san francisco transportation plan, which is actually the long-range vision for transportation investment by the authority here in the city and county of san francisco. that plan is mandated by state law and its purpose is to really figure out what the transportation needs for the city long-term are. and, so, i think it's important for us to begin the discussion of what those needs are, what the future looks like, and what the challenges in meeting the needs that the city has and will have, what those challenges will be. we need to think about this issue and specifically focus on ways in which we can bring revenue into the system, the kinds of investments that need to be made not only by the county transportation authority, but other agencies like the san francisco mta. i look forward to a substantive discussion. and again, this is the beginning of this discussion and we know that we will have additional discussions that will take place. i also want to note that because of the good work of our staff at the authority, we recently received some money on the planning front. we actually received half a millio

to execute a memorandum of agreement with the treasure island development authority to implement the treasure island transportation program and authorize the terms and conditions. supervisor campos: this is an item that came before the finance committee. any comments or questions or presentations from staff? why don't we open it up to public comment? is there any member of the public would like to speak on item number five? seeing none, public comment is closed. we can take a roll call on item five. >> [roll-call] the item passes. >> the item is approved. could we please call item no. 6? >> approve the fiscal year 2012-2013 transportation fund for the clean air program of projects and authorize the executive director to execute a contract to the bay area quality management district. supervisor campos: this is an item that came before the committee which is chaired by commissioner avalos. why don't we open it up to public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. can we take this same house, same call. the item passes item number seven. >> allocate $1.3 million in proposition k funds and amend the relevance b

that is managed by the san francisco transportation authority. pleased to have our partner in transportation here in san francisco, executive director jose luis moscovich. [applause] >> good morning. let me clarify. i am here representing the chairman of the board -- san francisco county transportation authority commissioner and border supervisors, member david campos, who is not able to attend today. i will be wearing four hats. my own, commissioner campos' hat as the chair of the board, board supervisors, and also as a representative of the board of supervisors on the metropolitan transportation commission. but personally, i am delighted to be here today, and i want to extend a warm welcome back to the bay area to be administrator therese macmillan. in doing that, i am not only welcoming a distinguished guest but ab the bay area has just reached the end of an extensive two-year effort to develop the region's first combine regional transportation plan and to sustainable community strategy, effectively linking, i would say for the first time, lan

good morning and welcome to the september 25th, 2012 meeting of the san francisco county transportation authority. my name is david campos and i am the chair of the authority. the clerk of the authority is erika cheng. i want to thank the following members of sfgtv staff who are covering this meeting. mike freeman and jesse larson. madam clerk, if you can please call item number 1, roll call. >> roll call, [speaker not understood]? present. chair campos? >> present. >> commissioner david chiu? david chiu absent. carmen chu? present. elsbernd absent. [speaker not understood]. commissioner mar? olague absent. commissioner westerner? wiener? >> present. >> please call item number 2. >> item 2 is approval of minutes of the july 24, 2012 meeting. >> there is an action item. is there a member of the public that would like to speak? seeing none, public comment for item 2 is closed. you have before you the approval of minutes for the july 24 meeting. [speaker not understood]. can we take that without objection? without objection. item number 3? >> chair's report, this is a commission item. >> i have a br

my point to the transportation authority is i don't think you are really doing your job. you need to think about the public residents and tourists in this city. that's your biggest priority. to have all of these construction jobs going on at the same time has really reduced the quality of life in san francisco. secondly, we used to have a very nice system of traffic coming -- traffic calming done by local people who went into the city and drove their carriages. that was our traditional model. carriage horses are also solar powered. they eat grass that is powered by the sun and that propels them in their travel. i don't see any money in any of your budget or even in the $4 dmv tax increase that goes into any of that. which to me is pretty shocking because who are we in san francisco? what type of community are we? historically, we are a carriage driving community. here we are since 2000, like we don't exist. yet you are spending all of this money -- [tone] supervisor campos: thank you. next speaker please. >> i listened to the director's report and i want to address two is

i'm a member of the citizens advisory committee for the transportation authority. we heard this item at our last cac meeting and i attended last week's plans and programs committee meeting. the one thing that was not brought up as far as the octavia boulevard study, you have to remember there are a lot of senior and disabled individuals that live along this corridor that depend on safe walking, safe crossing the streets sort of thing. besides the fact there is also a major housing -- the housing authority, physical housing authority -- san francisco housing authority built a brand-new senior disabled development along this corridor * years ago at the haight valley. and people depend on -- people from haight valley dee pend on the octavia boulevard to get them safely to and from where they have to go. also remember there have been a lot of standing -- a lot of accidents at market and octavia regarding bicycle sort of thing. you have to have someone look into that. and -- so they can cut down on the number of fatalities along market and octavia. thank you very much.

