could just give an overview. >> overview. >> okay. >> just a quick overview. >> so, the san francisco transportation authority, our governing board, is the board of supervisors. we have a couple different roles where we're responsible for administering the prop k half cent sales tax dedicated to transportation in san francisco. about $80 million a year devote today all modes, all operators, we administer that in the transportation authority board. our other responsibility is in long-range planning. we're responsible for developing the 30-year transportation plan for san francisco. its function is to articulate our priorities for san francisco transportation to the region. the nine-county bay area metropolitan transportation commission, and it's our way of making sure that he we get our fair share in san francisco of regional state federal transportation resources. so, what we have -- we're trying to publicize -- is a draft of this long-range transportation plan, the 30-year plan, san francisco transportation plan. the last time i was before you, it was about a little less than a year ago and at that

francisco sfgtv meeting of the san francisco transportation authority occurring november 26, 2013, will begin shortly. >> good morning, today is tuesday, november 26th, 2013, welcome to the san francisco county, transportation authority, my name is john avalos the chair of the authority. and our clerk today is erika cheng and we are broadcast today by sfgtv staff. and thank you for your service. madam clerk, could you please call the roll. >> roll call. >> commissioner avalos? >> present. >> commissioner breed? >> here. >> campos? >> absent. >> chiu? >> present. >> cohen? >> present. >> ferrill. >> present. >> commissioner kim? >> kim absent. >> commissioner mar? >> mar absent. >> commissioner tang? >> present. >> commissioner weiner? >> present. >> yee. >> present. >> commissioner kim. >> present. we have a quorum. >> item two, approve the minutes of the minutes of october, 22, 2013. this is action item. >> any comments on the minutes? >> seeing none, any member of the public like to comment, we will close public comment. and quickly, we will have a roll call vote. >> commissioner aval

san francisco earthquake. the transition that will pursue from this aftermath would change san francisco's transportation system once again. facilitated by city boss, abe ruth, ushering in the electric city car. the writing was on the wall. the clammer had begun for the experiment including public transit people. owned by the people and for the people. the idea of a consolidated city-owned transit system had begun traction. and in 1909, voters went to the polls and created a bond measure to create the people's railway. would become a reality three years later. on december 28, 1912, mayor sonny rolph introduced the new geary electric streetcar line and the new san francisco railway. that he said would be the nucleus that would host the city. and san francisco gave further incentive to expand the city's network. a project by way of tunnel leading into chinatown by way of north beach. in december the first streetcar was driven into the tunnel. just two years after its berth, muni had added two lines. and k, l and m lines that span out from westportal. in 1928, the j line opened heading west to the beach. in 1944 s

neighborhoods are foiled with transportation depend ant residents and any decision around the san francisco transportation system decisions that will be on the november 2014 bottle. we want focuses and adequacy and equity of our transportation system. so today, i'm bringing forward this charter amendment it provide a pharynx for how the city rebuilds infrastructure and how it provides service. it will help assure our efficiency are address in our transit adoneighborhood that we we all sit on the transmission authority and that will require the mta to identify deficiency for low income transit dependant neighborhoods pr it will limit fair increases only to fareboxs requirement and it seeks to expand fair muni programs. one of the other additions is to also look at our future transit impact development foes. we want to make sure that affordable housing sites are not going to be subject to the foe because they receive local tlrgz for local forcible hours and it didn't make sense that trade-off explicit work. i know that still is engaged in a limited process to move toward the november booklet. i look forward

transportation authority for public improvements that are required under the transbay implementation agreement. as you know, the board of supervisors acts in its capacity as the authority board of the san francisco county transportation authority. this morning, because we are two parties to this contract, the authority board approved this particular contract contingent on ocii's approval so we have the counter part's approval to move forward. so i'd like to ask the senior project manager for transbay to present this item. >> thank you. the item before you is in agreement with the san francisco county transportation authority in an amount not to exceed $2.883 million for construction of the realignment of the folsom street off ramp. before we start the main part of the presentation i have a minor amendment. the final whereas clause on page two states that the copy attachment a to the resolution. however, since this document is about 100 pages long the staff decided not to include it in the packet that you got so on file with the secretary if you care to review it. back to the item you'll recall that -- >> i think we got it. isn't that right? >> oh, you did get it? >> yes, today staff distributed

