>> good morning. welcome to the san francisco county transportation authority for today, tuesday, december th.

our last meeting of the calendar year. mr clerk up can you please call the roll? [roll call] >> we have a coram. >> thank you. we will skip over the chair's report and go directly to the executive director's report. ms. miss tang? >> good morning, commissioners pick today i would like to start with an update on the cost of a compact. this is the committee to house the bay area at all levels, and

their effort of the regional level to increase housing production, preserve existing affordable housing, and protect vulnerable populations. there has been a whole series of policy workshops and meetings with all of our representatives at the table as well. we have heard there is a strong interest in the part of our legislators in sacramento to help pass legislation consistent with the cost at compact ids. there are about ten strategies that could be impacted. all matter of strategy. some of them are quite significant. we would like to come back to you next month with an information item pending the outcome of the workshops this month so we can really dive into the content of the strategy and provide input to our legislators , particularly the state delegation, can implement the strategies. the state level sustainable

communities climate protection act from 2008 requires that the california air resources board track progress towards meeting climate goals and establish sb 375, the latest report was sobering. it found that while california is making some progress towards our goals, we are not on track to hit our 2020, 2030 target. we are on track to hit the 2020 target, but not the 2030. it will take a much deeper effort beyond technology and electric vehicles. that is all very good and important, but even with a tenfold increase in vehicle adoption, we are still not going to be able to meet our 2030 goals. that means we do need to make significant progress on vehicle miles travelled and reducing vehicular travel. that encompasses land use, housing, jobs, and transportation strategies. they have recommended the formation of an interagency body to produce and implement a new state mobility action plan for

helping communities that respond to the reports' findings on the opportunities and gaps. we look worked closely with mdc on developing the plan and our response to this, and seek ways to engage directly with the california transportation commission. which for the first time, held joint meetings in southern california this month. carb and the ctc our meeting together and we look forward to their collaboration. this is a very much-needed development and the new administration can lead strongly into the next dose in the next few years. turning to project delivery, they wanted to thank several commissioners and directors and the community for joining us at the balboa park east side connection project this month. we were there to celebrate the grand opening of a multiyear project with commissioners and art directors. -- and bart directors. many members of the community where there. we recognized a community

advocate as well with a plaque. the transportation authority contributed about 6 million, almost $5.9 million to this project. it connects the munimobile side and the bart side of the stations more safely and directly with a covered and enclosed glass canopy across the walkway between the bart and munimobile side of the stations. it is much more comfortable for accessibility purposes as well. there's a lot more happening at the station. we have street improvements on ocean and geneva, and the offramp from 280 southbound which is nearing completion. stay tuned. we are hoping to bring much more good news from the balboa park station station area in the coming months. we also heard the sfmta board approves many important vision zero projects at the end of their term. townsend and valencia, most recently. the latest approval of valencia,

i know there's a lot of hard work on the part of m.t.a. and led by our commissioners, ronen, and mandelman, as well as mayor breach. the city has come together around the vision zero goals, and we see a lot of action being taken. is a protected bike lanes that are going into valencia street. this benefited from neighborhood transportation improvement funds , we also know that there is so much -- commissioner kim has put so much of her money into it as well and projects in her district. we know sixth street is moving forward. second as well. we have seen townsend recently, and a whole host of all critical safety improvements going in. thank you to the sfmta, mayor breach, our commissioners as the community for tackling the hard work of reengineering our streets for safety. i wanted to mention there's a lot of progress taking place across the city in district 11. there is traffic calming

improvements districtwide through funds. we are also working across many other districts such as in three and eight, and two, and one. all of these are moving ahead. on the management side, we did have a clean audit for our tsca program. i wanted to thank cynthia fong and her team and other teams for another clean audit. this is an important program that we run. it generates 1 million or so dollars a year. but it's very complex. it has lots of rules. we appreciate our staff and we want to report we have paid off our outstanding revolver credit loan. this was the original short-term financing from 2004 and we have been paying off steadily over the years and over the past five years we pay the balance down making the final payment of 25 million on december 5th.

