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port way passage, blossom way, farralon street all draw their names from locations in the exposition grounds. and then for the wind row streets and the garden streets they draw their names from artists and architects that contributed to the exposition. and the organization here is a little more structured. city side the wind row are streets and they are arranged alphabetically from the south to the north and then on the garden streets, they are again arranged alphabetically moving from the west to the east. and those are all referred to as lanes. if you are coming to the island and you are looking for a lane
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you will head to the east side of the island, if you are looking for a street, you are going up the west side of the island and you could track how close you are getting by the alpha. george kellam. sotomayor. that is the sculpture as its fully assembled. some artists whose names were proposed or have been selected contributed to what was called
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the unity sculpture. we have 14 sculptures that tida owns that were from that fountain and each of the sculptors contributed a pair to that fountain and we have two pieces by sergeant johnson that are in our collection. as well as ruth corvath, she contributed two of the sculptures to that unity fountain. bernard maybeck renowned landscape architect had a hand in the exposition grounds. zoe dell lantis. she was here two years ago.
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at her request zoe dell lane uses her first name which is the name she has always gone by. whereas all of the other street names are the last names of the artists or architects. donald macky. and lulu braghetta for path of darkness and william wurster for yerba buena club. and helen phillips. on yerba buena island, the plan
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is to use the street naems in use on yerba buena island. macalla road. yerba buena road and treasure island road connecting the two islands together. so that's the overview of the names that, or the network of names that has been adopted. i just want to bring it back to the board since it's been a while since the public or board have seen it. >> thank you very much, mr. beck. it's great we have some streets named after artists and architects. i think that's terrific. are there any questions by the board? are there any questions from the public? hearing none. next item, please. >> item 9, thrr resident consultation update.
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>> thank you, directors. to touch a little on the advisory services but also the planning for homeownership and premarketing as well as planning for our continuing discussion about planning for our two first affordable housing projects. the directors had requested that we keep a log of our
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outreach to residents. it's included in your binder but also this is just our log of our public meetings and workshops as well as email and direct correspondence with households, keeping it as part of our record. at this point, a.r.w.s. has met with 170 of our 202 households, 84%. again as we have discussed before, there's great interest in homeownership opportunities for more than 50% of those households. with some interest in -- option. the team is compiling their reports to go back to households. summarizing the current household composition, eligibility and benefit options.
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and for those households that have not yet met with the advisory consultants, we are preparing a summary based on the known information, best available information from their lease. and providing that with the hope that summary may spark them to come back and engage to clarify any information missing from their leasing folder. we are also continuing to review feedback from the consultation sessions and planning for the extension early in lieu option to residents in 2019. on the homeownership front, there were workshops mentioned and held in may, as i mentioned. these were administered by the
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san francisco housing development corporation in partnership with one treasure island. they will be holding a spanish language workshop on june 30th. we do have a number of spanish language households. unfortunately for the may 19th session, the translation services were not available so we are following this up with a repeat workshop that will be entirely in spanish. and then also need to begin our efforts with tidc and mayor's office of housing to develop procedures and protocols for the pre-marketing effort. by which, residents through the thrr will have the opportunity to purchase either affordable inclusionary units, or market rate units before they go on sale to the general public.
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there will be a pre-marketing window. and again under the thrr, our households have the opportunity to purchase a new unit from the developer in that pre-marketing window. income qualifying households may also purchase an inclusionary for sale affordable unit but that income certification process could take up to a year to complete. with the first project anticipated to be completed at the end of 2020, we really have about a year to get people through this certification process and prepared for the pre-marketing window that will come before the building is actually completed. and again, the first for sale
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units, both affordable and market rate will be in the mid rise building plan for parcel y4.2 on yerba buena island. and you see here where that is located. this is the parcel just above where the new westbound on and offramps touch treasure island and conceptual rendering of the macalla rendering. and the main entrance off macalla off the upper right hand image. on our affordable housing projects we will be developing in partnership with one treasure island, again, the first project is a source of postures and catholic charity project, and adjacent to that
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project in the city side neighborhood. the source, they have veterans housing application due on july 9th. we have invited them to come to the infrastructure and transportation committee meeting next week to present on their design development for the building. their predevelopment loan will be considered this friday. at this point the pre-development loan is only for $500,000, which is really intended to allow them to refine the building massing and programming, so we can finalize the number of units they are going to pursue in that.
