staff noted that the authority had coordinated with the medical center throughout the van ness avenue brt/eir process, and the transportation analysis in the van ness avenue brt draft eir was consistent with the transportation analysis elsewhere. at the request of another of our cac members, jacqueline sacks, we have asked to have california pacific medical center representatives present to present to the cac on the medical center's project and discuss how the project was coordinated with the plant in van ness avenue and geary corridor brt projects. as a conflict -- as a consequence of these two inquiries, we expect to hear more information at one of our next meetings. let me just say, with that, this item was placed on our consent calendar to allow us to provide more opportunity for deliberations and comments on the other action items throughout our agenda, some of which you receive the gallaspy meeting. with that, unless there are questions from your board, i will conclude my comments. supervisor campos: thank you very much, sir. i do not see any questions, the thank you for the present

van ness avenue bus rapid transit draft in brought -- environmental impact statement /environmental impact report. information item. >> good morning, deputy for planning. we're pleased today to finally bring 40 the van ness avenue brt draft environmental document. the tremendous efforts has been the culmination of many years of work and partnership with our partners at the sfmta. i want to recognize paul and peter from sfmta and the manager in charge of the effort, a tent. i also want to thank our longstanding project manager, rachel, who is not here with us today. she is actually on leave, taking a much deserved break. and our deputy project manager, michael, who will make the presentation. michael will actually be our environmental and planning lead for this project going forward. i would like to welcome to the team is sherry, our principal engineer. she is not here today, but we will be introducing her at a future meeting. she will take over as program manager for the project as we head into the pre implementation phase of the project. finally, i want to recognize parsons transportation group and consultants, including chs, to have been tremendously supportive in producing this enormous amount of work and inform

brt's. we're hopeful that will reach a mutually beneficial conclusion. with regard to bicycle planning, van ness avenue is very constrained. we have difficulty accommodating all of the current uses and trying to improve the bus operations given the limited right away. that said, the design does provide for state bicycle travel. the route in the area is in polk street. it would be to enhance an improved poll. they just received a planning grant to brief but -- to fix the last gap ito finalize the last gatt. the hope would be we will provide for bicycle access and parking, but the route through the area would be on polk. supervisor kim: polk street eventually becomes one way? could you clarify that? >> that is the area that i believe the mta has recommended to receive a super transit grants to figure out at least a one-way, if not a two-way bicycle facility. >supervisor mar: let's move this forward without objection. all right. next item. >> internal accounting report and investment report for the three months ended september 30, 2011. >> good morning, deputy director for finance and administration. this

brt's. we're hopeful that will reach a mutually beneficial conclusion. with regard to bicycle planning, van ness avenue is very constrained. we have difficulty accommodating all of the current uses and trying to improve the bus operations given the limited right away. that said, the design does provide for state bicycle travel. the route in the area is in polk street. it would be to enhance an improved poll. they just received a planning grant to brief but --o

van ness avenue. it would require left and right- store vehicles. we could retain the medium. mikel slowed on the left on the brt corridor. without the corridor, they would have right doors, so they would be able to load on the right, similar to a light rail transit vehicle. as part of the project, we're planning to eliminate about half of the left turn, both north and south on and van ness avenue. this is to approve traffic circulation and performance. their two design variations for three and four the proposed eliminated all but two left turns. when we consider the locally- preferred alternative, those will also be considered. there same as alternatives to three and four but with less left turns. in terms of how we choose the locally preferred alternative, and this is upcoming milestones in the next few months, chapter 10 of the eir/eis lays out each alternatives performance on a number of different criteria. these are the different categories, things like a trend the performance, passenger experience, access to pedestrian safety, and most of these are tied closely to the purpose and need. but throughout reach