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[gavel] good morning. and welcome to the san francisco county transportation authority meeting for today, tuesday, december 10th, 2019. our clerk is mr. alberto quintanilla. if us please call the roll. >> commissioner brown? brown absent. commission fewer? >> present. >> commissioner haney? >> present. >> commissioner ronen? ronen absent. commissioner safai? safai absent. commissioner walton? >> present. >> commissioner yee? >> present. >> yee present. we have quorum. >> thank you, mr. quintanilla. could you please call the next item. >> clerk: item number. citizens' advisory report. >> commissioner stefani is

amongst us. mr. larson. >> good morning, chair peskin, vice chair mandelman and commissioners. i'm here to report on the november 20th meeting of the c.a.c. starting with item 5, allocation of $3.3 million for better market street. critical to the success of the project. smta noted the project working group, which included business along market street and the planned turnaround. as well as coordinating with developers on large projects for mid-market. c.a.c. members also reacted favorably to the elimination of private vehicle traffic on all of market street, in the project area below 10th street. seeing this as an advantage to reducing congestion and moving transit in this crowded area.

the c.a.c. recommended approval of this item. turning to item number 7 on your agenda, the projects in the bayview, the comments centered on the transit assistance role. and the muni transport assistance program or mtap coming out of the bayview transportation planning process. members were very supportive of the transit assistance and the mtap, given the vital role they play in deescalating and providing a safe environment for the riders. funding associated with this item will go toward allowing mtap to increase the transit assistance presence on bayview lines during their working hours. members approved the item both because of the worthwhile program itself and its prioritization through the participatory budgeting process in the community. and hope the lifeline transportation grant helping to fund the initiative will identify sustainable future

funding sources. the c.a.c. was also presented the 2019 san francisco congestion management program. the data and metrics used to inform the congestion management program or c.m.p. were of particular interest to the c.a.c. members. one member was interested to know whether the data could be use for other projects and evaluations. staff noted that data had been used already to support the freeway corridor management study and most recently the san francisco downtown congestion study. reporting back to the c.a.c. on the policy advisory committee's activities in the new year. on that note, i would like to say that the c.a.c. looks forward to the new projects and updates. the c.a.c. will welcome two new

members, who will join several new members who joined the c.a.c. in the past year. i'm happy to report that the c.a.c. not only represents the city's geographic diversity, but also the diversity of the people who live in san francisco. in particular more members who are younger, along with those who are older. i'd also like to take this opportunity on behalf of the citizens' advisory committee to thank the hardworking staff, whose expertise and professionalism make our role to advise that much easier and effective, both in this year and every year. and that concludes my report. >> thank you, mr. larson. are there any questions for the c.a.c.? we will address some of the things you brought up relative to better market, when we deal with item number 5. are there any members of the public who would like to make

any public testimony? first speaker, please, on the c.a.c. report. >> yes. on the c.a.c. report. i've been following s.f. county transportation agency for -- ever since its inception. and the older c.a.c.s would address issues all over the city and county of san francisco. so when it comes to congestion and when it comes to increased in the carbon footprint, this commission hasn't addressed it in realtimes. and i'm going to -- they're doing some documentation on it, so that to address it in real times. so it's very easy to say that a

new committee will be formed for the bayview and the southeast sector. but let me tell you that congestion is getting worse. and the best way to find out about that is for you all to go and visit it, not talk about it, spewing diatribe. that doesn't help at all. and more, if you're old, more if you're physically challenged. so the c.a.c. does play an important role, but the c.a.c. has to have empirical data. and the c.a.c. has to have solemn pathy and compassion for our population, more the elderly population that's suffering from the adverse impacts, be it on market street or van ness, which

you know about, but do nothing about temperature thank you very much. >> chair peskin: thank you, any other members of the public wanting to make comment? mr. quintanilla, could you please read the consent agenda. >> items 3 and 4 consent the consent agenda. item number 4 is being considered for final approval. staff not planning to present. >> chair peskin: are there any members of the public who would like to comment on item number 3, approval of the minutes for november 19th? seeing none, public comment is closed. is there a motion to move the consent agenda, made by commissioner walton, seconded by commissioner yee. on that motion made and sected, roll call please. commission haney? >> aye. >> commissioner.

