purposes of partially defraying the cost of a management for its audit of the municipal transportation authority board. >> this is a follow-up to the something that the board dealt with in june. the original item was that with at the board of supervisors and was presented at the time is a proposal for a second phase of a limited scope audit of the mta. the program authority committee was to fund managing performance with funds identified by the board of supervisors. at the time, the committee and the board deemed it appropriate to spend that kind of money on essentially the largest client of the authority. we proceeded, during the recess, to try to get that second phase contract out for the purpose of having it under way when you came back. but there were a couple of problems in executing that. the first was that i only had a $70,000 budget authority to get going. the second is that the amount of money available in the inclination for pursued was not a quid. we did advertise the scope and we receive one responsive bid. i felt uncomfortable with the idea of moving forward with a piece of work as

earlier in july, the transportation authority approved the impact relocation study. it addressed how the 55 residents of chinatown will be relocated. they need to be provided comparable housing. that was approved. right now, the mta is negotiating the acquisition of the properties. they should go to bid by march of this year. also part of the project is an arts program

earlier in july, the transportation authority approved the impact relocation study. it addressed how the 55 residents of chinatown will be relocated. they need to be provided comparable housing. that was approved. right now, the mta is negotiating the acquisition of the properties. they should go to bid by march of this year. also part of the project is an arts program, which is in accordance with seven to discuss city policy. -- san francisco city policy. the purpose of this is to commission some of our local pieces. right now, the budget for this portion is $14.5 million. basically, it is intended to enhance the rider's experience. you notice the station we have on market street right now are rather bare, except for advertising -- utilitarian is a better word. to that effect, in july of this year, two artists were selected for the project. they are now in the development stage. mta submitted the report for the new starts. the letter for prejudice approval. that will allow them construction on that access to it. -- access pit. then in february, a major milestone, fu

in january this year, the transportation authority authorized the final design for the project. later in march, the transportation authority board adopted a budget of $1.5 billion, he residence service state of august 18. to date, from the inception of the project, $60.3 million in expenses. the full funding grant agreement is expected in november. that is the means by which the term federal transportation authority guarantees of the funding for the project. that is when the funding levels are agreed to. right now the project is in the final design phase which will be from -- has been running from june of this year until june 2012. the work is basically working on the design itself, plan specifications, estimates, but also, right away acquisitions, fta road map, it interagency coordination. the road map, which is attached to your documents, i believe it starts on page 54. it is a rather extensive list of deliverable that the fta has determined necessary to cement before they can agree to the final funding. the final design phase is also happening concurrently with the early cons

as chair of our county transportation authority board, i am delighted to welcome you to san francisco on this fine morning. it is not often that we get to mark the commencement of construction of something this big and this important, so i think it is very fitting that we take time to mark this moment appropriately. i think this tunnel is a perfect allegory. it is as if we are digging our way to a different dimension. in a sense, the entire project will flow through this tunnel, and when we come out the other and we will have succeeded in reshaping the relationship between the roadway and the park. we will have a project that is worthy of its location in the largest urban national park. but that will not be all, because we also have succeeded in our goal of achieving seismic safety for the traveling public at least a year earlier than originally anticipated. in this day and age, that says a great deal. it is very important to us. we put safety first. we decided that for access to the golden gate bridge from san francisco it is not safe to continue a facility whose federal structural r

. >> i know for van ness, the transportation authority is leading a study are if the bulbs out, and i think they seven feet wide and there are concerns and the transportation authority is leading that effort. >> john scott here, i would have to say that the disabled community prefers the bulbs out and the parked cars and overgrown plant material obscures that person from the driver. and secondly, the bulb out serves a purpose to shorten the distance across the street. and getting down a curb ramp, a person has to pause and be careful and back up to the gutter, and there is a time delay and a distraction for the wheelchair person or visual impairment. and there is that delay before the intersection. and those conditions are not factored into timing of pedestrian crossing signals. and bulbs out have a great benefit for people with disabilities and that's one of those principles in universal design where it benefits safety and functionality. >> last question. >> quickly, if i can add to that caltran's bulb out. and we heard about concerns for high hits when pedestrians are standing on bu

i want to acknowledge doug johnson, the transportation authority under the direction of jose luis. and caltrans, jimmy pan may and hinge cunge. and then the better streets plans guru. and al hearst and lauren worked on it. we worked closely with the h.t.a. on these projects. i see amy here from the office of economic development. a lot of different folks worked together to -- to make these projects happen i want to make sure to acknowledge them. one that i haven't yet mentioned, though it has been referenced, has to do with public art. public works is -- is you know, typically a profession of civil engineers and hard tough stuff, pipes and asphalt and concrete. we realize that in order to -- to really make the -- these projects attractive and inviting, that public art can really be an important element to do that, to compliment the great work our architects do. i want to ask joe maddon from

