and i'm not qe procedurally how to. >> president breed: we would need to rescind the vote. >> clerk: the california schools and community funding. >> president breed: i need to rescind the vote to discuss it, supervisor cohen. >> supervisor cohen: really? >> president breed: so you would like to make a motion to rescind the vote. supervisor cohen has made a motion to rescind the vote. is there a second? seconded. the vote has been rescinded. on the item, supervisor cohen. >> supervisor cohen: thank you very much for allowing an opportunity. supervisor fewer informed me and i want to make sure i understand this correctly.

sorry, ladies. this resolution is there exemption for -- so the reason i'm flagging this when you talk about split rule i'm concerned it adversely affects small business owners and women minority business owners in particular. can you talk to me about the exemption? >> supervisor kim: they would be provided with direct tax relief. they would no long verducci to pay taxes on any of their equipment or fixtures and things like that which they now are assessed by. >> supervisor cohen: okay. >> 550 employees for less. >> supervisor cohen: thank you very much. we can continue and make a motion to -- >> president breed: to colleagues, can we take this -- >> supervisor cohen: sorry, one more question. madam clerk, in terms of procedure are we able to send this back to committee to discuss? >> clerk: this item is a resolution and it is the single

privilege of a super vicar to send it to committee. >> supervisor cohen: i would like to send it back to discuss a little bit more. >> president breed: so we could either send it to committee or a continuance for one week. >> supervisor cohen: i'm happy with a continuance for one week. >> president breed: supervisor cohen made a motion to continue to april 24,. >> clerk: clerk, madam president. >> president breed: 2018. roll call vote. >> clerk: supervisor cohen made a motion to continue. a second? >> president breed: seconded by supervisor kim? no. no, supervisor kim does not second. supervisor fewer seconded for a one week tin wans. can we take that without turn? without hundred we will continue one week. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. >> president breed: thank you.

[gavel] >> president breed: so ma madam clerk have you finished reading the in memoriams. >> clerk: yes,. >> president breed: there is no further business before us today. thank you, we are adjourned. [meeting adjourned at 5:38 p.m.]

>> good morning and welcome to the san francisco county transportation authority meeting for tuesday, april 10th, 2017. clerk, could you please call the roll. [roll call] >> clerk: cohen absent. kim, absent. peskin, present. ronen, absent. is safia? >> a quorum. mr. clerk, could you please read the next item.

[ agenda item read ] >> good morning, members of the transportation authority. i'm john larson. like yesterday, we had a very full agenda starting with item seven on your agenda. the cac recommended approval for 17 major league dollar in propagated funds. questions were asked about the subway station and strategies regarding lost time. it was indicated to the cac that although recovery did exist, it was not possible to recover all lost time. in response to the bayview transportation plan. staff reiterated that the plans specifically focused on meeting the needs of current residents and demonstrates to the

community that the planning process was for existing residents and not for people who might move in in the future. the cac appreciated that. the cac also supported adopting the final study. district 4 member has worked with vice-chair tang for some time and noted the report did a good job of visualizing what was already known about the issues related to the 66 routing. it was strongly urged with midday service to address these connectivity issues, there would have to be additional buses and overall service from the 48 to the east side all the way to the ocean through west portal station. the cac recommended the $140 million revolver and the amended budget and expressed appreciation for the performance

under staff. with regard to the strategic plan update, the cac emphasized the importance of community outreach during the process while recognizing the challenges associated with engaging on what can be a complex process. members suggested certain community groups that the ta staff right add to the outreach strategy as it is developed and may remain interested as the plans are executed. finally, the cac acted to -- with regard to the strategies. concern was expressed regarding the expressway options do not do enough to cause increased capacity and fewer automobiles and merely shift existing auto loads to different lanes a. particular observation was made by district 10 member that

district 6, 9, 10, 11, tend to bear the brunt of the emissions by the freeway segments being studied and that a focus should remain on mode shift, resulting in fewer cards and unregional translate. finally, the cac reiterated the request on muny of system reliability -- muni system reliability. that concludes my report. thank you. >> thank you, mr. larson. are there any questions? seeing none, is there any public comment on item number two? seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you for your presentation. mr. clerk, could you please read the next item. [ agenda item read ] >> is there any public comment

