as you know our limits to ballot initiatives require a continuance. and i appreciate the industry engaging on this issue but given the two-month public process that we have been working through i believe that it's a little bit too late. as a reminder these are just interim rates that will appear on the ballot and the board can revise the intro rates down at any time after passage before this goes into effect. i want to make sure that we consider the options. however, if any of my colleagues believe that this is inappropriate to do so, please, let me know. the amendments today would require that we have a special meeting on tuesday morning, july 31st. and with that i open up the discussion to colleagues. supervisor fewer. >> supervisor fewer: yes, so after review of what we have received today and actually i am of the belief that the board has the ability to amend this by

ordering it to later on. and that it isn't imperative that we conclude this today. i ask the city attorney for his professional opinion on that and whether the legislation proposed allows the board to have the ability to actually make these changes later on. >> deputy city attorney john gibner. as i understand the roposa proco lower the rates for retail and non-retail and scale them up over the course of three years. between 2021 and 2023. >> chair cohen: that's correct. >> if this ordinance is not amended and you place it on the ballot and it passes the board of supervisors can legislatively lower the rates by adopting an ordinance in the future without going back to the voters. so effectively you can accomplish what this amendment would do after the measure

passes by adopting an ordinance at the board. >> chair cohen: okay, thank you very much. that's helpful. supervisor stefani, you have any thoughts? no. okay. all right, seeing that there are no thoughts -- >> i would like to say that i also believe that because it's actually more prudent to actually do it after this has gone on the ballot because then the board would have more data to choose from and to review and to actually make a sound judgment on this. and, actually, the legislation allows for that as we heard from our city attorney. >> chair cohen: okay, appreciate that. thank you. so we can go ahead and open up to public comment. i see that we have mr. lazarus here who would like to speak on items 15 and 16?

>> i am a licensed cannibas distributor in san francisco. and i want to make sure that everyone is clear on what the impact would be on a gross receipt tax. as a distributor i have three responsibilities -- transport, test and tax. i pick it up from the grower. the lab tests it to make sure that it's safe for consumption and i deliver it to the retailer and i collect excise and i collect cultivation and i give it to the state. my business operates on low margins. anywhere from 3% to 10%. a 10% tax on gross receipts, if i buy something for $900 and i sell it for $1,000, a gross receipts tax means that i make zero dollars. i have two options -- i can

charge more or i can go out of business. or i can work somewhere else. i'm just part of the value chain. every other business that i sell or buy from has to do the same thing. gross receipts tax is bad tax policy and it's a depression era policy. there are other ways to gain tax revenue. i'm very grateful for my permit and i'm hiring through the s.f. jobs portal. i know that it will be a very impactful business. please reconsider how you tax with gross receipts. >> chair cohen: thank you. colleagues, i want to acknowledge that the distribution is exempt from the tax and that we are not discussing or considering a tax at 10%. >> jim lazarus, san francisco chamber and i appreciate your work on this and certainly

supervisor cohen. we urge you to proceed with the amendment, proceed with the special meeting next tuesday and to put a measure on that will have the support of the industry and the broader business community. we believe that a tax rate that is excessive comparing the legal cannibas industry to the underground illegal industry will do nothing to move forward the type of changes that we want in this industry and to bring being it out of the shadow -- bringing it out of the shadows and taxing it and regulating it and having it available to the public in the following way. following state of california and following other communities' misguided tax policies is not what we should be doing here today. this industry pays taxes today, and the city's gross receipts and payroll taxes apply to this industry today. but the rates that you add to that -- and, remember, these are additive, may hurt the

legalization of this industry and i know that is not the intention of the board or the industry. so the chamber urges you to take seriously that proposal put forward for a further year delay for a phase-in during the start-up years of this infant legal industry. allowing the board in the future -- we don't want to appear to lower them -- hopefully this is successful enough that under your provisions you will be able in the future to raise these taxes on an healthy industry. that's what we ask you to do. there's time to do it and we request that. thank you very much. >> chair cohen: thank you, next speaker. speaker.sfgov, can i have the overhead, please. president cohen and supervisor stefani and supervisor fewer, thank you for hearing my comments. i would like to congratulate jim

