of 2014. welcome to the san francisco county transportation of authority. my name is john avalos of the chair of transportation authority. our clerk of the committee of the board is erika cheng. today's meeting is being broadcast by s fgtv staff of jessie /hrar sin and coal man. thank you for your service. madam clerk, would you please call the roll [roll call]. >> very good. next item please. >> march 25th 2014, this is is national item. >> we can go with the public comment on the minutes. any member of the public would like to comment. seeing none, we'll close for the comment. >> let's have a roll call vote [roll call]. >> minutes passed. >> great. let's go on to our next item, please. >> item three, treasury report, this is an information item. >> thank you, ms. cheng. colleagues, i begin our report this month in recommend /pwrapbs of joseph flanagan who passed away in early march. many of us knew him from district 6 as a community leader who was thoughtful and looked out for others, especially the seniors and disability community. i know commissioner kim will have remarks as well later on

chair avalos. i was told this is the appropriate time to submit an memorial in memory of our chair joseph flanagan. in many years, it has already been mentioned on our transportation authority advisory committee. actually chief commission of district 6 lives blocks away and came to every single one of our meetings and probably had a better attendance than many of us on the transportation authority. to thank him for his work on behalf of the city and for his commitment to improving transportation for all residents here. so we'll like to end and adjourn in his memory and thank him so much for his work. >> and, on behalf of the entire county and the transportation board, i'd like to adjourn in his memory. thank you for bringing that forward commissioner kim. >> so madam clerk -- >> on behalf of commissioner kim and we will adjourn on behalf of commissioner flanagan. >> thank you. and colleagues, we are add adjourned. . >> the speech blanket babylon stephanie how far wood. >> piano playing you had a dream it was perfectly clear baby your celebrating 10 years baby and we're glad that you're here so baby you are swell of the chart charts at&t park is hosting heros and hearts so 0

of need with regard to street safety being at the forefront of the leadership on this issue for the transportation authority serving as the chair of the vision zero subcommittee and also on the board of supervisors representing district 6 that includes tenderloin and south of market areas, two of the highest concentration areas of serious and fatal collisions in the city so join me in welcoming from the board of supervisors supervisor jane kim. [applause] >> thank you. it is really great to be out here to announce this program this morning. as many of you know pedestrian safety has always been one of my top concerns in the district i represent. it was the first hearing i called and i believe it was the second meeting hi with the mayor after we both came into office in 2011 and presented data on collisions with pedestrians and bicyclists and vehicles in the district and i remember being nervous and the first time i was presenting policy concepts we wanted to work on in the board and without skipping a beat this is my priority. safety is one of the first things we got to make sure that we ensure for the resident it is here in san

of the shortest meetings and one for the chair you're welcome this meeting is new adjourned . (laughter) >> good morning today is march 10, 2015 welcome to the finance committee of the san francisco transportation authority i'm commissioner avalos the chair the committee and today is clerk is steve stamping most and committee meeting is broadcast to everyone by sfgovtv staff nona melkonian and charles kremenak thank you for your service and mr. clerk any announcements. >> no announcements. >> okay. if you could call the roll. >> commissioner avalos supervisor campos supervisor cowen supervisor kim absent supervisor mar we have quorum. >> okay. very good go on to our next item and item number 2 approval of the minutes of the february 10, 2015 an action item. >> okay. colleagues i'm sure you had a chance to review the minutes and no one on the roster to speak open up for public comment public comment is closed and we can have a roll call vote and item 2. >> commissioner avalos supervisor campos supervisor cohen supervisor kim absent supervisor mar this item passes. >> great this item passes next item, please. >> item 3 state and federal update an action item. >> mr. watts here to present. >> good morning,

