this neighborhood safer and stronger. there are many steps along the pathway to get here, of which they were not the major obstacle because they committed to this program so early on. i can't mention how many neighborhood studies and community processes that our offices worked with so many of the community leaders here over the last eight years to make that happen. i want to give a huge shout out to the public utilities commission. i know the general manager is here. [cheers and applause] >> the staff really did a tremendous amount of work to move this money that has been committed to, which i should note, also went to the tenderloin museum that was standing behind here today, and we actually had to repurpose other city funds to come to help fund with cpmc originally, which is a street lighting funding program, and the p.u.c. made that happen. and whether the challenges we are getting, we need to connect it to our infrastructure, to so many other design challenges, and then different wants from the community.

the p.u.c. really came out, along with the mayor's office of economic development, working alongside our community leaders to make sure that this happened within eight years. so i just want to wish everyone a big round of congratulations. our neighborhood really does work together to make this community safer, and i want to thank our mayor for her strong commitment to making sure that the tenderloin continues to be invested in heavily and strongly , and prioritized over her time as mayor. thank you very much. [cheers and applause] >> and matt haney is out of town or else he would be here, our new supervisor. thank you all. if you have any questions or anything important to ask to folks, enjoy the lights. the darker it gets, the brighter they are. thank you all. [♪]

. >> president cohen: good afternoon, and welcome to a special meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. today is december 18, 2018. thank you all for being with us today. for this important meeting. to the members, begin with attendance, lead the pledge of allegiance, communications and nominate and vote for their president pro-tem. so let's start with the roll call. [roll call vote taken]

we have a quorum. so, thank you, ladies and gentlemen. members of the board please join us in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance was recited] >> thank you all. during the roll call for attendance, those marked not present were president cohen, supervisor peskin and supervisor tang. my office has received communications asking to be

excused from the meeting. a pro-tem officer is appointed by the members, a motion to excuse the members the first order of business. but first, board president malia cohen is among those members not present, pursuant to the rules, clerk calls the meeting to order, and opens the floor for members to make nominations and to vote for their pro-tem. all right. though this appointment would terminate after today's meeting. any member may make a nomination, a second a nice touch and majority vote of the members present. so, if there's one nomination, we'll take the vote. if there are multiple names in nominations, we'll take a different type of a vote. so, are there any members who would like to nominate president pro-tem? >> yes. >> supervisor yee: i would like to nominate the only outgoing

supervisor in the room, that would be supervisor jane kim. >> supervisor yeah has nominated supervisor kim seconded by safai. we'll take a vote on that as supervisor kim as the pro-tem. [roll call vote taken] there are eight ayes. congratulations, madam chair.

>> colleagues, thank you for your confidence in your vote today to allow me to preside over our special board of supervisors meeting for tuesday, december 18th. more than anything, i want to thank my colleagues for coming in for this special meeting to allow me to be able to vote for this charter amendment to bring this forward to our voters. may i take a motion at this time to excuse president cohen, supervisor peskin and supervisor tang? motion from ronen and second from brown, do that without objection. madam clerk, call today's one and only item. >> clerk: item 1, charter amendment third draft to establish the free city college fund to defray certain costs of

city college students and to require annual appropriations in designate the amounts to the fund, at election to be held november 5, 2019. >> i want to thank the members, primary sponsor, supervisor mandelman, supervisor yeah, ronen, brown, fewer and safai. i did promise a brief meeting, but i did want to make a couple of points before we took a vote on this charter amendment. i just want to recap the journey that we had been on since 2015 when i first introduced a revenue measure to create more equity here in san francisco. we have one of the fastest growing economies to the envy of cities and states around the nation, yet we also have the fastest growing income gap between the rich and the poor in the nation as well. the great equalizer or one of

the great equalizers in our country has always been education, and in the mid 20th century when this country made a very expensive and at the time a very radical decision to fund a free and universal k-12 education system we saw a middle class grow in this country. while that was not the only factor for the growth of the middle class, it was certainly one of them. and during this time we also found a high school diploma was enough to get a middle class job. 30, 40 years later we have seen technology has raced ahead of education, and that by 2020, 70% of all u.s. jobs will require some type of post secondary degree training or certificate. i believe it's our role as elected officials and as government to constantly review and reexamine the social compact we have with our citizens to provide them a foundation to become successful in our nation and education of course continues to be one of them. in 2015, we started to hear

