integrated project team, i see a very surprising omission, and that is that the project sector has been left out. i didn't see any inclusion of the silicon valley leadership council, the bay area council or the construction unions that are going to be vital in producing this project. i think if you go ahead with this integrated project team, you should add those groups to the mix. >> chair peskin: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning, members. sadina ramos. a thanks to all of the leaders and staff and consultants who have done the really hard work to rethink this project which had been running into challenges and positioning it for long-term success as a key

connection of regional and national significance. it's good to see the goals to have a focus on a realistic funding plan as well as looking at this project in the context of, you know, what this fits into from a regional, megaregional and state level? and as such, looking forward to that being done in an updated manner. caltrain -- the board just approved a service vision increasing ridership up to 250,000 people. the region is looking at a second trans bay crossing. how are those pieces going to fit together? one of the things i think we're challenged with as a region, there's an interim instruction but who is going to be running this going forward? everybody does something once and nobody does it very well,

whether it's there or b.a.r.t. 2, our region needs to do a better job of managing delivery of particular projects and need to figure out this stage of our project as a whole. >> chair peskin: thank you, miss levin. mr. strauss. >> i share some of the frustration, a lot of the frustration that you've heard voiced by others, and i say that as someone who has experience in the project delivery. as tilly said, the defsh ivil the details on stuff like this.

i strongly applaud, we strongly applaud what this represents on the increased commitment that you, the board of supervisors has to this project, something that this project has not really enjoyed over the years. we're also really glad to see the resumption of some of the works at the main street station and the 22 street station. the concerns that was over the report was released was the delay in the actual engineering work. i think what this translates into is concern that the delay that putting off the resumption of engineering represents may not be rofshl by the change in the strategy for delivering the project. i note that even the gateway

project, if i read that correctly ended up using a conventional bid for construction, you know, with the -- a convention project delivery framework. so we're not certain where we will end up with this. we will work with you and look forward to moving this project is head expeditiously, and we'll comment further, and i appreciate your commitment to this. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you, mr. strauss. seeing no other couple pom on this -- seeing no other public comment on this, i'll close public comment.

>> chair peskin: i think that it's pennywise, pound foolish. with that, mr. fisher, maybe you can respond to a little bit of what you've heard and address the difference between the status quo and the

recommendations around reform. >> thanks, mr. chairman. and really, i just wanted to address a couple comments that we heard on drn-that this po s pom's -- - >> i think the region has changed a bit since this project was initiated. as you start to look at a second crossing, i think the comment about how do we prioritize this in the region and then, on the delivery side, it's a bit of the panel felt very strongly that we needed to

have a look at this again. i think the idea that john picari laid out, we are in a national competition for federal dollars, and i would argue part of this relook is coming up with a credible funding plan that is going to make it easier to get political support at every level. right now, the notion of sort of recasting the business proposition around this is a san francisco project. it's part of a regional rail system that is not well articulated that right now. i think that is the core and the recommendations. we did layout in the report a pretty detailed two year plan. we laid out if we start working together now, in 24 months, we

can look at a credible funding plans, and we would have a better defined initial phase that i think would be more credible to voters. it would help drive that consensus. >> chair peskin: thank you, mr. fisher. i really appreciate that. all right. seeing no questions or comments from members of this body, thank you all again, and we will give the public and members of this body until our next meeting to digest that report, and we will then take up acceptance of the report at our meeting later this month. mr. clerk, would you please read the next item. [agenda item read]. >> clerk: this is an action item.

>> chair peskin: should we go back to the last item? >> no, no, it's for this item. >> chair peskin: all right. miss la forte. >> i will jump right into the 23 requests that you have in front of you today for allocation. the first group of questions is from the caltrain, the joint powers board from san francisco's member contribution to the caltrain capital budget. there are a host of projects that are shown on your screen. a couple of projects strictly to san francisco.

in addition to the state of good repair categories for caltrain and the prop k expenditure plan, there is also a category for the electrification project, so san francisco has a contribution of $80 million to the project. we as the transportation authority are providing just about half of that funding, and so this is the last tranche of funds, $4.9 million -- this is the last portion of prop k going into the program, and this is to convert the system into an electric system between san jose and san francisco. next, this is the only operating funding that prop k provides in the expend --

expenditure plan for paratransit operations. these are for scheduled group van services, a.d.a. eligible passes, as well as shopping around and vango shuttles for folks that can access grocery stores and organized trip plan and also some ramp taxi incentives and this is to give a monthly stipend to taxis that have converted their vehicles to ramp accessible vehicles so it provides some supports for monthly operations and for some many for maintenance and operational items.