lazarus and myself for being 3-3 and batting a thousand at the budget and finance sub-committee. i am pleased to hear that you are considering additional amendments. i worked with the california growers association and the chamber of commerce to create rates that this industry could get behind and support. the rates as proposed when you look at the rest of california are, in fact, reasonable for a cannibas tax. but not reasonable from a tax of any other industry. so the rates that we propose up here on the overhead, have no tax for 2019-2020 and then phase-in for retail and non-retail. i point out that retail will pay double the tax of non-retail in our proposal here. because on retail they have a lot more hurdles than us. so consider the amendments that we've requested, consider the special committee hearing, and thank you to everyone for their

very hard work on this very important matter. and if anybody is interested in learning more about the retailer alliance, alliance our website. >> chair cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> hello, my name is brandon brown, the treasurer of the sfcra, and i appreciate the board allowing us to speak on this issue. i don't want to sound like a broken record but i want to just remind the board that the reason that we tax cigarettes and alcohol and other drugs is because they kill people and cannibas hasn't killed anybody, it's actually curing people. and so i'm not going to say that the tax isn't justified but i would love to know more about why we're getting taxes on top when no other industry has a

social equity program. thank you, president cohen, for kind of spearheading that. and so compassion programs and the other industries have that. we already have pretty high tax, state tax. there's already a gross receipts tax for businesses. and so i think we're really just asking to be treated like every other business in san francisco. i guess that also the main difference between cannibas and other businesses is that we cure people, we cure ptsd, and we cure cancer and we cure child leukemia and other various basic pain allmentpain ailments that e quality of life for a number of our elderly and the military coming back from war with a lot of issues. and pharmaceutical companies as we all know are not a big help in that respect. and so i would like to just

bring some of those more emotional facts to the table when we talk about who's going to really be affected by this. it's going to be the consumer, like the distributor here pointed out, it's raising the price and they'll go out of business. so the cost will be handed off. >> chair cohen: thank you. and also i want to say, mr. brown, medicinal is not going to be taxed and recreational is what is taxed. thank you, next speaker. >> hi, i am jolene enns and i'm here as a worker in the industry. for the last 12 years i have been supplementing my income or completely supporting myself in the cannibas industry as a worker, as a trimmer, just doing labor. and for a long time that was enough. those jobs that you used to pay $25 an hour or the equivalent are now gone. i'm fortunate that i got a job with a small cannibas company in

the city. we occupy 4500-square-foot facility in soma and we have a 25,000-square-foot cultivation facility that had to be moved to oakland because we just couldn't afford to do business in the city here. i'm here today because i am worried about my job and the jobs of others like me that are going to be squeezed with more taxes on our industry. it was pretty clear before the regulations came into effect that when prices were low for wholesale product and rents were high, the only way for producers to make up that difference was to lower the rates that they paid for their workers. so i can toitle totally see that happening in this industry too. there's no margin right now and we're really scrambling to get

products on the shelf that are compliant with all of the regulations that are, you know, still shifting. so i'm here to speak for the workers that are trying to make a living in this new industry. thank you. >> chair cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is dr. chris emerson, the c.e.o. of the manufacturing company here in san francisco. we operate at a severe disadvantage already against the illicit market and so we can have runway and the state will start enforcing that, the high tax rates are destroying the companies that are trying to be compliant within this. so not only 15% excise tax but lease taxes that we have to account for. and so upstream and downstream we have a heavy tax burden. there's also 280-even so as a business in san francisco or federally i pay roughly 30% more for taxes because we're not able to take a lot of writeoffoffs tt

other businesses are. and we understand as an industry that we'll pay higher tax rates but the tax rates proposed at 1.5% with the ability it go up to 7% over time is untenable for companies to really survive or that want to remain in san francisco. and i would like to draw also to your attention supervisor cohen that there's a very significant possibility that the medicinal market in california is going to be gone in a few years. the state of california doesn't want a two-tiered system and most retailers and operators in this space, almost everything is going to quote/unquote, a recreational market. and it's just that there's too many barriers for the medicinal market to actually survive. it's something to keep in mind. so as mr. lazarus suggested we urge you to consider this procedural needs to have one more special session so that amendments we propose could be considered, thank you. >> chair cohen: thank you, next