>> commissioner peskin? >> aye. >> missioner ronen? >> aye. >> commissioner stefani? >> aye. >> misser yee? >> aye. we have final approval. >> chair peskin: thank you, next item please. >> allocate approximately $3.3 million in prop k sales tax funds with conditions, to san francisco public works for better market street. >> anna la fort,. i'll make a few quick remarks and invite the project manager for better market street from the department of public works to come up and give a presentation about the project itself, which is a requirement. it's a condition of the one bay area grant, that was programmed by this body to the project, that the project has a quarterly update to the board.

this is for final design of the segment from 5th to 8th street, which is otherwise known as phase 1a. and this scope of work is suppose to be completed this summer. you'll hear more details about it from christina, which would allow the project to proceed to construction around this time next year. the requested funds are also for an installation and evaluation of a sidewalk-level bikeway along the south side of market street, between goth and franklin streets and the installation is planned to start in march of 2020, to be open for use by july of 2020. and, yeah, the chair's pleasure, i'd like to invite christina to present. >> good morning, commissioners. christina olaya. the better market street project manager. i'm happy to report this morning that since the last time we presented, we have obtained our

environmental clearance at the state level, environmental clearance. we've also received a project approvals. so on october 11th, we had a public works hearing and mohamed approved a public works director's order. and then on october 15th, the m.t.a. board heard all of the project changes, all of the parking and traffic changes. and approved the project as well. our next step is getting environmental clearance at the federal level or mepa clearance. this is our schedule for the next few years. our focus right now is in four areas. first, implementing the quick build program of better market street, so that we see some of the safety improvements right away. we're also developing the construction mitigation plan, to support businesses along the corridor during construction. we're completing our

environmental clearance, as well as completing design for phase 1a. we anticipate advertising the construction contract for phase 1a, between 5th and 8th streets next summer and hopefully start construction before the end of 2020. starting with the quick-build program, there are three main components of quick-build, first full implementation of the car-free zone east of 10th street. we'll also be adding 100 new loading zones, that's both passenger and commercial loading zones on the side streets and parallel streets to support the car-free area. muni-only lanes will be extended east all the way to main street. and where we have extra street or extra roadway space, there will be new painted safety zones. here's a map of the quick-build implementation. you can see that from 10th street all the way to main, in the inbound direction, will be car-free. and then westbound from stewart

all the way to van ness. this is our timeline for quick-build. prior to opening day, we'll be coordinating with all of the transportation network companies to make sure that their apps are geo fenced and ready for the extended car-free area. we're doing a lot of outreach to the community, as well as to media. you'll see a lot of signage going up, that will be bagged until the opening day the opening day is at the end of january. that's when all of the signs will be unbagged, car-free, market street will take effect. and the restrictions go live in all of the apps. after opening day, we'll be finishing some of the remaining work at intersections, as well as the transit lane extension, which has to be done at night. as anna mentioned, part of our request for prop k funding today is to pay for our pilot project.

currently there is a raised cycle track on the south side of market street, between goss and franklin. it's in the inbound direction. but it's only raised inches and 4 inches from the roadway. it's not our better market street design. so what we would like to do is actually raise the bikeway all the way up to sidewalk level. and install the pavers and the bikeway separations, the detectable bikeway separation along these two blocks as a pilot of our better market street stein. moving to phase quick-build, as i mentioned, it's between 5th and 8th street. this is a full reconstruction of market street, full redesign from building face to building face. we're rolling it out in segments geographically. the first segment is 5th to 8th street, as i mentioned all of the sidewalks will be replaced, instead of the brick, we have more accessible pavers, followed

by the sidewalk-level pike way. and we're leaving two lanes in each direction, the curb lane will be for transit vehicles, taxis, delivery vehicles, and emergency vehicles. the center lanes will be muni-only. so the s-line as well as some buses. here's a close-up of the design of our sidewalks, using larger pavers that will be oriented in a linear fashion along the sidewalk. so you'll only be encountering the joints every two feet. there will be new trees, new street furniture. here's some of the trees that we're proposing. we'll keep the london plane as the primary tree throughout the corridor and also adding some diversity of tree species, adding cork or elm trees along the way. our streetscape features we have coordinated with bart and we're coordinating with muni and clear channel, j.c. to have a

