other episodes at sfquickbites/tumbler.com. see >> 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. 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 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. >> 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 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. 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 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. 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. >> 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 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, 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 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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. >> 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 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 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, 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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. 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 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?

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>> in 201,755.7 million passengers traveled through san francisco international airport. we have on average 150,000 people traveling through the airport every day. flying can be stressful so we have introduced therapy dogs to make flying more enjoyable. the wag brigade is a partnership between the airport and the san francisco therapy animal assistant program to bring therapy animals into the airport, into the terminals to make passenger travel more enjoyable. i amgen fer casarian and i work here at san francisco international airport. the idea for therapy dogs got started the day after 9/11.

an employee brought his therapy dog to work after 9/11 and he was able to see how his dog was able to relieve passenger's jitter. when we first launched the program back in 2013, our main goal was to destress our passengers however what we quickly found is that our animals were helping us find a way to connect with our pang. passengers. we find there are a lot of people traveling through the airport who are missing their pets and who are on their road a lot and can't have pets and we have come in contact with a lot of people recently who have lost pet. >> i love the wag brigade. >> one of my favorite parts is walking into the terminals and

seeing everybody look up from their device, today everybody is interacting on their cell phone or laptop and we can walk into the terminal with a dog or a pig and people start to interact with each other again and it's on a different level. more of an emotional level. >> i just got off an 11.5 hour flight and nice to have this distraction in the middle of it. >> we look for wag brigade handlers who are comfortable in stressful situations. >> i like coming to airport it's a lot of fun and the people you talk to are generally people who are missing their dogs. >> they are required to compete a certification process. and they are also required to complete a k9 good citizen test and we look for animals who have

experienced working with other orgorganizations such as hospits and pediatric units and we want to be sure that the animals we are bringing into the airport are good with children and also good with some of our senior travelers. i think toby really likes meeting kids. that is his favorite thing. he likes to have them pet him and come up to him and he really loves the kids. >> our wag brigade animals can be spotted wearing custom vets and they have custom patches. >> there is never a day that repeats itself and there is never and encounter that repeats itself. we get to do maximum good in a small stretch of time and i have met amazing people who have been

thrilled to have the interaction. >> the dogs are here seven days a week, we have 20 dogs and they each come for a two hour shift. >> there is a lot of stress when people have traveling so to from these animals around to ease the stress and help people relax a little bit. i think it's great. >> one of our dogs has special need and that is tristine. he wears a wheel around. >> he has special shoes and a harness and we get it together in the parking lot and then we get on the air train. he loves it. little kids love him because he is a little lower to the ground so easy to reach and he has this big furry head they get to pet and he loves that. >> he doesn't seem to mind at

all. probably one of the happiest dogs in the world. >> many people are nervous when they travel but seeing the dogs is just a wonderful relief. >> what i absolutely love most about it is the look on people's faces, so whenever they are stressed and flying is stressful these days you get these wonderful smile. >> i am the mom of lilo the pig and she is san francisco's first therapy pig. >> lilo joined the wag brigade as our firs first pig. >> wag brigade invited us to join the program here and we have done it about a year-and-a-half ago. our visits last 1.5 to 2 hours

and it does take a little bit longer to get out of the terminal because we still get a lot of attention and a lot of people that want to interact with lilo. >> i feel honored to be part of the wag brigade. it's very special to meet so many people and make so many feel happy and people that work here. it's been a great experience for me and a great experience for to totoby. >> it's been an extremely successful program, so the next time you are here, stop by and say hi. >> if you frequently travel before i van ness i might be

surprised van ness will goodwill go the first transit corridor to have brt as more frequently known the goal to get conveniently van ness and geary boulevard one of the most reliable transit systems in the country van ness avenue is a major connecter between potrero hill and mission on the south side of san francisco correcting connecting us to the marina and state highway in the financial with the western edition neighborhood it is mostly residential a lot of the geography of van ness the rain that is wide it was uses is a firebreak in the 1906 san francisco earthquake a lot of building occasion that helped of hoped to stop the fire

from jumping van ness had a light rail or sprash separating and along geary 0 when we came to the question of how to address the needs on haven because of its cost effectiveness we have found in the brt system with the new vehicles. >> the new mr. secretary is a change we will actually have transit in the middle ♪ the far legal unit and a broadly prom >> one of the reasons it is in the center a was it is an clouf right-of-way a set of pedestrians will cross from the sidewalk to the middle of the street a. >> to move the reliable along the corridor with this travel time had been signifying reduced we think the ripped will go from 16 thousand a day in that portion the corridor up to 22

thousand and we'll have those beautiful new one like this one. >> with the dedication of the signal and lighter saying that between stops we were able to estimate a .32 improvement in travel time and a 50 percent reliability improvement as a result. >> we're pitting u putting in a up to date modern system of new thirty foot high light fixtures and pedestrian lights on the same pole again inviting a comfortable environment for pedestrians. >> it has become a 3 dimensional street project. >> the water that is my understanding under the ground and the emergency firefighting water system month will be replaced and new street lights and traffic lights and the paving and stripping the trees both in the medium and on the

side. >> the main core of the project goes from market it lombard that's where we'll be replying the sidewalks. >> there are a number of trees that need to be replaced and they will be additional new planting. >> we're planting a lemon gum that gets to be 50 or 60 feet tall that comes over the offer head wires that wee when we get done van ness it will look like a new street it will visit fresh new looks like the grand boulevard again. >> we're going eliminating left turns off of van ness into the side streets and places the left turning traffic backs up the traffic and upgrading the signals to the mini traffic will

flow more smoothly and traffic impacts as we execute the construction signed we're working to minimize these but impacts that will likely shift the traffic up franklin and we'll pick up the traffic. >> right now that looks like we're skeleton to start in march ever 2016 are of our construction. >> in the past people prospective of bus traffic that go unreliable and noisy and very fluting we're here to remake the vehicles are on the streets and with the combination of the brt improvements much more rail like services with the technology. >> the public is in for a