speaker. >> my name is elaine brown and i'm here to really talk about something else. we have been trying to reach you, supervisor cohen, for some time and i have gotten emails from my office putting me off and saying you're in budget hearings and i'm here with a number of delegations from your district in hunter's point who are suffering from cancer and so forth because of the radiated land. you chose to not only expand the reach in hunter's point shipyard but said this is a dream to come true to build on that and then put the big scanners out there. i'm here to ask you can we meet with you to tell you what we want to talk about since you won't come to hunter's point and talk to the people there, that the people had to come here. i can't believe that you called all those police to come here. i watched you text them, two minutes later they're showing up like we're enemies of the people. you have shown yourself to be an enemy if you don't have a meeting with us and give us a date for a meeting. i would like to introduce you to someone that you know well, danielle carpenter, whose husband lost his life because of

that radiated land. that's my time. >> two years ago on march 22n 22nd, you and i spoke and we talked about -- you said that you would reopen the case because another whistleblower had come forth. i have not heard anything and now this is going on. we would like to schedule an appointment with you to sit down and figure out what's going on. plain and simple. >> (indiscernible). >> good morning, my name is william dolan and i'm here to speak on behalf of two applicants right now. i represent and work with two applicants that have applicants in the office of cannibas for retail licenses and i would like to first say that we support the proposal put forward by the san francisco chapter of the california growers association, the san francisco cannibas retailers alliance, to adjust

the rate schedule as proposed earlier by the gentleman that put up the schedule on the screen. and we would also like to speak in support of a cap on the tax at 4% instead of 7%. and specifically i'd like to address the issue of how this is going to impact the equity on businesses and after a two-year extremely challenging process of getting license and trying to open up their doors and dealing with the costs associated with that, securing real estate and renovating the real estate and then opening to a very challenge being competitive environment. so i'd like the board to consider the impacts that this will have on equity owners trying to operate in this small business environment and if there's a potential for an additional grace period that asupplies to equity owned cannibas businesses. something to exceed two to three years. that would make their tax plan

kick in around 2023 or 2024. and any type of additional grace period would be greatly be appreciated and extremely helpful for equity applicants trying to open up a business in san francisco. >> chair cohen: thank you. >> good morning, supervisors, my name is ryan ingo-warren and i work in the cannibas industry and a san francisco native. i thank you for your consideration on this issue and as i came in i heard about possible continuations to continue the amendments and i support that. and i apologize in advance if i repeat myself at all. i want to just offer some context. in october 2016, oregon's issues came in effect and the supply chain backlog was so severe that it brought their cannibas industry to its knees and resulted in temporary layoffs of 70% of their workforce.

and it's not that bad here yet, but there are some similarities that are alarming. and that sort is the broader context of the big part of that problem was poorly written statements that were requiring testing accuracies that the labs themselves were not yet certified to meet. unfortunately, that is identical, that particular factor, is identical to what is happening in california. so given that most of that is beyond your control i hope that you will take action where you're able to by reducing the impact of these new regulations on local san francisco businesses, by mitigating the gross receipts tax. as may have been mentioned earlier the proposed taxes are 5% to 50% higher than those leveled against other businesses and we're just proposing a little consideration there. also we have seen higher taxes force patients and consumers back into the unregulated market which may raise public safety

concerns with untested product and reduces your overall tax revenue. so i close by echoing the recommendations of pie colleagues and i'll leave information for your reference. reducing the cap to 4%. and encouraging the state to lower both the excise and the cultivation tax. and doing something about the unregulated operations. >> chair cohen: thank you. next speaker. yes. next speaker. >> hi. i am a resident of bayviewpoint. and i'm here with... (indiscernible) i really want appreciate if you give us a time to meet with you. i have been at hunter's point for a very long time and i now have a clot in my left atrium and i have had a heart transplant and i'm waiting on a kidney. and i do believe that it all