on the minutes? seeing none, it's closed and a roll call, please. >> motion to approve the minutes made acommissioner tang and seconded by breed. [votin [voting] >> clerk: we have approval. >> all right. the minutes are approved. next item, please. [ agenda item read ] >> clerk: this is an action item. >> mr. pickford? >> good morning. the transportation authority has an 11 members as an advisory

committee with each member serving a two-year turn. the board appoints individuals to fill seats and nor staff or the cac make recommendations on appointment. to qualify, applicants must be san francisco residents and appear before the board once to speak to their interests and qualifications. the enclosure has details on each applicants. the vacancy under consideration today is the suspension of bradley whitmire after missing meetings. any questions? >> any questions for mr. pickford? are there any members of the public who would like to testify on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, this is the district 3 seat, and i am soliciting applications and to that end, i would like to continue this item

to our next meeting. if at least a motion to that effect made by commissioner yee, seconded by commissioner kim, we have a different house. counselor, can i do that without objection? [off microphone] >> roll call on continuing the item as motion made by commissioner yee, seconded by commissioner kim on that continuance. a roll call, please. [roll call] [votin [votin [voting] >> next item, please. [ agenda item read ] >> clerk: this is an action

item. >> mas. craft. >> good morning for the second time. i'm going through the positions. assembly bill 2530. this would cease bond for the rail. similar to past positions, on senate bill 1376, recommending a support position. this would require that the public utilities commission september regulations on tnc companies and then also ask them to investigate potentially imposing a fee to help enforce those and then having a series of workshops with stakeholders to discuss potential regulations and needs of the wheelchair accessible community. we're recommending a support position on senate bill 936. this is a requirement that the office of planning and research

put together a task force on autonomous vehicle planning and required them to report back by, i believe it's 2021, and then we're seeking amendments that the task force covers a number of different topics. we would like to see fair labor and safety streets, safety for all users added to the list of policies to explore. >> any questions? i assume mark is up in our state capital today? >> yes, he is. >> are there any members of the public that would like to testify on item number five? seeing none, public comment is closed. is there a motion to adopt the positions mentioned by ms. craft on the three or four mentioned bills in our state legislature? motion made by commissioner stef

-- stefani. mr. clerk, if there's no objection, given the number of individuals here to testify on item 16, i would like to call item 16 out of order. mr. clerk, could you please call item 16. [ agenda item read ] >> clerk: this is an information item. >> thank you. and before i bring eric up, let me start by thanking ta staff and my colleagues for what i think is money well-spent. for those of you who have watched our ongoing hearings on the millennium tower, i think what we've learned is peer review early is value added.

that's precisely why this authority set aside some money and asked mr. cordova to do the work that he's done. that study is before us. i think the findings of the study are important. >> i'm happy to present on the status of the peer review and the tunnel option study update. let's start with the peer review where our mission was to go ahead and review and bring in a panel of experts to take a look at three operational studies that frankly had some different types of information that were used for those. in that regard, we've brought all the players together to take a look at that. the three in question are listed on your screen there. one prepared by a consultant to the properties and the properties they own at the second of corner and howard.

also, the second was prepared by the operation analysis of two versus three tracks. and a third study prepared by the consultant team. the peer review panel that we assembled is led by ty lynn international. extraordinary in terms of the operations analysis experience. today we have actually you vein coropowski here today. he'll actually present in a minute or so. i just want to go ahead and also acknowledge the fact that, you know, we did that i can the lead our pmo in collaboration with all the stakeholders. we've held three workshops, had participation by caltrain.

they are all here today in that regard. i think it's been a collaborative effort. i'm going to hand it over to gene to go over it. >> first of all, i would like to thank the body for having us participate in this exceptionally important project. secondly, i would be remiss if i didn't address because of the constructiveness of the process amongst all of the parties. this would not have resulted in the kind of report had there been a conflict or a lack of participation by any of the participants. it's been an exceptionally constructive process. regarding the overall general observations, these theoretical studies that were done all --

you will have to forgive my technical inabilities. the studies that were done, all theoretical in saying, yeah, you can make this work with two tracks, but in reality, if anything happens on an operation, you will not be able to achieve your reliability and service goals. the swiss rail is considered to be the gold standard in the world. they operate with a three-minute tolerance and get a 91% on-time performance. cal train is 5:59 at the capital corridor, even though that's not listed here, that was five minutes. when you take into consideration the reality that can happen on the railroad, you're going to need the third track. there's no doubt about that. the only study that did a study on what happens if something doesn't go right, and that's virtually every day on a railroad operation, it indicated that the three tracks would be

