. >> i'm going to turn it over to jonathan from sfmta. >> good morning, commissioners jonathan with the sfmta the state and federal is proposed the lifetime grant will most likely public utilities maintained we will be using money left over this was a funding issue and second a grant pending with the cac that willfully fund the project the project will be the schedule we'll use in this program. >> what's that looking like. >> it's our accessibility group i assume we'll start sometime in the spring. >> thank you very much. >> all right. colleagues any questions or comments. >> commissioner christensen. >> i wanted to say i was extremely happy to see the extension the late night neighborhood we've been looking fisherman's wharf and their reminding us their constituency and workers especially are not moped through friday kind of people the recent study shoud 6 hundred jobs on in the fisherman's wharf and the reasons those jobs are unfilled bravo if we can get those filled. >> supervisor breed. >> i had some questions about the pit stops and the ability to have pit stops instead of in other

february 10, 2015, my name is is katie tang i'm the new chairperson looking forward to working with the sfmta staff and want to welcome julie christensen our new vice chair and supervisor yee as well as and hopefully by the other colleagues soon our clerk is steve we want to thank sfgovtv jessie larson and marcus book store. >> supervisor breed supervisor breed absent. >> commissioner christensen supervisor farrell absent supervisor tang supervisor yee we have quorum. >> thank you if we can please call item 2. >> citizens advisors report this is an information item. >> thank you i'd like to call up our cac chair. >> i'm the new chair of the cac so good to be here i want to give a brief update on item 6 forced the lifeline program and item 8 the reprogramming of the grant fund on our agenda all items passed with no one opposed and a little bit more specific on item 6 they wanted to mob that the lgbt prop fund were for the community of concern and jackie saks wanted to be sure that we'll precede and both concerns were addressed by staff and item 7 the cac involved the rectangular rapid flashing

item 7 the cac involved the rectangular rapid flashing beacons and how the location were alcohol and sfmta staff was forthcoming on the other item there was only positive comments on the fund swap i wanted to mention an item not on our agenda it got a lot of debate and public comment it was in regard to the private shuttle program that sfmta is bringing up the concerns are in our packet but if there's anything you want me to explain or go into detail i'll be happen to do that. >> colleagues questions or comments for mr. stacey. >> thank you, very much. for your presentation we're screened by supervisor breed and is there anyone from the public who wishes to speak seeing none, public comment is closed now if we can move to our consent calendar. >> item three and four compromise those and if a member objects any items can be screwdriver separately. >> colleagues any public comments seeing none oh first public comment on the consent calendar seeing none, public comment is closed. and now roll call vote on the consent agenda. >> on items two and three. >> supervisor breed arrest commissioner c

the sfmta is requesting one hundred thousand dollars in the neighborhood planning fund for the district one and tiff planning and tiff was developed to build the capacity and the transportation planning in san francisco and also to advance the delivery of community supported neighborhood skill projects the scope included was by input from supervisor mar's office and included the analysis of the transportation safety related needs in district one was informed by the city's initiative walk fairs and others we've worked with the neighborhood groups to identify the targeted outreach like community walk and other promotions and the scopes proximity is excludes working with supervisor farrell's office so this map illustrates where light work will specifically took place the bike access to and from good afternoon, supervisors the 4 to 5 south show that in yellow will connect the presidio to gg park they'll advance the corridors through the designing through this project for this sector shown in orange sfmta will look at the bike and safety improvements in the next improvements and the designed

is ahead of schedule and their accelerating the walk first projects by bike safety this allows the sfmta to provide continuity in the bike safety education contract by that standing that contract from february to november 2015 this extension allows the mind for evaluation of the bike safety and the potential improvements for 9 overall program for the contract the outreach the additional classes will continue to target the underserved in chinese and spanish and target groups that are underrepresented in the community sfmta this sfmta project protection systems will fund the planning for the safety improvements for maintenance workers that perform the working on top of vehicles it will be rep e helping with the electrical design by performing the constructional design it is for potential sources like prop k and prop b and revenue bonds and others moving on to 0 balboa park we have two requests first one i want to mention how excited we are to see the balboa park moving along they have been from community based projects and transit, liability so walking you through those in a moment i want