>> this would be open for use in spring 2022 once the construction phase is funded and advances. bayview community based transportation plan, this is for an additional tranche of funding to complete the funding efforts that are currently underway and are about to be wrapping up for the bayview planning. this is inclusive of the participatory planning property. we are participating in a highlight which enables us to qualify for $600,000 from the m.t.c. to implement the amendations from the plan. so you as the board will need to adopt those projects, and that list will be in front of you the next couple of months.

any objection 11, cycle construction. next request is from m.t.a. for bike to workday. this is for event day services, and you can see the energyizer services on the photo in your screen where there are bicycle repairs and other safety information that is passed out on the day of the event, which is scheduled for may 14, 2020. at the c.a.c. meeting, you heard from chair john larson. there was a recommendation made by the c.a.c. to condition these funds on an equitiable distribution of these energyizer stations around the city, and we have been working with the bicycle coalition to

come up with a rhendation of what that looks like. at a minimum, that would be something that the bike coalition will do. i would also point out that we had staff of the coalition, raul young, who's here today, can certainly speak to how sfbc provides an equitiable distribution of the day events as well as the distribution of planning for the day of the event. next request is for bicycle outreach and partnering. we have been funding this for several years and we will be continuing to do so with the allocation. safer streets allocation. this is for another ten months of the work that we do to

oversee the safe routes to psychologicals program. the program was transited this year, so we are continuing to support that programs. the next request is at the request of supervisor vallie brown for her district; to come up request recommendations how to improve safety and circulation and accessiblity within this year, and

>> along with a number of seniors and the stakeholders that we would expect to see, we saw a couple dozen teenagers and young adults, which honestly we at the city don't do a great job of getting out to public engagement events, but somcan really did their work here. and you see a group of kids who really had thoughtful responses to what could go on in their neighborhoods to enhance and preserve their character. went to bessie carmichael to promote the neighborhood and walking safe school buses. here you see tenderloin safe

passage and families who have banded together to really try to create safety in numbers. one person's crossing the street. they're much easier not to see. five people, and somebody with a fluorescent yellow vest, they're much harder to miss. part of somcan's work was to develop recommendations for the family and special use district. so from here, i'll show you some photos and bullets of those recommendations. the first ones was public art, which they're already deeply invested in doing. these are some murals that have recently been completed, but somcan would like more of them.

another thing is flowers in bike racks. banners and gateways, ways to identify places as places of special interest. what you see here is an entire mock-up of an intersection under my closed captioning. we would look at doing that probably in between crosswalk lines that are mandated by the state. wrapping utility boxes. you know, we've seen it in other places in the city. it has multipurposes. it has some community value, but it also reduces tagging that some other community boxes offer because once there's art on them, they're more

respected. and then more stretches like manila-style jitneys, which i don't believe are publicly funded in manila but obviously are a cultural icon. i think it will influence other projects in soma. i want to call out not just former commissioner jane kim and current commissioner haney, staff. the somcan leads, angelica and leon really did lion's work. they got the community out and folks engaged in their streets. walk sf current and former

staff, and vernon haney who worked with me to close out this project. faron peters, andy kozinski, and jennifer brooks of public works. and then, to paul stanis, our project manager, and bradley dunn, our project information manager, who worked with somcan and walk sf on this project. it was a joy, i think it'll really help, and i'd love to answer any questions you have. >> chair peskin: thank you. that is one of the most enthusiastic and joyful reports that we've received. commissioner haney is not here today. he's out of town but i'm sure

will have many comments on the second read of this later this month but is supportive and appreciative of somcan and all the participants' work in this report. are there any other questions? are there any members of the public that would like to testify on this item, please come forward. >> supervisors, the filipino community has come here again and again to express their concerns on many things. to present the kind of mention that he was surprised that they had teenagers there, and that's because the filipino community, if somebody knows about

cultural competency, they have extended family. the teenagers and even the parents participate in these deliberations. but what struck me was the measly amounts given. 40,000, 10,000? come on. we have a budget of $12.7 billion, and the filipino community deserves more. and i'm not chiding y'all, i'm just telling y'all, the filipino community has contributed a lot. i know this from my days working for the army, the baton march and so on and so forth, but it's all connected. we need to work with those

youth, the filipinos to do more. thank you very much. >> chair peskin: seeing no other public comment, public comment is closed. and can we have a motion to adopt the final ntip report? made by commissioner fewer, seconded by commissioner mandelman. we have same house, same call, and the item is adopted on first reading. next item, please. [agenda item read]. >> clerk: this is an action item. >> chair peskin: miss crabb. >> so the regional transportation information program or rtip, as the congestion management agency for sprisk, the transportation authority approves san francisco's priorities for the grant program.

before senate bill 1 was approved, this fund source was notoriously unreliable. some cycles, you'd have tens of millions available, some cycles, you'd have nothing. in light of that, about a decade ago, the transportation board adopted priorities to use for these funds in light of these projects can more readily respond to the unreliability. this is a list of the existing rtpi priorities? the top priority is currently the central subway project? however, that project no longer has any contracts that can receive the rtip funds? so in light of that commitment we are working with sfmta every cycle to identify eligible projects to program the funds to meet that commitment. currently in the 2020 rtip, there is about 7.6 million available for programming?