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the plan for that project is to pursue an affordable housing and sustainable communities grant application in the next cycle which is anticipated to come out in early 2019. we need to work with t.i.d.c. and m.o.h.c.d. to ensure we have a funding plan for the project prior to the application. the next project is a significant opportunity for us to transition not only the 66 existing catholic charities households but depending upon the final size of the building many of our existing pred.d.a. households as well. our current expectation is somewhere between 24 and 26 of the units will be for non-income qualifying
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households. but we have within the villages' portfolio 27 households that have section 8 vouchers, so they would qualify for affordable units within this building and we are likely to have many other existing house holds that could qualify and move into this building as well. we believe that most of this building will be occupied by existing residents on the island. either market rate or catholic charities residence. so that's my recap. take any questions you may have. >> thank you very much, mr. beck. are there questions, comments from the board? >> yes, commissioner. i have some questions. thank you for the presentation. again, bob. and i know your staff is
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working diligently on this. some questions. so on the certification, we are going to be having the spanish language only for the next session? >> the workshop on june 30th is for people who are interested in purchasing first time home buyers workshop. so the city we have funding that's available through the thrr but the city has a number of programs for first-time home buyers but that workshop will be conducted in spanish. >> that is great. i have reiterated here all along, it's really great that the primary obligation that we have, and i need to say that, we need to exhaust, at the end of the day, we are going to be measured, number one. yes, there are two things here, the primary obligation, sure. secondly, to make opportunities
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available to anyone on the mainland but the primary obligation are the ones that are great interest to me first. because that's the one that is written in the d.d.a. and those are the ones we have obligations to. again, i'm going to be looking at how we are treating this class of, you know, of residents. because we want to make sure they are getting all the information they have. they have priorities. at the end of the day, at a certain point that we are able to present where they are in this pool and again, doing the outreach to all the others, fine. but primary obligation is to be met. i want to make that very clear. i also, and i will be saying all over again, i would like to see a table. all these numbers we join around for catholic charities, they are going to have 66 and
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all the others out there are going to have opportunities, that's fine. the universe of what the numbers, if i come from mars and i said okay this is what we are doing now with the transition. who are we, we are the primary obligations, i need to be able to know that and know where they are in the pipeline and then all the other members that we also reaching out to, we need to be able to do that. again, i wanted to see that graph. so i can be able then to see down and deduce where we are. because i know that right now we don't have the funding but we wanted to carry everybody, to convey to all the residents, so they have all the information that you are giving them and it's a lot of information, so they can make a decision. because things are going to be going very fast, when you start the building. so that's something i wanted to
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lay on the table. and secondly, i was at the san francisco board of supervisors on tuesday. that's very interesting. i think there was a treasure island-related item. they know the rules committee, we are shooting for 25%. and all of them are talking about 30%. i had to address a little public comment to let them know even at the 25%, we don't have the money yet. so if they can help us, they are very interested in what we are doing, maybe for broader discussions as to where we are. and i'm going to segue at the end of the day where we are right now. how is the funding? m.o.h.c.d., what are the conversations? what are they saying as of today? what are the next steps? are we going to bring them here so they can be telling us where
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we are and what we should be doing, us, in order to further this discussion. why we are doing all this planning, the funding and the time line, is also on a trajectory and where are we. for people who are listening, people who are not privilege to all the technical information we have here, and you have been doing a great job on that. just one bottom line, simple answers that we can -- you know, transparent. so help me answer those questions. >> sure. >> i think, mr. beck, you are coming back to both the infrastructure committee with some housing reports. certainly in our next few meeting as the board and commission as well. >> yeah, no, definitely this will continue to be a hot topic
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for the next decade. i will incorporate a break down, a road map how we intend to accomplish as well as where we are with a funding update. >> thank you. >> i'm glad we are moving forward with housing development. i think we are making a big giant step in both the market rate and affordable housing in the planning that's going into it. we don't have all of the subsidy dollars yet for all of the affordable units but we are working towards that. i know that the non-profit groups are also looking at cost savings through modular technology and production. so i think they are working hard on it. >> yeah, mo in particular has been doing a lot of work.