required. the major findings on it, obviously number one, that three tracks are required for it to work. the capacity plan for four high-speed trains and six cal train trains per hour cannot be assured unless there's a plus or minus level that any train can run at any level. if they're out of sync, they need to move it from one track to the other. the columns that are built can't be moved. so any revisions to existing criteria have to be done in the context of not disrupting what has currently been built. and there is room for some modification and the participants and stakeholders are looking at that today.

you might be able to push this to 12 trains an hour in and 12 out. that's 24 train moves an hour, but that's a very tight operational restriction. the new underground station at fourth and townsend is likely to have significance for rail operations and in addition for the potential development sites that are being discussed in that area. so having that as a major terminal facility is also exceptionally important. the overall utility at fourth and townsend might be adding tracks instead of the two to three tracks. that provides flexibility in the case of disruption and provides greater use of that station. some of the additional findings,

these are significant operational value at the caltrain terminal at yard and fourth and king for staging, servicing, and addressing issues when there is a service disruption where you may need to turn a train at a location you wouldn't normally do. the study is exploring those options for the use of this yard. a consistent dtx tracks and conversations should be used for different modeling. there were different asaumthss made -- assumptions made. all results considered by the peer review panel, it's more like a transit system where you can push more trains through a given piece of railroad than would a traditional railroad signal system. they exist. amtrak employees in new york get

them in and out of penn station on a two-track tunnel. so that's also in the process. so we'll have a consistent base result from both caltrain and the high-speed rail authority when they move forward. the recommended initial immediate actions, the operators need to finalize that workable blended surface plan. when do the six caltrain runs and the four per hour? they also need to take a look at the capacity of the railroad between san jose and bayshore to see how many trains per hour that two-track can actually accommodate. that will determine how many trains per hour you can get into the salesforce terminal and the fourth and townsend. the two operators in the tjpa need to identify and select a mutual

mutually acceptable and workable set of rolling stock and tapingss -- adaptations that will allow those platforms at those stations. the right of way impacts constructing the dtx is a crucial stage of this project development. based on the senior engineer and two operators, they need to review the trade-offs that exist for track and switch designs within the practical limits for low-speed terminal operations. there are also -- i will call it desired criteria but not always can you achieve every element of that design criteria. so there's some flexibility in here, and that's being looked at now. the two operators and the tjpa -- i will have to get my letters all straight -- need to revisit the operational programs and

design for the station to improve the utility and flexibility of that station. i mentioned the potential for additional platform, the length of those platforms that would be a component of that to see how many trains could be brought in or queued at the ballpark, let's say, to be able to store the trains in a position where they don't have go into the downtown terminal. the peer review panel made several observations. they were lacking in coordinated assumptions. again, going back to a common criteria for all of the studies that will be done on the capacity modeling in the future. lastly, i would like to just thank the san francisco county transportation authority for facilitating this effort. this, i'm sure, was a challenging effort and really was the first time that all of the stakeholders were brought together into one place where they each were able to deal with each other, hear their positions, and present the

issues that they may have discrepancies on in a constructive way so the solutions could be found and this project move forward. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you. i really appreciate it. i think the last thing that you just touched on is the most important thing, which is bringing everybody in the room and working collaboratively. your next step, number six, and i don't want to put too fine a point on it, is a little damming when you're taking on a multi-billion dollar project, these projects, the high-speed rail, the city, the buy and through its planning department, the mta, the county transportation authority's lack of coordination is rather startling. i think what i just heard is that creating this space going forward is profoundly important.

and i hope that whether you're involved or the peer review involved can use this to coordinate upon themselves. which if it's common platforms, which i hope our folks at caltrain are listening to, i think that's very, very important. i very much wanted to understand if the two track or three-track solution was right. i've been very adamant. i think we should all be very adamant that we want to reduce, if not eliminate, any cut and cover along the downtown extension right of way that we can. i think one of the most important things we've learned from this is that there are pieces of private property that we don't need to condemn, which is going to save us money and heartache and controversy. for all of that, i thank you. to all of the players, i hope that you will continue to w