. >> in terms of identifying we have staff from sfmta happy to - >> jonathan with mta there's a couple of criteria we consider first when look at our walk first cords in specific locations where we're had injuries in the past and second doing the flashing beacons it takes time to put in a traffic signal so this is effective when we might want to go to a traffic signal in the future this demonstrates the cars to slow down to help the pedestrians based on those criteria looking at whether or not it's on the corridor or past collisions we'll use to locate those. >> thank you and we're joined by supervisor farrell. >> the next request i'll just is for franklin signal upgrades our the request at a total of 32 locations on franklin and embarcadero some of the ones are on the walk first, they rank highly for the specific types of improvements the goal to bring the signals up to a higher standard of focus so the intersections will be upgraded to better view and maps installed to so the pedestrian signals will be at the intersection where no one exist other upgrades have the signal upgrades and

and replacing the electrical bringing it up to today's standards in order to create this contract sfmta had to perform this over 15 weekend shut denounce ata's it's united states highest ridership it's unfortunate this has to be performed on the weekend it greatly impacts the general public but we're essentially allowed to work from 8am to 5:00 pm p.m. but to shut down to change the activities during the shutdowns nevertheless of sequence so due to that we've discussed with the appellant and sfmta in regards to those noise issues what could be performed to mitigate the concerns of the resident initially we had 3 shut denounce getting the night time noise issuing the notices and doing the due diligence didn't have appeals or any issues at this point in time once we started up in january the december period was essentially no work to be performed due to the holidays in january immediately there's no changes to the activity that we performed there is been a new issue a bigger concern that the residents feeling multiple weekend to mitigate the sound it's a going on we still maintain we're w

. >> good morning, commissioners jonathan with the sfmta the state and federal is proposed the lifetimerant will most likely public utilities maintained we will be using money left over this was a funding issue and second a grant pending with the cac that willfully fund the project the project will be the schedule we'll use in this program. >> what's that looking like. >> it's our accessibility group i assume we'll start sometime in the

. >> of course we're not supposed to bring 20 new things from sfmta and the toolbox and myself we came together this close to having no knowledge not coming here and bothering you with we negotiate and coupling come with it i made lots of competitions really to approve their permit but with new conditions and i'll suggest not the conditions i gave those accommodated ones we're close on so if we could hear from the respondents and then. >> is there someone here from probate to speak please step forward. >> good evening bay i by the way of background i'm shawn summaries i work to the management this project is essentially being performed to create safety liability upgrades doing a something to the effect retroactive and replacing the electrical bringing it up to today's standards in order to create this contract sfmta had to perform this over 15 weekend shut denounce ata's it's united states highest ridership it's unfortunate this has to be performed on the weekend it greatly impacts the general public but we're essentially allowed to work from 8am to 5:00 pm p.m. but to shut down to cha

about two years ago we were able to work with the department of public health and sfmta to get -- for example betty carmichael k-8 into the program but realizing that we needed a more robust strategy around the schools and how do we achieve 15 miles per hour when you're by a freeway or close to the downtown core or near valencia or cesar chavez or folium street and i want to thank in advance for the work that the departments have done with sfusd particularly around betty carmichael and [inaudible] park and working with sfmta to identify capital improvements to achieve our vision zero goals in this area and there is work done with the chinatown community and the elementary school there that we see vehicle and family student collisions as well so i heard our colleagues at the board of education may be introducing a vision zero resolution of their own to support it within our school, and today's hearing is really designed to identify how we can work collaboratively through all of our entities to put together a robust pedestrian safety strategy to achieve that. we also know that a key com

currently a vacant site and it will allow for maintenance and overhauls of the entire range of the sfmta fleet of vehicles and this includes, motor coaches and trollies historic street cars as well as lrvs. the additional portions of the project, and i will go into more detail as well, are body repair and paint shop that will allow for the complete overhauls as well. and it included drive through paint booths, and drive through body repair and plus, two body repair stalls that can accommodate articulated buses or two lrvs. and for the street, for the storage canopy and tracks to accommodate the sfmta fleet of historic vehicles including projected growth vehicles or expansion vehicles, the entire historic street car fleet is proposed to be moved and consolidated at mme. and so this new canopy structure will be constructed on the south west corner of the site and i will show you a map in just a moment. and this will provide weather protection to the historic fleet. and it is similar to what is already constructed at the cameron beach yard and in addition it will provide additional storage