>> >> >> >> san francisco county transportation authority. >> good morning, everyone. this is tuesday november 19, 2013, meeting of the plans and programs committee of san francisco county transportation authority. our clerk is miss erica chang. i want to thank sfgtv staffers for broadcasting us today. please call the roll. >> the clerk: breed, campos, yee, we have a quorum. >> please call item no. 1. approval of october 8th, meeting. >> anyone would like to speak on the minutes? >> good morning, members of the board. i apologize for my accent but last time when i say that cal trans did not bear any resemblance to europe. i meant to spell bar, not bare. thank you. >> is there anyone else from the public that would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. i would like to make a recommendation that we correct that typo. are there any objections to that? can we approve the minutes without objection? thank you. >> miss chang, please call item 3. >> the clerk: citizens advisory report. this is a commission item. >> i apologize for my accent as well. >> it's a ri

of supporting public discussions on multiple opportunity to help to shape and show up san francisco transportation system with the potential of the infusion of significant new resources. yesterday, i attended a meeting of a final meeting of the mayor's transportation, 2030, task force, where the co-chairs, and deputy city, and director spur, presented the mayor with the task force final report. commissioners weiner and chiu were also in attendance. as highlighted and to the presentation of this body last month, the recommendations include, a three billion program, focusing primarily on transit and roadway state of good repair and the smaller amounts such as the city's pedestrian and bike strategies and growth, such as the new muni vehicles. the funding improvement and the task force recommendations include, two general application bonds, one billion dollars and an increase in the vehicle license fee of 1.35 percent, and an increase of a half cent to the sales tax measures targeted for the 2014 and 2016 ballots. while recognizing the significant transportation needs, it exists and the potential of

francisco decost a. i have been involved with transportation issues for over 35 years. today in this great city and county of san francisco, we are disrespecting that population or that segment of the population that most take public transportation. if you are going in our city, unless you are blind we have 38 planes in the air and a lot of congestion. if you go on san bruno avenue, for the last 6 months, there is congestion impacting women, the children. impacting our seniors, impacting the disabled. when i worked for the national service, the department of interior, i was a program manager for the americans with disabilities act. i know about traffic management. so analysis can be done. a lot of analysis have been done leading to too much analysis it leads to paralysis. so whatever the reports that are forth come, we want to know the timeline. we want to know the goals. and we want to go to the -- seniors and go to the schools and ask them have they been impacted by this deliberation. we have had two representative that represented the people, no more. no more supervisors. people are pissed off. i'm repeating

not already in the room i believe that he is joined and jarvis is here representing the san francisco transportation agency and division of taxis and if you could go over the board's meeting guidelines and conduct in the swearing in process. >> the board requests that you turn off all of your phones and pagers so that they will not disturb the proceedings and carry on the conversations in the hallway, the rules of presentation are as follows, appellant and permit holders and department representatives have seven minutes to present the case and three minutes for rebuttal, the people affiliated with the parties must include the comments in the three or seven-minute periods, the members of the public that are not affiliated with the parties have up to three minutes to address the board but no rebuttals to assist the boards, members of the public are wished to speak on an item are asked but not required to submit a speaker card or a business card to the board staff when you come up to the podium. cards and pens are available on the left side of the podium and the board welcomes your comments and suggest

so i think no. 1 our priority is transportation in san francisco. parking is holding up our transportation. thank you. >> thank you, mr. ow, next speaker, please. >> richard hale, espinola jackson. >> good afternoon, miss hale >> good afternoon. my name is vera hale and i was all planned to ask you to just remove the recommendation no. 4. i was on the committee part of the time, too, and i have a placard and i oppose this on the committee. i was filling in for edna james, who will speak in a few minutes, and i would like to say that we don't have an easy system for determining income for seniors. it's not like the schools where you can go and see who gets reduced lunch or who gets free lunch. the meals programs for seniors are for everybody regardless of income and if there are different interpretations of income. the federal poverty level is not sufficient for most seniors and there's an elder security, economic security index. there are many different things if you want to separate out low income seniors it's not an easy job. and now that we see th