i am happy to take any questions >> are there any questions for our executive director? seemed on, his or any public comment on the director's report seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you for bringing up this matter and i think we all very much look forward to hearing about that at our next meeting in january pick with that, i will go to the chair's report and make a few comments as the calendar year draws to a close, and i just want to thank all of my colleagues on the t.a. and all of our staff, and our staff at the t.a. or a productive year i really enjoyed collaborating with all of you, and we've had a lot of it -- successes and projects delivered all over the city this year. we could talk about those ranging from delivery of l r.v. and many buses -- and munimobile

buses. i want to thank vice chair tank particularly around her leadership on safe routes to school, and thank and acknowledge the work of the chair of timma. commissioner kim. as well as the work around vision zero, not that you are leaving, commissioner yi, and i think we did some great work around tee and c. issues this year as i want to thank the t.a. staff are really keeping emerging mobility legislation and analysis at the forefront of our work here. and most importantly, i want to join all of us in thanking commissioners tang, kim, and cohen, and their terrific staff for their service to the t.a. over many years, and we are going to miss you guys. [laughter] >> we love you. so that concludes my report, but

katy and jane and melia in absentia, it has really been a pleasure working with you on the t.a. [applause] >> if i may, through the chair? >> yes. >> i wanted to echo your comments and appreciation to our outgoing commissioners. it has been a pleasure and a privilege of working with each of you on behalf of our entire staff and prior years of staff. is our honor to provide you with these commemorative prints to help with joe she can fondly remember your years on the t.a. commissioner tang, thank you for serving as our vice chair for many years. you also let the finance committee back when we had the committees for several years. you lead safety initiatives on the west side, the sunset boulevard project, 19th avenue

, ocean beach master plan program of projects which is very large and complex. safer schools, as the chair mentioned, west side transit hubs, and school transportation. we will carry forward a lot of that work and you can be assured that will go on. we wish you all the best in your next endeavour. and chair kim, thank you so much for being a co-author of the vision zero policy, which has really caught on as a cultural shift in our city and in our nation really. you have chaired our timma program which has been a really unique collaboration with you on our staff and our partners. thank you for your leadership on that's. it has not been an easy set of issues but we appreciate the hard work you put into it. you have lead bicycle and pedestrian safety initiatives all throughout the city but also in your district. ranging from the smallest ones to the largest ones. we have regional projects with transbay and managed lanes. you have chaired the policy and

programming plans and programs back when we had those as well. they are so many things to appreciate you for. thank you again for your dedication and your leadership. good luck to you as well. commissioner cohen, who is not here, i want to recognize she led finance committee for many years. she served as our caltrain board representative for many years as well on that body. she has led so many initiatives including the caesar child a -- cesar chavez. and indeed tend, we had the bayview mobility study in the transportation study and the bayview moves and many innovative initiatives coming out of that district which has so many challenges facing them both from a traditional neighborhood standpoint and is all of this development that has been going on including in district six as well. thank you again. >> thank you. with that, we will go to our consent agenda.

could you please read the next item? >> item 4-10 -- >> is there any public comment on the chair's report? seeing none. public comment is closed. sorry. >> item 4-10 are a consent agenda. items 5-10 are items that are approved on the december 4th meeting and being considered for final approval. staff is not planning to present on those items but is prepared to present if desired. >> is there any public comment on item number 4? seeing none, public comment is closed. on the consent agenda -- is there a motion to move the consent agenda? on that motion, made and seconded, a roll call, please. [roll call]

>> we have final approval. >> all right. next item, please. >> item 11, appoint one member to the citizen's advisory committee. this is an action item. >> okay. mrs. smith? >> this is a c.f.c. appointments that would be for district ten. we also currently have an opening in district four. we heard yesterday from commissioner cohen's office that she would like to continue this opening so there could be additional recruitment. i do not know if any candidates are here to testify. >> are there any potential candidates for this open seat? seeing none, his or any public

comment on this item, no public comment period public comment is closed and is there a motion to continue this item so the incoming commissioner can have a decision in this regard? made by commissioner kim and seconded by commissioner ronen. we will take that same house, same call. the item is continued. >> item 12 his major capitals project update for better market street. this is an information item. >> good morning. good morning, chair peskin, and commissioners. my name is christine. i am from san francisco public works, and i'm the project manager for better market street this morning i will give you a

quick update on our project, as well as provide some additional answers to questions that you had the last time i presented in september. we are very happy to announce that we received the 15 million-dollar build grant which we had applied for this summer, and we just found out last week, ends the official notification will come out this year. the 50 million-dollar grant is coming from the u.s. department of transportation. it will be used as part of our phase i construction, which is from 8-6. i have just added it to our funding plan. this is the same plan i showed you last time up but it shows the $50 million from build as awarded. we have, same as last time, a significant amount of the overall project cost that is unfunded. but we are working closely with the transportation authority staff to look at other potential funding sources at the federal, state and local level. you've seen this stack before of

