comes out of many years, a decade of work coming together a round of the balboa park station area plan. it was looking to manage the land use decisions around balboa park that was the most concentrated and congested station in the bart system outside downtown san francisco. it has bart bus, light rail, mta, there is a confluence of pedestrians and buses and cars and freeways that lead to a big snarl. having this the advisory committee that can look at how we can manage transportation issues that can work with the mta as well as other transportation agencies like bart, we can manage development that has to happen around the area. the station itself is almost an industrial area surrounded by communities that use the station. we need to figure out how we can have a strong community presence that can assure the city departments, make sure that the city departments are moving forward to make the place safer for pedestrians. better markings for people to make their way around the area, abide by the station area plans. all these are considerations to move forward, making sure that our departm

right now, you take the 14 bus 2 balboa station, and it will take you 40 minutes just to get to balboatation. that is one thing i am looking at, making muni more effective. san francisco, we talk about it being a transit first city, but it does not mean a lot of options for transit are not well thought out in places further from downtown. my district is one place where we need to create better options. >> you mentioned muni and the changes that are happening. what about parking, traffic, is the area safer for pedestrians? >> there is always a lot of work to do with pedestrians. making sure the department of parking and traffic is painting along alemany. along balboa park station, geneva, san jose, pushing hard to get a ramp for pedestrians. right now, it is dangerous to cross the street, especially if you are pushing a stroller or are in a wheelchair. you have to go further than you but typically have to. there is so much more to do. we have to figure out how to calm the traffic. a lot of cars, speeding through and make it unsafe for pedestrians. sidewalks are not very convenient for p

supervisor avalos: i ask for your support of this resolution to establish the balboa park station advisory committee. one of the first things i had done in coming to office was to go to the work of the previous supervisor in the community that was around balboa park station, that created the station area plan. that included funds from various districts, including district 11. since that time, the mta has also conducted a capacity study of balboa park station area. there are land use decisions. there are decisions around transit that are sitting in desks on paper. that are not giving in acted as quickly as possible. this is -- that are not getting enacted as quickly as possible. this is not adequate for the needs of people in the southern part of san francisco. we have wanted to make sure we can have improvements done in a timely way, knowing the timelines are stretched out to a great length. with this advisory committee, it is about making sure we can have a partnership with the mta, with bart, with other entities around the area, to ensure they are accomplishing the much-needed goals of i

we have also been working on the balboa park station circulation study where we also obtained a caltrans grant to do a feasibility analysis to improve access to muni, bart, enhance pedestrian safety, and support for a citizen advisory committee to track progress of the station improvement projects. we have a number of ongoing studies and projects including travel management partnerships, octavius circulation studies, bay shore intermodal access the study, western soma neighborhood transportation plan, and major improvements to our forecasting models. we also obtained a trout -- caltrans grant for the bayview hunters point mobility solutions study. this is a seminal effort on how to do more with what we have and to knit the community together in the process. we're looking forward to completing the study this year. we have also made progress on the bike county study which is a multi-jurisdictional, multi- agency, multi-year study to look at the southeast corner of the city and adjacent areas in some detail county. in 2011, this effort resulted in priority projects worth over $600 million,

we have also been working on the balboa park station circulation study where we also obtained a caltrans grant to do a feasibility analysis to improve access to muni, bart, enhance pedestrian safety, and support for a

we have also been working on the balboa park station circulation study where we also obtained a caltrans grant to do a feasibility analysis to improve access to muni, bart, enhance pedestrian safety, and support for a citizen advisory committee to track progress of the station improvement projects. we have a number of ongoing studies and projects including travel management partnerships, octavius circulation studies, bay shore intermodal access the study, western soma neighborhood transportation plan, and major improvements to our forecasting models. we

contract to fehr & peers, in an amount not to exceed $165,000, for planning services for the balboa park station area circulation study, and authorize the executive director to negotiate contract terms and conditions. this is an action item. > commissioner campos: is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, can we take that item same house, same call? the item passes. please call item seven. >> item 7. award a two-year consultant contract to arup north america limited, in an amount not to exceed $318,000, for planning services for the 19th avenue transit corridor investment study, and authorize the executive director to negotiate contract terms and conditions. this is an action item. commissioner campos: is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. san house, same call. the item passes. please call item 8. >> item 8. execute an amendment to increase the interior architectural contract agreement with gensler by $168,876, to a total amount not to exceed