transportation plan some of the plans are underway in the western edition a full scale led by the sfmta and the potrero hill projects happening and some are funded by the early lifeline for example the potrero hill area on deck planning efforts in the outer mission and the maze in district 9 as well the treasure island management program we've been operating and implementing a few scale pro project practicing. for the ferry service and traffic on the bridge for towing and assembly tom we are they've for the ta future operations of the treasure island agency and along those lines in terms of traffic management and looking at the role of pricing we're excited to begin our quarter management led by our deputy in planning a partnership with the caltrain and sfmta but with the san mateo partners as was mentioned the 101 and the 280 connecting san francisco and santa fe we're trying to insure we have an equitable framework for increasing the occupancy for the popcorns in those crossroads there the techniques our integrated travel management program has begun enter readies our balboa park stud

. >> also in our packet is a letter so steven cornell was appointed to the sfmta advisory committee and the background a while back i announced liz borden woos was appointed to the sfmta as a small business representative that came out of the meeting with the small business leaders there is a letter that the sfmta sense advisory committee has forward on to full board to recommend doing an economic impact in regards to the construction to local businesses in regards to the polk street scrape project that ties in a little bit in terms of the presentation that are are going to want to be getting from the departments and i'll get into that in just a minute also on march 5 the members of the small business commission group will be meeting with bart to discuss construction related projects and conversation as well i want to inform you that both jorge and i have met with the seismic structure team that's monitoring that i'm norris the spot maybe the building that has ground floor commercial might wait until further they have seven years into come into inclines in the property owners are moving

>>good morning, commissioners, i'm the program manager for free muni at sfmta. i'm here to present to you the free muni for seniors and people with disabilities. as we've heard today the sfmta board of directors is set to review this program to seniors on january 20. this program will provide free muni to low and median seniors. is there will be a one time pass that will be loaded on to an existing clipper cards. that just means that once the free pass is loaded on to the clipper card it's a one time pass. the customers will not need to reload every month. it will be sitting on their card for use. one thing we want to stress is that this program, much like muni for youth program, is only for available for san francisco residents and the income levels are 100% of the bay area median income which are shown on the slide here for households of one through six and there's a slight increase as households get bigger that we have back at the office. if approved we will begin accepting applications immediately at mta. we'll have the website ready to go that afternoon. if

to begin our quarter management led by our deputy in planning a partnership with the caltrain and sfmta but with the san mateo partners as was mentioned the 101 and the 280 connecting san francisco and santa fe we're trying to insure we have an equitable framework for increasing the occupancy for the popcorns in those crossroads there the techniques our integrated travel management program has begun enter readies our balboa park study came to a close and it's begun implementing the two main recommendations one to rebuild the southbound ocean off-ramp so it's no longer a free right whipping by the city college u the off-ramp it's a free right its hazardous to the pedestrians we're trying to key that off into a signaled intersection and close the geneva after the more detailed analysis for the highway administration to consider the closing of the off-ramp on the 19th avenue we work with mta and the dpw along the 19th avenue in development for quite a while but the good news we're delivering a complete street project on 189th avenue that excludes water and sir projects it is truly a state

for the record i'm going to need to recuse myself my business company does business that sfmta i'm going to turn the chair duty to commissioner bustos and i'll need to leave the room. >> madam director wait until our chair leafs. >> good afternoon commissioners and good afternoon to the members of the public thank you for joining us commissioners now that we've completed a number of steps with the department of finance xhugd paying the fees under the dissolution laws we're able to extent unexpend bond precedes this is for safety improvements along 6th as you recall the commission previously approved fund for public works along 6th street this is the balance of the funds in south of market on the project area i'm going to turn it over to walk you through the scope for this grant agreement with sfmta. >> yes. thank you very much director bohe and commissioners thank you i'm pleased to be here for the second of our series of using the older bond prudes that are outside of our major project areas which the department of finance has allowed us to program and with the assistance of the city we