came from living up there for 50 years. that's all i wanted to say, thank you. >> chair cohen: thank you. all right, public comment is closed. thank you. so, coa colleagues, i'd like to table item 15 and approve item 16 and move that with a positive recommendation and send this to committee and cent i send it asa committee report. supervisor stefani? indicated yes for the record. and if you have any clarification on anything let us know so that we can get to the information that you need as well as a timeline and answer whatever questions that may persist about the proposed tax measure. and we will take that without objection. thank you. all right. madam clerk, any other business before us. >> clerk: no other business.

>> chair cohen: okay. thank you, we're adjourned. - >> shop & dine in the 49 - promotes local businesses and challenges resident to do their showing up and dining within the 49 square miles of san francisco by supporting local services within the neighborhood we help san francisco remain unique

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people and that's the reason chinatown is showing more of the people will the traditional thepg. >> north beach is i know one of the last little italian community. >> one of the last neighborhood that hadn't changed a whole lot and san francisco community so strong and the sense of partnership with businesses as well and i just love north beach community old school italian comfort and love that is what italians are all about we need people to come here and shop here so we can keep this going not only us but, of course, everything else in the community i think local businesses the small ones and coffee shops are

unique in their own way that is the characteristic of the neighborhood i peace officer prefer it is local character you have to support them. >> really notice the port this community we really need to kind of really shop locally and support the communityly live in it is more economic for people to survive here. >> i came down to treasure island to look for a we've got a long ways to go. ring i just got married and didn't want something on line i've met artists and local business owners they need money to go out and shop this is important to short them i think you get better things.

>> definitely supporting the local community always good is it interesting to find things i never knew existed or see that that way. >> i think that is really great that san francisco seize the vails of small business and creates the shop & dine in the 49 to support businesses make people all the residents and visitors realize had cool things are made and produced in san

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>> good morning and welcome to the san francisco county transportation authority meeting for today, tuesday, july 24, 2018. our clerk is alberto quintanilla. if you could call the roll. [clerk calling roll] kim absent. commissioner mandelman absent. we have quorum. >> thank you. colleagues, could we have a motion to excuse commissioner tang made by commissioner ronen, seconded by commissioner cohen. colleagues will take that without action. -- objection. next item, please. >> item two, chair's report.

this is an information item. >> thank you. i'd like to start by welcoming our newest members, one of whom is here and one who is on his way. that would be commissioners brown and mandelman to this body. i noted that when both of you were sworn in, you were sworn in as members of the transportation authority. you are both quite familiar with our work and i look forward to working with you on the key issues to shape our policies in the coming months and years. as we prepare to break for the august recess, i would like to highlight several project delivery milestones. one of which i will be present to celebrate the opening of and the other two i will unfortunately miss during the august recess. but i know many of you on our staff will attend and celebrate. the first is san francisco public works' broadway chinatown streetscape improvement project. the fourth and final phase

between columbus avenue and the broadway tunnel. which will be open this coming monday. you are all welcome to attend at 11:30 a.m. at the corner of columbus and broadway. and i want to thank the t.a. for programming $5.3 million in federal bay area grant funds provided to us by the m.t.c. and $2.4 million prop k and a.a. funds to this project five years ago and this funding has made this busy arterial safer with narrower traffic lanes, bus shelters, raised cross wa*ux, street trees, benches and street lights among other safety improvements. i also want to thank the chinatown community development center for their long-term advocacy for these important improvements as well as the public works staff who actually redesigned portions of the project with chinatown c.d.c. and i look forward to celebrating the opening of that and i want to thank members of

the public who put up with a year of frustrating construction and i know that they are relieved and pleased. another major vision zero project that we at the t.a. have funded with a combination of local and regionally provided federal funds is the m.t.a.'s masonic avenue complete streets project, which is finally complete. which spans three supervisorial districts. it's a full redesign of masonic street to geary. includes wider sidewalks and new median, paving, landscaping, lighting and upgraded sewer infrastructure. the t.a. provided $10.2 million in obag funds and approximately $400,000 in sales tax dollars to the project. the sfmta anticipates holding an opening event in august so i want to extend my early congratulationss to them. many board members past and present who have lived through

