mta supposed fiscal year 2015-2016 capital budget includes other items, changes to other mta fares, fines, rates and charges. mr. reiskin touched on other thing that the budget included as well as the elimination of parking meter enforcement on sundays. there was no discretev action taken by the mta board to eliminate fund meter inspections. this decision was made as part of the overall agency budget as outlined by the nta. the mta [speaker not understood] under public resources code [speaker not understood] and c-e-q-a guidelines 15.on march 27 and the plaid concurs with that decision. mta approved the agency's budget april 15, and on may 13 we got an appeal of the statutory exemption. planning department prepared a written response dated june 9th which you have before you and a supplemental letter which was received yesterday [speaker not understood] to our responses to the appeal letter and our supplemental letter. >> thanks, joy. good afternoon, president chiu, members of the board. andrea contarter as planning department staff. [speaker not understood] the supplemental letter submitt

but again, you can see mta performance is in line. one of the mta's challenges is figuring out how to elevate the green dot in that bottom figure despite increases in rider ship. vehicle speed depends on more than rider ship. we have seen the improvements that mta is implementing such as the use of a priority system and that can reduce travel time. the more these are implemented, it will be interesting to see how it is presented compared to our piers. i'm going to discuss revenue miles which is used as an indicator of delays that arrive due to equipment problems. vehicle fail yours are divided into two categories. one presents a present or starting its next trip because of safety concerns or movement of the vehicle is limited. a minor failure is one that prevents a vehicle, but that's because the vehicle should be taken out of service. this chart shows the average number of miles between -- between vehicle failure, of either type, major or minor. you can see for buses -- it is common if the industry to look at the number of revenue mi

i have a resolution approving the mta budget. i'm not sure [speaker not understood] line items or not, but there is a whereas clause that discusses sunday metering. so, if the mta board decides to eliminate enforcement, packing meetings on sundays including time limit for parking, a meter sunday, [speaker not understood]. it's coming soon. [speaker not understood]. so, it seems like there has been a real, you know, vote, decision, and not just looking at the entirety of the budget, but there are references to line items here that the mta board voted on. we also have not just meeting operating expenses certainly but there has been a service increase that the mta has implemented the next fiscal year which i think is very commendable. we know we helped the mta to actually meet that, but there is rejection of that $11 million. it seems like we don't really have the real basis for, i believe, a statutory exemption in this case. so, i will be voting with the appellants. i expect i'll be voting in the minute art. >> before we continue o

mta looked at this decision. i assume someone looked at it and said it doesn't specifically say exempt sunday metered parking. and it actually lowers revenue so they're only able [speaker not understood] c-e-q-a applies if we include it as a global exemption of the entire budget. that's not what the exemption was designed for. as most of you know, c-e-q-as was intended to be interpreted [speaker not understood], it was intended to be in favor of the public and gem enfull public disclosure of what is going on. so, with that i'm going to pass it on to my colleagues. thank you for your time and attention. >> mr. president? >> supervisor wiener. >> thank you. i just have some questions. so, thank you for the presentation and i appreciate the advocacy that's gone on around this and many other transit issues. i have enormous respect for the appellants in this case. i work with them all regularly on our joint quest to adequately fund public transportation system and have smart transportation as a policy in san francisco

i appreciate the mta taking those out.aybe it's a matter of taste but those are the ones that bother me the most. when we talk about driver safety, those are the ones that bother me.

