and we also have (inaudible) from mtc who is available to answer any questions. thank you for your partnership with the city. >> thank you, supervisor tang tank. >> i wanted to echo my colleague's comments to everyone who is involved in this difficult situation. i know on page 6 of the presentation you went over -- this may not be a question for nadia per se, it may be for other staff. but i know there was the list of reasons why there were the cost increases but i would like to drill down on that a little bit more and find out what led to all of these factors leading to the increases and how do we think that the new oversite committee will help address this for the future. >> good afternoon, i'm mark daniel, interim director next week, i'm on probation this week. >> congratulations. >> thank you. i do first want to start by thanking supervisor kim for her leadership and the tjpa board for providing me with the opportunity to be interim director. i do intend to deliver this project by the end of december 2017, advanced stage 2, working collaboratively with the de

and we also have (inaudible) from mtc who is available to answer any questions. thank you for your partnership with the city. >> thank you, supervisor tang tank. >> i wanted to echo my colleague's comments to everyone who is involved in this difficult situation. i know on page 6 of the presentation you went over -- this may not be a question for nadia per se, it may be for other staff. but i know there was the list of reasons why there were the cost increases but i would like to drill down on that a little bit more and find out what led to all of these factors leading to the increases and how do we think that the new oversite committee will help address this for the future. >> good afternoon, i'm mark daniel, interim director next week, i'm on probation this week. >> congratulations. >> thank you. i do first want to start by thanking supervisor kim for her leadership and the tjpa board for providing me with the opportunity to be interim director. i do intend to deliver this project by the end of december 2017, advanced stage 2, working collaboratively with the de

and we also have (inaudible) from mtc who is available to answer any questions. thank you for your partnership with the city. >> thank you, supervisor tang tank. >> i wanted to echo my colleague's comments to everyone who is involved in this difficult situation. i know on page 6 of the presentation you went over -- this may not be a question for nadia per se, it may be for other staff. but i know there was the list of reasons why there were the cost increases but i would like to drill down on that a little bit more and find out what led to all of these factors leading to the increases and how do we think that the new oversite committee will help address this for the future. >> good afternoon, i'm mark daniel, interim director next week, i'm on probation this week. >> congratulations. >> thank you. i do first want to start by thanking supervisor kim for her leadership and the tjpa board for providing me with the opportunity to be interim director. i do intend to deliver this project by the end of december 2017, advanced stage 2, working collaboratively with the de

and we also have (inaudible) from mtc who is available to answer any questions. thank you for your partnership with the city. >> thank you, supervisor tang tank. >> i wanted to echo my colleague's comments to everyone who is involved in this difficult situation. i know on page 6 of the presentation you went over -- this may not be a question for nadia per se, it may be for other staff. but i know there was the list of reasons why there were the cost increases but i would like to drill down on that a little bit more and find out what led to all of these factors leading to the increases and how do we think that the new oversite committee will help address this for the future. >> good afternoon, i'm mark daniel, interim director next week, i'm on probation this week. >> congratulations. >> thank you. i do first want to start by thanking supervisor kim for her leadership and the tjpa board for providing me with the opportunity to be interim director. i do intend to deliver this project by the end of december 2017, advanced stage 2, working collaboratively with the de

many o month with the transit center upper market to a conclusion in terms of the financing for the mtc provided to the city a regional partner to help us to so we can finish and move towards building the transbay train project has made progress caltrain has entered into negotiation with the value the design build electrification contract and be able to announce the winner of the rail they have a worldwide manufacture of vehicles those contracts will be coming to the caltrain board in july and locally to provide for the updates to the memorandum of understanding among the partners to make sure we have the strong oversight as well as funding candidates to support the funding increased number funding for electrification on the local side we will have again, a presentation later today on the rail yard study i'll note on march 30th the planning department held a planning meeting we'll hear in the planning department on that and on vision zero we want to commend thank the vision zero committee for meeting on matrix 31st and sfmta that presented the draft list of next high propriety vision ze

