so the m.t.a. staff heard both of our constituencies needs and interests and came up with a solution. there's already some actions where two groups are working together and i want to try to help to break down the stereotypes. in the late 1990 is when i was a chair of the task force we had a person with an obvious disability and people talk about that people with disabilities don't bike, she said, yes, she did and she's had a kid and since then she and her kid bicycle, so even then we got an education of our own, against our own bias. and further the east band of the bay bridge is named after a senior who is a long-time bicycle advocate and that happened after he was 75 and he's still doing it after 80. so i'm trying to say that there are real people from our joint constituencies who do bicycle. but to get back to the 17th street project it's a protected bicycle lane and that is one of the problems. san francisco is a-typical for its bike coalition advocacy and the problems start at the top. there's

it is a program that the m.t.a.eam had to compete against other jurisdictions and the fact that they were able to win the grant shows how compelling what we're doing here in san francisco and how important it is to moving people, not just here locally but really in our region. so, we want to be doing more of that. i am so honored to be representing san francisco in the legislature. we see what's happeninging in washington that very little is getting done. the exact opposite is happening in san francisco. every day we're trying to make a difference on transit, on housing. ed mentioned the ballot measure. we hope to bring to people next june to raise tolls which i know are never popular. but that is going to pay for $5 billion worth of projects. that is going to help bring high-speed rail into the cal train station, into the downtown station right there. it is going to be a huge winch it is going to be more money for muni in that particular project. so, again, that's where this money come fr.s it comes from the voters

and and in that signal and agreement to provide m.t.a. project management services and construction services and with the contract number and 1599 and between m.t.a. and tjba to provide continued support for this project. this is since the last mta was approved, some of the track has been completed and no longer require budget. the other budget is required for other tharacks. and also need additional inspection services for vending machines. and item three with access to move funds to cover where the needs are without exceeding the budget. and this is extending the end date to june 30, 2018 to allow continued services in the transition period from construction to operation. we are seeking approval for this amendment. this concludes my brief. please let me know if you have any questions. >> thank you for the presentation. we appreciate it. colleagues, are there any questions for staff? okay. we will go to public comment. any member of the public that would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you. may i have a no mot

and i really appreciate the fact that the m.t.a. has been open to having these conversations all the way up to the director level. and we would like to continue to engage on this issue. and we don't disagree if this is an issue, and we agree with the recommendations and we have a disagreement on strategy and i think that honest brokers can come to the table and figure out a way to get this done. (bell ringing). >> thank you, jonathan, thank you, thank you. you want to respond? one more question. >> just to clarify, this is public comment period so we should go to the next public comment. >> okay. >> i'm bob planthold. i was a member of the group that worked on this years ago so i have more experience than i say than kate or other staff. part of the difficulties in this issue that we found from earlier discussions is not everybody read the report and it's important to read and then when you see something that you do not understand or you do not like, ask a question. we found people saying, no, no, to something that we didn't suggest.

so i really hope that, you know, m.t.a. or any other city agency would not partner with someone that is -- that owns a company that is basically discriminating against people with disabilities. that's number one. and the second comment has to do with the hop on/hop off buses and other privately operated tourist type buses. i have written to several of those, and probably half of them are not accessible. and, you know, i have written to m.p.a. and so forth and basically been told -- and i think to m.o.d. a while ago that, you know, s.f. has no jurisdiction and that's california p.u.c., well, again, as the san francisco allows those buses to park, in fact, gives them designated parking spaces and there's other forms of leverage they have. and so even though there may be gaps and there are gaps i believe in the a.d.a., in terms of the coverage of those type of buses, i think that, again, that san francisco has some practical effective leverage in making those companies go beyond what the law may require and, certainly, if it's

so the m.t.a. staff heard both of our constituencies needs and interests and came up with a solution. there's already some actions where two groups are working together and i want to try to help to break down the stereotypes. in the late 1990 is when i was a chair