the authority to execute an agreement with the treasure island development authority to implement the treasure island transportation plan. the 2008 california state assembly bill 981 authorized the board of supervisors to designate an agency to act as the transportation management agency for treasure in and -- treasure island and to be responsible for implementing the very innovative transportation plan for the island, which centers on using fees generated on the island to deliver the multi modal transportation system to and from the island. in 2008 of last year, the tida board and authority board recommended that the board of supervisors designate the transportation authority as the treasure island mobility transportation agency. in december last year, the board executed an agreement to carry out pre-implementation activities, leading up to the designation of an agency as the tima as well as fund raising and other pre-implementation activities. this agreement would extend or renew our agreement for fiscal year 2012-2013, including the scope of work that would initiate the conceptual design and preliminary engineer

with the west plan, which is something that came out of the transportation authority study, is that something we are looking to down the road? >> so we are recommending funding for something that was included in that neighborhood transportation plan, mid-block crossings at seventh and eighth, submit bid the authority. we have been in discussion with mta. they have agreed to be the sponsor and internally developing a project and schedule tol -- schedule to deliver and other authorities as well. >> thank you. >> finishing up on ellis and eddie, attachment 3, the authority submitted a bunch of projects because when we do plans we have to work with implementing agencies primarily and make sure they take ownership. ellison eddie will follow up. one of the other points is estimate was around $6 million, a big bite. maybe we can phase or backfill so we will follow up with your office. >> okay. let's go ahead and open for public comment. >> good afternoon, committee members. my name is tony moran with san francisco park and rec. i would like to say how excite wed are to have the project corridor cons

transportation commission. she also served as ex-official member of the joint power authority. it's truly an honor to have him here as our guest speaker, and please join me to welcome him to the podium. [applause] >> good afternoon. thank you for that introduction. it is really an honor for me to be here with you today. i want to thank the supervisor for having this town hall meeting put together and thank all of the city agencies who are participating in this. i want to thank zola jones, who found me and let me know that this event was going on. and sent me an e-mail. it's been two years since we last met and it's good to see you again. these days -- we've got a short power point presentation that i'm going to be using. just talk about some of the things we'll be doing, what our agency is about, the type of work that we do. and as you all know, cal trans covers the entire state of california. and in order to better manage that, we have broken down the department into 12 districts just like the city has different districts. that helps us in being closer to the community. helps

how do we find out about transportation authority? i am interested. we have no plans, we were getting them from bdi. where do we get plans for that? once bdi closed, we stopped getting them. [applause] >> can i say a word? i'm over here. yolanda. i don't know if my e-mail attachment came through, but the fire in the back of the room, the next upcoming contract is the construction management for the bus storage facility. which is a small contract, $80 million worth of construction, probably less than five construction management that is going out now. that is not 2017 or 2015. the other -- that is next tuesday. they will be coming out a weaker so after that and there will be more pre-proposal meetings. i am aware that bdi closed. there are no plans associated with it. the construction packet will be going out with plans. we will find a way to put them out here in your community. i am happy to talk with you about suggestions of four locations -- where a location is. >> [inaudible] >> ok. ok, i think we've had that plan on the list before, but i will mak

. >> johnathan would it be more appropriate for me to be asking the transportation authority to look into ways to have adax to fund mta? >> i think what we will do, as chad has said, we will look at transit reliability category. i think we are more comfortable with the scope of projects we put forward are. placeholder is a nice compromise but we were heavily are -- reliant on the project moving forward and there are certain projects we may have issues and comments with. that might be able to free up funds to fully fund some of those. >> i share your concern. i don't want aa dollars to be tied up. shouldn't be tied up. thank you. so my original question was an explanation on the 9th street pavement recommendation. >> for those watching and you on page 96, attachment 5 with mini project description, you can add to this if you need, from market to division and bryant from 18th to division streets. we probably need to change the project name so it is a little more descriptive. >> okay. division and what? i don't have it. >> on market. ninth from market to division and on bryant street, f