the mtc has been dismantling them in the bay area for the last two years.tem dropped from a high of 3300 boxes and 98,000 calls in 2001 to only about 1,000 boxes now and about 6,000 calls a year. you can now drive for miles and miles on bay area freeways and never see one. >> proliferation of cell phone use reduced the manned for the call boxes and -- reduced the demand for the call boxes and now you can see get the same service by calling 511 and saying freeway assist. >> reporter: some bay area drivers will continue to city those call boxes but only in areas that are well traveled with poor cell phone reception like here in niles canyon. the mtc says call boxes will also stay on skyline boulevard, highway 1 and major bridges and tunnels. but for some drivers, that's not enough. >> a lot of people have cell phones but for the few who don't have it, they need to call a tow company. >> reporter: critics say call boxes immediately pinpoint the location of the caller. many cell phone users in distress or literally in the dark may not know where they are. in fr

and an agreement with mtc including san francisco and santa fe and berkley and oakland to provide this expansion over over the course of the next couple of years again, the project programming will be provided at no cost to taxpayers and 20 percent of stations will be located in mtc communities briefly to get a sense the scale of the expansion today san francisco has three hundred and 26 bikes in a program that covers the financial district and an expansion of 45 hundred bikes that covers the district and again 20 percent stations in communities of concern touching the communities of concern in san francisco the scale of the program in san jose will have - to date we've begun the process of soliciting public fooeb e feedback for san francisco's expanded bike sharing system this is included a multi step process with a data analysis of locations that will be about that includes residential and commercial density and transportation infrastructure, typography and public feedback we've collected online when the agreement was annunciate last may from there once we determined the locates viab

and an agreement with mtc including san francisco and santa fe and berkley and oakland to provide this expansion over over the course of the next couple of years again, the project programming will be provided at no cost to taxpayers and 20 percent of stations will be located in mtc communities briefly to get a sense the scale of the expansion today san francisco has three hundred and 26 bikes in a program that covers the financial district and an expansion of 45 hundred bikes that covers the district and again 20 percent stations in communities of concern touching the communities of concern in san francisco the scale of the program in san jose will have - to date we've begun the process of soliciting public fooeb e feedback for san francisco's expanded bike sharing system this is included a multi step process with a data analysis of locations that will be about that includes residential and commercial density and transportation infrastructure, typography and public feedback we've collected online when the agreement was annunciate last may from there once we determined the locates viab

and an agreement with mtc including san francisco and santa fe and berkley and oakland to provide this expansion over over the course of the next couple of years again, the project programming will be provided at no cost to taxpayers and 20 percent of stations will be located in mtc communities briefly to get a sense the scale of the expansion today san francisco has three hundred and 26 bikes in a program that covers the financial district and an expansion of 45 hundred bikes that covers the district and again 20 percent stations in communities of concern touching the communities of concern in san francisco the scale of the program in san jose will have - to date we've begun the process of soliciting public fooeb e feedback for san francisco's expanded bike sharing system this is included a multi step process with a data analysis of locations that will be about that includes residential and commercial density and transportation infrastructure, typography and public feedback we've collected online when the agreement was annunciate last may from there once we determined the locates viab

many o month with the transit center upper market to a conclusion in terms of the financing for the mtc provided to the city a regional partner to help us to so we can finish and move towards building the transbay train project has made progress caltrain has entered into negotiation with the value the design build electrification contract and be able to announce the winner of the rail they have a worldwide manufacture of vehicles those contracts will be coming to the caltrain board in july and locally to provide for the updates to the memorandum of understanding among the partners to make sure we have the strong oversight as well as funding candidates to support the funding increased number funding for electrification on the local side we will have again, a presentation later today on the rail yard study i'll note on march 30th the planning department held a planning meeting we'll hear in the planning department on that and on vision zero we want to commend thank the vision zero committee for meeting on matrix 31st and sfmta that presented the draft list of next high propriety vision ze

and an agreement with mtc including san francisco and santa fe and berkley and oakland to provide this expansion over over the course of the next couple of years again, the project programming will be provided at no cost to taxpayers and 20 percent of stations will be located in mtc communities briefly to get a sense the scale of the expansion today san francisco has three hundred and 26 bikes in a program that covers the financial district and an expansion of 45 hundred bikes that covers the district and again 20 percent stations in communities of concern touching the communities of concern in san francisco the scale of the program in san jose will have - to date we've begun the process of soliciting public fooeb e feedback for san francisco's expanded bike sharing system this is included a multi step process with a data analysis of locations that will be about that includes residential and commercial density and transportation infrastructure, typography and public feedback we've collected online when the agreement was annunciate last may from there once we determined the locates viab

