>> off to the side which does not count into these numbers that you see to your right is the 1548 warnings that the traffic company put out. and we changed our data collection system from crossroads to e-citations and so with that it couldn't push that over to the e-citations. so we had our own data collection which we accounted for in this slide. the department at this point is hiring academics to look over the information that's collected through the new state 8953 to really analyze the data and to see where we are, if there's bias, and really kind of taking a different look at it. because, obviously, the report from d.p.a. is great, but we also just want to be more thorough and get that answer and do better in the future. and just so you know that we're

close -- the department is close to hiring an academic group to actually look at that. so this is a staffing for traffic company and you can see that in 2014 we had 46, and it went up to 49 and then progressively it went down in numbers and we're currently at 39. so in regards to staffing i think that one of the things that are different, we used to -- and i'm sure that you can ask your husband -- to rely on the traffic company and say, traffic company, this is your role, go do that. and now it's stations. it's about stations and getting them to have traffic carts when they have enough staffing to do so and to hit the areas that we talk about. and we look at complaints from the public and our own officers' observations and complaints that you all receive and our discussions and we put that information out to the district stations and ask them to follow-up. because we can go out to a

location but that does no good if we give out a million citations and it's not backed up daily by the district station. so we want to make sure that there's good communication with them and getting them to be on the same page as we are as far as enforcement and locations that are important. so this is our fleet. you will see that we have 85 operating motorcycles, 81 harley-davidsons and 4 kaw sidewalkies and -- kawasakis, and we have 2014 and 2016 models. and the remaining fleet are 2012 models or older. and in the budget we requested 10 additional harley-davidson motorcycles. and part of the -- part of our job besides the dignitary escorts is also first amendment right marches. our motorcyclists lead that

march and we also take up the back to ensure that it is a good safe march, shutting down traffic so that people can actually go and march safely. and so with that the motorcycles heat up and we have to switch those motorcycles out and so it's important that we have additional motorcycles and we, of course, hope for additional staffing. challenges... staffing shortages, emerging technology and mandates, strains on the unit resources due to staffing. staffing plan... i didn't change that number and it's supposed to be 39, i apologize. and two-year plans, the ideal staffing would be 84. and it used to be 100 which is ideal but as we -- as we hire and we have that hiring plan, i believe that we can get those numbers back up. >> supervisor fewer: how often are you putting classes through

to train on the motorcycles? >> we have not had a class in a while. we just don't have the staffing for that. >> supervisor fewer: when is the last time that you had a class? how many people were in that class a few years ago? >> pardon me, could the speaker address us through the microphones up front for everyone's benefit. >> sorry, so lieutenant martin and captain eswani are in charge of the traffic company. >> good morning, lieutenant luke martin, traffic company. so to address that question. the classes are generally two sergeants to 12 officers. because of the nature of the training that goes on for that class we can't really have more than that. >> supervisor fewer: i know, it's pretty expensive. >> yes, it's a two-month-long training course. >> supervisor fewer: my husband broke his leg on that eliminator. so we know. >> typically we get about a 80%

graduation rate. >> supervisor fewer: so that in three years you haven't had a new class and you had mentioned that you had some very serious injuries that people are unable to resume on the motorcycles, is that correct? >> correct. so of the current 39 riding officers that we have, two are going to be out for undetermined amount of time. >> that's where we get -- (indiscernible). >> supervisor fewer: right now you have 37 city-wide right now? okay. and are these deployed to the six stations? >> no, they're all assigned to the traffic unit. >> supervisor fewer: okay. >> they're split between day watch unit, and night watch. so it's broken down to maybe a couple -- toip so on any given day what is the average --

>> supervisor fewer: so on on any given day what is the number of the traffic officers on the street? >> we have about eight officers at any given time except for wednesdays we have an overlap day and we have the majority of the staff. >> supervisor fewer: really. okay. so how many dignitary escorts that you would say that you do in three months? >> well, that's significantly reduced with president trump, he doesn't make it as often. but we get other dignitaries that come here that demand an escort. i would say in the course of the last six months we've had two. two high level dignitary escorts that have been rather hairy due to our staffing. >> supervisor fewer: so when you have a dignitary escort, it means those people are pulled from the traffic division, is that correct?