how we break up the project. it is estimated to be $604 million. $100 million of that is for a new substation, which is a separate project, not really part of better market street. this is a new way of looking at the project. what we've done is we've broken up the overall scope of work into state of good repair back the project itself, and other infrastructure work that is related but separate. so under state of good repair, clearly all of the pavement renovations as part of that. building standard curb ramps, track replacement from m.t.a. and replacing the overhead system. the entire system including the gold poles and the traction power, upgrading the existing traffic signals, and then from public utilities commission, replacing served of sewer and water lines. the project itself, the key elements of the better market street project includes a new

sidewalk level cycle track, and bike signals to facilitate the movement of bicycles along market street, new trees and landscaping throughout the corridor, we are extending the term restrictions for vehicles, and modifying the traffic signals to match, we are replacing the brick, we are proposing to replace the brick with new sidewalk pavers that are easier for people with disabilities to travel along. we are widening the transit boarding islands throughout the corridor, and the necessary relocations and adjustments to infrastructure, to facilitate the new better market street layout. the other related and separate, but related infrastructure work, the f. line loop that will go down mcallister and charles, additional track work at 11th street, we are working with the department of telecommunications to add their fiber-optic conduit. possibly adding close circuited

television cameras to help m.t.a. with traffic control. the p.u.c. is updating their control system for all the streetlights. it will actually happen now as part of a separate contract. p.u.c. is also looking at updating their power duct bank. upgrading the streetlights to l.e.d., and we are working with bart on upgrading the greats that are in the middle of market street along the corridor door. we are not just working with city partners, we are also working with regional partners like bart. a quick status, the environmental review is it about 70% pick we expect the draft e.i.r. to come out in march. end of february beginning of march. when i presented to you last time in september, we were hoping it would get out this calendar year. this is some of the analysis on the alternatives and some of the other environmental impacts that have taken a little bit longer

than we expected. but we are pretty much in good shape and expecting it will come out by the end of february. our design team is progressing towards 30%. that is working with all of our infrastructure departments, public works, m.t.a. and p.u.c. and then as i mentioned earlier, we continue to work with the transportation authority and m.t.a. to identify additional funding. this is just a summary of our project schedule. i mentioned the public draft e.i.r. is coming out at the end of february, beginning of march. we expect certification of the e.i.r. in the fall of 2019, and then we will be advertising phase i in the spring of 2020. we anticipate this first phase will take about 12 years of construction, so we have that slated for 2020-2022. a lot of the questions last time were about the collisions along market street on the purpose and

need for the project and the purpose is to improve safety along the corridor. we worked with d.p.h. and with m.t.a. to look closer at the collisions. this map that i showed last time was part of a case study conducted by the department of public health and m.t.a. for the pedestrian safety task force, data subcommittee, in november, 2011. at the start of the better market street project. it is based on statewide integrated traffic record systems from 2005-2009. from this day to, what we were able to find is there where 111 collisions. 115 pedestrians were injured in those collisions. four were fatal, and ten were severe. forty 6% of all the collisions took place at intersections while at 54% were mid-block. as far as who is in the

collisions, a really 10% involved many mobile vehicles pick what we found where most of the collisions happened when pedestrians were exiting transit vehicles as opposed to trying to catch the bus. taxis were involved in about 10% as well, and then private vehicles, the majority of collisions involved private vehicles travelling along market street. about 20% of cars colliding with pedestrians while turning onto or crossing market from the side streets. three instances of people hit by vehicles while walking on the sidewalk. three pedestrians who were injured were in wheelchairs, at approximately a third of all of the drivers were not from san francisco. m.t.a. took a quick look at more recent collisions in 2016 and 2017, and what they found where

the majority of pedestrian collisions are still caused by vehicles that are not munimobile or taxis. a quick summary, vehicles and pedestrians, this could be a private vehicle that is very -- there illegally or a delivery vehicle, represented about 66% of collisions with pedestrians. munimobile colliding with pedestrians is about 15%, bicyclists and pedestrians were 16%, and taxis and pedestrians were 3%. overall, there were 60 2% of the collisions in 2016 and 2017 that involved munimobile, but just under 70% of those were deemed nonpreventable collisions. with bicyclists, munimobile collisions and bicyclists presented 27% of the collisions, which may include a few side

swipes. vehicles and bicycles were 44%, and bicycles with pedestrians were 12%. bicycles with six objects represented nine%, and bicyclists colliding with pedestrians were about 12%. the last bit of information that i wanted to share with you was about operator training. that was a question last time. operators get a refresher course every two years and you have to be recertified by human resources training every two years as well. when there is a collision, there is immediate coaching by inspectors for the drivers, there's also a conference for the division manager after the incident, and post- incident, there is a collision avoidance training that operators are assigned to. that concludes my presentation. i'm happy to answer any questions that you may have.

