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

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

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 time we were collecting input on priorities. we had gone through a process of working with the public and with our partner agencies to identify the universal need over this through 20 40 ~. what does gross look like for san francisco, we know what our needs today are, what growth brings, and how can we -- what's the sort of -

>> >> >> >> 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

distribution schedule action* attachment at the september 10, 2013 meeting of the san francisco county transportation authority board, chair avalos requested that we initiate a strategic analysis report sarr to investigate possible governance structures of a regional bike sharing program beyond the current bay area bike share pilot, which opened to the public on august 29, 2013. 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 o

welcome to the personnel commission tee of the san francisco county transportation authority. my name is john avalos, the chair of the committee, joined to my right by commissioner mar, who's the vice chair and we'll be joined shortly by commissioner cohen. the clerk of the committee is miss erika change and we'd like to thank sfgtv staff, john smith and jim smith and john ross. i knew i'd do that. madam clerk, would you please call the first item. >> item number two, approval of minutes. this is an action item. >> this is an action item and why don't we go to public comment. any member of the public who'd like to comment on our minutes? seeing ing none, we'll close. seeing no comments from committee -- >> i'll move approval. >> we have a motion to approve the minutes, second by commissioner cohen and we'll take without objection. >> item number three, approval of executive directors performance goals. this is an action goal. >> thank you. this is the first time we're discussing the performance goals of the executive director of the transportation authority. we just hired our

board to know that we have met with mayor lee on this and we have met with the san francisco county transportation authority. and the metropol tan commission and cal train and high speed rail and as he correctly pointed the citizen's advisory committee for the transbay and so the objective was to update our costs which we have to do because at some point, when it comes to the board of supervisors for their consideration, one of the questions that will be asked, is where are we with the calls, and where are we with the schedule? and so we have updated the costs based on the three, and the design and build, and the big build as well as build, finance and maintain. and so we have that is what we are presenting to you today, the updated cost and schedules, and the updated delivery methods as well as possible and these are just possible sources of funds, and but we really would require the support of everyone to get through as well as the possible passport on a pthree for your consideration and your comments. thank you, and now i will ask scott to begin the presentation. thank you. >> actually i am sorry, before

. >> and i have received the san francisco county transportation authority here as well and our deputy director, and so i know that she also, is here to present or say a few words as well. >> and you have to address you after. >> after the board discussion. >> thank you. >> good morning, directors and the chief deputy of the transportation authority and i will be very brief, i am sure that you have an interesting discussion here. >> and we are very pleased to see the transbay joint power authority looking at alternative delivery methods that is critically important. and i understand and the method for the right project and it is for it is fought with its own opportunities and in the cal train just made the decision to do and give a different method to design, build for the electrickfiation and once you make that decision the work has started and this is a serious decision that is worth explaining and it needs to be explored looking at your cost and funding plan and because as you secure it the designs of the methods have the methods on the total cost and cash flow and it is one of the

want to know the 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 involvi

live in san francisco, brian webb, kpix 5. >> the transportation authority tells us that it installed a new camera at market and octavia last week. for the first 30 days they will issue only warnings to violators. >>> we have new video tonight of the disgraced form santa clara county supervisor george shirakawa being led out of a courtroom. he was sentenced late this afternoon to a year in jail for stealing public funds. shirakawa was also placed on three years' probation. he blamed his crimes on depression and a gambling addiction. the prosecution says this case sets an example. >> the public is able to see with their own eyes that someone who stole from the public and lied to the public and was a very powerful and important person was held accountable as everyone else would be under the law and sent to jail. >> as part of the plea deal when shirakawa is released, he cannot hold public office ever again in california. >>> tonight the parents of that 18-year-old who was intentionally lit on fire on a bus are speaking out. we heard from them a bit on our 5 p.m. newscast. now at 6:00, o

just on the poling that they did on biking in san francisco as someone that's trying to bike more as i see all the data that sfmta and our transportation authority presents to us on the future of congestion here in the city so my commitment to being one less car in the neighborhood so what voters believe is going to increase their ridership throughout the city and i think the bike sharing program is going to be an incredibly important parts of that and you don't have to worry about parking and locking your bike but i think about it all the time where am i going to lock up my bike or park it so i worry about that aspect not even just travelling to get to the location i want to get to. >> thank you. >> briefly i want to thank all of you here who have been working on this program so far and ever since i saw bike sharing in other cities it was certainly my perspective when we started that we didn't have enough bikes as part of the initial roll out and despite that we've been fortunate as a city this program has been as successful as it is but to see the full benefits for the entire city i think we have to get far beyond where we are. i've been reall

san francisco is a home for eve morning. this is the regular meeting of the transportation authority finance committee, my name is cohen and to my left is tang and weiner and i would also like to thank our friends at sfgov tv. no broadcasting today's committee. and would you please make the announcements. there are no announcements. >> perfect. >> could you call item number two. >> item, excuse me item number one. >> will call, commissioner chu, >> absent. >> cohen present. tang, present and weiner, present >> we have a quorum. thank you very much. call item number two. >> colleagues are there anything that on the calendar that you would like to sever. seeing none, and i would like to open it up to the members of the public to ask them if they have any items that they would be interested in severing, seeing none, could you... >> item three. >> sure, we have number two. passed it, thank you. >> thank you, i will read the next item. >> number four. >> the update with 2013, and 2014. and this is an information/action item >> mark is unable to make it here today but i am going to provide a quick overview of the legislative as wel

san francisco fire department. for now reporting live in san francisco, david stevenson, ktvu news. >>> we have breaking news now from sunny vale the valley transportation authority says an individual was stabbed near the ream wood station on taszman driver this afternoon. that person was taken to the hospital for several stab wounds. and police say a suspect has been taken into custody. the vta tells us some southbound trains were delayed for some time. >>> a 14-year-old girl is on life support after being hit while crossing the street right outside of her high school. it's part of an alarming trend in the south bay. patti lee is outside the girl's high school where counselors have been on hand for the past two days. patti. >> reporter: today teachers here at james lake high school have been told to keep an eye out for students who are acting strangely but have not asked for counseling. that's because there's a lot of miss information circling about this accident that took place here sunday night and it's causing some students to start mourning the death of bianca valdez while others are still holding out hope she will recover. pray for bianca is the campaign fr

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 needs assessment product that resulted in what kinds of improvements and investments we should concentrate on. so the needs investment in the area of street says the city past a geo bond a few years

guidelines on the active transportation program and this is a state wide program authorized for bill 189 and provides federal and state funding sources for bike and san francisco to schools and so we will be monitoring that and providing guidelines input in the guidelines and along with the colleagues around the bay. and i did attend this, and the colleagues around the state and the focus on the future conference and this is the annual conference hosted by the self-help coalition by the agencies that are delivering the programs and we have met with the executives from cal trans, and the direct and her his staff and the second brian kelley to talk about policy issues in california, and cal transreform and prospects for new revenues and the general sentiment is that the voters are skeptical and not quite know how to approve the taxes but we are trying to do the best to deliver the programs and tell the story to the voters to help them to understand the importance of investing in our system and particularly for the state of good repair. and in terms of local issues, i just want to acknowledge commissioner mar and kim's leadership in collaboration with sfmta on th