there's 418,000 that's available for planning, programming and monitoring work for both the transportation authority and the metropolitan transportation commission? this is for funding and performing oversight on programs that receive state funding. the remaining 7.2 million is available for capital projects. so the recommendation before you today is to approve the planning, programming, and monitoring funds as well as commit the 7.2 million in available capital funds to the new fire and life overhaul. if that sounds familiar it's because you heard it last month. you acted to program 17.9 million in prop k funds to the project. the midlife project it's overhaul grades to the

subsystems to take advantage of technical advances and such things as reconfiguring the seats on the vehicles. we're recommending to face three of the project because the rtip funds are unavailable till fiscal year 23-25, so we'll be submitting a list to m.t.c. october 21. we do anticipate coming back to you next month for a scope amendment to an sfmta program -- sfrmt project programmed through the 2018 step. the project that's currently programmed is being funded with another sfmta project, so with that, i'm happy to take any questions. >> chair peskin: thank you, miss crabb.

is there any questions or comments on this? is there any public comment on this matter? seeing none, public comment is closed. a motion made by commissioner yee, seconded by commissioner fewer. we have same house, same call. item is adopted on first reading. next item, please. [agenda item read]. >> clerk: this is an action item. >> chair peskin: mr. cordova. >> cheair peskin, commissioner, let me bring up the powerpoint, but we're very excited about continuing this. what we see as a project that is a subset of the major improvements that we're doing on y.b.i. and thank you for your help.

angela. i first want to talk about the y.b.i. construction projects to set the context here. right now if you were to visit y.b.i., you would say that mcalla road is closed, and the next project in cue for construction is the south road alignment that we are about ready to moovalya into construction. we constructed the y.b.i. vista point in coordination with caltrans and the bay area toll authority and we opened it in 2017. it's important to recognize we have other major improvements coming that we are leading which is the retrofit of the bridges on the west side there. gives you an idea of what's good night gone on, what's going on to

this point. we're happy to basically just have submitted all the paperwork to caltrans and the federal highway administration for federal funding. we anticipate having that by november and being able to bring that out to construction and award by january. just a couple snapshots here as i indicated. we opened in may 2017. we're also as part of the south gate project, acquiring the land to take control of titus ownership. we approximately have a couple thousand visitors a month and it's open from dawn to dusk. the funding as i've indicated for the entire set of improvements is a combination of bada, state and local funding, and i should be including tida. if you haven't been there, it is really a quite enjoyable experience, and i encourage going ahead and checking it out

there on the island. you know, an important part of the m.o.a. that we have with tida includes shuttle services on the northern end of the island near mercy, and it brings you up near the vista point area, and we have that running on holidays and saturdays and sundays. also as part of the jobs program, we're currently obtaining 8% of goal in that regard, that we've been able to work with treasure island vendors to meet an 8% use of their jobs program. all of this we're using and requesting reimbursement for the bay area toll authority operations and maintenance, close to $1 million and this is a summary we have in front of

you for an additional $640,000 for a total not-to-exceed of 1.595 million. that concludes my presentation and we are requesting approval of the amendment. >> chair peskin: thank you, mr. cordova. where is mr. rabetti? >> he could not make it. i extends his apologies. if you have any questions, i can extend them to rich. >> chair peskin: i was just having fun. are there any questions from members of this body? is there any public comment on this item? thank you, eric. >> all right. >> in 1991, somebody exercised a right of first refusal not on

treasure island but treasure island is man made, but on yerba buena. on in all these -- so in all of these presentations, i'm asking those who come here and make presentations to let san franciscans and the world know about the over 500 remains that were found on yerba buena, how are they cataloged? that we in our humanity care to respect the first people, which i know some people care because i always say i talk to supervisor mandelman sometimes and tell him to do the right thing, and he kind of agrees with me. but i have to say that because we can't forget the first people. i'm going to be writing about this because i've cataloged a lot of what happened when caltrans was doing their job,

and i had to intervene because people don't know that. they talk about some other tribes, but you do the heavy lifting because of the great spirit and because of our ancestors. i defend the ancestors, and those who cannot defend themselves. so impolitely requesting that we incorporate some information about the remains, what we call the sacred remains. what you know as archaological. it comes under archaeological in the presidio. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you very much. is there any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed.

is there a motion -- made by commissioner yee, seconded by commissioner mandelman. and we have a different house. roll call, please. [roll cal >> clerk: we have first approval. >> chair peskin: all right. is there any introduction of new items? seeing none, is there any general public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed, and we are adjourned.