>> the water emergency transportation authority is doing some coordination to make the ferry routes logical to the births so as to minimize crossing of ferries in the bay. so the gate, a, would be looking at the north bay, destinations that we either controlled. and gate e, to the south, golden gate would continue to operate where it does now and they have been talking about rebuilding their facilities, and gate e, would shift to f, and ewould become the treasure island ferry, so e. and oakland at f and g. becomes ans larry birth for future south bay uses so they are located as much and they are looking to have capacity to essentially triple the ferry operations, or the numbers that exist today. >> we think that this is an exciting development and something that terms of everything else that we are talking about in terms of the water front. i need it in terms of the transportation and the congestion issues that we are looking at down the road. >> thank you. >> and also, congratulations on the completing. >> i know that a lot of work has gone into that and a lot of people put a lot of time i

as cma conducted management agency for san francisco, the transportation authority is responsible forhe city and county's long range plan for our system. all operators, all modes for a 30-year horizon period. it is our means of shaping our regional priorities, what we want as the region to prioritize in terms of investment, transportation, and it's our way of shaping the next generation of priorities for our city. the sfgt -- >> you can use that mic if you'd like. >> the sfpt is developed to be consistent with the other agency specific or mode specific transportation plans that are developed by metro strategy, mta, capital plan, the tep. these priorities are drawn into and considered in the san francisco transportation plan and then sftp informs the updates to those plans. for instance, the planning department will update the general plan transportation element after the adoption of the sftp next spring. the climate action plan, for instance, was developed in collaboration between the city and the transportation authority as part of our needs assessment or future needs assessment, wha

. >> thank you, supervisor chiu, the transportation authority makes all modes of transportation possible in san francisco, and sfmta garage is one of our corner stone location partners for the launch of our public data, we're very happy to have director of the sfmta ed risken here to say a couple of words at our launch. er >> thank you and good morning, as the city's transportation director, i have the privilege of managing the mta which is the agency in san francisco responsible for implementing the city's transit first policy. in order to implement that policy, there's two key things we need, we need strong leadership and innovation and what we're seeing today is the manifestation of just that in san francisco. what we need to do as the government and the transportation agency is make sure there are good choices available to people in terms of how they get around san francisco. we want people to feel like they don't need to get in their car, they don't want to get in their car, maybe like supervisor chiu and i, they don't own a car because there are other good options for them to get a

"the director of transportation will authorize up to 40 on-street and off-street parking spaces for car share vehicle companies such zip car, 20 of which will be released within the next six months, after that it will all depend on the demand of the consumers."in sa in san jose elliot alagueuzian update news." tim vantress is here for arts and entertainment... whats new this week? the next presidential election is just around the corner...with the campaigns under way both parties are working hard to get your votes. briana villalobos show us -- one makers of one controversial documentary is trying to making sure president obama's first term is his last. ">>>conservative author turned film maker -- diniseh d'sousa -- is trying to get you to vote republican...with this new documentary called 2012 obama's america... so far, the film has earned 20-million dollars -- one of the highest grossing documentaries in history. political science professor melinda jackson says the documentary plays on voters' fears. "melinda jackson says: i think that one of the main themes is that we cant trust presi

. >> according to the maryland transportation authority police who is ill uestigating, the off-duty officeras traveling with 10 or 11 family members in a bus. a person said, the bus was returning from washington, d.c., and pulled over on the shoulder of i-95 near the russell street exit in downtown baltimore. >> i can't believe it. >> joy scott lived next dor to the family for two years before the family moved out two weeks ago. ->> ott's four children adored e police officer. >> a great, great neighbor. there are other people in this neighborhood that are very upset by the news. >> armetta who has been with the department since 2007 was assigned to the deparrtengo.s dg unit program. he and his partner graduated following a 24-wetwo training program over the summer with the new castle, delaware police depaparment. he is the second police officer to die this week. another died in a car accident on his way home from work. armetta was a husband and father of a young girl who turns one on monday. >> he loved that little girl. everyone can help her understand in the future how much he loved her.

