between the mta and the police. so there is a disagreement with the mta response. supervisor chu? supervisor chu: given that this is related to halpern officers are trained in the academy, i would take the recommendation, and that it to be referred to the police academy for their consideration and adoption. supervisor mar: without objection. the recommendation is by january 1, 2011, the police, in conjunction with police and post, should update the training materials and develop a plan to distribute such materials to officers. the police department's response is the recommendation is a sound one and should be recommended to the police academy for adoption. can we adopt that without objection? moving on, the item is cyclists may not be aware of the advantage of having liability insurance. there is agreement from the responses. can we adopt the agreement? supervisor maxwell>> without ob. supervisor chu: i think with the train of conversation we had before, perhaps not a formal amendment to the bike plan as it is curre

the mta serves a diverse population. looking at the board of directors, looking at the website, there is some adversity, but there are some communities not represented. i do not know that there is a latino member of the board of directors at this point. might be in terms of the representation of people across the spectrum, the socio-economic spectrum. there are people who speak many languages in san francisco. many of them ride muni on a regular basis. i wonder if you could speak to your ability to work with these diverse communities to make sure that their concerns are adequately represented. >> absolutely. i'm committed to making sure that any information, any changes, any benefits that we can bring to muni serve all communities, and that we can access all those communities. again, to my work with sunday streets, i know what a challenge that is. we would translate our materials into several languages and inevitably miss something, get something wrong. it is a big challenge. we faced that on the livable city board. we w

and the mta response is that they partially agree. one officer was listed, however, using the acknowledgement of proxy for participation does not reflect the range. city staff members themselves what, bite, use transit ticket to work. the police department was fully consulted in the creation of the plan and the police department's response is police officers experience traffic safety and full-time bicycle officers should be utilized in the development of policy. i would be in agreement. supervisor maxwell: i would recommend that we adopt the mta response. having a different range of participation in the workshops that have gone through should be accounted for, even though it may not have been part of the acknowledgment. i think we should probably add to the mta response and say that police officers experience in traffic, bike safety, should be more fully utilized in the development of the policy. supervisor maxwell: also in the next plan that they and the pedestrians and more police officers. the recommendation from the sfpd should be

this is a seminal moment in our city and i want to thank the mta board. some members here today, commissioner bruce oka, commissioner knollen and others for prioritizing pedestrian safety. i think we're ready to take it to the next level in expanding and improving pedestrian environment in san francisco. as someone that walked to work down van ness most days i can attest to most recent improvements and on-going challenges where the need to have pedestrian countdown signals on high traffic intersections or issues of the quality of pavement in cross walks or clarity of the cross walks themselves so i'm excited to be here today and be part toichl improvements and then on behalf of mayor newsom and administration we're excited to support the m.t.a's work of this. i'll give you 30 seconds of context and why pedestrian matters to ten environment in san francisco we focus and contextize most of our work around climate change and protection. when you look at greenhouse gas pollution generateed san francisco, just half are related. 51 percent come from vehicles an

the mta says it will not be implemented. it is not feasible to amend the plan and the plan already provides distribution of educational material. so this is another one where i am not in agreement that the bicycle plant should be amended. i think we should start by saying disagree and it will not be implemented, but in corporate with the bicycle advisory committee is saying -- incorporate what the bicycle advisory committee is saying about more educational programs to raise awareness. that would be my recommendation. supervisor chu: i agree we probably should say disagree with amending the bike and for this purpose, but perhaps we can incorporate part of the bac's response which is the educational program bursa's the materials -- versus the materials question. chairperson mar: without objection for that language. finding 2b is "a police training materials are out of date and not relevant. the plan's goals, objectives, and actions do not include the police. the california commission on peace officer standards or training is a

i just want to understand from the department point of view how the mta response. what would it mean if you were to amend the bike plan? are the implications of that? if we were to not go down that path, what is the option for us for some of these recommendations before us? >> smith, sfmta. we adopted our budget plan just last year. every fi