candidates for the democratic party and president talk about tuition-free college, and community members reached out to me in december of 2015 examine what it would mean to use revenue measures for a free city college. over the next four months we worked with our controllers office, ben and his team and in particular, thank jalieal, and my chief of staff, to look at what the investment would look like and found it does not cost that much. with an estimated revenue of between 20 to $44 million through luxury real estate transfer tax we realized we can make san francisco the first city in the nation to make community college free for all of our residents regardless of age, income or any type of g.p.a. prerequisite and thank my colleagues on the board at that time for supporters a charter amendment with ten votes, i'm sorry, supporting a revenue

measure with ten votes that became proposition w, luxury real estate transfer tax, asking those who are doing tremendously well in the real estate economy to invest back in the city to create more equity. the average job available for city college graduate, $11,000 more than the same individual with a high school diploma. l 62% passage in november, able to raise $27 million in just the first year of implementation and able to make city college free that fall of 2017. however, as you know, through that process, we were able to allocate only 6.4 million of the 27 million to this free city program. we wanted the pilot to begin and get our foot in the door and the program has been much more wildly successful and popular than i think any of us even the strongest advocates have anticipated. we saw a growth that looked to be about 20 to 25% of increase

enrollment of san francisco residents and we saw city college adding classes and hiring faculty again. one of my favorite quotes was one of the, one of the faculty members saying that she enjoyed being screamed at by a student for not being able to get to the class because it was full, instead of telling a student that they could not get into the class because it was canceled due to underenrollment. since that time we have gotten so many letters from city college students. including this letter that we received, on behalf of the students of city college, i want to express my gratitude toward the victory of free city college. as a student and as a graduate who continues attending ccsf, the removal of financial barriers has opened greater skills necessary to prepare for the 21st century work force. i'm a mother of three young children and been working towards a career change in life. obtaining this education is essential and purposing career

path that is fulfilling. free city contributes to their talents, and pursue new career paths without going into financial debt. reduced education iniquity and made education accessible for all of our city residents and thank the board for championing free city. it's so important in a city that talks about innovation and disruption, we need to make sure the opportunity is provided for all of our residents. so, colleagues, i just want to thank again our co-sponsors, i want to thank our rules committee for expeditiously allowing this to come before the board. i know this is one of the quickest charter amendments that have come before the board of supervisors but i really do look forward to working with all of you to champion this in the november 2019 election. i want to recognize the college board of trustees for adopting this charter amendment and recognizing the president, the vice president, and others, and

also my former chief of staff, ivy li, the architect behind proposition w. thank the city attorneys for working tirelessly to make sure we could get this done since july, janet and john, and recognize the controller's office, ben rosenfield and his team, michelle and jayliel, will work on this in a different hat without your office and all the data and numbers we would not have been able to move forward with proposition w or the charter amendment before us. and last but not least, i want to thank the free city coalition. i have really enjoyed standing in front of this campaign but this idea came directly from the community and not from any elected official. it was again members of labor and afc2121 that brought the idea of investing in free city

and said this was possible and tremendous amount of research across the country to see what what it would take to make this a successful program in san francisco, examining the tennessee promise, chicago promise, oregon promise, the strengths and pit falls of the program to make sure we would implement a program in san francisco that drew on the strength and also addressed and mitigated some of the challenges they saw, one most importantly, low income students in households did not enroll in free college, we found that books and transportation and child care costs exceeded the cost of tuition and that was also a barrier attending the college, so unique not only tuition free but for the lowest income students enrolling in city college part and full-time, providing additional stipend to pay for books and other things to be successful in the school. i want to thank afc2121, our