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looking at the regulatory and cost framework the city imposes on projects as a way of trying to make sure the city is not making, putting additional hurdles in the course of developing affordable housing. >> thank you very much. are there -- yes, ms. richardson? >> yes. you mentioned something, for you, bob, the modular housing, i think we indicated before, and we could entertain to the t.i.d.c. to have a presentation so we could begin to address what the challenges are and how they could be resolved. >> i think certainly the non-profit groups are meeting and looking at those, at that technology and seeing if it makes sense for them. so we will hear in the future from that. are there any comments from the public?
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on the report. hearing none. next item, please. >> item 10, discussion of future agenda items by directors. >> are there any items? hearing none. i think we can adjourn. >> adjourned. >> thank you, all. thank you.
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>> go*ek. -- ok. good morning. let's get started. this is the treasure island mobility committee meeting. today on tuesday, june 19. and it is now 10:35. alberto quintanilla is our clerk and i would like to take a moment to thank maya hernandez and adrian starks at sfgov tv for broadcasting this meeting and making everything available to the public. mr. clerk, would you like to please call the roll? >> item one roll call. [roll call] commissioner kim absent. we have quorum. >> all right. would you like to call on the next item? >> yes.
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items two and three compromise the consent calendar. these items are considered routine. staff is prepared to present if desired. if a member objects, any of the consent items may be removed and considered separately. >> ok. any comments? could i have a motion? >> public comment? >> i will. >> could i have a motion first? >> sure. a motion to approve the minutes. >> ok. any public comments on items two and three? seeing none, public comment is now closed. so, there is a motion. >> yeah. >> and i'll -- well, any objection, the motion passes. >> call roll for the first act. >> let's call roll. [laughter] >> [roll call] we have first approval a. >> ok. thank you. mr. clerk, could you call the next items? >> yes. item four, recommend acomesing of the proposed fiscal year
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2018-19 annual budgets and work program. this is an action item. >> ok. here to speak on this item is -- >> eric cordoba, deputy director of capital projects. excited to be here to present the annual budget and work program. got a power point presentation i want to go through very quickly. >> ok. ok, mr. cordoba. >> as you're aware, we are right now in the planning phase of going ahead and enhancing all the transit options to the island. right now, you can take the 25 bus to the island back and forth and that is about it or drive on and off. the plan is to have a new ferry connection, to have a/c transit and muni service. so, the budget before you will go ahead and outline what's going to happen over the next year. >> ok.
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>> the most significant item here in front of you here to the takeaway here is that 2021, the summer of 2021, approximately three years from now, will be the launch date in essence for all of the systems here. the tolling systems and all the enhanced transit. including ferry service. some type of initial ferry service. so that is good news in that regard. it's taken a while for the development to start. but if you were to go to the island today, this is definitely an island under construction. things are starting to happen so that's good news in that regard. as i indicated before, there's a variety of options and the quay is to get all those transit options up and running so in essence we discourage
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single-car occupancy coming on and off the island. we'll have car share, bike share, a transit pass. we'll have an on island shuttle. we have t.d.m. programs that we're going to go ahead and all start up. so, the next three years, this is the beginning of what i would call the real moving forward with developing all the policies and programs and the implementation for all of the new services. and the timeline here is over the next year plus, in particular there are key items that we need bring forth to this committee and to the timma board which, in particular, is the affordability and transit pass and a lot of specifics as it relates to toll system engineering, ferry service planning and other items here that we discussed in the past. so, frankly, i'm really excited because we've been in a bit of a ld hoing pattern. so, this is the start really of us moving forward with lots of final planning and engineering and implementation.