>> thank you. are there any questions for staff while ? >> commissioner kim kloss. >> i was hoping you could go back to the slide of the improvements. and it would help to show visually where these improvements are going to come into play along the corridor. i didn't -- what is the department of telecommunications >> it is an i.t. department for the city. >> they are now called the department his -- i did not know they change their name from the department of technology. >> they used to be dti as when i started. that could just be my typo. >> no, i thought we had a new department. could you explain the cctv cameras again? >> they are zoom cameras. it is one of the projects i worked on previously. m.t.a. uses as cameras at the transportation management centre to see traffic conditions in realtime.

>> and we don't need any type of -- i guess we can freely put these cameras up on our streets? >> correct. they are not used for enforcement. they are used for traffic monitoring. >> i'm sorry, can we go back to the slide? by the way he, it is great to see this move along. i know i got briefed on this eight years ago, and so i'm happy to see that we are coming to a phase of actualization of the better street program. i do remember some of the biggest components of the budget were -- i believe it was a major upgrade to the power station, substation. is that correct? >> yes. it is $100 million of the $604 million. it is for a new substation for m.t.a. >> what is the pathway to get that funded, and where does that

go along the breakdown of the project? is it in a later phase? at the time it was discussed, it seemed somewhat urgent. i'm just wondering where we are prioritizing that. >> this is amy lam from the m.t.a. >> hi amy. >> supervisor came, i am amy from m.t.a. regarding the power well station , m.t.a. will not do this work. we understand that we will change the different types of buses. we do not need any additional substations. our future plan is we are focusing on the upgrade or make sure the current substations will be in this program instead. >> okay. i think last year, when this was presented to us, presented as a fairly urgent item in terms of

ensuring that munimobile could continue to run. because it depended on the substation for power and it can impact thousands of munimobile buses. if i'm hearing correctly, because we are thinking differently about the vehicles, they may not require as much power. is that correct? >> our engineering team have a report to mention we don't necessarily need the holiday plaza. >> okay. thank you. is it possible to get the new budget? clearly there are things that are no longer moving forward. how large is this budget now? it was 600 million. it is at least 500 million now. is that the only aspect of the budget that has fallen off? >> that is the largest component that has fallen off. we are constantly looking at the design as we progress with design and looking for value and engineering opportunities and ways of cutting costs, but what we usually use is $503 million for the project, including state of good repair, not including

the substation. >> could you show us a breakdown of the current budget? >> sure. this is the breakdown of the project. the majority of the cost is for transit infrastructure, even if you take out the 100 million for the substation, it still leaves $242 million for transit improvements, including the new f. line loop. >> and another big component of this is the replacement traction power system. is that still a priority for the project? >> it is. i think that is part of the substation upgrades of existing munimobile substations. and the traction power is sort of what is connected in and out of the substations. >> is this still part of the budget or not? >> it is. >> the 75 million for the power system is still a critical component a better market street >> correct. they will not build a new

substation, but they will still upgrade the existing substations , and there is two of those. >> now of these private infrastructure improvements, which are really the bigger cost , but probably more critical for our users, even though they are not visible, how much of this is going to get prioritized in phase one class. >> there will be components of all of this in phase one. it is a full scope for two blocks. we are looking at extending into fifth street, so we are hoping to get three blocks of complete project. you will see all the state of good repair, all of the infrastructure improvements within 8-6 of the fifth. >> the stage of good repair that is not being included in phase one because they are not on fifth-8th street, are there any of those critical drugs are any of those critical for the east of fifth street that we need to address sooner than later? >> one of the reasons to go to fifth street as we can upgrade or replace -- the b.r.t. greats