state defined disadvantage communities works to had regions disadvantage so there is a effort led by mtc and others to address that definition and how that all applies, so until that is fixed, the region is typically taken onposed position trying to force a change in how it disadvantage communities is defined, >> mr. watts and wpt to give my two cents that if it helps east la and low income communities of color to opposing something that may be helpful for cleaning the air for low income communities even though it isn't helping us is the principle thing to do and prefer if we not take a opposition but be neutral and work towards defining communities of concern or whatever we call them more carefully so that the bay areas low income communities are included. >> something like watch express concerns and convey with a letter what we are trying to [inaudible] not a opposition position. okay. with that i draw my presentation on the new bills to a close. i would just give a highlight that the due date for bills to be introduced is theened of the month so we got a little more than 2 weeks remai

and jan the senior partner are the management partners to merge the bay area and the mtc and i wantedto say on the spring essential shares stories with many of the 101 cities around the regional and the 9 counties but a critical merge decisions between the mta and abag right now a lot of the work that abag has been doing on transportation housing and creating living wage jobs especially looking at the development without displacements or transit oriented that is - i appreciate abag i mentioned the move of the regional bodies towards the extra bay area met center will be in june an old world war ii assembly tank plant one of the most sustainable building at 375 harrison and you know it is a ent to sb 375 the landmark legislation but be the hub the living wage jobs and developments without displacements going on not only in san francisco but regionally throughout the bay area thank you thank you supervisor mar madam president that concludes the introduction of new business all right. folks we'll return to our agenda item number 34 madam clerk please reads. at this point, the public may

all the elements are already in consideration under the mtc core capacity transit study and that will-we should have preliminary findings later this summer. additionally, sfmta along with the planning department and transportation authority, office of economic and workforce development and mayors office are working on a long range transportation program. included is a robust outreach so we reflect the desires and need of the community in the long range thinking and these concept squz ideas will be incorporated into that as well. with that,- >> colleagues any questions or comments? thank you for the presentation. i think we are glad to hear there is a long term look and view on the action we need to take to improve the public transportation system and think all of us wishes we could see improvements sooner than later but think for your work on this. so, at this time then i will open up item 8 to public comment. seeing none public comment is closed. that was a information item so move to item 9 now. >> item 9, bay area rapid transit perk update. this is information item >> we have rien gre

we have every reason to believe it will do well for progress but in coordination with a bad and mtc we'll take a look at the land use function as the region has important choices. just untime our bart incentive program is getting ready to launch. you may have seen on the news bart perks we are working together with bart to [inaudible] corroded portionoffs the system, the transbay [inaudible] embarcadero and mun gumry stations and the idea is sign up for the program and earn points through the clipper card for shifting travel outside of the peak period to ease the congestion problems on bart and extend [inaudible] this doesn't take place medium and long term capital planning but a important way we can partner with the community and public to extend the life and the capacity of our system. you can find more nrgz at sf [inaudible]/bart travel incenseive. in terms of the local work the treasure island management team put together 3 grant applications so hopefully we will be successful working with ticd the [inaudible] community development and [inaudible] we submitted a state cap and trade gr

we have every reason to believe it will do well for progress but in coordination with a bad and mtc we'll take a look at the land use function as the region has important choices. just untime our bart incentive program is getting ready to launch. you may have seen on the news bart perks we are working together with bart to [inaudible] corroded portionoffs the system, the transbay [inaudible] embarcadero and mun gumry stations and the idea is sign up for the program and earn points through the clipper card for shifting travel outside of the peak period to ease the congestion problems on bart and extend [inaudible] this doesn't take place medium and long term capital planning but a important way we can partner with the community and public to extend the life and the capacity of our system. you can find more nrgz at sf [inaudible]/bart travel incenseive. in terms of the local work the treasure island management team put together 3 grant applications so hopefully we will be successful working with ticd the [inaudible] community development and [inaudible] we submitted a state cap and trade gr