>> good morning, and welcome to the san francisco county transportation county transportation authority. i'm scott weiner and to my right is mar and to my left is david do, are there any announcements? >> no announcements. >> will you please call item number two. >> number two, approve the minutes of the july 10, 2012, meeting action item. >> colleagues, any discussion? is there any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. can we approve the motion to approve the minutes? >> can we do it with an objection? that will be the order. item three? >> item three, state and federal legislature update, information/action item. >> good morning, commissioners, we have presentation on both the state legislative agenda and also on federal, we are going to give you an overview of the new map 21 surface transportation act. but talk about the state legislation, i have invited our legislative advocate mark watts. >> good morning, chair and members. mark watts on behalf of your agency. the legislature wrapped up its business for the year at the end of august. at this point in time, several

author. it is sought originally to add a requirement to the ctc guidelines for developing, the state transportation improvement program consideration of health strategies, in its final version, it basically directs the ctc to attach reference documents to the guideline to help the county agencies develop health strategies. so it does not have quite the teeth of the original version. it is added to the matrix at this point in time as a watch. and we will see how the governor deals with the bill. one other major, or not major, but bill that a lot of folks are watching is sb878 this bill has gone through several it ter rations and different versions. it finally become a bill to establish a new transportation inspector general position. and there is a lot of resistance from self-help counties. because the scope of the new office would allow the inspector general to do, would have allowed the inspector general to focus in on the local programs as well as state transportation programs. amendments taken towards the very end of the session narrowed down the scope that the inspector general can undertake in

we are especially pleased in that regard, that the new two- year transportation authorization that thened into law in early july, will continue to fund at a much higher level of the true needs- based approach to bus and rail systems to a state of repair. all of us in this administration fought hard for this bill and the many provisions to strengthen transportation across the country. iprovides $21 billion for transit capital investments that will )r put americans back to work preparing our nation's infrastructure. the bill also provides tos[ to our state and local partners flexibility to fund the most important and urgent projects without congressional earmarks. importantly, for the first time, map 21 gives the federal transit administration oversight over transit safety, a long overdue step that will provide americans with confidence that the subways, streetcars, buses, and light rail system they ride e are working very o implement the new law as quickly as we

workers at schools and public transport authorities joined the strikes. tourism sites were closed. it was the first general strike since the current administration took power in june. >>> stock prices around the world are headed lower on wednesday. investors continue to threat over the situation in europe. and for more, we're joined by our business reporter at the tokyo stock exchange. how are japanese stocks kicking off this morning? >> the nikkei fell below 9,000 on wednesday hitting a two-week low and it is moving below that level. it's now heading -- trading below 8,900. let's look at the levels. the nikkei is $8864 down half a 1%. and topix down half of1%. now at 739. the dow jones finished at 13,413 down about a third of 1% and the nasdaq at 3093 dollars. those declines have a lot to do with jitters about the eurozone. there were violent protests in madrid. and we saw the biggest anti-austerity demonstration in more than a year in greece as you just mentioned. people are wondering, are indebted european countries going to be able to put their fiscal health back in order in th

the transportation authority, federal officials and mike honda all dug the shovel of dirt. it's underway because the residents made it happen. >> we have -- like the leadership here. also we have the people who voted for the measures to be used to fund this project. >> part of the extension project includes widening mission boulevard to make way for future bart tracks. >> a south bay hospital has made a sizable donation to help prevent teen drug addiction. the hospital has given $150,000 to emq families first. the organization runs an addiction prevention mobile crisis program. this is the third year the hospital has donated to the program. > police departments joining in on a nationwide drug take back day tomorrow. the departments want people to bring in expired or unwanted medication you may have. you can take it to either police department or the parking lot that is right next to the main fire station. the event goes from ten until two. >> angry parents pushing for a veto tonight. the bill sitting on the governor's desk that they say infringes on their rights as parents.