were something we want to replace as soon as possible. is a partnership with bart. but they are part and munimobile greats. it is both city and barked. all of the other state of good repair work will happen in phase one. we will do the repaving. we will upgrade the curb ramps, track, ocs, traffic signals, sewer and water are all part of phase one,. >> but only from fifth to eighth class. >> my question is, are there any critical state of good repair or cease to fifth street that we really need to address as quickly as possible? the street repaving is what ours constituents will notice. they will notice a new bike lanes and street repaving. all of that is so important for constituents to see. however, we know the state of good repair, which is more invisible, is what keeps our city moving. so i want to make sure that we are not putting off critical

improvements for the state of good repair cease to fifth street for the sake of phasing the project in. >> it is not really state of good repair, but the cycle track every additional block that we get is helping separate bicycles from other vehicles and improve safety. so we are working very hard to trying to get additional funding to stretch the project beyond phase one just to get the improvements that the better market street is getting. public works has done interim paving in the curb lanes to try and get some of the worst areas. already we see that the pavement is starting to deteriorate. where we have just paved two or three years ago. there is really heavy use of market street. so we would certainly like to extend beyond phase one so we can get all of these improvements. >> okay. i don't think i'm asking my

questions very clearly. i am glad that the track is a priority because it really is -- it is not a pleasant bike ride east of fifth street. and despite the fact that market street is considered one of the main biking corridors, it really isn't a great corridor to bike down. there is no bike lane. you have to interface with community buses and all of that. i'm glad that is the priority. i'm asking about the infrastructure needs, the capital needs of market street. are there any that are critical that we should be thinking about prioritizing in phase one east fifth street? or what is critical is the repaving and the bike lane. >> what is most critical is the paving and the bike lane. but all of this infrastructure needs to be updated. most of it was installed with bart in the seventies and we did some additional work in the eighties but we know that we do still have 10-15 years of useful

life for both the track and the o.c.s. system. that factor into our phasing plan. we know we need to replace us in the coming years and we are trying to get our critical area first. >> that is where my question lies. i know we can't fix everything in phase one, but i want to make sure that we are addressing the most critical component versus the more visible component of better market street. we want to see the street repaving and the bike lane. i just want to make sure we are talking a lot about aging infrastructure, and we are seeing it in new york city and we are certainly feeling a little bit in san francisco. i wouldn't want us to push aside critical infrastructure needs that we can to visually see because we are feeling pressure to put forward improvements that people get and understand on the ground. so if there are critical -- market street is a vital core door for i don't know how many

lines. i would hate to see that not addressed in phase one, and then to see a meltdown happen. >> okay. >> thank you. >> thank you, commissioner kim. are there any other commission questions? is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you for that information item. mr clerk cap next item, please. >> item 13. >> i'm sorry to interrupt you, at 11:00 pm, we are going to take a brief recess, and then we will reconvene. next item, please. >> item 13 is update on the transbay transit centre on the study of governance management, oversight and delivery of the downtown extension. this is an affirmation item. >> good morning. i will start with the transbay transit centre fracture issue. a little bit of history here for clarity of the records.

a fracture on flan to the steel girder was discovered. a second smaller crack was discovered on a parallel beam in the same location. today to, no additional cracks have been found. there is continued monitoring going on. at the request of the san francisco and oakland mayor's offices, the empty sea has convened a peer review panel to work with tjpa. the review panel consists of five structural engineering and materials experts. they are working with the key stakeholders, being the structural engineer of record, the general contractor, the steel subcontractor, steel fabricator, m.t.c., ourselves, a.c. transit and the department of building inspection. there are challenges to assess the load capacity, which they have done already. developing a sampling and testing plan, which frankly is almost complete spirit i want to

elaborate further. determine the cause as everyone wants to know, assess the current condition of other structural elements to make sure that everything is safe for the public, and finally recommend a repair solution. where we stand today is that a preliminary finding will be presented to the tjpa board this coming thursday at the board meeting. we have dennis here, a construction manager for the tjpa if you have any further questions. the repair options are being analysed and developed. the completion of the repairs depends on the lead time for the steel members in that regard. so that is going to dictate the completion and the timing. when we have more information, we will invite m.t.c. here to provide further information, hopefully in the next month or 1212 months. that concludes this portion of

the updates. if you'd like like to ask questions now, we can. i am hoping to take them. >> the big question here, is when, and the answer is we don't know. >> that is true. correct. we do not know. we have speculation, but i would rather have the peer review experts and tjpa be able to address that to their board on thursday, preliminary findings are being developed right now. >> okay. i'm not exactly sure why they -- why we even put this on the agenda. >> we were hoping to have more today and we apologize for that. it is something where we are aware of all the stakeholders and all the independent experts. we are airing on the side of caution before preliminary findings are presented. we are working through the final repair options.