president jenny warly, our former president, aleesa, james tracy who worked on it at the partnership, and labor council, connie ford, rita gonzales, and kim paulson. community housing partnership, anokvil rama, and the student solidarity committee co-chairs. among others. any comments or questions you would like to make before our vote on the question? this is really going to be a short meeting. so -- at this time, madam clerk, please call the roll. >> on the question shall this charter amendment be submitted

to the department of elections. [roll call vote taken] >> clerk: there are seven aye and one no, with supervisor stefani in the dissent. >> colleague, ordered and submitted to the november 5, 2019, election. and failed to thank kitty fong for working so hard the last couple of months. madam clerk, general public comment. yes, still doing that for the special board meeting. >> at this time the public may address the board up to two minutes on subject matter items within the board's jurisdiction, but not on a free city college. first speaker, please. >> city college for free, first

of all, i want to point out to you that there's nothing for free. during the budget cuts, two executive females for city college came up here and said it's a good program but we here before the budget today because we are $5 million in debt. so that's proof nothing for free. you just testified you got multi-million dollars of dollars from proposition w, if so, why is city college $5 million in debt per year. you want to continue this program for 20 years, 20 years times 5 million, $100 million that the city is in debt. another example of the situation enjoyed by preferential treatment said the people but not enjoyed by the most vulnerable people. you have lower level institutions of schools in order to get to the best schools, junior high and elementary schools, and other school institutions, you have to go to school based on the lottery system. whereas city college is for free

and no lottery system involved. in fact, i have to speak up for the teachers as well, because the teachers are not getting paid on time, and just this past holiday season, s.f. -- over 200 instructors that did not get paid. and as a result, they received foreclosure notices from the banks, eviction b notice from the apartment owners, and by the same response, some homeless teachers out in the streets, too. and i want to point out another example of differential treatment, because scott wiener and the previous mayor put together a $44 million homeless bond for teachers only to build 100 units and 120 units for homeless teachers only. you have a situation enjoyed by homeless teachers but not enjoyed by nonhomeless teachers. moreover, another situation where this homeless bond after seven years of living in the building the teachers have to be evicted and start the homeless

teacher situation all over again. >> thank you for your comments. just a reminder, general public comment. not comment on free city college for future speakers. >> thank you, thank you. mr. wright is throwing fastballs and they are covering the plate. this issue, this is coming back to bringing our government back home. this is just one government, and this government needs to say well, we have other governments, the federal and the state, and there are budgets there, dropping. littering yemen with bombs, couldn't we get a few more, instead of bombs, schools. i mean, this is across the country. people are not going to have a lot of money for the programs for the people but yet we need to bring the governments back home and this is a perfect example of it. good luck finding funding for

bringing the governments back home. thank you. >> thank you, mr. gilberte. any of the other members in general public comment? >> i would generally like to say thank you very much from a city college person, it was free -- i'm not commenting about the i think this, just saying thank you. it was free for me and i've taught there 39 years and if it had not been free, that would have never happened. i know we are not allowed to clap or sing, so, hey! thank you. >> i think we are allowed to sing. >> thank you. ♪ we've got a charter amendment ♪ ♪ we've got a charter amendment ♪ ♪ to keep city free, from the bottom of my heart i say thanks to thee ♪ ♪ we have free city college for you and for me ♪ >> thank you. >> thank you, police berg. -- miss berg. >> all right, madam president. >> oh, yeah. i just want to say, i wasn't

here last week for all the great accolades that, thank you jane kim for a wonderful eight years. i'm proud to be a district 6 resident and close out as board president, one of the great moments. thanks for pushing universal child care, ban the box, and raising the minimum wage wage, and the other thing we are not supposed to talk about in general public comment. thank you. >> thank you so much, to members of the public. sorry -- flip the page. madam clerk, any further business before us? >> after you close public comment, madam president, i believe that brings us to the end of our agenda and a year that we will remember. >> thank you so much, madam

clerk. thank you so much to mike colleagues for coming in today for a special board meeting. we look forward to seeing everyone in the new year. thank you also to our staff and clerks for organizing this special board meeting for december 18th and for the members of the public for coming. today's special meeting is adjourned.

>> 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 stakeholdebe