consistent streetscape look along the the corridor, something like a stainless steel design. and you can see the proposed j.c. toilets in the bottom right, some seating in the bottom middle and then some leaning rails for bicyclists in the bottom left. having a consistent look and feel throughout the corridor. this is just one quick slide on our construction mitigation plan. we're working closely with our partner departments, m.t.a. and p.u.c., as well as the office of economic and workforce development to develop a construction mitigation plan to support the businesses along the corridor during construction. we've talked about marketing campaigns, adding ambassadors along the corridor, providing incentives to the contractor to finish the project ahead of schedule. we know that the least contract duration the better for

everyone, the less disruptions for the city. directed business support will have a project office with business hours where people can come and request or apply for services. and then we're also working on a pretty detailed transit support plan for construction. here's the funding plan. you can see our prop k request, as part of the list. we also have been here before for our build grant, which we were awarded last december, as well as our obag funding. the majority of funding, however, is coming coming from r m.t.a. prop a general obligation bond. we're also looking for other funding to fill the full corridor costs. we're looking at future federal transit authority dollars, future build grants, other obag calls for projects. we've applied for regional measure 3 and also other local funding sources.

with that that concludes my presentation. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you, ms. olaya. questions or comments from the members the sfmta? okay. i've got a few. ms. oleia, number one i want to start out by saluting you. one of the most competent project managers that the department of public works and the stet could have. that's widely acknowledged and this is this is a phenomenally complicated project. this body and in our other incarnation of board of supervisors have been wrestling in modern times with mega projects, the central subway, as it relates to impacts to both small businesses, as well as residents. and we've been trying to wrap

our hands around this. there have been many policy conversations, both at the sanford and the board of supervisors that has resulted in some cases in relatively modest, this may be a controversial term, reparations payments to small businesses. and we all -- or actually we're talking about older and younger, the older members of this body lived through the development of market street, as it related to digging it up for bart and later on for the subway. and the one thing i want to get right and what i heard from our c.a.c. is about aggressive in advance stakeholder engagement. and so while we approve these mega projects, and this is going to be a huge project that's going to make taken years. i can't wait until january of

2020, that is a no-brainer. i don't think there's any policy disagreement about what we're trying to do for the grand boulevard of san francisco. but making sure that we take care of and engage these people and there are differences between departments. i'm not picking on the sfmta, i mean, let's be real. van ness, b.r.t. at last count was 567 days behind schedule. we all know the stories. they've appeared before this body from people who literally have cried in front of us, as they're losing their businesses and their livelihood and their employees. so i want to make sure that, number one, everybody in the franklin goss area has 20/15 vision. i'm not picking on kate mccarthy, i believe she's done the best job that she can do,

with the resources that have been allocated on the van ness. but the reality is we didn't engage stakeholders early enough. eewd was not dealing with sfmta. all of these things came after the fact. they were way too late. frankly it has been more than a challenge, if not a borderline embarrassment for the city and county of san francisco. so simply put after that monologue, what plans do you and other departments and the city at large have to make sure that we have learned from our past practices and arguably our mistakes? >> thank you. so we have a few strategies to address impacts to businesses. first off, we are breaking the project into small segments. three blocks, 5th to 8th street, the second phase is 5th to 2nd. so another three blocks. again trying to keep

construction tight and fast. and we're still talking about two years. and we're trying to work on the construction sequencing to see if we can get that done more. we're looking at two-year segments in three blocks, full reconstruction. and trying to get in and get out of those blocks quickly. and as part of that, as you mentioned, aggressive community involvement, community outreach. we have to date held five rounds of community outreach with large open houses. we're also planning, you know, door-to-door outreach in the next -- starting starting in ja, adding additional staff to go door-to-door to talk to each of the businesses impacted by primarily phase 1aperform franklin to goss will be one side of the street. we think we can get in and get out in a matter of 2002 to three month -- of two to three months. we have a lot of development in

the 58th to 8th street. we've held hundreds of meetings with local businesses, as well as some of the residential buildings and some of the developers. so i think outreach, involvement, getting input, working with -- once we have the contractor on board, as part of our contract documents, making sure that our contractor is also conscientious and aware of the impacts to businesses and working with the city to help minimize disruptions. we're looking at where can we stage, where can we put materials, that don't impact businesses. you will always be able to walk up to businesses along market street. right now there's no private vehicles, there's no parking. so we won't see impacts to parking. but we will, you know, try to provide as much access to buildings and properties as we can, throughout construction. and providing for deliveries and other access on side streets and