before introducing the civil grand jury foreperson, and wanted to say that with the san francisco mta sustainable streets group, we just met from the traffic department, someone from the mayor's office, the chair of the bicycle advisory committee, and people from the budget analyst's office, who have helped us looking at the findings and recommendations in the chart and giving suggestions to us as well. from the community side, we have members of the san francisco bicycle coalition. i want to introduce lizzie of the civil grand jury foreperson. >> good morning, chair mar. i am leslie couch. i was chairperson of the 2009-to this and 10 grand jury. -- 2009-2010 grand jury. this is our last report this year. the civil grand jury brings to the city issues that threaten successful implementation of the san francisco bicycle plan. its findings and recommendations are designed to encourage the city to educate residents about sharing the roadways, to increase police enforcement and safety. chairperson mar: can i quickly jump in? i forgot to call item 3, which is connected to item two. could y

right now, the mta is negotiating the acquisition of the properties. they should go to bid by march of this year. also part of the project is an arts program, which is in accordance with seven to discuss city policy. -- san francisco city policy. the purpose of this is to commission some of our local pieces. right now, the budget for this portion is $14.5 million. basically, it is intended to enhance the rider's experience. you notice the station we have on market street right now are rather bare, except for advertising -- utilitarian is a better word. to that effect, in july of this year, two artists were selected for the project. they are now in the development stage. mta submitted the report for the new starts. the letter for prejudice approval. that will allow them construction on that access to it. -- access pit. then in february, a major milestone, full funding. immediately after, construction will begin. revenue service, just for the christmas season. the funding plan is mainly unchanged from the baseline. the funding shortfall has been reduced

the bicycle plant injunction has been lifted in 2006, we will continue to work together with the mta to make sure, as has been our goal for the past year, that there is a steady stream of projects ready to implement. at this point, up 21 bicycle projects will be completed by the nba next year -- mta next year with a bike schedule of the end of your packet including the names and locations of the project that are fca funded, many of them using crop k. we kick off the san francisco transportation plan with additional members for the community advisory committee and applications that are due on october 1 and anyone interested should check the web site, or call 522-4800. on the transportation plan. we are actively working on the sustainability efforts strategy, thursday we will be hosting a leadership roundtable with participation from several members of this board looking at the big issues that are coming up related to greenhouse gas reduction in the air resources board approving targets on thursday for sb375 a capital reduction target for 2015 of 15% per capita by 2035, which are ambit

amount not to exceed $200,000 for audit services for a limited scope management performance audit of the mta. >> this item is on your agenda packet starting on page 5. essentially, there was an initiative by the board of supervisors -- i'm glad that the chair of the authority is here because he was one of the key proponents -- to do a performance audit of the municipal transportation agency. this was several months ago, and at the time, there was a request made through the plans and programs committee to allocate funds to match other monies that the board of supervisors was earmarking for this purpose. $100,000 got earmarked for that, and the authority was asked to approve the procurement of the management performance audit services. we work very closely with the office of commissioner david campos, who was the lead on this item, i believe, together with commissioner mirkarimi. the board of supervisors put together a scope of work. we issued an rfp, and were very clear that this would initially be dealt with by staff, but it would be directed by the board itself, and at the time, during the

the system is currently accepted in ferry, mta, and vta will offer clipper in 2010. the clipper program is also included on page 55 of your packets, a presentation prepared by the mta for the board. the overall project is funded by a variety of federal, state, and local funds. an $11 million stimulus grant for phase 1. phase 2 is [inaudible] dollars. phase 2 will install ticket vending machines at several stops and provide project support. procurement will begin this summer with project compleion expected by spring of 2013. the second project is the light rail corridor improvement, a $100,000 request to leverage almost $500,000 in federal funds to upgrade signals at 115 locations, over 50 on the line and shown to be improved under the project. it will also upgrade pavement markings to enhance no u-turn instructions. the counting project will do counts at 25 locations this fll, to complement 25 studied last fall and reocmmendation will be in a pedestrian exposure model based on volume and collision history. past allocation has provided for consultant services for mode