purposes of partially defraying the cost of a management for its audit of the municipal transportation authority board. >> this is a follow-up to the something that the board dealt with in june. the original item was that with at the board of supervisors and was presented at the time is a proposal for a second phase of a limited s a

www.ncicap.org-- supervisor chu: hello, welcome to the regular meeting of the sf set francisco transportation authority plans and programs. i am joined by commissionsupervr dufty: supervisor mirkarimi: -- supervisor mirkarimi. item number two, please. >> item #2, approval of the meeting minutes from july 13, 2010. supervisor chu: public comments? public comments are closed, seeing no one. move without objection. item number three? >> item #3, a citizens advisory committee reports. supervisor campos supervisor chu: hello. >> good morning. i have a fairly brief report. there was only one item on the agenda that is also on your agenda, the allocation of funds for five requests. an amended version of this item was approved by a vote of 5-1, as there are only six members that the special meeting. the amended version did not approve the allocation of $80,000 of funds for back to work day referring to the funds be used for capital projects instead. there was considerable discussion on this item. the chair pro tem moved to allocate funds for free of the -- three of the projects, including bicycle safety and ba

i am the executive director of the transportation authority. your emcee for the event. it brings me tremendous pleasure to welcome you all, notable visitors, elected officials to the event which is the groundbreaking for a contract 4 on the presidio park where project which will deliver the southbound battery tunnel and detour road that will bring everybody who uses the oil and dive into safety by the middle of 2011. we are delighted to be able to use this opportunity. back in october, we had a ground-breaking ceremony for the project as a whole. we had the speaker of the house nancy pelosi with us. the mayor was here, other dignitaries. at the time, we were looking at the oil drive -- doyle drive. we now have a different project for the 21st century. it is an example of what partnership and inventiveness and the full participation of the amazing community of san francisco residents can do to create a project that is really worthy of the amazing natural setting of the presidio park, the largest urban park in the park system. let me start by making some acknowledgements.

the county transportation authority has revised their modeling, and with the new numbers, that ridership will be used in our numbers this year. we started a mind the gap committee. the mind the gap committee was established to address two key funding issues. the project funding shortfall and the cash row crop we are going to experience several years from now. the mind the gap committee has representatives from the mayor's office, the board of supervisors' offices, transportation authority, commission, spur, chinatown community development center and sfmta staff. it's a very robust committee that is looking at finding ways to patch our funding deficit or our funding gap. in july staff submitted a response to the financial capacity assessment. we haven't gotten anything back yet, but the response is that it was looked at favorably. on the financial capacity forecast, staff is working on operations maintenance cost update. we are expecting to submit that to the f.t.a. later this month as well as the draft state of good repair report. in september we have to submit our financial plan to the

this is a partnership between the california transportation commission and the bay area poll authority, and i know the mayor pointed out earlier that steve is here from the full authority but more importantly runs the commission. also, our wonderful caltrans director that i got to meet a few weeks ago, to find out we kind of hailed from the safe area -- the same area. earlier, some of you gave a shout out to bijon, who has to be one of the busiest people right now. everything going on in district four clearly points out that he is really earning his money. as the fellow commissioner, i want to thank you very much for everything that you do. together, we are building a bridge that will not only establish a new standard of engineering excellence and seismic safety but also provide a beautiful landmark. as was pointed out, the golden state warriors have adopted this landmark, and we are particularly proud about that. i did call steve the day they unveiled that, as if there's any way we could get any money out of this, and he said no. he said he thinks that the taxpayers have already paid

planning experience, has worked for metro north in new york city, for the orange county transportation authority and the association of government and is in the private sector, he will be one of the experts covering a number of topics related to transportation, like the regional transportation plan, expansion plan, and funding strategy for brought kay. i will be happy to answer any questions. supervisor chiu: any discussion? any public comment on the report? seeing no one, public comment is closed. item #5. >> item #5, approve a budget amendment to add $100,000 in prop k funds to the authority's adopted fiscal year 2010/11 budget for the purpose of partially defraying the cost of a management performance audit of the municipal transportation agency (mta); award a consultant contract to cgr management consultants llc, in an amount not to exceed $200,000, for audit services for a limited scope management performance audit of the mta, phase ii; and authorize the executive director to negotiate contract terms and conditions. colleagues -- supervisor chiu: colleagues, any discussion? any public comme