parallel streets, the alleys behind market street. so short construction duration, project office, providing services, going ecuadorian door-to-door, getting input and working with our contractor. those are a lot of lessons we've learned from the other mega projects that you've mentioned. >> ms. oleia, i appreciate that. i believe you. but knocking on doors isn't enough, mr. rurzit is what you give them when you knock on those doors. when we knock on the dor and say, haney, you're going to be inconvenienced and i'm not worried about the two, three-month thing. i'm worried about the phase one, phase 1a, i'm worried about phase 2. i'm talking about the major sticks and bricks. when when we knock on the door and say this is coming, prepare yourself. that's insufficient. if we can actually get our act

together and say here are things that the city can do for you, whether it's technical assistance, whether it's financial assistance, whether it is temporary relocation. all of these things are expensive and are going to make this already very expensive project more expensive. the sfmta and mr. rurz is whispering into your ear right now, has actually been thinking about that, because they have suffered through a project, that is way beyond schedule, and the same thing is now happening to that organization, as it relates to van ness, b.r.t. and people are suffering. it is just a true fact. and i had the controller's office actually analyze sales tax data on the van ness corridor and shockingly, like every poll i have ever seen, it told us actually what we would have thought. the second we proceeded with construction, sales taxes on van

ness avenue plummeted, right. so there you have it. real live data. and i just want to make sure that we do everything that we can do. i would like joaquin torres from the office of economic and workforce development and as of december 16th, jeffrey tumlynn from the sfmta, mohammed nuru, the president of this board of supervisors, the chair of this sfcta, our best staff to actually gain this out, far in advance, i'm not saying this -- knocking on doors and getting ready. >> thank you, commissioners. jonathan rurz with the m.t.a. so as a partner with the department of public works on this project, i do want to remind all of the commissioners that the city does have a construction mitigation program, christina did go through a lot of pre-construction elements that we would include, as part of that project. we now are at a point with

design, where we do know where some of the construction impacts will occur. and chair peskin, you are exactly right. we should take the lessons learned from the larger projects and van ness and apply some of the tools we have put in place to prepare in advance on better market street. so as an example, we should execute our partnership with the office of economic and workforce development now. they should do a business survey along the corridor and blocks in advance. so we know what businesses are there. we can identify businesses that might be impacted directly by construction. meaningthey might lose sidewalk access, we might see the staging right in front of their business and start working with them now on some of the tools that we can implement. one thing that we did do with the funding that the board of supervisors supported was, as part of that, we set aside $1 million in a revolving loan fund in advance. not specifically for sfmta projects, but in projects like better market street, where the

m.t.a. does have applicable scope and is a partner in the project. one of the reasons we did that, and we got feedback from this body, was so in advance of construction occurring, if businesses feel they will have a cash flow or other issue come up during the course of construction in advance, they may work with the office of economic and workforce development to access those funds. in addition, we did this on van ness. we might want to get like a business advisory committee together of people who know what businesses will face and can advise us during the course of construction. so to that note, i feel that the city does have the tools and protocols in place. we should take advantage from the projects that we have seen across the city and start putting some of these things in place now, before construction occurs. i commit on behalf of the m.t.a. that we will definitely work with both oedw and the department of public works to have a very detailed plan in place, that we will execute prior to construction beginning. >> chair peskin: thank you, mr. rurzgenerally, the way get

compliances is by metering out money, because this is primarily a funding agency. i don't want to do that. i want to give you this money. but generally the way we get your attention is we say time out, no more money until you have this in place. we don't have to do it today. but i'd like us all to think about how we're going to make sure that in all of these busy agencies and all of these busy people's lives, this rises to the top. so i want to put that marker out there, which is this plan has to be as close to bulletproof as is possible. i am done with balming the village to save it. ms. oleia. >> absolutely. jonathan and i were speaking, we can develop the plan. i think our reports are quarterly. i think we can have the plan, at least a draft plan, for our next