a -- again, long, frustrating experience. but the light is finally at the end of the tunnel. and finally after years of design and construction, the trans-b joint powers authority has set a date of august 11 for the grand opening of the sales force transit center. the t.a. has, as we all know, played a very major role in funding and supporting the development of this regional transit center which will house a hub for 11 local and regional transit systems including muni, a.c. transit, sam trans and eventual rail connections for the downtown extension of cal train and high speed rail. the integrated transit center in cal train extension programs is the largest project in the prop-k expenditure plan which designated up to $270 million toward this project. to date, the t.a. has allocated $175 million prop-k funds and today we're agdized to add more for the d.t.x. design. we have also committed significant state and federal funds alongside our funding

partners at the state and the united states and the region. this hasn't been an easy project by any means, but has already had a major impact catalyzing over a decade of development across the trans-bay transit district including much needed affordable housing. congratulationss to the tgpa, thank you to our funding partners and all of the commissioners and supervisors past and present, including supervise source and commissioner kim and to the neighbors in the area. i wish you had -- ish wi you a wonderful regional neighborhood celebration on august 11 from 12:00 noons to 4:00 p.m. at 425 mission street. and then on a sad note, on behalf of the t.a., i would like to express our deepest sympathies to the family of nia wilson who was fatally stabbed at the mcarthur bart station on sunday night in what appears to be a senseless, random attack. but we are relieved that a suspect has been taken into

custody and will support our bart representives on next steps. we also send our condolences to the families of dimitri scottkin, 69-year-old who was struck and killed while crossing slope boulevard last week and kevin manning, a petty cab driver who was hit riding on the embarkadero earlier -- last months and died on june 10. we have a vision zero committee coming up and hope to talk about more that we can do to prevent these crashes and deaths and injuries and, with that, i conclude my remarks. are there any public comments on the chair's report? seeing none, public comment is closed. we will go to the executive director's report. ms. chang? >> thank you so much, chair peskin. i begin my report on another update regarding the earthquake safety work. as you recall, the bart team has been working to retrofit key parts of the original track

and tunnel and station elements, mechanical infrastructure. there will need to be an extension of the work hours and, therefore, requires bart services to begin at 5:00 a.m. instead of the current 4:00 a.m. start time on weekdays. just wanted to notify members of the public that this extra hour will shorten the total project timeline by four months and it is a live safety project. we will be seeing the bart board taking action on how to replace -- provide replacement bus service to mitigate that extra hour that they need to use for work hours. we will be reporting back to the board on those replacement bus services in september. we are pleased to report that san francisco was awarded $29 million by the state on affordable housing and sustainable communities program funds. these are cap and trade funds that the extra edge tooic growth council approved late in june. these

we continue to put forward competitive projects and congratulationss to all involved. we'll keep track as well of future cycles to ensure that we continue to pull down some of these important grants. we did also recently host the fourth annual autonomous vehicle symposium. i just wanted to mention that this year rachel hyde and i presented on a number of panels. an interesting note, i participated, for example, on a

federal session on data exchange and this time it is not just cities. it's not just cities calling for data. it is also folks like the insurance industry. which made their point that it is important to have verifiable data so they can properly assess risk and properly provide for the appropriate risk premiums and if the data shows that there is a safety benefit, by all means, the consumer confidence should be reflected in those lower risk premiums. so, data will certainly help drive adoption to the extent that it is wanter. we appreciate the exchanges from all partners at that session. the valencia public workshop, i wanted to announce that there will be a second workshop held on saturday, july 28. as you recall, the transportation authority has provided $175,000 in sales tax funds for this project. looking for ways to better organize the traffic and the

shared services and other road user including cyclists and pedestrians. so, this workshop will be on the 28th on saturday from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. at the women's building at 3543 18th street. and we will be viewing the potential design alternatives and associated trade-offs and bringing the report back to the transportation authority board later this year. improving street safety, we have a vision southeaster row open house this weekend. we brought forth that final report for the first set of intersections earlier this year. this is a second project that's looking at 10 additional intersections in the south of market neighborhood where freeway ramps touch down on to city streets. we conducted a survey and collected more than 800 response and we're now conducting the workshop to be held next tuesday the 31st from 5:30 to 7:30.