the maryland transportation authority estimates nearly 650,000 drivers owe $6.7 million in unpaid tolls dating back five years. >>> starting tomorrow mobile medical vans will be fanning out across prince george's county stoppi at schools offering medical and dental services. >> there will be eight vans that will go around to 175 schools, and they will provide dental care, and nine of the schools will actually get medical care. it's part of our effort to provide access to quality healthcare throughout prince george's county. >> if you are interested in having your child seen by one of the mobile medical vans contact the health department or make arrangements with your child's school. >>> coming up, security fears on 9/11. how the u.s. is protecting the public from another mass terror attack. anncr: this casino's in west virginia. but itit makes millions off marylanders every year. now they're running dishonest ads. why? because voting for question seven is a vote to build a... world-class resort casino in maryland. creating thousands of jobs and... ...according to the official department

the metropolitan transportation authority -- which runs the city's subways -- tried to block the ads up... but geller sued... and a judge agreed, citing the first ammndmenn and free speech. the m-t-a gave this statement:"our hands are tied. the court found the mta's regulations on non-commercial ads violated the first amendment. the mta board may consider revising thooe regulations at its meeting next week in executive have already ruu on buses in san francisco... and geller has filed suit in d-c where pfficials have preveeted them &pfrom running on the metro... they will be up in new in new york city. anna kooiman, fox news. a texas man is taking up culinary arts...despite his challenge of being blind. shane west lost his sight 5 diaaetes. but thanks to a state rehabilitative program...wwst now trains alongside a team of food prep veterans. and his new focus is chopping ffod at a fast pace. "as ou can see, i'm not perfect! i get a few knicks every once in a while but its all about you gotta thhnk about everything.. which ay your knife's pointed, where your buckets are placed." placc

also, on a related note, i'll be asking the county transportation authority to hold a hearing to fully fund the masonic boulevard plan. the boulevard plan was the one chosen by many of the residents and businesses. i know the mta recently just approved, just minutes ago, support for the boulevard plan as well. i've worked with dick's masonic which includes the walk sf and livable city and the bicycle coalition and many neighborhood organizations for years that have been trying to make it a safer corridor. so i'm looking forward to solution for the street but also full funding for the different proposals supported by the community. and once kind of we have the project fully funded, working on making sure that the project moves forward so that we have safer streets for all. also, on friday, i'll be joining president chiu and many others in the celebration of the chinatown north beach campus, the city college of san francisco. i know there's the open house celebration from 5 to 7 pm at the new site at kearney street and washington. it's been a 10 year struggle and ballots. and battle. i s

that is proceeding. 6 for a prop k grant from the san francisco county transportation authority, so the$1.3 million project is being paid for with grant funds. we're grateful for that. the new terminal is expected to be built by the transit authority's project which is currently being studied and hopefully will eventually serve commuters from richmond and berkeley via the bay. the downtown ferry terminal america's cup and the cmz+b$/m link electronics, inc. model number: pdr-885 software version: 3.0c ++ will e undertaken from the water side, so there should be little impact to the pedestrian walkway or the viewing areas there, although the motorcycle parking area will need to be closed. the area will be protected on the waterside with a debris boom, so there should be no impact to fairies are other vessels that tried to traverse the bay during the project -- or other ferries. next is the announcement that i think everybody knows, the san francisco giants will host the semifinal and the final of the 2013 world baseball classic at at&t park on march of 2013. that will be a big kick off t

authorization to accept and extend $1.3 million in prop k grant funds from the san francisco county transportation authority for the demolition and removal of pier 1/2. >> so moved. >> second. >> >> all in favor? public comment? hearing none, all in favor? >> aye. >> aye. >> item 9a requests authorization to issue a request for proposals for a cruise terminal passenger operations parking and special events management agreement at the pier 27 james r. herman cruise terminal located at lombard street and embarcadero. >> good afternoon, commissioners, john dahl, planning and development department. this is to select a management entity for passenger terminal cruise operations, special events and parking at the new james r herman cruise terminal. as you know construction is underway. phase 1 construction will be completed by march, 2013. and will be the first special event there will be for the america's cup. when the america's cup event is over, we will proceed with phase 2 construction, and hope to complete that by mid-2014. at that point, the pier 27 will be the port's primary cruise terminal. currently metr