>> correct. we pull all of our staffing to operate those. >> supervisor fewer: so you would say when there's a dignitary escort that on that day there's probably -- i mean, during that time -- and i know they can be lengthy because my husband has done many, many, many of them where he's waited around because they're eating dinner or they're in a show or whatever. and you have to be able to escort them. so it's many, many hours. that would mean that the whole traffic company at some time may only have a couple officers on the street. if you only have eight a day on average, and you do a dignitary escort, doesn't it take more than eight officers sometimes to do the escort depending on how many cars the escort requires? i mean, so tell me how does -- i don't know -- to me it seems as though this is really drawing from a law enforcement on the

street to do these escorts and leaving those days without possibly any police traffic enforcement from your unit on the streets of san francisco. is that a fair assessment? >> i would not say that. so i think that the idea that we do the escorts and that's the only thing that we do -- if a collision occurs and keep in mind when we go to a collision it's usually very, very serious injury or fatality. if that occurs we do pull from the escort and we send people to that location to handle that. >> supervisor fewer: to handle the injury. but just to do patrol, you don't pull them to do that? they are on that escort, is that correct? >> they are. >> supervisor fewer: okay. so, clearly, when there's a police escort, when a dignitary escort is needed i think that

it's fair to say and disagree if i'm wrong that that day there's probably for that period of time no one from the traffic company doing traffic enforcement on the streets of san francisco? >> no. >> supervisor fewer: okay. thanks. would you like -- do you have another slide? >> i do. >> do you have a plan to have a class? >> we're working with the department to schedule a class. >> (indiscernible). >> i can wish. it's a wish. i'm hoping so. >> supervisor fewer: excuse me, about the class. so would your class be the same size, two sergeants and about 12 -- >> yes, yes. >> supervisor fewer: is that correct? okay. and about 80% pass rate? >> about 80%. >> supervisor fewer: now does anyone -- is it common mainly that officers leave the

motorcycle unit after all of this training and do they retire or do some of them transition out to other units? >> so there's a p.1 which is a permanent assignment and a p2 where you have a five-year loan to the unit. and so once they're done with the five-year loan they go back to the station. >> supervisor fewer: but these officers are trained and they -- what would you estimate the cost of the training of the motorcycle training that we've invested into these officers? >> i did not bring any of the costs related to training and i can get you that though. the idea was not to have a unit that's embedded with people for 30 years. because that produces some issues. and it was seen in the past as i am sure that you can talk to your husband about that. so that's why the rotation for the motorcycles as well as the honda unit, the dirt bikes, is very important and that's p2. so we do both p1 and p2. >> supervisor fewer: but i do

think, commander, that this is a unit that actually is by senority, is that correct? >> no, not with the p2. >> supervisor fewer: but with the p 1s they are? >> yes. >> supervisor fewer: i think if we train them and they're fully trained on the motorcycles and they pass the training that it just seems as though we should keep them on the unit to grow the unit versus training new ones that come in and transition now five years. especially because if you don't have a class, you haven't had a class in three years, it seems as though you might waive that p2 whatever policy to allow them to stay longer until you staff up even. because -- the p1s don't normally leave unless they retire? or are you seeing them transfer out to other units? >> i'm not seeing them transfer to other units unless they are promoted. if they get promoted they go to a different unit. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much.

>> this is a high energy corridor network. one of the things that was brought up was i believe that it was megan looking at the different signaling out the streets themselves. in our last discussion i found it interesting that we can provide that information to the district stations and really have them also focusing in on those locations as well as traffic companies. so that's going to be happening in the future with further discussion from d.p.h. so traffic company enforcement and deployment. focus on the five high injury corridors with high fatalities and severe injuries and partnering with the city agencies like m.t.a. and d.p.h., and the unified school district and the c.h.p. to name a few. and operational enforcement of the locations identified with complaints. the board of supervisor stations and the traffic company observations of location when's they are actually doing

enforcement. and then special events, we attend special events and coordinate, like sunday streets, facilitating first amendment events and community outreach events. so a couple of the grants that we do from m.t.a. which has been helpful i think, that the traffic company organizes, safe routes to school program, 14 unified school district schools located on high injury corridors and so in 2017 we conducted 44 operations and cited 1580 individuals in regards to the school bus. 2018, operations was 30. and 602 citations. what we did with especially 2017 was included the district stations in that. we really wanted to teach the

new people -- because there's a lot of new officers at our district stations now and teaching them the differences, you know, school buses need to be protected. kids are definitely out there on the streets. and these are also near senior centers. we're targeting -- we're following the buses and when that sign comes out if anyone passes we cite that person. so we got great positive feedback from the bus drivers as well as kids and there's a great interaction with law enforcement and the kids going to school. distracted driving, which we all complained about. this is a newer program. in 2018, it's only july -- nine operations with 167 citations. we literally drive around, watch people in their vehicles and see them texting or looking at their map on their phone and we cite them for that. it's a good program.