and the bayview is receiving $600,000 for implementation of results of our community-based transportation plan. m.t.c. will take this action this month to a lifeline transportation program. as you call the fmta is doing this community-based transportation work coordinating with supervisor -- commissioner cohen's office and included in that is a participatory budgeting pilot for san francisco and solano countieses. so thank you, commissioner, cohen for your leadership there and building on your other participatory committee that you do in your own districts this. will provide for capital improvement money to implement some of the recommendations emerging from that planning process. so we're very happy to hear that. vision zero traffic safety improvements are also being delivered in golden gate park so with more to come, m.t.a. has installed near-term traffic safety improvements funded by

prop-k throughout golden gate park including at the j.f.k. and 30th avenue intersection and earlier this month, added four raised crosswalks at various locations. we're seing is improvements across the district as well as sfmta's fleet replacement project continuing to bring new vehicles to our streets for muni. it placed 20 additional vehicles with prop-k funding in the last quarter and so we see about seven of these electric trolley coaches and the rest hybrid diesel motor coaches w. that, i'm happy to take any questions. >> are there any questions for our executive director? seeing none? is there any public comments on the executive director's report? seeing none, public comment is closed. mr. quintanilla could you read the consent agenda? >> items four to 11 comprise the consent agenda. the remaining items are

considered routine. staff is not planning to present on these items but is prepare to present if desired f. a member objects, any of the consent items may be removed to be considered separately. >> there any public comment on the minutes? seeing none, public comment is closed. is there a motion to move the consent agenda made by commissioner yee? i'm sorry. i'm sorry, commissioner cohen. >> thank you very much. [inaudible]. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> good morning, we're live. ok. just so i'm clear this is on the consent agenda. if i want to is verdict something like item five, do i need to procedurally sever it to discuss it? >> yes, if you would like to se enveloper any item. >> ok. and then also -- my goodness. so, just so i'm clear, we were just going to take the consent agenda as a yes and have no discussion around it? >> that's what we usually do because they have all been considered on the first reading at our last meeting.

but you have the right to sever any items. >> no problem. i just wanted to make sure i was following it quickly. ok. i wanted to sever item five. we talked about it a little bit two weeks ago. mr. chair, is now the appropriate time to talk about it? >> is we'll sever item five and then vote on the balance of the consent agenda and then take up item five. >> i also need to sever item eight. >> ok. items five and eight. >> yes. ok. >> ok. so, on the balance of the consent agenda, items four, six, seven and nine through 11. is there a motion to move those made by commissioner yee? seconded by commissioner fewer on that motion, a roll call, please. >> on items four, six, seven, nine, 10, and 11 -- [roll call]

we have final approval. >> thank you. could you please read item number five? >> item five, state and federal legislation update. this is an action item. >> thank you. may i speak now? >> yes. commissioner cohen. >> thank you. i just wanded to get some clarification. did we amend this legislation? this is senate bill 1014. there was some discussion last week. you might recall the t.a. staff recommended that the commissioners take a "no" position unless this item was amended. >> it was a support if amended position. it wasn't a "no." >> looking to staff, was the legislation amended? >> ms. craft?