dollars, and that is only one portion of the upward of $70 million in stimulus money that came to the mta here. we're very pleased to be here today. i would analogize this project almost to that of fine wine. nothing before its time. we have been involved with translink program. we are almost there. not only did the recovery money provide and create and retain jobs across the country, it provided that additional infrastructure funding to get us over the hump. again, we are pleased to join with you today, and congratulations to both of our partners. thank you very much. >> here it is -- this is the clipper card, so everybody, have a good look at that. i think it is a very handsome looking card. you will see the logo on all the cards, on all the machines. you just put the cards down, and you are on your way to wherever your going -- wherever you are going, and given the -- how shall i say it -- the particular special environment of the bay area, the fact that we can all get around with the same card is a wonderful thing, and mtc is delighted -- believe me, i have been there a long time. it

that comes as a result of the reform for mta. it is require that there is a major operations at audit performed within mta on an annual basis. so we will start with this division first. we will be doing an audit but with regard to dollars we received from the american recovery and reinvestment act. we have two audits that we will be performing for the redevelopment agency western addition and bayview hunters point. we started a new program within our audit division for looking at city-wide cash transactions. we did a major survey. we've partnered with the treasury department and sent out a survey to all our departments. we had a 100% response rate. from that data, we have done a risk assessment and we are endeavoring to do 12 cash audits per annual for each fiscal year. we will be doing a mandated audit, as required by adnan code every three years. we have also started another code within the audit function, payroll audit. that does fall in line with the charter and we are looking at practices across the city. this year, we are g

supervisor avalos: do you have budgetary numbers for what the mta is currently paying -- d get a sense of what the fda is saying then hough and the morning. >> good morning, shorthand -- because i do not have a site map -- roughly $5 billion this year. funding is very prominent in the bicycle area. dobbs out of a total of about $80 million in prop k funds. supervisor campos: thank you. and questions from the committee? do we have a notion -- and motion to approve it? it is fairly important, whether or not we are talking about traffic or safety issues, often times the answer is education, education, so i would be supportive of continuing to include this. we have one motion without objection. >> item #6, recommended appropriation of $100,000 in crop k funds with a condition for the purposes of partially defraying the cost of a management for its audit of the municipal transportation authority board. >> this is a follow-up to the something that the board dealt with in june. the original item was that with at the board of supervisors and was presented at the time is a proposal for a second

we will appropriate the extra $100,000 action on the mta. there is a detailed scope provided for this item. let me see if i can quickly tell you what that is. i can essentially give you a quick overview of what that will accomplish. what i would like to do, prior to that, is give you a sense of the importance of distinguishing between the different types of what it's done at these public agencies. what you would normally find our fiscal audits on the bus -- on the books, often covered under the controllers process. the others get done and do it views with national performance audits as compliance audits. that is what the first phase was as defined by the office of the budget analyst. those tend to simply look at whether public agencies are following federal or state rules regarding procurements. of course, those do not often yield a lot of useful information as most agencies already procured to get reimbursed by federal agencies or state agencies. even regional agencies. the purpose of a performance audit should be to shed light on the polic

and i would like the mta -- and i would like the mta to answer questions in that regard. clerk calvillo: thank you, mr. president. supervisor elsbernd: this would cover our graffiti laws, and in district 11, the number of vehicles attached to some commercial stores have been sitting out in front of their warehouse space, collecting lots and lots of tags come in yet, there is nothing on the books that requires them to clean up their vehicles and to cause blood to accumulate in certain areas. one establishment in particular is a market on the corner of main and mission streets, and this legislation, if enacted, would help to assure that we had recourse, that they were improving the conditions around their buildings, especially around the trucks that they use for their business. that is my one item. thank you. clerk calvillo: thank you, supervisor avalos. supervisor daly? supervisor daly: thank you. about building the bocce ball courts. , i thank them for setting it up. it is with some mixed emotion. the recreational activities that we should be thinking about. i appreciate