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associated with that are agreements. there's numerous agency agreements that we are right now working with a.c. transit on sfmta, the bay area toll authority because of the fact that we're basically tolling folks coming on and off the bridge so we have to make sure we work the agreements with them as it relates to what we call their leg of the interchange. the treasure island development authority bob beck is here today. he is leading all the development efforts with the developer himself and then also when it comes to ferry service, we're having discussions right now and crafting m.o.u.s with the water transportation authority. and to be in the reactive phase of applying for and obtaining as much federal, state and local and regional money that we can. so later on in the presentation, we'll talk about that, item seven in particular. so, we have been successful in that regard. on the screen right now shows
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you the different planning activities that are ongoing. also the engineering activities. we've got our, in essence, program management team working on all of this and rachel hyatt leading all the planning efforts in particular and we have some exciting news, like i indicated, on item seven. there is going to be a lot of communication outreach here over the summer and into the fall because later this year, you will have in front of you numerous m.o.u.s, etc.. and policy, at least minimum draft policies in front of you. let's talk numbers here. we're talking about a budget of $3.5 million, which is primarily federal and local money. and right now that will put us in a position -- not a large budget, but at least froebl largest budget we've had to date in that regard. so we have an increase now in budget because now we have the fe ral money starting to flow. which is good news.
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this shows basically in a different format the revenue coming in. and then the expenditures in terms of how we are, in essence, spending that money. >> wow. what a balanced budgets. >> yes. happy to report a balance budget. [laughter] and that concludes my presentation. so if you have any questions. >> yeah. can you speak a little bit on -- about the planning around the transit pass implementation and does it include discussions? >> yes. we've had discussions with the residents. we are at a point where we have preliminary recommendations that were brought forth recently. we plan to come with final recommendations later this year. we still have outreach this fall like we indicated.
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>> and the idea behind this is to manage the traffic. i guess there is a little bit of a little more understanding. because when i think in terms of tolls, it's like crossing the bridge to the other colony or other city. to oakland or whatever. and then in treasure island to me is part of san francisco. it's almost like a toll. >> understood. >> can you explain that a little bit? >> sure. we'll make it as easy as possible for any existing and future residents to be able to have the option to take some type of transit service back and forth from san francisco to oakland. we're in the design phase of that right now. i think you probably have questions related to the affordability program. which is key for us in making
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sure that we make this as affordable as possible and get any credits we can to the extent possible. we are developing right now a draft of affordability program and basically will have more details here to come over the next couple of committee meetings. ok. thank you. any other questions? >> good morning. i wanted to add on to eric's answer to commissioner yee. this tolling program was approved as part of the development agreement and the development approvals back in 2011 as a way to fund all the mobility services that we're providing. so it is a unique situation and the legislature recognized it as a pilot approach to sustainable development. >> yeah. and it will be our first in san francisco, right? >> that's correct. >> it will be interesting to see what happens. because as you know, others,
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commissioners including commissioner -- chair au has expressed interest for the downtown area. >> indeed. thank you. >> are you finished? any public comments on this issue? seeing none, public comment is now closed. could i have a motion to do something with this? >> motion to approve this item. >> ok. i guess this is a new house. we'll call roll. [roll call] >> we have approval. thank you commissioner, vice chair yee and call item number five. >> recommend approval of land easement from san francisco department of public works. this is an action item. good morning. good to see you. eric cordoba. deputy director of care forward
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promise. as part of the tolling systems, conduit systems, etc., we will need appropriate easement. s to be executed with the treasure island development authority. so this team here gives award for those easements as we move into final design for all the systems. we'll always work with legal council as it relates to the specifics. and the interests on the real property. but the item before you basically is to allow the executive director to execute those timely easements and the first ones are on mccalla road. mccalla road is about to start construction soon. i apologize. i have on the screen here,ly show you this -- yep. there it is. there you go.