>> amber craft, public policy manager. the state legislature has been in recess so there's been no further action on the bill. >> ok. >> but we do -- our state legislative advocate has been in contact with the author in discussing our concerns with -- >> so if i understand correctly, the staff still recommends that the commissioners take a "no" position on this item unless it's amended. ?aerkt >> the recommendation before you is to maintain the original support if amended position so we would work with the author to get the amendments that are outlined in the memo and in that case we would automatically support the bill. >> the actual language on page 15 of our packet is the resolve clause that says resolve that the transportation authority hereby adopts a revised position of support if amended on sb-1014. >> ok. so, as i understand that

there's been no amendments and the issues that i raised a few weeks ago have not been addressed. so let me just go through my little talking points here. good morning, everybody. [laughter] so item five, we've been asked to adopt a position on the state legislation. this is for senate bill 1014. that has been sponsored by nancy skinner and the transportation authority staff has recommended that this commission takes a no position unless item is amended tonight. the best of my knowledge, this item has not been amended so i wanted to just share with you that i'm not comfortable upholding the staff recommendation that we only support senate bill 1014 and if it's amended then i'm happy to support it. and the reason why -- what's important to note is that senate bill 1014 sets a starting that the air recess board and the cpuc establish targets and goals to reduce emissions from t.n.c. vehicles. senator skinner's recent amendments allow for t.n.c.s to

count miles traveled by what they're calling active transportation. and that includes bikes and scooters and into the overall miles traveled in the calculation. in san francisco bike share and scooter miles travel account for only 3.5% of the total vehicle -- of total vehicle miles traveled and i'm of the position and i do not believe that this is a high enough threshold for us to completely change our position from supporting this bill. now i understand that the goal of the legislation is to establish greenhouse gas emissions baselines for t.n.c.s and i think 3% is really a cig -- is really not significant enough a portion of traveled miles for us to move on our position instead of working with these companies to begin to get them to move on their emissions. so a question that i raised last week are -- maybe it was

two weeks ago, i cannot recall at this point, but what was a definition of a vehicle that the transportation authority staff was using and maybe for the record you can share with us again the definition. >> great. thank you. and just for clarification, we're not recommending an opposed position on the bill. we're essentially the support is amended position is taking no position. >> no position, ok. >> and working with the author to seek the amendments that we're requesting in which case if we see the amendments we'd automatically support the bill. >> well, thank you. i appreciate clarification. if that is the case, then i rest my case and i'm happy to support the no position. thank you mr. chair. >> so is there a motion -- >> i'll make a motion. >> to adopt number five. >> with a "no" position, yes. >> ok. as stated in the current resolutions. >> that's correct. >> and second for that motion? second by commissioner yee. colleagues, can we take that same house, same call. the item is finally approved. mr. clerk, can you read item number eight? >> item eight, approved part one of the fiscal year 2018-19

transportation fund for clean air program of promises. programming $38803 to four projects. >> this is also something that i flagged a few weeks ago and want to thank you, supervisor -- or commissioner -- what are you, trustee -- commissioner. you're commissioner today, right? commissioner, trustee peskin. >> not a trustee, but i'll take it. >> ok. all right. all these titles, they're crazy. >> particularly when it comes with a pay raise. just kidding. >> i can commiserate with that. i just wanted to let you know that i'll be supporting item eight. thank you very much for the consideration on that. >> thank you. and, of course, one piece will trail when we get back from our summer recess. so is that a motion to move item eight forward? commissioner cohen? >> yes. that is a notion move forward. >> there a second for that? second by commissioner stefani. same house, same call.

the item is finally approved. the next item. >> item 12, final approval on first appearance, adopt an oppose position on proposition 6, the voter approve for future gas and vehicle taxes and 2017 tax repeal initiative. this is an action item. >> ms. craft. >> good morning. amber crabb with the transportation authority. we did request or flag that we would be bringing this to you for approval upon first action. due to the desire to have on record a position before the end of september, which due to the august recess would otherwise be the case. this bill would repeal the transportation revenue approved through the road repair and accountability act or senate bill one approved last year that brings about $5 billion across the state for transportation each year. san francisco alone sees about $60 million per year in local

formula programs that are used for thing like local street and road repair, transit improvements and transit service. we also are going to be relying on hundreds of millions of dollars in the future for key infrastructure projects such as bart and muni vehicles as well as safety bike and ped projects. if the proposition repealed, there's potential for those projects all to slow and the need for locals to find additional funding to close the funding. gaps that would be remaining. we have been working with our peer public agencies across the state and the region on educational efforts to make sures that public is aware of how those tax dollars are being used. we do have a fact sheet that i believe is at each of your desks and available for the public. at the key jobsing over there. -- at the kiosk over there. we values a website where we're up to the minute, the project was for san francisco at