the mtc blames the soaring costs on inaccurate engineering estimates. the city is considering a $260 million loan. the budget and finance committee approved the proposal and it will go for a vote next week. >>> we're learning what happened to a new bart train when it failed to stop during a test run. bart says a damaged wire pinched by a door caused the brakes to malfunction sending the train into a sand berm at the end of the test track in hayward. it was going 10 miles per hour at the time. >> so the car did not fail. the operators did not do anything wrong. in fact, they did everything that they could to apply the brakes and stop the vehicle. >> bart says the car was not damaged and the agency says it's on schedule to put the first 10 car train into service by the end of this year. >> bart police have installed two automatic license plate readers at the macarthur bart station hoping to cut down on property crimes. they plan to present the program today at the board of directors meeting. the plan is to install the readers at every bart station. and pr

the mtc, the agency blames the soaring costs object inaccurate engineering estimates and the complex design. the budget and finance committee approved the proposal. it will go before the full board of supervisors for a vote next week. >>> the olympic torch has been handed over to brazilian organizers ahead of the games in rio. the first modern olympic games were held in 1896. the flame was lit in ancient olympia. the torch will travel to the united nations officer in switzerland and then to brazil. 12,000 torch bearers will relay it before the games begin on august 5th. south korea is sending its olympians to rio with specially made uniforms to protect against the zika virus. it will be dyed with mosquito repellent materials. the uniforms have not been altered though. >>> we want to show you photos posted by the san francisco police department. officers helped to protect a sale from people passing until rescuers could arrive. the sale was found on the beach yesterday morning. and the sale appeared to be mall unusual issued, weighing only 15 pounds. a record number of sales were rescu

and jan the senior partner are the management partners to merge the bay area and the mtc and i wantedto say on the spring essential shares stories with many of the 101 cities around the regional and the 9 counties but a critical merge decisions between the mta and abag right now a lot of the work that abag has been doing on transportation housing and creating living wage jobs especially looking at the development without displacements or transit oriented that is - i appreciate abag i mentioned the move of the regional bodies towards the extra bay area met center will be in june an old world war ii assembly tank plant one of the most sustainable building at 375 harrison and you know it is a testament to sb 375 the landmark legislation but be the hub the living wage jobs and developments without displacements going on not only in san francisco but regionally throughout the bay area thank you thank you supervisor mar madam president that concludes the introduction of new business all right. folks we'll return to our agenda item number 34 madam clerk please reads. at this point, the publi

and an agreement with mtc including san francisco and santa fe and berkley and oakland to provide thisn over over the course of the next couple of years again, the project programming will be provided at no cost to taxpayers and 20 percent of stations will be located in mtc communities briefly to get a sense the scale of the expansion today san francisco has three hundred and 26 bikes in a program that covers the financial district and an expansion of 45 hundred bikes that covers the district and again 20 percent stations in communities of concern touching the communities of concern in san francisco the scale of the program in san jose will have - to date we've begun the process of soliciting public fooeb e feedback for san francisco's expanded bike sharing system this is included a multi step process with a data analysis of locations that will be about that includes residential and commercial density and transportation infrastructure, typography and public feedback we've collected online when the agreement was annunciate last may from there once we determined the locates viable for bi

billion estimated the cost review by the mtc and many of its commissioners not surprisingly some in ofhe etc. by a recognize that the value of transbay transit center with the trains terments there is greatly enhanced if there is a direct connection to bart. >> very good thank you. >> thank you so much and thank you director rahaim for that and all the work that went into putting the presentation i also appreciate the comments made by the public i expressly want to support what mr. cohen said about thinking holistically and thinking about this as an opportunity to change the dynamics of that part of city historically those meg structure projects have had a pretty bad history in the bay area making things worse for a lot of communities we've learned a lot since then i'm hoping what we can do institutionalize or whatever wrap we've gone in has the same kinds of results as what happened with octavia and or what happened the mission so far with all the affordable housing created i would encourage you to think outside the box and try to think of a system of metrics that can help elevate wha