match the pier is to the mta. the mix of transit mode -- the structure in size, its budget and the aspect of its day-to-day management. agencies that operate similar transit is suitable in bench marking analysis. this chart shows the trips that each agency carries by transit. you can see that the piers are similar to mta and the predominant mode are bus and light rail as shown my the dark blue scales. it's similar to mta accord to go the other factors and one of the few transits that operate trolley bus services. annual operating expenses shows indicators. jerry you can accord to go the measures, they're -- we compared san francisco to its piers according to 20 performance and the other topics you see here. i'd like to highlight beginning with operating cost of mode with transit. this figure shows the total cost broken down by motor transportation. mta is in the middle, it has higher cost. for both light rail and trolley bus rail. for example, mta operates nine fully staff, and newer has been able to operate with

election why should we wait while the mta has a budget surplus of $22 million. citizens and people with disabilities need to ride muni for free today. we have a crisis in the city a transportation crisis a housing crisis and an affordability crisis the mayor has a pr disaster on his hand when we gave away free parking. i urge you to say no and don't pass this out of committee >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello, again commissioners. i would ask you to vote no or wait to vote because spending spending spending is good to spend we all love to spend but i just think for your going to do stuff especially the bicycle racks the bicyclist and all that stuff we have to do it at one time that should be done together with the pedestrians and automobiles and everything i happen to be part of a neighborhood survey and i was wanting to focus also on bicyclists and the harm it does to the pedestrians when they did bicyclists don't stop with the crosswalk they keep on riding through. i was told it's the automobile that the - no, no the bicyclists that need to be focused on. b

mta is engaging in a couple of different methods to expedite, project delivery and acquisition of vehicles and one of them is that they are participating for a portion of these procurements with the end of the consorsum that will allow seattle to join the process for the vehicles that are being prokured and so it can reduce the acquisition time by 9 months. >> thank you. >> and the next five-year plan that is for consideration, and not for adoption is for the muni facilities projects, and the done and under way projects and you can see the escalator projects is what will be incorporated in phase two due to the popular projects and the control and the communication projects are under way and the enterprise and the as ses management is also under way and in particular, something that might hear addressed in the management update and because the efforts that the mta is undertaking to manage the resources. >> so for the proposed projects for the next five years, dpw is doing, early planning work, right now, to verify the scope in the needed improvements of the various different facilities that

revenue bonds and also, future general obligation bonds. >> for mta, muni guide ways, this is another category that is under consideration, but for action next month. highlights of the projects that have been delivered are on this slide, we can address any of them in particular, if you wish. but this gives you an overview of what has been delivered to date with prop k and what is currently under way. the c3 facility is actually completed but mta needs to move in and it can't move in until all of the equipment until the system's project is all completed. >> the proposed projects, in the category include the van ness brt and the system department, and for the portion of this will be funded with federal state of good repair funds, and the back up center, for the vehicle control, and so that we can avoid system shut downs and similar to the ones that have occurred in the recent months and also, someplace holder projects for projects that are to be identified. highlights that we will keep an eye on the project delivery to insure that the projects are moving that have prop k funds that are

i think that there should have been a robust discussion by the mta board of directors. whatever you felt about the issue i think that the public deserved, the opportunity to have a public debate about the issue. and the fact that under the current governance structure, something like that doesn't happen points to the need to reform that governance structure. i don't think that irrespective of who the mayor should be that those policy decisions should be made out of [speaker not understood]. i think they should be made by the governing body of this agency. and that's why, you know, for quite sometime i have been saying and will continue to say that we need to restructure the governing body of the mta, that we need to provide more accountability so that these kinds of decisions are made in the open and not behind closed doors. and i think that if we have a governing body that was not controlled by one branch of the executive, or even by the legislative that actually reflected the interests and the needs of the ridership, i think that you would have a different process. th

support from the mta. this program will will provide support to citywide and neighborhood groups and we should know more in august. the large vehicle working group is also going to be completing it's recommendations, has completed and will be forwarded by june . and for the recommendations that will be forwarded to the full board on the large vehicle working group will they include potential amendment to the administrative code and what's behind some of the changes? >> that is a great question that i'm going to need to follow up with you after the meeting. i don't have the specific details on that. >> the other question i would have so it could be noted is what the phase in might be for the different categories. of course we have our employees that drive the city car vehicles versus our large vehicle drivers and what the phase in might be for a city contract or and other various contractors throughout the city as well. one more question, who will be administering the vehicle trainings. will each department