>> terrorism. >> supervisor fewer: is it all grant funded? >> yes. >> supervisor fewer: so if these are not -- if the grants went away or do you do additional officers in addition to what is grant funded on these particular items, programs? >> no, no, we don't. because we bring in additional officers on overtime to do these programs. so we don't impact the stations as well as our staffing. so, again, pedestrian and bike enforcement operations. these are great operations. we put a decoy out there to cross street and if somebody doesn't allow them the right-of-way they get a citation and it's good for the station and it's good for the traffic officers. definitely the community when they're watching something like this operation it really definitely hits home for them. and so 2017, 52 operations. and 1367 citations.

and 2018, 24 operations and 559. speed enforcement. this is the enforcement where you have a device and it engages speed. we didn't have the numbers for 2017, i apologize. but 2018 we had eight operations and 142 citations. a lot of -- we had a lot of citations in the tenderloin high injury corridors and we try to focus on those corridors. >> how can you have an unknown number of citations in the previous year? >> we didn't have the data, we couldn't locate it for that operation. we're still trying to find it. and then, of course, we go into some of the pictureses that we took for our -- pictures that we took for our officers with special operations. >> many fewer operations this year than last? >> yes. it depends on the funding as

well. but we do additionally, you know, we have -- when we talk about t.n.c.s, transportation network companies, the red lanes for the buses, we have an additional funding tool for that through m.t.a. where we go out and we find people in red lanes. or doing illegal turns on market street. and we have over 1,600 citations, 1,000 plus are for t.n.c.s. so it goes back, again, to the business of t.n.c.s and the fact that getting citations does not bother them because they're just pick a site and pay it and then go back on the street and earn more money. so it's a different mindset. so we're trying to work with the companies and trying to educate them on the importance of really

telling their drivers that they need to pay attention. >> supervisor fewer: isn't it after they have three moving violations that their license is suspended? >> yes. >> supervisor fewer: okay. so i just want to say that on average i just have to push back on those. everyone that i know, if they get a ticket it changes -- i mean, my girlfriends, my family members, everyone that i know that gets a ticket and got one for not yielding to pedestrians yields to pedestrians every time. so these drivers might be just different than the rest of the people who are driving their kids to school and to work etc. so, i don't know, but it is just seems as they should be more conscious of it, they can't drive if they have their license suspended. >> i think that one of the things that we should start having our officers do is actually ask people if they live in san francisco or work in san francisco.

when t.n.c.s come into the city are they really, you know, violating the law because they just don't know the city and they're making turns they shouldn't be making or do they just have a disregard for public safety? i don't know. maybe that's something that we need to look at. >> can i ask a couple more questions about this because i'm having a hard time believing that they don't care about the tickets because their wages are so low. you know, there's been studies that after the cost of wear and tear on their car and the commute here and gas that they're earning oftentimes less than minimum wage and so getting $60 or $80 ticket and plus having to do traffic school to avoid the insurance increasing, it doesn't make sense to me that they wouldn't care about getting tickets. so i have heard this a couple times. but i'm just -- i don't buy it. >> supervisor fewer: aren't tickets more than $80?

and aren't there tickets that are a hundred dollars, isn't that right? >> you have heard it and i have been told by my officers, is this something that they're just saying to just, you know, to tell the officer to go ahead and write it and you pulled me over, it could be, possibly. but is it something else? i'm not sure. not really sure. >> what are the cost of the tickets, for example, for being in the red lane? >> i don't recall. do you know? >> (indiscernible). >> i'm look into that -- i'll look into that and let you know. >> so if it's incurring so infrequently that it's a cost that you spread out over your whole year rather than when you do it and the odds of it happening to you are pretty hi high.