as part of the scoping process, we have consulted with the san francisco municipal transportation agency sfmtaa and other stakeholders on relevant issues that should be addressed in the sar. the proposed sar is scoped to explore various organizational and governance structures for the regional model, from a true regional program to a local program that conforms to regional implementation standards. the sar will describe how different models would work and outline the advantages, challenges, and risks of each. in addition, the sar will evaluate each model for its ability to advance the local and regional goals for bike sharing, their financial sustainability, and their ability to grow the program quickly, successfully i.e., high usage of the systemm, and equitably. based on our discussions with sfmta and other stakeholders, we have identified the potential need for additional technical work to complement ongoing research efforts, and therefore are requesting additional funds in the event this work needs to be performed in coordination with sfmta and the bay area air quality management dis

equity perspective the recommendations of the mayor's task force especially given our san francisco transportation plan and a lot of work going into making sure neighborhoods are connected up with a rapid network and other efforts as many in the public talked about that transit dollars should go to neighborhood services and major improvements but i'm appreciative that our staff from the ta have been looking at these issues and hopefully there's good combination with the task force. >> thank you commissioner mar. if it's possible could we have a report back next month with a full ta from the ta staff? >> yes, of course. we'll be glad to bring back some progress. >> commissioner breed. >> quickly. because i'm not familiar with the participates of the task force was made available to the public. there were folks who spoke from the china town develops, so this is definitely important that we make sure that the public understands and knows who is on this particular task force so that they're able to also reach out to members of their own organizations as well. thank you. >> thank you. there's also a we

of course and we are trying to come together with consensus to identify the needs for transportation in san francisco and develop an investment plan and come can up with a planning strategy in order to make that a reality at least in part. with that, the task has been coordinating to the transportation authority. we have looked at the county wide plan. we've reviewed the mtct plan bay area to determine what the needs are for transportation. in taking a look at the needs assessment, as you know the organization of transportation services that you are in charge of are vast as director reiskin said in $13 billion. they're in repair or need improvement. we've also learned from the planning department and from plan bay area about the future needs and the estimates are that by 2035, a 93 new housing units will be built and 191 new jobs will come to san francisco and that our population will grow to over a million in the city and county. so in looking at the streets, looking at the transit crowding, the vehicle life span, regional capacity, and bicyclist and pedestrian safety, the task force developed a nee

as you know, the port main tenant was our return and we actually leased directly to the san francisco transportation agency and the contractor was auto return, and they moved to a site in brisbane in june and i just, i really have to commend, port real estate staff for the work that they have done and quickly leasing up the site. jeff, and jerry have been working with the industrial tenants who you know have been surprisingly, flexible, in terms of understanding that this is a development site, and that the leasing that we can conduct here has to line up, with the phasing, that for the city is planning for the site and as gentlemanerry and jeff were negotiating with the potential tenants for the site, we were communicating with jack and the forest city team to make sure that everything lined up and you will see on this chart, in blue, yellow, cab moved into the site and occupy the site right now and they are doing, cab storage and some dispatch from the site, and san francisco, honda has received a lease, and they are both in the national, on this chart, in red. and i don't believe that they have ex

comparisons of the mayor's task force recommendations to our transportation authorities, the san francisco transportation plan that has been involving many neighborhoods as well and that would be helpful to know for our staff in coordination with you as well. >> the gary street is the one known difference at this point, but we'll continue to work with the staff and to make those assurances once we've confirmed them. >> just to add another plug. gary is the -- that's the most highly used west of the mississippi. it would increase transit from under served area that hasn't gotten its fair share of the west city and an analysis would prioritize the cities that don't have a rapid city, but thank you. >> thank you commissioner mar. i'm supportive in making sure that rapid network can get established as soon as possible. i used to ride the gary bus all the time and it was a challenge. it's worse than it was when i road it 20 years ago. commissioner chiu. >> just a couple of quick comments. i want to thank you and your colleagues for the work you've done. this has been a difficult process involving a lot of dif

we commend the mayor's office of disability and the san francisco transportation agency for their leadership in convening a broad cross-section on this committee including the chamber impacted by the difficult decisions the committee successfully addressed. the committee's recommendations will increase parking resources for all motorists and help alleviate traffic congestion by reducing the number of cars circling blocks searching for parking. it will provide services in san francisco as well as their customers and clients and will contribute to a healthier economic climate in this city. the san francisco chamber of commerce supports these policy recommendations and urges the committee to implement the policy changes including those at local and state level ?oo . >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, miss kelly. >> hithere, my name is henny kelly, you can thank my parents for the spelling. they weren't good spellers. you know, when i was a young person and i saw older people walking across the street taking so much time to do it, and grunting as they did it, i wondered what the hell wa