quarterly report. >> chair peskin: okay. i appreciate that. and i'd like staff to think about what are triggers and what are things that we can do, not to hold you accountable, but just to make sure that this rises to the top. so let's continue that conversation. are there questions from members. miss haney? >> >> supervisor haney: thanks, chair peskin, for all of that. there was some comments i was going to make around the businesses there in particular. that's an area that already has a lot of challenges, with a lot of vacant storefronts, a lot of public safety issues there. and i would really love to see with some more specificity on what the plans are. i mean, you mentioned some of the things that are being thought about in terms of ambassadors and other types of support. i also really want to recommend that you include sfpd as part of this. there are a lot of foot beats on market street, particularly in

that area. and as you're thinking about some of the impacts, if some of the stores there that are already or vacant areas that are already having a lot of challenges in terms of safety issues are impacted, then, you know, we want to make sure that they're included. i appreciate what chair peskin said. if there's a way for us to have a bit more detailed plan, not just for the 5th to 8th segment, which is most immediate. but more broadly i think this is -- if we can get as far ahead of this as possible, i think it will be hugely helpful, especially in light of what we've seen in light of the other large projects, central subway, van ness in particular to have a plan in place to have that outreach and to be able to -- because this is going on for years. so this -- and this is right in the heart, obviously core of our city. it couldn't be more important to get this right. but thank you for your work. >> chair peskin: thank you. seeing no other questions from members, are there members of the public who would like to testify on this item? please come up.

if you'd line up to your right, your left. first speaker, please. >> first and foremost, let's take the central subway, started with $600 million. and now it's about $2 billion. take the van ness corridor. you don't give a damn how many businesses left the city and county of san francisco. and you don't give a damn that many of those businesses were there for 25, 30 years. now we were there and the chair has made a statement about he knows and he saw what transpired when the first time around they worked on market street. and at that time the department of transportation paid the businesses some money. they did not do this with 3rd street. now back to market street.

go on market street and go on -- going in the area of union square and see how many businesses now are closed. it doesn't even feel like christmas. in union square there are businesses that are closed. now i believe in needs assessment from engineers. not having some people forming committees and let's talk about this, that and the other. [bell dings] engineers -- we are so stupid on van ness, that for every one day we work, three days we do not work. and it took somebody one and a half years to find out, oh, how to mix this problem. so mohamed was there, holland was there. ed was there and, guess what, a good man like ed raskin, you

ganged up on him and he had to leave. and now you've got a clown -- you expect this clown to do some justice. [bell dings] stop the talk, but don't walk the walk. we need engineers. engineers who understand transportation and can do needs assessment. thank you such. >> chair peskin: next speaker. ms. lee. >> hello. good morning, commissioners. my name is janice lee with the san francisco bicycle coalition. i'm going to keep this really short. come on, you know to vote yes on this. but what i will say this is phase 1a. i didn't know you had to split phases into letters, which means a lot of phases coming before you over the coming years to fund this project. and i really think that that is where you as commissioners can weigh in and hold the city accountable to those timelines. so i look forward to that. it does not escape me that the two commissioners, chair peskin,

commissioner haney, market street splits -- to be vocal on this. it says a lot in terms of making sure the construction, the timelines are met. there's assistance for the small businesses. i think the bike coalition is extremely supportive of that. i think we've learned we have to be part of this conversation during the planning phase, too. but thank you so much for your consideration. vote yes. this is a no-brainer. let's fix market street. thank you. >> chair peskin: next speaker. >> i'm bob. i'm president of save muni. i had an illuminating conversation with a driver on the number 5 recently. you know, the number 5, it's the fulton that goes up past golden gate park. and the longest part of that route, in time-wise, he said it's on market street. once it gets off market street, you can move pretty quick. so i said to him, well, are you looking forward to the new market street plan, that will

get the cars off. he said not really because we get held up more by bicycles than we get held up by cars. now what i'm saying to you, i urge you in approving this measure, to include a representative from the transit workers' union, who can speak to the concerns of the muni drivers, as you're reconstructing market street. we don't want to impede the buses. we want to have bike lanes. but let's be sensible and include the drivers from the very beginning. and, of course, save muni will be happy to participate as well. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you. next speaker. >> good morning, commissioners. jody, walk san francisco. i do want to echo janice's comments in terms of we do hope that this is a no-brainer and this money is passed for the

better market street project. walk san francisco has been part of the c.a.c. and has also been asking for what these mitigations are and have offered our services. so anything we can do to be part of that, in terms of talking to businesses and helping, we know that this kind of project is going to enliven businesses on market street. we have to keep that in mind when we're talking about more foot traffic, more people on bikes, more ability to stop and shop. so let's keep that in our heads when we do hopefully pass this. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you. are there any other other members. public wanting to speak on item number 5? seeing none -- maybe we can hear from staff at our december 17th meeting with some recommendations, relative to the policy concerns that -- again i think i said this at the beginning. this is not about the project. this is about how we mitigate in a meaningful and real way, impacts from the project.