begin about ground zero our citywide priority i can report that the actions are meeting constantly sfmta the public health and planning and public works all of us focused on the delivery of those first 24 projects and identifying the next set of projects to come to aid xerox we've got support for funding and low cost and continue to see those for the implementation if in the bike does the $250,000 campaign that's charging the vehicle drivers i look forward to the work of that committee in the coming year and zooming to the larger projects the presidio parkway is making progress in the field i'm excited we'll we'll see traffic switch into the new facility i look forward to inviting you will have you to that milestone and celebrate with our government partners for the link concession golden link partners building the project on the ground our yerba buena island is making significant process it's hard to see the work go caltrain is dismantling the older bridge but it is a $50 million project it is just going trooems well, i'm grateful to greg our pb construction managers this is the idea of

owns the facility and the designated operator to operator and the local government both our agency sfmta and others will be heavily involved with a new concept for the public to understand. >> this is important i think with all the growth with employment and residential we're seeing the congestion impacts on the south of market to having that capacity to implement more of those on the 101 and 280. >> you know who our representatives m t c i'll suggest we have further dialog with our counterparts with san mateo and st. clair are interested in seeing we have a facility and stakeholder outreach to the business community and the employers and residents are seeing strong demand for the express lane development as well. >> thank you for the explanation. >> i apologize for not being able to directly answer our questions. >> just quickly last year assembly speaker tony shublg shock up the transportation community by interrogating a new concept with splult the state and local highway system essentially she called on a series of steps to be undertaken the bill was not drafted but has in mind what

>> we have the co-chairs the task force here today both megan from the distributing aid tim of the sfmta to provide an overall progress report on the vision zero initiatives and to highlight the work we've accomplished since the resolution passed northeasterly 2014 this is really good opportunity to look back at the year to see what we've accomplished and the next item what we need to accomplish on the next steps oh, director reiskin thank you for being here today. >> good afternoon supervisor kim and members of the committee i want to come here to offer introduce before you get into the 3 machine substantive items first convey i think that things took a leadership that started in this room and it's been picked up bid boards and commissions around the city and fully embraced by the mayor we've made progress and additional supported from the november election we have been working very closely with the other city departments and the executive branch as well as the ta and external stakeholders to take the concept of dissolutions and make it city policy and make that part of what we do and h

as a highlight already mentioned sfmta agreed to the gentleman's mitigation measures as set out? his belief with minor chances that were approved on tuesday in the eager the changes order was to implemented the agreed to mitigates measures i previously state on wednesday morning this morning the gentleman asked for an additional requirement we'll have concerned about the additional requirement a lower noise rating important 3wbd back up beepers were approved when test on monday february 23rded this is the only objection to the appellants request we're on to questions >> the contractor has indicated the specific name of that particular back up beeper. >> yes. >> and i'm not we can ask the appellant whether the introduction of those specific ones showed in the test will satisfy. >> i think our position we're referencing the approval provided by the gentleman at the time, we conducted the tests upon these or based on that we thought we had an agreement. >> i'm assuming what you read from in terms of the miegsdz and companies was different than our brief. >> slightly different based

i included the working group field trips to experience it first hand on the right is a map of the sfmta proposals to expand the munoz service for the lifeline transportation fund tea transportation authority board month to month here the proposal excludes the frequency from treasure island from 45 to thirty minutes and the 38 and 44 to fill in the gaps in the coveting and hypocritical recognizing the lifeline improves the transportation in communities. >> so despite those exciting additions to the network we also learned that the last time we provided the services at night it is about a decade ago the orient was when we approved bridge tolls and at the time the toll was approved there was a process to begin the bus service that led to the launch in 2006 as a press release on the web89 beyond some microscope adjustment to track and monitor the matters of fact in a decade a whole lot has changed the low hanging fruit it is about time to look at the bus service some things we can do to adjust the bus service and way to consider expansion so another topic felt conversation anything we can d

miles we're over 70 percent of people severely injured or killed on that network and this is where sfmta and other agencies are targeting safety improvements for vision zero and i wanted to highlight today also the correlation between that high injury network and our metropolitan network where we have where. >> so through this work we're really addressing equity issues in san francisco as well. the report sites that approximately 20 percent of injury collisions in san francisco and it's important to note the report over all provides strong evidence that any increase in vehicle speed is associated with increased risk of injury and death. as driving speeds increase peripheral vision decreases and the distance it takes to come to a full stop increases. conversely decreases in vehicle speeds on our streets even small ones can contribute to significant reductions in injury and death. we also know that san francisco's population is aging and with recent estimates of at least 15 thousand more seniors in san francisco by by 2020 and by 2030 over half of the population is projected to be over the