we've got our former chair of the m.t.a., mr. tom nolan, back here joining us. couldn't keep him away from this event. 12 years of leadership on the board of directors. it is too bad senator scott weiner couldn't be here because he was such a wind in the sail of getting transportation victories and we need that kind of leadership for these hard fights. i really want to re-emphasize the vision of this city and the residents of this city. we truly are a world-class city. if that is not a testament to it, i don't know what is. so, thank you all for the vision of implementing this service and let's get this train on the road. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, ed . i didn't see the former chair here. now he is the former chair. i don't have to acknowledge him because he is not my boss anymore. [laughter] but i do want to give a special shout-out to tom nolan. under his leadership of the board that we brought forward the central subway and brought forward this procurement and we would not be here but for not his leadership. thank you for that. [applause] and so with

l.r.v.s are just the beginning because after that, m.t.a.'s going to deliver a lot of other things for the city, including a new central subway very soon. thank you, m.t.a. congratulations. [applause] >> thank you, mr. mayor. it is not just on time, it is ahead of time. so, we're trying to exceed expectation with this procurement. and speaking of exceeding expectations, we're extremely fortunate here in san francisco to have such great representation in sacramento and generally speaking to have such a strong and progressive state legislature and governor in california. this here in particular was really an extraordinarily productive one for the legislature and the

so they are beginning to work on that effort and, certainly, san francisco, the m.t.a. is on record as having supported that, and i would note that looking back four years it was one particular element that was added by our board and that was to include provisions for low-income placard holders and that would still be something that this body and others who -- when there is legislation may want to consider advocating for. so there was in the past legislative session an attempt to advance a similar proposal that would have involved meter payment. at that time, the bill did not move and so -- what happened instead was that the legislature recommended that the state auditor's office do an audit on how the d.m.v. runs its program. one of the buckets in which we look to for reform is how is the program administered now and how can that work better and so that analyst audit or that state audit came out with a set of recommendations. those recommendations were, included in sfb-611, signed into law by the governor and really seeks to reform some of the aspects of how the d.m.v.

. >> new york city's m.t.a. making big changes to improve the experience.s or adding new routes. all those concerns until they have stamped out the real problem. drivers who use gender language. stop using the phrase ladies and gentlemen, why? because the phrase conners up there are only two genders. facebook has shown there are millions of genders. infinite number. m.t.a. employees have been given a list like passengers and roaders and everyone. that's it for us. tune in at 8 or the ho that saw sworn enemy. one year ann make versusry. good night from washington. >> congrats on the one year. welcome to hannah toy. donald trump junior responding to a report that he communicated with kickry leaks. we have the messages. also the attorney general tonight calling on a senior federal prosecutor to evaluate certain issues regarding the corps rupt ukraine knee you mean deal and potential wrongdoing. finally. in a letter to republicans he is saying he's leaving the door open for the appointment for a special counsel. >> a fifth woman is now coming forward withlat ba

engagement meetings with the city, with planning, with public works, and the arts commission, and m.t.a. additionally, we've had a total of 87 community engagement meetings, meeting with various representatives of the public. of those meetings, 39 of those, as a subset, were with cultural stake holders, sf jazz, conservatory of music. of the 87 community engagement meetings, we had a total of 342 people attend those meetings. does that clear up your question? >> commissioner moore: no. i'm trying to figure out how the numbers layer themselves up from $1,952,000 to $2,180,000. give us an idea in terms of how many years and escalation -- >> oh, not the participation numbers. the dollar amounts. i'm sorry. we didn't understand. i'm happy -- i think that staff can actually explain that. we also could, but i think it's more appropriate that staff does. >> so as part of the in-kind agreement, the requirement is to do two cost estimates. those are both in the packet. it includes hard costs and soft costs, as well as project management costs and takes into account 5% escalation over three years