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in essence, that is an exhibit that is attached to the side and it shows in essence the network of the tolling systems, where the tolling points will be to identify cars coming on and off the island. also as part of the monitoring system that we'll have for traffic on the island. right now it is responsibility of the development team to go ahead and dlaukt road and reconstruct it with new information including infrastructure associated with the tolling interests here and the first easement that we'll accept is actually small easements on mccalla road. ok. >> seeing no questions or comments from [inaudible] open up to public comment on item number five. public comment is now closed. >> just a simple comment. i think these projects you
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presentered in item four and this whole thing, you'll talk about the ferry also, i feel like this is really the model we'll be uz using. i'm excited about the theory in particular because once you get into the water taxi system, you can develop even further for the rest of san francisco. >> thank you for the comment. we're really excited about the ferry system. we think it will become a mode of choice, frankly and working towards that end. >> thank you very much. can we take a motion to forward this with recommendations? >> i'll do that. >> we have a motion and a second and we can do that without objection. clerk, could we please call item six and item seven. >> the yerba buena island infrastructure update, information. and update on the advanced
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transportation and congestion management technologies deployment, information item. >> thank you. >> thank you. very excited to present on item number six related to the infrastructure update. it's passionate for me. that's what we like to do in this regard, to go ahead and build and that is what we'll do over the next three years. let me go through a slide show presentation. let's start with what we just completed which is the new i-80 east and westbound off ramps on the west side oft island. we're on the close out stage with final change order work. it was opened to the public in october of 2016 and we are within budget on the $98 million overall total budget of which approximately $65 million was for construction. as part of that project, we
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work with the bay area toll authority to construct a vista point which, frankly, has been very popular with the public. it's basically the initial stop if you are coming from a pedestrian or bicycle path across the new eastern span to the island. it has a restroom facility and some very beautiful vista point in terms of taking pictures, etc. we're licensed to the u.s. coast guard in that regard and we're working with them and with the bay area toll authority to see if we can make it a permanent location. so we're working towards that end. >> i'm very proud to state that, you know, we received numerous awards here, in particular from the american society of civil engineers for the construction effort here and our plan is to duplicate that for the future projects as we move forward. let's talk about those future projects in particular, what
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you have in front of you is the roadway network. an aerial photo that shows construction projects and difference colors. i want to explain them to you. first will be the mccalla road reconstruction and forest road detour. mccalla road is in maroon and the forest road detour is basically in orange. so right now starting later this summer, the treasure island development authority and their development team will go ahead and start reconstructing mccalla road. widening it, including pedestrian facilities and all brand-new infrastructure. probably about 12 to 16 months' worth of work. that plan is to have that completed by the 2018-2019 period. le thats detour is key because we have to make sure that we are consistent with homeland security interests working with the coast guard so that detour is basically a roadway that brings you up and over the island to the other side to
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access the east on and off ramps there. the next project in progression is the i-80 south gate road interchange. if you recall, it's been many year, but that i-80 eastbound off ramp coming off the bottom deck as you pass through the tunnel, that has been closed for at least 10-plus years. so this project will re-open it and go ahead and realign south gate road in that area. some very tight confines there. there is also the pedestrian touchdown access which is in orange there. the viewing area that cal transhas set up. so basically as part of our design is to go ahead and grade separate all the movements so that is a much safer off ramp than had been currently proposed than what had been there in the past. our intent is to move to construction in the spring of next year and the good news here is that we're leveraging
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fractionly local funds to obtain $36 million of federal and state funds. so in that regard, the taxpayersing authority will be in essence the contracting entity so we'll give you periodic updates over the next few months, not only here that the committee but also at the board. the next project in terms of infrastructure, which would complete the loop of brand-new roadway facilities on yerba buena island is what we refer tos as the westside bridges. that aerial picture there basically shows the bridges as they are basically resting on the hillside there above the bay. they are seismickically deficient. there is a total of eight bridges that are seismickically deficient. we're going ahead and retrofiting five of them and replacing three of them. and actually building new retaining wall structures to push the roadway into the best soils in the area.