. $10 million went to nine projects, including the balboa park station, other stations where we worked closely with commissioner abel lovalos' depa. hunters point revitalization, randolph transit access, improvements to route 29, 08 to treasure island, as well as other transit services. the livable communities and teammate block grant saw an amount of activity as well. $20 million in programmed projects including pedestrian transit improvements on market and haight, soma, streetscape improvements on second street, broadway avenue, bike trail projects, and safe routes to school education program, projects at sunset elementary. commissioner campos: before you move forward, we have a question from commissioner carmen chu. commissioner chu: in terms of the safe route to school program, i know this is one thing that the area had applied for multiple times, unsuccessful in getting. has been a huge party, given the fact that there is a middle school, elementary school, another school behind its, a public library, a recreation center in the area. heavily trafficked area. i just wanted to get a

>> there is a long list of activities and their partnering with other agencies to go to the balboa park station area. this is really to the east side connections project, and it is very anticipated in terms of connecting this to the other side, following the west side entrance project. this has been moving along and there are some delays. hopefully this will be back on track. the safety improvements that were identified in the station capacity -- they did come in for some funding. geneva plaza, with some inside information -- the lighting in the design work are also included in the original allocation in terms of doing the design work. this is a funded study that will look at freeway access to the area. and what ways are available to reduce the amount of freeway access ramps in the area to reduce the impact. this grant and the study does include support for the balboa area, and the advisory committee. we will be supporting that along with the staff. with brisbane in daly city -- chester fung has been leading this effort to allocate the fair share of financial contributions to a large infrastruc

programs, from the federal state planning research project all of the way down to the federal balboa park station. those are all new rounds with funding that we received four grants after it was completed last may. next, we have the stateab1 ab11. we are in phase one of the project and we anticipate completion by june 30 with an additional $36 million in revenues and expenditures to be completed this fiscal year. next, we have more grants, more grants that have either been spent in the last fiscal year, or more grants them -- that we will be spending in this fiscal year. coming from a line item down to the regional development authority spending. we also have $146,000 that we are adding to to the designation that has been accepted to run the transportation island transportation program. that item was approved back in october 2011. as we are going down the schedule, we have other avenues. a large revenue projects that consists of $707,000 a dpw because -- for dpw and the federal highway administration emergency release grant for a great highway project. we also have some refunds from projects like

>> there is a long list of activities and their partnering with other agencies to go to the balboa park station area. this is really to the east side connections project, and it is very anticipated in terms of connecting this to the other side, following the west side entrance project. this has been moving along and there are some delays. hopefully this will be back on track.

this balboa and other stations would be part of an ongoing for the follow-up procurement scandal to go to the board in december. provided we have the state money by then, the cash from the bond sales, than the procurements schedule is to award a contract around december and start installation after that. >commissioner avalos: thank you. i have been told about schedules in the past and have been very delayed. i have a great deal of displeasure about how long it has taken to get what should be an amenity that everyone should have in the southern part of san francisco, and we get passed over every time. i figure while you are here, we should say that. >> ok. >commissioner avalos: we will close public comment and have a motion to approve this item we will take that without objection. madam clerk, if you could call item no. 9. >> draft proposition aa strategic plan development schedule and approach. this is an information item. >> we are bringing this as an information item to provide you with an update on the schedule and approach to develop the fur strategic plan for proposition aa. we ar

balboa area. this is part of the daily -- the line to daly city and may alleviate the demand. with the relationship between stations. and the study that is listed here also has the fair city component, looking at the potential -- the benefit of the daly city. and the -- and in addition to the line could bring him -- bring them in at balboa. the bayshore intermodal study, is on the march agenda for approval. this has established the concept for the different services, and how this can happen at the caltrans station. the btr is part of that plan. with that, let me take -- turn it back over to -- >> he was worth the promotion there. slide no. 10, james dunn and middle school, this is a fairly funded project -- and we do not quite have schedule information. but the obligation of the design funds -- are expected by this june so they can be used. there is a number of implementation is going on, -- this is for winter of 2013. they are cited for specific improvements. on the back is a map of the traffic plan area, with some of the planned improvements and a table behind that showing what is implemented already today. we se