transit and $4 million for m.t.a. option 2, those contributions go up because the naming rights revenue has been used for tenant or base building improvements. and then option 3, yet up again, and option 3, the rents have been reduced because we are offering less of a tenant improvement allowance, so that, in turn, needs to be offset. we are prepared at your direction to go to the cost review committee next week and ask for authorization to use city financing for both the base building and tenant improvement allowance and should the cost review committee not agree to that, to ask them to, at minimum, cover the base building improvements and t.j.p.a. would use naming rights revenue to offset tenant improvement allowance. second option. >> remind me, when we had the discussion earlier, city financing was something we said wer going to use? >> we have always hoped to be able to use the city financing for at least a part of these costs. and i believe the city will be amenable to covering at least part of the cost. >> yes,

control over and then we're going to have additional money when there is an opportunity to join in with m.t.a. or san francisco public works luke, for example, van ness. that is behind, right? and can you imagine if 15 miles was dependent on that portion is this we wouldn't make it. right? we wouldn't make it. so, that is why we're shifting and that is why i had a conversation that we're going to have 15 miles dedicated and make sure that we have staff so we can hold ourselves accountable for it. >> well, how is that going to fit in with the overall problem of digging up the street and having different entities put their equipment in? i mean, we can't just go dig up a street to get to the sewer. [please stand by] before we put our lines in and before we pay. the other thing i want to point out is not that one contractor goes in and does all the work, each of the pg & e has their contractor, water, wastewater will have their contractor, and typically another will come in after one is in and out and to pay and hopefully they have a moratorium so the street won't be dug up anytime soon. >> we'll

transit and full m.t.a. service as it is mapped out now with their activities for readiness. the bus deck, similar mapout network security and supervisor's booth and roadway testing pretty much taking us into may and june. unfortunately, between some of the constraints on operations, it's kind of pulling us into june and on the other side with the issues we have with some of the underperforming subcontractors, tending to want to push us into june. however, we are holding tough with substantial in march and advocating or encouraging all parties to focus and drive to their success sooner rather than later, preferably march, and not so much focus on anticipating others' failure but to focus on your own success and drive to the earliest possible readiness. again, another bus plaza detail similar to the bus deck focussed on streams of activity. and with that, i will ask martha to come up and speak to the granular efforts of facility readiness and such. >> good morning, directors, martha valez, facility manager. the link intended improvements with the focus being the amtrak and gre

the mayor's office of housing, the m.t.a., planning department, p.u.c., public works, contract monitoring division, city build. josh arsay is here. bcdc state lands commission, the department of environment and energy. it really has taken a village to get to this point. we're very grateful with the positive relationship that we have and getting start sod we can transform this part of the waterfront. i'm also going to pass it to fran who's really been heading our project on a day-to-day basis for many, many years who has spent hundreds of hours working with your staff and staff of the different city agencies. >> good afternoon. under the incredible leadership and vision, this group of people has been really an extraordinary partnership and had the pleasure of working with. byron rhet, mike martin have provided wonderful leadership. rebecca, of course, has been a great addition to the team. together with dianne and dan, steven and kevin, we collaborated on the design and engineering that you see and all the documents that you had. we took two pieces of successful, statewide legislations to

and working with m.t.a., thanks to the chief working with director ruskin, olivia scanlon, and assistant chief, and working on keeping our streets safe, but also from our perspective keeping it safe for our members so they can respond to the emergency calls. some of the safety or traffic calming devices, they sneak up on you, they have to be highly visible, the units can get injured if they hit them at high speed when responding. so we are working together and hopefully that will continue to progress in that manner. bureau of fire investigation, open reports, 119, made three arrests. also attached to my report is the updates, assistant chief is doing a good job down there, working on the m.o.u., with the director down there, as well as getting new rigs down there, and some staffing coming up in the new year. and that concludes my report, and i'm available for any questions. >> president cleaveland: thank you very much, chief gonzales. any public comment on chief gonzales' report? seeing none, public comment is closed. vice president nakajo. >> vice president nakajo: thank you very much,