on a week day, mta operates between 3 and 14 times. the number of light rail operates nearly double than seattle. it makes since that mta cost are higher for these modes. when you have the operating cost as we have done with mid rail, there's a correlation between the two variables. this chart make it's clear that mta cost are in line the train established. the mta cost are higher, they do not seem to be unreasonably so. this is coverage throughout an agency service area. the chart make it's clear that mta stands far apart. this is out of necessity because many parts of the city would have charter fee. a high number of miles per square mile may indicate routing. in some cases that may be intentional such as lines that have lined on on or expressed -- >> continuing with the theme of acceptable and availability have compared fares across the system. this shows the bus fares during peak periods of operations and the cities are sorted from highest to lowest and you can tell by the shading that the fares are lower throughout the categories.

i appreciate the mta taking those out. i think maybe it's a matter of taste but those are the ones that bother me the most. when we talk about driver safety, those are the ones that bother me. i think as we hear about all the accidents on the roads nowadays and just look next to you if you're ever in a car the amount of people texting while they're driving is crazy in the city. the wrap ads, to be quite frank, they don't bother me as much. i think up to 30 is really kind of comparative to the fleet minuscule amount of buses. revenue is obviously at a premium especially mta when they continue to be underfunded. there are budget choices that continue to be made at the mta some we agree with some which we don't. [speaker not understood]. to me the digital ads were the most important. so, i thought i'd just put my voice where i feel. i'm okay with the 30, i'm also okay with 15 as well. >> supervisor breed. >> thank you. i just wanted -- supervisor mar mentioned that they have not, i guess, reached the 15 mark level and i just

. >> pedestrian and bike facility maintenance, this funds dpw five lock repair program and also mta meet and the buy facilities safe hip post screen paint. curb ramps, this is the category that funds the dpw curb ramp program along with the funds from the general fund and the mayor's office of disability. and dpw has done the targeted out reach over the years and the neighborhoods with a high population with the folks of disability and are aware and there are a low number of usable curb ramps and then through the mailings and also the various different types of advertisements. and people can request curb ramp by calling 311. >> let's see, this is the last? >> the last category proposed is for the street tree mainting and maintenance >> they have planted the trees and have done a significant amount of maintenance, the locations for dpw is proposing to plant the trees over the next five years are empty tree basins on dpw maintain streets and then also to do the main nens of the established trees and so going forward is to present these six for adoption today. and next month, we will be bri

on a week day, mta operates betwee

that's $33 million for mta that was delayed two years. i'm not saying we're going to figure out a way through that entire $33 million, but we have to make a good faith effort and we can't kick the can the next year. we need to figure out how we're going to do that. colleagues, i hope in our add-back project, we'll be generous with vision zero and the mayor has to be involved. so i think over the next few weeks, this is going to be an important conversation as a board and with the mayor as well. >> thank you, supervisor wiener. any further comments? okay. at this point, we'll open it up to public comment for 6-8. anyone who wish to publicly comment on these items. >> good afternoon, superviseers. my name is leah with the bicycle coalition. thank you for the support and the mayor. as apart of the task force, we were involved in these discussions. i want to remind everyone as you have here, that there is a hole. that we all expected the go-bond to move forward with the vehicle license fee. we're one of the groups that's disappointed, but it

out of that mediation process for any items that have not been agreement upon, the -- it was not the mta proposal or the union's proposal, but what came out of that mediation process that ended up in an all day mediation a few weeks back that ended with a recommendation that included the wage increases that are apart of that agreement, a number of other changes as well as a retirement swap. what we call requirement swap, which is the second thing that i think has not been clear in the media and even to the operators and i think it has been unfortunate, i think the operators have opinion given bad guidance in terms of understanding this process and in terms of understanding the substance of what was put before them to vote, so i've asked the city's director of human resources to give some perspective and explanation on this retirement swap issue because it seems to be coming down to a key issue that's of concern to the operators that i don't has been communicated well to them. i don't think that the public understands it, so with your lead, i'd like to ask our director to explain how we g