we have every reason to believe it will do well for progress but in coordination with a bad and mtc we'll take a look at the land use function as the region has important choices. just untime our bart incentive program is getting ready to launch. you may have seen on the news bart perks we are working together with bart to [inaudible] corroded portionoffs the system, the transbay [inaudible] embarcadero and mun gumry stations and the idea is sign up for the program and earn points through the clipper card for shifting travel outside of the peak period to ease the congestion problems on bart and extend [inaudible] this doesn't take place medium and long term capital planning but a important way we can partner with the community and public to extend the life and the capacity of our system. you can find more nrgz at sf [inaudible]/bart travel incenseive. in terms of the local work the treasure island management team put together 3 grant applications so hopefully we will be successful working with ticd the [inaudible] community development and [inaudible] we submitted a state cap and trade gr

the mtc, has commute benefits ordinance, and they have the authority to adopt a commute, benefits ordinance, and that is soon to expire. and this was, simply, extend that authorization, indefinitely, and consequently we are recommending support. and the final measure for your consideration, is sb, 1259, by senator runner, and on it is page, 36 of the matrix and we are recommending oppose. this picks up the idea that have been attempted several decade or more to allow veterans with special, decals and the ability to access toll facilities and there has been similar, authorizations in other states, where we have, and the reports are that, it can result in fraud. and associated decreases in the toll revenue. so, it is, mainly an issue of equity. with that i bring my oral part of the presentation open for questions if you have. and i will try to answer them. i am still trying to digest all of the bills. there is more than 1,000 in each house. >> so questions colleagues? >> i wanted to say on the sb1128, by glazer that the bay air quality district, and the community benefits policies and give ma

. >> i read the letter that we got via e-mail the mtc wrote regarding that has there been any response from the state yet in terms of taking another look at that. >> the best understanding we have now they believe they that the change they made is actually consist with the state law to change that back to go the way it was would be state law that's the california transit association is pursuing you know ideally to get the vehicle ♪ legislative session ♪ calendar year to get that fixed the state controller's office i understand their position is technically the way it right creating the outcomes that make sense no sense the transit agency are recommend we revert to the old interpretation by macro the state law clear >> thank you directors if i have no other questions comments public comment. >> (calling names). >> molly is she here. >> no. (calling names) the 20/20 speaker cards i have. >> if you could turn in a speaker card. >> peter straus again just one idea on meters i wanted to mention i've never understood why staff has resisted not putting meters in rpp zones and allow the parkin

saying that there's less money available for ammo, for ranges, less time in simulators, less money for mtc rotations. if you ask our troops -- and i have asked our troops -- what's more important, the message from them is clear. invest in our readiness. invest in training. and get us the parts we need to maintain our equipment. we all know that it's difficult to make these decisions. but we need to give the president, this president, the next president, the authority to be flexible with the pay raise. what if the situation changes dramatically between now and january 1st of next year? this mark already puts us in a situation where there is not enough funding for oco beyond the first seven months. or the first five months into the seven. that's a concern, and it should be a concern for all of us. unfortunately, mr. chairman, my amendment was referred to several other committees, and they have not waived their jurisdiction on this, and so i do withdraw it, but i hope we'll all work together to consider these points into the future. thank you, mr. chairman. >> i thank the gentlelady, as we've

lastly, there should be the regional express bus system that mtc should be studying as task 11 in their study of the freeway management system in the bay area. and that is the area where we need it. there have been no muni buses on dolores street for over 30 years, although they were only on there for a very small segment with the 11 hoffman, but dolores street, you have steep grades on there. there is considerable damage already on 24th and dolores from the vehicles turning from 24th to go up the grade between 24th and jersey. so there is already been demonstrated damage for the infrastructure at 24th and dolores. public speaker: hello, my name is lorn howls. the idea of funneling through dolores is ill conceived. it has extreme traffic and lots of children crossing. i will take guerrero every time because dolores is totally inappropriate for a street with access. i think the weight restrictions on dolores must be applied. i think guerrero is a better alternative and doesn't impact the residents as much. >>clerk: ( calling names ) public speaker: good afternoon, i'm jamie, i'm a homeow