and we've all experienced this, whether it's commissioner yee in west portal. we've all this these problems and it's time at the dawn of the 21st century for the city to wrap our arms around that. with that, is there a motion for item 5, made by commissioner mandelman, seconded by commissioner yee. and on that item, we have a different house. roll call please. >> commissioner brown? >> aye. >> commissioner fewer? >> aye. >> commissioner haney? >> aye. >> commissioner mandelman? >> aye. >> commissioner mar? >> aye. >> commissioner peskin? >> aye. >> commissioner ronen? >> aye. >> commissioner stefani? >> aye. >> commissioner walton? >> aye. >> commissioner yee? >> aye. >> clerk: we have first approval. >> chair peskin: next item, please. >> item number 6, allocate

approximately $1.5 million with conditions and appropriate $110,000 in president obama sales tax funds for three requests. this is an action item. >> mr. pickford, good morning. >> good morning. so, yeah, our first request is for design of a new castro street elevator and provide a redundant elevator. the $1.5 million in prop k requested would leverage an additional 1.4 million in sfmta funds. the project includes an emphasis on community outreach and the design team will coordinate with local groups that are proposing to redesign harvey milk plaza. the project being connected is part of a broader rehab, replacement project building new elevators at muni stations around the city. this elevator is expected to be open for use in june 2022. we have a little diagram that shows you where in the station the new elevator would be located. our next request is for the realignment study. it comes at the request of

commissioner ronen. it will duct preliminary engineering and traffic analysis for realigning the boulevard near the farmers' market. the goals are to make it safer, neighborhood friendly roadway and reduce the amount of land that's occupied by the interchange. the transportation authority will lead the study and sfmta will provide technical support and will review the work. we're already looking at different alternatives for realign alemana. the request today would move forward the best alternative into preliminary engineering, to complement this study, district 9 has also supported public outreach by s.f. plan and some engineering work by public works. we're expecting some draft analysis in early 2020 and a final report in october 2020. the idea of the realignment would be to push alemany into that grassy area, away from the farmers' market.

our final request is for the district 10, 15 third bus study. the study would respond to long-standing community concerns about the light-rail service and the desire to return bus service to 3rd street. so a lie-level feasibility analysis and we'll evaluate office for muni bus service and assess the benefits, costs and risks of each. currently proposals to address the community concerns, which include delays, switchbacks, trains being taken out of service at muni metro east. but they have long timelines, so this study would like at returning bus service to the corridor in advance of one central subway opens. outreach will include participation in existing community events and additional small meetings, -- as needed. the study will inform future outreach efforts. the transportation authority will lead the study and the final report we expect completed in march 2020. with that, i can take any questions.

we have project managers and our other agencies as well. >> chair peskin: thank you, mr. pickford. are there any member who have questions for staff. seeing none, is there any members from the public -- ms. lee. please come forward. >> hi, again, janice lee. san francisco bicycle coalition. i'm missing my mandatory like central harassment training for this. you know, i have to make sure i'm really speaking out. anyway. >> chair peskin: you have until the end of year. >> i know. i know. i'm working on it. so i want to give thanks to commissioner ronen on her request for alemany. i know that you have talked about this, also for the hairball as well, the realignment. these are very, very long-term plans. we just saw, you know, better market street i think the first round of that public planning began in 2011. so sometimes things do take a long time.

we're really supportive of that prop k allocation, particularly for alemany. so thanks for your leadership there. >> chair peskin: thank you. madam bart director. seeing no other members of the public, is there a motion to move this forward. made by commissioner walton, seconded by commissioner ronen. we'll take the same house, same call. it is approved on the first reading. mr. clerk, could you please read the next item. >> reporter: approve the participatory budgeting program and the projects identified through the bayview community based transportation plainnesses. >> chair peskin: commissioner walton, the floor is yours. >> supervisor walton: before the presentation, i want to make some brief comments. we recently participated in a regional participatory budgeting pilot, which actually started before my election to this body. and i want to thank m.t.c. for awarding $600,000 and, of course, i wish it could be more.