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the project cost is approximately $69 million. once again, we have taken some very minimal local funds and leveraged it for significant federal and state funds to the tune of $69 million. we'll deliver that project via construction management, general contracting method. i was in front of the transportation authority board in march if i recall correctly to discuss that with the entire board. right now, we're at a point where we're ready to issue an r.f.q. here this summer and come back to the transportation authority board for recommendation to get a contractor on board to help us and work with our design team to get it completed from a design perspective. and then move it out to construction by the december of 2020. and it's ready to have the roadway complete by the summer of 2021 so we also installed new tolling systems as part of all of these contracts. so just wanted to make sure you're clear in that regard. let's talk about the
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development. we're talking about a 14 to 15-year build out here. the most important item here is to recognize phase one because that is really what's going on today, which is what is listed as why in that lime green color and the dark green as area number one. so everything around the yerba buena island as part of phase one as well as the area around the administration building. that's all phase one. my understanding is that yes they've received approvals. and if you go out there today you see a lot of demolition that's occurred. now we'll start to see some new infrastructure cruxed as part of all that. everything ties together here and once again to that 2021 start date, making sure that we, in essence, have all of the
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transit services in place once people -- more people start to live on the island. once again, that is the date that we're targeting three years from today. similar graphic to the last one i showed you. the affordability program and the transit pass will be coming to you later this fall. as well as some policy decisions in terms of totaling the amount, the hours, etc. we've been working with that to obtain matching funds, etc. and that completes my presentation. and if you have any questions, i'm very -- i'm happy to answer. this is just an information item. >> seeing no questions, we'll move on to the next presentation with ms. hyatt. >> public comment. >> oh, i was going to call public comment together. thank you.
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>> good morning. rachel hyatt, principal and transportation planner. and i want to give you an update on a major source of funding that is supporting our budget over the next four years. [please stand by] -- $5 million of that is for
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tolls. it was intended in our grant application to support the deployment of autonomous shuttle on the island. so some background -- you've seen this graphic about the five locations on the island. the shuttle is something that was planned a bit and has been sought a bit in the past planning with the island design and the transit system planning. this is a graphic from some of the planning that's been done so far looking at what a shuttle service on island might look like once the full build-out is achieved. as you are probably aware, the vision on island is to have an intermodal transit hub, where
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the transportation building is and that's where all the transit services will come together on island, including the ferry terminal. and then for a last mile-first mile solution, we will have a circulating shuttle, actually three, circulating throughout the neighborhoods on island and serving that intermodal terminal. so there are three -- three potential routes or three routes that are called for serving yerba buena, city neighborhood and east side neighborhood. the purpose of testing an autonomous technology for this -- and, again, it's a pilot. so this will be a pilot that will evaluate and see how -- what it contributes. some reasons to consider this, one, potentially a cost-effective solution. and an innovative service model,
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so something on demand. for instance, something that can be hailed and can serve people in an on-demand service. another reason is just to involve people and involve treasure island residents and businesses in the development of autonomous technology. so there can be opportunities to involve -- there's job core on island to involve treasure island, to involve folks in learning about the new technologies and helping to support this pilot, so an economic development angle. so those are some of the reasons that we think this is a neat opportunity. the pilot period that we have to work with with this grant is four years. so we do have an agreement
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executed this spring. it's a four-year term. so we envision ramping up, being able to get a shuttle out there 18 months from now, so before 2020. it will be a pilot or -- we will set up an evaluation system. so we'll identify data requirements, a safety plan, test plan, and be evaluating all those issues, as the pilot goes on. finally, something that we'll think about that's associated with testing a new type of service model is bringing together this shuttle service with the other public and private transportation services that will be introduced to the island and bringing in technology that can help to make people's transportation
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experience more seamless. and that means bringing together sort of a -- in a more simplified way trip planning and access to trip planners that can show you all of your options across all modes, public and private, where you can easily pay for your different modes through a simple interface, whether it's a public or a private. and where you can get additional features like navigation on transit and feedback, you know, on your travel through this tool. so that's something we'll be looking at, is, you know, how can this shuttle service, if it's a creative or innovative type of dynamic system be integrated into the other transportation services that we'll also be introducing.