there was a time the mayor came in and saved the day and that was over our mtc appointment. there were 2 members the board that wanted to serve on our metropolitan transportation commission in twen 2011. david compose was the most senior and differ to siniority about supervisor wiener wanted to serve as well. he called my friend and asked him if he would be okay setting aside the nomination so sfr riser wiener could serve along with david compose which represents our transportation needs and he came squin made assure both were ail to serve. there is precedent for the mayor coming in and saying we have more qualified nominees and applicants the board would like to see in any given body and qud look to support that membership as well. i will call on behalf the board y have tremendous respect sfr pastor megan roarer beyond any type of identification she does serious work for our city. serious work service our poorest residence and it comes from her heart. she tremendous leader and public servant and know supervisor avalos and i work would her and very much like to see her on th

lastly, there should be the regional express bus system that mtc should be studying as task 11 in their study of the freeway management system in the bay area. and that is the area where we need it. there have been no muni buses on dolores street for over 30 years, although they were only on there for a very small segment with the 11 hoffman, but dolores street, you have steep grades on there. there is considerable damage already on 24th and dolores from the vehicles turning from 24th to go up the grade between 24th and jersey. so there is already been demonstrated damage for the infrastructure at 24th and dolores. public speaker: hello, my name is lorn howls. the idea of funneling through dolores is ill conceived. it has extreme traffic and lots of children crossing. i will take guerrero every time because dolores is totally inappropriate for a street with access. i think the weight restrictions on dolores must be applied. i think guerrero is a better alternative and doesn't impact the residents as much. >>clerk: ( calling names ) public speaker: good afternoon, i'm jamie, i'm a homeow

lastly, there should be the regional express bus system that mtc should be studying as task 11 in their study of the freeway management system in the bay area. and that is the area where we need it. there have been no muni buses on dolores street for over 30 years, although they were only on there for a very small segment with the 11 hoffman, but dolores street, you have steep grades on there. there is considerable damage already on 24th and dolores from the vehicles turning from 24th to go up the grade between 24th and jersey. so there is already been demonstrated damage for the infrastructure at 24th and dolores. public speaker: hello, my name is lorn howls. the idea of funneling through dolores is ill conceived. it has extreme traffic and lots of children crossing. i will take guerrero every time because dolores is totally inappropriate for a street with access. i think the weight restrictions on dolores must be applied. i think guerrero is a better alternative and doesn't impact the residents as much. >>clerk: ( calling names ) public speaker: good afternoon, i'm jamie, i'm a homeow

there was a time the mayor came in and saved the day and that was over our mtc appointment. there were 2 members the board that wanted to serve on our metropolitan transportation commission in twen 2011. david compose was the most senior and differ to siniority about supervisor wiener wanted to serve as well. he called my friend and asked him if he uld be okay setting aside the nomination so sfr riser wiener could serve along with david compose which represents our transportation needs and he came squin made assure both were ail to serve. there is precedent for the mayor coming in and saying we have more qualified nominees and applicants the board would like to see in any given body and qud look to support that membership as well. i will call on behalf the board y have tremendous respect sfr pastor megan roarer beyond any type of identification she does serious work for our city. serious work service our poorest residence and it comes from her heart. she tremendous leader and public servant and know supervisor avalos and i work would her and very much like to see her on the

the mtc, has commute benefits ordinance, and they have the authority to adopt a commute, benefits ordinance, and that is soon to expire. and this was, simply, extend that authorization, indefinitely, and consequently we are recommending support. and the final measure for your consideration, is sb, 1259, by senator runner, and on it is page, 36 of the matrix and we are recommending oppose. this picks up the idea that have been attempted several decade or more to allow veterans with special, decals and the ability to access toll facilities and there has been similar, authorizations in other states, where we have, and the reports are that, it can result in fraud. and associated decreases in the toll revenue. so, it is, mainly an issue of equity. with that i bring my oral part of the presentation open for questions if you have. and i will try to answer them. i am still trying to digest all of the bills. there is more than 1,000 in each house. >> so questions colleagues? >> i wanted to say on the sb1128, by glazer that the bay air quality district, and the community benefits policies and give ma