it is a very complicated issue from restructuring engineering standpoint. >> do you want to add anything for this commission? >> good morning, commissioners. i am with the tjpa senior construction management. to add to what he has just said, we were also in parallel with the preliminary findings. we have been able to start developing the fix at fremont. it is anticipated that loss will be presented to our board on thursday as well, along with various other analyses to show how much effort has been going in to this project since september 25th. so there's a lot to be presented , hopefully in the next couple of days. >> i don't know what will happen between now and 48 hours from now, but would you like to speculate for the transportation authority and for the public as to when these fixes will be

effectuated? >> i can put framework on that to show you there are two paths that will happen. we will talk about the repair. everyone has been focused on the repair. that is part of the report. it will assist, once we have that confirmed, we will have the type of steel dimensions and they can procure that. once the peer review does all this information is being presented and they give us the green light, similar to the preliminary findings. it allows us to move forward with the repair elements. the other part that is going to be started once the preliminary findings is also the effort towards the rest of the facility once a polemic findings are founded, they can be presented to the peer review -- to wet the

steps for the remaining what needs to be looked at throughout the rest of the meeting. that is a second parallel path that will be developed here shortly in various phases. because you have to develop the scope and see what needs to be done at those locations, and if anything needs to be done, implements that repair. that is still forthcoming. that is why we can't put a timeline to it at this point. >> any questions or comments from members? any public comment on this? this depressing item, welcome commissioner cohen. we said nice things about you. [laughter] >> i will continue. let's discuss the caltrain downtown extension. >> r.h. just to recap the history, october 23rd, the board voted to suspend funding for the tjpa 30% design part one effort until two things occurred.

they conducted an evaluation of the tjpa management and delivery of the t.t.c. itself, as well as us, the transportation authority staff for the management and delivery of the caltrain extension into the train box. we are in the process of assembling a team of experts right now. we are reaching out to the consultant community and anticipate making decisions in terms of forming an expert team by the end of the year. we will evaluate the best practices, and in particular, focusing on not only alternative oversights that taking a look at funding strategy is to move the project forward to. we will open the book in terms of looking at international megaprojects. there is a lot to learn from that and their experience here. it will be through established interviews and workshops, including the key stakeholders.

over the past months, we've had conversations with all the key stakeholders and are assembling the key stakeholder team. we will start the effort in january, 2019, and it is our intent to complete it by the spring of 2019. we are targeting may of 19. i am open to any questions. >> thank you for that. that was helpful. are there any questions from members of the authority? seeing then, is there any public comment on this item? no public comment period public comment is closed. thank you for that update. we will live for thursday and the tjpa presentation. next item, please. >> item 14, item on final approval, approved the revised job classification salary structure and updated organization chart. this is an action item. >> mrs. fong?

>> chair peskin the, would you like me to go through a full presentation for the sake of time? >> colleagues, just so you know, the personnel committee of the transportation authority match last week, consisting of myself, vice chair tang, and member kim, we are just where in we reviewed and recommend to all of you the revised job classification salary structure and updated organization chart. if any of you have -- we had an extensive conversation about it in committee. it is the last vestige of our committee structure. the committee recommends approval. do any of you have questions for staff, or would you like a full presentation of what the personnel committee received last week?

>> i will take silence as you are okay with moving the revised job classifications to six categories. the new salary structure that will ensure that we retain our excellent staff, and our updated organization chart. is there any public comment on item number 14? seeing none, public comment is closed. is there a motion to approve said item made by commissioner tang, seconded by commissioner ronen, and on that item -- >> can i just -- >> commissioner kim, i'm sorry. >> i just want to thank our executive director for your leadership all of these years. i really feel that you have communicated very closely with all the board members, to -- different departments and outside agencies and the very things that we asked you to do when we came on executive director and i want to thank you for your incredibly hard work and all that you do for our city >> we will incorporate that

comment into item 16, which is the next item. i do want to thank mrs. fong for a very clear presentation, and very good staff work. with that, a roll call, please. [roll call] >> we have final approval. >> that item is approved. colleagues, i do not think we need a close session unless and unless anybody wants a close session with regard to the evaluation of the executive director's of port -- performance objectives, which