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ultimately, it could -- the one vision where ultimately this could go is to bring in the policy aspects to this. we'll be a travel demand agency, supporting people's transportation and there could be ways to incorporate incentives and rewards and things like that into this type of technology. the next steps for each of these projects involve, first of all, for the toll system, eric talked about that. there ultimately -- he will be bringing a request for proposals for the toll integration system, which is the main design piece of the toll system and there's also the civil engineering that is going on. for this a.v. shuttle demonstration, we'll bring you a proposal of the design of the
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shuttle service itself, so looking at the different service options and also looking at the different partnerships and community involvement, stake holder involvement, that we can bring. and we'll also, probably along with the transit pass discussion, bring more ideas related to this multimodal integration and what types of options can support that. that will be something that we'll probably bring to you, associated with the transit pass recommendation. thank you and happy to take your questions. >> supervisor kim: i do have a couple questions. this is sul actually very exciting and i was wondering what jurisdictions or agencies are piloting autonomous vehicles for public service across the country. >> yeah, across the country, there's a number of pilots going on in a number of states. the photos that we showed, las
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vegas was one of them. so las vegas has this pilot on their public streets that's happening now. florida has some pilots that they have gone ahead and procured. a couple of cities in florida. boston. and, in fact, even here in the bay area in the east bay, contra costa county is partnering with dublin and with bart to test an autonomous shuttle that will circulate through their bishop ranch business park and ultimately their plan is to have that served by bart as well. so that's another here in the bay area, operation of an autonomous shuttle on the streets. >> supervisor kim: who has been providing the procurement for the vehicles or the services? >> we as the cities have been
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the lead agencies to procure typically a operator and vehicle together as a package. >> supervisor kim: what companies have been providing the service? >> there's a handful of them that are actually out there. so navia is the name of one company. easy mile, the name of another. local motors is the name of another company. those are really the big three. i think there are some others that are in sort of startups. zooks is in the design phase here in san francisco, but i'm not aware of them actually operating a pilot yet. so it's a small handful. >> supervisor kim: you said it would be a mixture of public and private transportation services, so i assume that's muni ferry being the public side and the private -- is that you are assuming that the developer will be providing services or are you talking about lyft and uber? >> one potential service could be water taxi service.
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we've heard interest in some of the start-up water taxi companies in being able to serve the island if there are facilities available for them to do that. >> supervisor kim: is there water taxi service in the bay area? >> there is. in operation, a varying range of sizes of vessels from your small, more taxi-sized, to prop s.f. -- and eric knows more about this than i do -- but 50-passenger, 100-passenger ferry, vessels, small ferries. >> supervisor kim: okay. well thank you so much. any other questions? seeing none, we'll open up for public comment for items 6 and 7. seeing no public comment, public comment is now closed. thank you. it's always really interesting to learn the different concepts and ideas that we'll be piloting
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through this mobility management program. it's exciting to think about the different things that we'll be able to pilot here on treasure island that can help us to understand how to improve public transportation services throughout the city. at this time, i want to -- mr. clerk, can we call items 8 and 9? >> clerk: item 8, introduction of new items. item 9, public comment. >> supervisor kim: any introduction of new items? seeing none, we'll open up for public comment on item 8 and general public comment. seeing none on items 8 and 9, public comment is now closed. mr. clerk, are there any other items before this committee? >> clerk: there are none. >> supervisor kim: seeing none, meeting is adjourned. thank you, everyone.
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