www.sfcta.org/funding/sb1. right now we understand that the proposition language is scheduled to be released today for public comment. so the spubl praoe to look at that as well. unless there's any questions, request your approval and opposed position on prop six. >> thank you, ms. crabb. any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. any questions or commentses from commissioners? seeing none, is there a motion to move item 12? made by fewer, seconded by commissioner cohen. colleagues, can we take that same house, same call? the item is finally approved. next item, please. >> item 13, update on the independent analysis and oversight services with sjoberg evashenk consulting. an information item. >> thank you. ms. leanne liu. >> can we get the -- the presentation.

ok. sbro*k deuce yourself. >> good morning. leanne liu. >> and leanne, if you could just pull that microphone a little closer to you. there you go. >> there we go. >> all right. bear with me just one second. good morning. as chair peskin mentioned, we received the green light in may of this year to move forward with the three focus areas surrounding prop-k which included program delivery, budgeting and sponsor reimbursements. before we discussed the results, i would like to briefly clarify what i mean by peer comparison agencies because you will hear me mention that throughout the presentation. what it really means is that we're applicable, we compared the t.a.'s practices with similar transportation agencies who elected t.a. who are also

the administrator of half cent sales tax. they are the regional transportation planning agency as well as the congestion management agency designated by the state. the factors we considered were a sales tax program of similar size and the number of staff. for the first focus area, we were asked to look at the prop-k delivery status in terms of funding allocated to date for the major capital projects as well as the 21 program categories. we also looked at how successful prop-k has been in leveraging other funding sources. in terms of overall delivery status and the big picture, the t.a. and its partners are delivering the program as promised. if we are measuring progress in terms of sales tax dollars allocated. we are not yet quite at the halftime mark, but have allocated 57% of the $2.8 billion program.

specifically since 20 the 04, the t.a. has awarded 1256 grants worth $1.6 billion for a variety of projects and subprojects such as small amounts for safe routes to schools initiatives or multimillion dollar projects to replace the m.t.a.'s radio communication program. ments for your capital projects, again with not even half of the prop-k time passed, we have two projects that are open to the public. three projects that are nearing completion and one, the downtown extension, that is in design. a similar picture for the 21 programattic categories where $958 million has been allocated through the end of last year and on this slide it shows the allocation status for the 2 --

21 categories for the time passed and the 30-year lifetime. as you can see on average allocations align with the time passed. but there are some categories shown in red fonts with fewer activities. we looked into a couple of those categories that seemed to have a slower start but did not find anything out of the ordinary. for example, programattic development has only been allocated $4 million through december 2017. but exenss pences this fiscal year 18-19 are expected at $2 million. se it appears that activities for this categoris are ramping up into near future and the $20 million commitment from prop-k for this particular program will be achieved by tend of the program. the second area we were asked to look into related to how

prop-k helps leverage other funds. as it is the case with most public transportation promise, there are different callers of money to pay for projects and taxes represent an important funding source especially to leverage state and federal dollars. with prop-k, the 2003 mandate was to spend $12.4 billion over 30 years with prop-k paying for about a quarter or $2.8 billion while the rest was expected to come from other federal, state or local funds. this means that every prop-k dollar was intended to secure $3.4 in other funds. end of last year, according to your annual report, the leveraging goal has been met with every prop-k dollar generating $4 to $7 in other funds to help pay for promises. . -- projects. to get an idea of how that leveraging goal is met at the individual project level, we

selected a sample of projects to see what the actual leveraging looks like. as you can see in some instances, prop-k paid for the entire project such as the public works street resurfacing program. and for the presidio parkway, it secured almost $14 for every prop-k dollar invested. in conclusion for this first program delivery focused area, we found that sftca and its partner agencis are delivering the program in terms of sales tax dollars allocated. we have capital projects that are either completed or nearing completion. and the prop-k live ranting goal has been i met. while i appears that they're on track to deliver