all of the city contracts including mta's had an ending of that concession, of the concessions where the employees were paying their own contribution in 2006. in 2006 the city took the position or offered the employee groups to instead of having the city resume an employer paid member contribution of seven and a half to give a wage increase cost equivalent to the employer, so slightly lower number because for every dollar that we give in wages, we must payroll up costs, he call them. worker's comp and social security and pension. so it's a salary sensitive items that two up, so for -- that's why the cost equivalent cost to the employer for that employer is less than the pension contribution. this is offered to our labor groups and in 2006 they started agreeing to it. reason they started agreeing to it because it increases their salary. the salary upon with i their final pension is based is going to be higher by that additional money, that raise they get. it's a higher base rate for future raises built on and they'll see the benefit in overtime and in premiums so that's why the unions

are you aware that your mta gives 21 days to correct parking. and you give a grace period of an additional 21 days giving times to krek the first of these citations. are you aware that the ssmta issue five such expired citations so they can collect on all five. sometimes even within 41 days. i do have ssmta admissions in this regard, official documents. now, are you also aware that you've been served multiple times with multiple state and federal subpoena for public documents. i've also recently served at federal is -- subpoena yesterday and i was hoping you got that yesterday as ms. boomer received a copy. there were facts to the city in defense attorneys in racketeers, c 13 for which a motion to dismiss was served on me this morning. now, for some reason, i am not getting electronic notices when things are being served nor in paper form timely. >> thank you, sir. >> i'll leave these subpoena. >> erik scott. he's the last to turn in a speaker's card. >> good afternoon, scott. mr. scott. >> good afternoon. my name is erik p scott. i have been li

the mta is very clear about ha they're eting. members of the public can look at that and they can say wait a second, i don't think this is right ~. you should look at the december 2013 study.

. >> i just wanted to thank the mta, you and the staff for it and for the projects of the projects, and i can see concretely the changes and the good faith efforts to try to reach out to neighborhoods and to engage them and i appreciate that. >> while planning in the next 25 years there will be a 45 percent in increase in jobs and 35 in household op population in san francisco and i am sure that members are aware of the task force, and the funding need and the ballot measures and coupled with that in terms of the other planning programs here at the sfda and in concert with that sfmta 20 year capitol plan. as i come to a close, just want to provide for the members, some examples of projects that are using some of the new processes ta we have enacted at sfmta and this is an example of one, and the street scape project is a case in front at 2013 at 11.8 million project budget and this street, and it was transformed into a neighborhood friendly street and the residents requested for the traffic and wider medians and the new street trees and plants and we think that it is a good example of t

the mta is presenting on this item? >> yes.rning supervisor farrell and avalos i am the deputy planning director, and i am here to request for both supervisor authorization for smta, and to enter into agreement with the transport and security to implement the design and the advanced training for the central subway, and with the authorization of this contract, we will be allowed to have operatebility between the consist ans of the subway and the system and this contract will design and implement and install, and test, and inspect, and provide safety certification of the advanced training and in parallel of this contract and we currently have an existing major contract with the station, and it will install the infrastructure and support the elements for this work and one last thing, and the transport and security will also provide us with the assistance and the support for the safety certification for the public utility commission the system to provide the train speed, and breaking and also, head winds, and this system will allow

we completed the eir for the transit projects with mta and that is moving forward and approved. as was just said the director said the hearing for the moscone center and last week and we completed the environmental review for the housing element and we thank you for the vote on that yesterday and completed the glade development and that can move forward. in the coming we're we will be spending a lot of time on housing policy. obviously as of yesterday there are several ballot initiatives moving forward on housing issues. we have been working with the mayor's office, supervisor kim's office and many of you on housing policy and how we can improve our processes for all housing projects but particularly for affordable housing projects, and we are moving forward on the next required housing element, which is due in january, and by your action last night that will help move forward with that housing element and that allows to move forward with other housing initiatives in the coming year. we are heavily invested so to speak in the neighborhoods initiative. we are working with our col