recommend approval of the scope of work for the strategic analysis report sarr on local and regional bike sharing organizational models and appropriation of $43,000 in prop k funds, with conditions, for the sar, subject to the attached fiscal year cash flow distribution schedule action* attachment at the september 10, 2013 meeting of the san francisco county transportation authority board, chair avalos requested that we initiate a strategic analysis report sarr to investigate possible governance structures of a regional bike sharing program beyond the current bay area bike share pilot, which opened to the public on august 29, 2013. as part of the scoping process, we have consulted with the san francisco municipal transportation agency sfmtaa and other stakeholders on relevant issues that should be addressed in the sar. the proposed sar is scoped to explore various organizational and governance structures for the regional model, from a true regional program to a local program that conforms to regional implementation standards. the sar will describe how different models would work and outline the advantages, challenges,

we are seeking a recommendation to approve the scope of work for the sar on local and regional bike sharing organizational models and to appropriate $43,000 in prop k funds, with conditions, for the sar, subject to the attached fiscal year cash flow distribution schedule bike sharing organizational models and to appropriate $43,000 in prop k funds, with conditions, for the sar, subject to the attached fiscal year cash flow distribution schedule 12341234 >> we have a verien enthusiastic mr. schwartz. >> good afternoon commissioners. michael schwartz. on page 37 of your passionate. -- packet. i'm going to keep the presentation very short. >> sorry, i know how important this is. >> yes, i realize there has been a lot of presentations done. i recognize the need for that. so the first item is about the background -- bike sharing and i would encourage you to look at the meeting and which has been a great presentation and will give more detail on what i'm covering here. for those who don't know what bike sharing is. it's like car sharing. really the goal is to not only increase cycling but really allow for short trips,

scope of work for the development of a strategic analysis report (sar) on local and regional bike sharing organizational models and appropriate $43,000 in prop k funds, with conditions, for the sar. >> this is an action item. >> commissioner cohen? >> thank you very much. i just wanted to go on the record to express my disappointment that there are no bike share happening in the south east part of the city. according to this scope of work. and i am just curious to know what is the plan, and what we are going to do about that? >> excuse me, executive director, just to respond to that, we have heard loud and clear that the board would like to understand how to bring in the policy aspects around equity, and socioeconomic equity into the planning for the bike share system and just to be clear this proposed does not seek to design the new system, the expanded system but rather to present the board a number of options for how the city might proceed with the development of the system and under the different institutional and government's model and particularly with respect to the regional system. and following the pi