and lifeline transportation program funds to fund priorities from the bayview community-based transportation plan. participatory budgeting process. i would also like to thank everyone that advanced this effort, including the sfmta, the steering committee, the technical advisory committee, be magic, the transportation authority, m.t.c. and, of course, our bayview residents for engaging in this process by attending workshops, submitting project ideas, and voting on the priorities that are important to the community. through this process, sfmta is able to fund the top scoring project, which is increased service on the 44 o'shaughnessey, with other funds, to use lifeline funds to improve transit safety and accessibility and creates safer streets in the bayview, which is a top priority for many areas in the community. the projects will benefit

transportation in the bayview, and i'm happy to support this recommendation. and just want to note that we're also working on other ways to increase equity in transportation in the bayview, a 15 third study to provide better transit down the corridor, signal priority for the "t," increased access to transportation hubs, downtown commercial corridors and rail stations, and ending switchbacks. >> chair peskin: ms. smith. >> good morning. april smith. your transportation planner with the transportation authority. happy to present this item today. so for background, the lifeline transportation program focuses on projects that serve communities of concern. and that address transportation gaps and barriers. in july of 2018, m.t.c. approved $600,000 of a $1 million set-aside for l.t.p. projects identified through a

participatory budgeting pilot as part of the bayview or community-based plan. assess components that applicable and scalable at a regional level. only transit operators are eligible to apply through the 20% local match requirement. and the total budget was $750,000. as a congestion management agency, the transportation authority is responsible for approving the final program of projects. the board was based on the bayview c.t.p. and the participatory budgeting efforts in october, as part of the supmental prop k. to fund the larger ctpt investment plans, $2.5 million in traffic fund was in fiscal '20, and '21 and '22. as required by m.t.c. guideline, sfmta established a steering

committee, which developed and adopted a participatory budgeting rule book, which is attachment one to thementalo in your pocket. also specify that 85% of the funding be used for operating projects and 20% be used for capital projects. beginning in summer of 2018, sfmta collected project ideas from bayview residents and stakeholders, through multi-lingual outreach. staff received over 250 ideas which were screened for eligibility and feasibility. sfmta then worked with the steering committee to develop project proposals and selected the projects to be included on the final ballot, which is shown in attachment 2. to the memo in your packet. the community voted over seven-week period, beginning in july of 2019. ballots were made available in spanish, english and chinese at 19 locations in the bayview, as well as online. and they received 375 ballots in response.

the operating project that received the most votes was to increase service on the 44 oshaughnessy. after close coordination with commissioner walton, the sfmta was able to identify an alternative source of funds for the project, which allowed the l.t.p. funds to be made available to the next highest scoring project, the bayview transit assistance. they commissioner walton is supportive of the project, as you heard earlier. as you see here, sfmta has identified 170,000 in local match funds to fully fund the recommended project of programs, which exceeds the 20% required local match. attachment five to the memo conveneses detailed information on the seven projects recommended for funding. for more on the projects, transit assistance will be hired from the bayview for three years to ride on the 29 sunset, the 44 o'shaughnessey and the lines within or immediately adjacent

to the bayview, to provide a safety present. that will be from july 2020 through june 2023. the capital projects serving as the local match will improve access to transit and lighter safety. the funds would be used to construct four crosswalk safety and access improvements and two bus shelters, expected to be open for use by september 2022. pending board approval, the m.t.c. commission will consider the program of projects for approval and consider allocating $100,000 in funds in early 2020. we anticipate the sfmta will request additional prop k funds for a portion of the local match. m.t.c. will release its findings from the san francisco pilots in 2020. with that, i can take any questions. >> chair: are there any questions for ms. smith in commissioner walton, i think you said your piece. are there any members of the public who would like to testify

on this item number 7. ms. lee. or no. you're just walking around. it is. you are a frequent flyer today. >> i promise i'll stop after -- >> chair: public comment, we welcome and encourage. >> thank you, chair peskin. this is another community-based transportation effort. this is, you know, bayview sort of falls on the heels of western addition, which was a great way to really put the time and energy it takes. and i think learning a lot from commissioner yee and the success that you've had doing participatory budgeting in district 7, bringing dollars to actual pedestrian safety improvements in your district, as driven by the community. it goes such a long way. i think a lot of times people participate in community-based transportation planning or community-based planning and you don't really know where it goes, those efforts sort of sit on a shelf. i can name many sfmta studies