transportation revenues to grow our infrastructure and investment in addition in terms of the legislative masking i'll see the items relate to two things the high occupancy one is authored by assembly transportation chair frazier ab 94 and another one through the cal secretary of transportation process budget trailer bill 402 we have outlined those in your legislative matrix both are how we develop the high occupancy work and the express lane working with our workers and briefing supervisor campos and supervisor wiener with the transportation commission and will be tracking both bills actually through the session on a related note assembly member kevin in san mateo choose another bill ab what is a policy bill intended to call for a regional process calling altercation to the abdomen on or about 101 calling attention to the whole coordinate and within 57 years hopefully e hoping to see investment and in a strategy for this important coordinator we applaud his original approach and call for the collaboration we'll keep you posted on the affordable housing through our cap & trade work san francisco has decided to opt a single application seeking the maximum $15 million for the affordable housing sustainab

of the transportation authority. we can meet with the director to discuss how we will proceed. so i want to discuss vice chair scott wiener ander er eric mar to attend as well. >> thank you. we will take that direction and convene that meeting the next month. >> we usually have a special trip. we took one last /kwraoeur to look at how we can move more effectively, these projects. i'm really concerned that we're not moving them, even after this added attention that was given, we're not moving them quickly enough. >> great. thank you, very much. >> okay. can we have public comments on the executive director's report? seeing none, we will move forward with the comment. >> this is the next item. >> okay. comments and questions on item number 5? seeing none, we're going on to the public comments. we will close the comments. we're required to do a roll call vote. so we will have a roll call vote. [roll call]. >> the item passes. >> the item passes, let's go on to the next item, please. >> item six, not to exceed 598,000. the off ramp realignment project during the construction phase. and non-material terms and cond

transportation agency. >> thank you very much. supervisor wiener is the author of this item. supervisor wiener is the author of item number two. >> great. thank you very much madam chair for agendizing this item as well. colleagues today before us is a resolution regarding our commuter pilot program and requesting that the mta in issuing permits for this program consider the existence or lack thereof of labor harmony. colleagues our commuter shuttle program has proven to be a great way of keeping cars off of the streets and reduce the greenhouse gas footprint. as a result of the employee shuttles workers in san francisco and commute to outside or inside the city and who would otherwise own and drive private automobiles are now able to live car free getting us one step closer to the transit first city we want to be, but while most of the conversations about these shuttles focused on those riding the buses we wanted to discuss the people driving these vehicles. the shuttles are operated with private companies that contract with them. drivers work for the shuttle operators and not for one of the big companies here in the city. the drivers are behind the wheel for eight h

of the chair. mr. evans anymore items? no more items. >> thank you very much. >> thank you mr. cruz and your staff. [gavel]. >> all right. good morning, everyone. welcome to the san francisco transportation authority plans & programs committee want to wish everyone a happy st. patrick's day we have supervisor breed and supervisor farrell today and i guess we don't have supervisor yee with that mr. clerk any announcements. >> no one roll call. >> supervisor breed supervisor christensen supervisor farrell supervisor tang supervisor yee absent we have quorum. >> thank you very much and now item 2. >> item 2 citizens advisory committee report an informational item. >> all right. chris the cac chair for presentation. >> good morning commissioner two items 5 and 6 we dealt with this past month the allocation of $51 million for the prop k this was passed the cac unanimously and the dedication classes on tenderloin four not part of this moss month i said you ask that to be continued to next month most of the discussion is around the specific obtain projects a grateful was on the project not quite responded out not possible for mr. g to give specification and the freeway quarterly study was passed with one

conference to re-authorize the surface transportation programs ensuring there's consistency among the requirements at those grade crossings. with that i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from pennsylvania yields back the balance of his time. the gentlewoman from california is recognized. ms. brownley: thank you. i thank the chairman for your extraordinary work on this bill. and bipartisan bill as well. and i thank you for accepting the amendment. rail highway crossing safety problems are not unique to my district. sadly my colleagues have also experienced a recent tragedy. on monday long island railroad train struck a car stopped on the tracks in. in february, a metro north train struck a sport utilityity vehicle, tragically killing the driver and five train passengers in valhalla. i strongly believe that congress along with state and local governments must address the safety issue as a matter of urgency. and i urge my colleagues to support my amendment. i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentlewoman from california -- >> i thank the gentlelady for yielding. i'd like to speak in support of her amendment. the chair: does the gentlewoman