was also heard in the personnel committee, if that is the case, mr taylor, would we table item 15? is there a motion to table item 15? made by commissioner tang and seconded by commissioner ronen. we will do that. is there any public comment law public comment is closed. we will take that same house same call. could you please read item 16? >> item 16 on final approval, set annual compensation for the executive director for 2019. this is an action item. >> colleagues, the personnel committee met, and as per the previous item discussed, the public employee performance and approval -- and approval -- approval of the objectives of 2019, after looking at a salary survey of other executive directors in similar positions, the personnel committee recommends a four-point 5% increase to our executive director's at salary, which was

in accord with the other executive directors of similar agencies in the bay area region, and in other t.a. his. would you like any more information on that because she would be happy to present it. if not, is there any public comment on item 16? the floor is yours. >> i'm with united public workers for action. there's a lot of negotiations coming up with city workers this year, and i would hope that if you will give four and a half% to the managers of these agencies, you would have it as a minimum for the workers of the city and county of san francisco so when they come into negotiation, you should remember what you are doing here and awarding these increases to managers in the city and county of san francisco. >> thank you for that comments. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, comments are closed with regards to the last speaker , this is not a city agency.

this is a subdivision of the state of california, and number 2, in the previous item, our salary structure has been revised such that actually the executive director his' pay raise is less than the pay raise for the rank and file for the six member or f.t.e. authorized member agency that is the transportation authority. thank you for that comments. is there a motion to move item 16, made by commissioner cohen, seconded by commissioner brown. we have the same house, same call. thank you for your excellent work, mrs. chang. the item is approved. his or any introduction of new items? seeing none, is there any general public comment? seeing none, the transportation authority -- >> no. >> commissioner cohen. [laughter] >> i have to keep everyone on their toes. he thought i was going to be here, but it wasn't.

keeping you on your toes. i want to say thank you to the t.a. staff for doing a fantastic job. i want to let you know that i am leaving and leaving encouraged, because i feel that no longer will district ten be considered the forgotten district. i believe that the t.a. in particular has done a tremendous job on studying and coming up with plans. i want to think about the dollars and the resources that are pouring into the southeast. i really feel good we are moving in the right direction, and i'm very grateful for your hard work i had an opportunity to work with most everyone in the staff box. i had an opportunity to be on the committee. i feel very close to the executive staff on the t.a. and i just wanted us to take a brief moment to express my gratefulness and thank you. i have learned and have grown as a professional, and in large

part, due to the fact that we worked on so many really important projects that have an opportunity to change people's lives. i would like to think we are changing them for the better and i'm grateful we are partners in doing so. thank you. >> thank you for those comments. >> thank you. i guess this is my last formal t.a. meeting. not excluding timma. i wanted to echo my thanks to all of the staff, our executive director, but everyone who has always briefed us, whether it was maria or anna or cynthia. you have all been amazing and so for -- so far there is too many to name. i have always found every single staff member to be incredibly well-prepared and thorough. you always follow up pick any time we have issues with other agencies, i often turn to you for assistance and i really appreciate that. [please stand by]

-- working with this body over the last eight years. this board of supervisors, as you know, is very ambitious, so we don't often have a "department" that we have somewhat direct authority over, but it really has been such a pleasure to work with this team. i know i said it at the last timma meeting. it must be so much fun to work for the transportation authority

because you get to be the imagination, the creativity, the body that dreams up these fantasy policies that hopefully we get to implement here in san francisco. and i think a lot of the incredible transportation work that's done is due to the forward-thinking initiative of the staff of sfcta pushing san francisco forward. i want to thank you for your imagination, for your passion, for being so nerdy and wonky about transportation and policy. over text messaging and emailing us about every small item and making sure we're briefed and never surprised about anything, although that one day on 2nd street will go down in my history books of my surprise moment on sfcta, but sfcta worked really quickly to reroute money to 2nd street. i want to thank you for your

diligence. working and caring so much about how people are able to move around our great city. and i look forward to your continued work as a citizen. >> supervisor peskin: thank you, commissioner kim. ms. chang. turn your mike on. >> thank you so much for each of you for your kind words, your gracious appreciation of our staff. it's your leadership that's allowing us to do this work, to deliver for the city, for the region and our state and our planet. thank you so much. it's been a privilege. >> supervisor peskin: with that, colleagues, last meeting of the t.a. for 2018 is adjourned. we will reconvene as the treasure island mobility management agency after commissioner yee's press conference is concluded.

>> supervisor kim: good morning andel