where that happened. this is really exciting that people can put real dollars behind this. i really encourage you to approve this. and i think generally with community-based planning, we're realizing it takes a lot of staff resources and takes a lot of time. but when we do it right, we'll see real improvements and hope that, you know, sfcta, this board, this commission supports such efforts. so thank you. >> chair: thank you. next speaker. >> first and foremost, i think if somebody is sponsoring or involved with this agenda, they should pay attention. so right off the bat, you know that some people don't give a damn. so let's get real. if you look at the 3rd street rail, it starts at 4th and king and ends in the middle of nowhere visitation alley. now commissioners should know that that 3rd street rail was

never, ever planned for 3rd street. it was suppose to go on gerry boulevard. once in a while you'll find the speakers talk about that. it was dumped upon us. and when it was dumped upon us, unlike market street, where the department of transportation gave money to the businesses, nobody gave money to our businesses on 3rd street. 80% of the businesses closed down and left. now when you're talking about these people who are suppose to have some sort of safety on the buses, they're nowhere to be found. you call them yellow jackets. now i think they changed the color of their uniform. they're found at mcdonald's, they're found at coffee shops. they are not found on the buses. they help the muni drivers.

that's why we need union members from muni to be present here for this discussions. and we get some people who are paid to say some nice things about the priority. oh, give them money. it's not about giving municipal. it's about service. when our people get assaulted on the buses, when our people get killed, it's about service. and so we should take this so-called meetings seriously, very seriously. [bell dings] it's not about giving somebody money to dole out. this is not about some gangsters, you know, who sell drugs and dole out and bring that mentality into the chambers. this is about serving the people. and we are very far left, the last of the mohegans. very far apart. this is about serving the people

and serving our elders. our elders are traumatized on the buses, every single day. and nobody does anything about it. and do you know what, ask the muni drivers. they'll tell you, you know, we are told not to call the police. so do you think it's mickey mouse ambassadors are going to do something, when we have gangsters on the bus, armed with guns and knives. thank you very much. >> chair: thank you. next speaker. >> bob from save muni. we very much support the number 15 bus. it's an important bus. it should actually have been studyied and revamped a lot sooner than this. but i'm glad to see that you're going to put some money into it. as i remember, the number 15 actually crossed market street and went up current, isn't that

correct. and went up toward telegraph hill. i don't know if the study that you're anticipating only concerns the part of the route and the bayview or whether you're going to study the entire route, because we've heard that the old number 15 that went up kerhy is very much needed as well. we hope it comes to a quick resolution. thanks. >> chair: thank you. seeing no other members of the public -- going once. are you coming up, sir? no. all right. in that case, is there a motion on item number 7, made by commissioner walton. seconded by commissioner safai. we have the same house. same call. >> we have a new one. new house. commissioner safai came in. >> so he did.

we do not have the same house. mr. >> clerk: , roll call, please. on item number 7, commissioner brown? >> aye. >> clerk: ray fewer? >> aye. >> commissioner mandelman? >> aye. >> commissioner mar? >> aye. >> commissioner peskin? >> aye. >> commissioner ronen? >> aye. >> commissioner safai? >> aye. >> commissioner stefani? >> aye. >> commissioner walton? >> aye. >> commissioner yee? >> aye. >> clerk: we have first approval. >> chair: next item, please. >> item number 8. approve the 2019 san francisco congestion management program. this is an action item. >> chair: mr. sanna. >> good morning, commissioners. >> chair: before we start, i just -- commissioner fewer has to leave, you're excused. commissioner safai is making a motion to excuse supervisor fewer for the rest of the meeting, seconded by commissioner ronen. we'll take that without objection.

[gavel] sorry, mr. sanna, the floor is yours. >> with the transportation authority and i'm here to provide an update on our congestion management program, or c.p.m. as a congestion management agency, the transportation authority monitors and reports various performance measures on c.m.p. network every two years. the c.m.p. network includes 230 miles of major arterials and freeways. requirements include monitoring level of service,. however, we are unique in a way that we -- in addition to automobiles. as san francisco continues to experience significant growth in jobs and population, auto speeds have declined further. there have been 1% to 5% drops across the different facility