some of the funding was made possible through the county transportation authority and i want to thank jose luis most co-very much and their directaz. >> a few different organizations, spur, the bicycle coalition and people for public spaces come together and formed the great streets project. and they did what the mayor did and imported talent from chicago and led that. i want to bring up the leader of the great streets program now. >> thank you. what a beautiful day. the great streets projects facilitates this and we this is a great place. the street is a wonderful wide place to be. you want to bring your friends and family repeatedly. congratulations to the many agencies who have participated in making this possible. many community members and businesses participated along the way and it couldn't have happened without everyone rolling up their she was and coming together to make this possible. congratulations to everyone. i also want to point out this is a harbinger of things to come. it is a wonderful step forward for san francisco, the culmination of tremendous hard work by many pe

county of san francisco, the san francisco municipal transportation agency, the san detail transportation authority, the transit district, the metropolitan transportation commission, the state of california, our state legislative delegation, the california high speed rail authority, and the united states department of transportation, the federal transportation administration, the federal highway administration, and the federal railroad administration. we also have to thank president obama and secretary lahood. they deserve recognition for the recent $400 million in arra funding we have received. it is that funding and that a war that has propelled us into construction with the levels which will ultimately serve both caltrain and future high-speed rail. i also would like to thank the federal government for the 7 $1 million we have received as san francisco and tsa. we have used that to develop jobs that have created over 800 hours of job hours and also has allowed us to rank as the fourth leading agency in the nation for creating and retaining jobs. going forward, we will remain steadfast and commit

to execute a purchase and sale agreement for $1,250,000, conditioned on san mateo county transportation authorityproval of funding. as to item 3.3, in terms of payment for tjpa's acquisition of property interest, the board unanimously authorizes the executive director to execute purchase and sale agreement for 850,000 [inaudible] conditioned on approval of funding for the acquisition. as to item 3.4, terms of the exclusive negotiating agreement and in terms of payment for purchase of the property from tjpa, there is no action to report. director ford: with that, i think the business of the tjpa board of directors is closed, and the meeting is over. thank you.

to execute a purchase and sale agreement for $1,250,000, conditioned on san mateo county transportation authorityproval of funding. as to item 3.3, in terms of payment for tjpa's acquisition of property interest, the board unanimously authorizes the executive director to execute purchase and sale agreement for 850,000 [inaudible] conditioned on approval of

the transportation authority will be leading the procurement process. also providing transportation analysis support. puc will lead water, lighting, infrastructure planning and design. a few of the topics of our study in analysis, the objective being to redesign market street to revitalize the corridor. as i mentioned, place an urban design will include studies such as an outdoor seating strategy, screening elements, comprehensive sign-ins', transportation, transit operation, the bicycle facilities, a pedestrian crossings, and general circulation along the corridor. there are several parallel projects and effort going on on market street, in the end of round market street. repaving is scheduled for 2015. there is a transit affected this project. many projects that i am sure you have seen on going on market street. transbay redevelopment. the goal of the project team is to coordinate with staff on all of these efforts to make sure that we are integrating finding from those studies and visa versa. public up -- is -- outreach is a priority. the technical ad

this is the san francisco county transportation authority finance committee meeting for june 8. sitting to my right is commissioner daly and commissioner elsbernd. are there any announcements? >> no. commissioner mar:i will move to. this is an action item. commissioner mar: the movement is seconded. public, is closed. without objection, the minutes are approved. item three. >>recommend adoption of the proposed fiscal year 2010-2011 annual budget and work program. this is an action item. commissioner mar: thank you. >> i am deputy director for finance administration. this item starts on page 11 of your package. we will have a short power point presentation, and then i will turn it over to our executive director. this is your second look at the fiscal year 2010-2011 budget. we've had one change in estimates. we have worked with the comptroller's office and took a look at the state board of equalization revenue information and have decreased sales tax revenues by $2.3 million. we are anticipating total revenues for fiscal year 2010- 2011 to be $129.2 million. let me take you throug

morning and welcome to the regularly scheduled meeting of the san francisco city and county transportation authority. we will be joined shortly by the chair of the committee. please read item one. >> item 1, roll call. adding two, approve the minutes of the july 13, 2010 meeting. commissioner elsbernd: any comment on this item? seeing none, motion to approve this item. please read item 3. >> item 3, recommend approval of a budget amendment to at $100,000 to the authorities adopted fiscal year 2010-2011 budget for the purpose of partially defraying the cost of a management performance audit of the municipal transit agency of order of a consulting contract to the first ranked firm in an amount not to exceed $200,000 for audit services for a limited scope management performance audit of the mta. >> this item is on your agenda packet starting on page 5. essentially, there was an initiative by the board of supervisors -- i'm glad that the chair of the authority is here because he was one of the key proponents -- to do a performance audit of the municipal transportation agency. this was several months ago