for the roadway over crossing, we have worked again workeddpt and mta. several of the streets have overhead timelines for the electric trolley buses. -- we have worked with dpt and mta. we need to coordinate any take down on our lands with that work, so a number of our closures are limited to nights and/or weekends, and you can see here in the color coding all of the yellow ones are night and weekend closures. the seven crossing, we will see some of that demolition work during the week, and some of the minor crossings will actually be doing some of that work during the day, during the week. we have also done quite a bit of planning on each segment of the work. how we will place pedestrian cited, flag errors, and some use of 10 b officers from the san francisco police department to control traffic and direct traffic around the construction site. this just depicts the eastern and demolition. the demolition of the fremont terminal where it spans fremont and voelker streets, the balance of the terminal demolition, and the western iraq demolition. and i can t

address the point that this contemplation of was moving forward with an audit is the second phase of an mta audit. the first, which was done several months ago, had a slightly different approach to it, and as a result of that audit, i had approached you to think that maybe it could be more advantageous to have a transit-oriented company, who is used to doing audits in this bit of an industry, would add well to the consideration of those pursuing this audit, but it comes at a price because it is more money. but i think you should try to make some distinctions if you can as to why there might be some advantages in pursuing this particular route with a from outside that has also done transit-related audits -- with a firm outside that has also done transit-related audits. >> i thank you for reminding me of that. i think the most common observation we make when we look at audits that are done of public agencies, but especially transit agencies, is that they tend to be either fiscal audits, which just look at the numbers, or those are an annual occurrence. in the case of the mta, those have been

to pay fares for mta bus, light rail and metro subway rides.ork in places wheree3 smart trip cards are accepted like the dccmetro. >> you will no looger need separate fare cards. so if you have the mta card and smart card from dc, no matter which ooe you use, it will debit the appropriate fare dependingú on which system you use. >> well you can buy an mta char3 card at paaticipating cvs pharmacies and giant foods. and they will host several evvnts in the next few weeks where they will be available to for more information on where charm cards can e uued and how to get one go to our website >> a vaadal strikes. who was to blame for all of this damage. >> bleachers come tumbling down. the number of people that wenn3 flyinggand what mayyhave caused itt >> and the bed bug summit. what happened at a convention tax on everything you buy? that's in andy harris' unfair tax plan. 23% sales tax. a 23% sales tax will cut my business in half. would be devastating. andy harris' 23% sales tax absolutely makes no sense. 23% sales tax would really make things u

mta, sorry. and then piron, from senior action network, welcome. and jason patton from the city of oakland, welcome jason. would you like to start? >> i will give a brief overview of what we have done at the department of public health over the past seven-10 years. and you heard from megan and they have worked on research side and we have worked on community involvement and educational campaigns. and our main program is a community minigrant and neighbors can apply to receive funds to work on pedestrian issues in their neighborhood. we believe that the people that live in their neighborhood know what they have to face on a daily basis. and we offer training and technical assistance to get a lot of those issues resolved. and since 2001, we offered a minigrant program and this year we had four min i grantees that received 20,000 a piece that worked on pedestrian issues and senior action network and castro and the blind visually impaired and walk san francisco, and we funded projects throughout the city, and it's a great way to get a lot of residents

none of the data is stored on the meter or by the mta. it is handled by the meter company and processed as quickly as possible. there's very little risk of using credit cards at the meters. >> [unintelligible] concerned about the possibility of [inaudible] [traffic] >> one of the great things about the meters is that it makes it so easy to pay. people should get a lot fewer parking tickets and area. that can leave people with a bitter taste in your mouth. that is one part. the demand response of pricing , the mta is legally obligated to charge lowest pricing available to create a target. it will be easy for customers to come and find a space quickly. my name is jay primus. i am the program manager for sf park. thank y>> thank you very much. why don't you do a demonstration for them? >> meter has some time on it. you concede the flashing -- you can see the flashing led. now it is cancelled. it is going through the verification process. it starts with a minimum of 30 minutes. you can add or subtract time. [traffic] when you are ready, you c