>> questions? >> i appreciate calling for this hearing and i have been campaigning for the last year and a half and the frustration from people about the feeling that traffic laws are violated left and right and don't get -- and that there isn't enforcement in this city. and, you know, compounded by the challenge of the t.n.c.s, in fact, your numbers have gone down at the exact time when probably the number of violations happening in the city has probably been skyrocketing. so i think that, you know, this is a real problem. >> supervisor fewer: yeah, thank you, commander, for highlighting these numbers for us. i think that it really sheds a light on how many -- i'm always wondering why i don't see any in my neighborhood and now i know why. and i think that this is

something that, you know, we can also speak to the chief about because i think that all of us would like to see more white helmets in our neighborhood. even driving down the streets and tell people to be alert. and i think that this is completely on line with what supervisor yee is saying about being proactive. but thank you very much. colleagues, any -- >> just to take public comments. i note bob planthold to talk to us and if anyone else does, line up over there. >> i will go off on my experience. before the turn of the century we found in our advocacy that the traffic company was down to 80 and it was a great victory to get it up to 95. and before the turn of the century it was 109. so now this is an appallingly low number. and some years ago a previous chief took people from traffic company and put them in stations and saying you'll do traffic

enforcement in the stations but they were taken off the motorcycles and put in patrol or sector cars. we don't know, you didn't ask, and you weren't told how many were out stationed and how many of those who are out stationed from traffic company stay at the station and after staying at the station were they still primarily doing traffic monitoring and enforcement? or are they doing general patrol? that i think also works against good enforcement. and in addition, i think that what you need to realize with dig natori escort -- dig natori escort, it throws off whack when the prime minister of japan or the minister from turkey comes in. they fly into the airport. since it's state highways from the airport to the city, why not press chpay to do the escort into the city. and then our people can take

over. the very fact that they're having to go 15 miles outside of the city and then 15 miles back, that works against it. i'm also going to say that there's been a rotation of people in traffic company to demand management. like the past five, six years there's been several people so it's hard to get to know who is heading what and know that they've got enough experience in this area. study this in this area and it hadn't been the case as it was when i would say that a previous captain was there for a long time. so keep that in mind. thank you. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. next speaker. >> hello again, supervisors, natasha with block san francisco. in the last iteration of the city's vision zero two-year strategy from 2017-2018 it was stated that they would establish

baseline percentages for citations and warnings given to people of color. and we're happy to see the first part of this fiscal year's data today that we'd like the sfpd to continue to update this the day to provide -- this data to provide to the public to have an equitable process as possible. and the hiring situation is dire but in the meantime state legislation like automated speed enforcement that supervisor yee was bringing up early, we'll continue to fight for the state-wide legislation to provide support for the sfpd in catching people speeding on our high injury corridors in our city. thank you. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. any other members of the public who would like to comment? seeing none, i'm going to close public comment. commander, did you want to respond to anything?

>> so in regards to the dignitary escorts, we don't go to the airport and they partner with us and they deal with their freeway. upon the escort entering san francisco we then take over at that point. and we also don't take them back to the airport. the c.h.p. does that. so the other question in regards to when the bikes at the station level, they did come back to the traffic company and they didn't stay at the district station. once they decided to pull that program back. but when the program was there at the district stations, no matter what, it doesn't matter if you're on a motorcycle, dirt bike or tactical investigations, if there's a call for service that is a priority, you are to respond to that. so as far as, you know, our motorists drive around the city, their responsibility are to be police officers first and foremost. and secondly is the assignment of traffic enforcement. but i do understand the

questions because it's changed. i mean, over the years it's changed dramatically. so hopefully through the hiring we'll be able to get to that point to build our numbers. >> supervisor mandelman: any further comments, colleagues? >> supervisor fewer: seeing none i make a motion to file this. >> clerk: that motion should come from -- >> supervisor mandelman: a motion to file this from a member of the committee. >> so movedful. >> supervisor mandelman: we'll take that without objection. mr. clerk, do we have any further items? >> clerk: no further business. >> supervisor mandelman: seeing no further business we are adjourned.

[gavel] >> 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 the program as promised, we found it challenging to navigate the t.a. website in the annual report to obtain basic information on thing like status or progress. the information is there, but in so many places, that