first time neighborhood truly can look like speaking of grants i want to congratulate our staff with sfmta million granted in the u.s. go department of transportation to support town hall and economic shuttles only the island i want to recognize, of course, our director tilly chang, deputy director eric and michelle with that grant and matching fund will a town hall system and be able to work with sfmta related parking system with the mtc to bring the components together i look forward to working with all of you on the treasure island management program in the coming year thank you and mr. clerk, call the next item. >> we'll start with the role. >> off role commissioner breed absent a commissioner cohen is absent commissioner farrell present. >> commissioner fewer commissioner kim commissioner peskin commissioner ronen commissioner safai commissioner sheehy commissioner tang commissioner yee. >> we we have quorum. >> thank you mr. clerk and i'm sorry for going out of order this is time for the colleagues to get to the women's press conference next item. >> call two and three, chairs 3 and

candice sue from sfmta. there is a lot of work that occurs belined the scenes that allows us to function evectively and nothing could bow more true than with our public website so i will ask chad and christian to come forward. today we are recognizing charles belloff who we know as chaz for long term efforts in leadership to update and maintain our public website, sfmta.com. this is a massive under taking and is and always been our sole web mast er at the agency. chaz has been sfmta and the predecessor agencies since 1996 and he had 20 years in october. he just passed his twnt year anniversary. he came on board as a public service aid as part of a multimedia services division and at the time tasked to work on a interactive cd rom driver training praumgect back in the day when we had cd ram rom. that project received a number of awar including one from mtc. his contribution to his project jz continues to demonstrate this today are invaluable and his work is always just truly top notch. our public website is o

works that is new to the design and public works contractors come in and do the physical work and the sfmta folks come in and that but in the stripping and the so forth a collaborative effort and mayor ed lee directed all city agencies to work together in a coordinated way to get the improvements done i want acknowledge of the sfmta our livable city section is here and mike one of the explosive wife designers and crews coordinating with public works and the sign shops to get those projects a lot of folks work together and the public works grateful to have a strong partnership want to welcome our public works director mohammed nuru. >> (clapping.) >> thank you e line e ed and thank you, mayor ed lee since 2011 when we passed the road bond we really had quite a few a number of opportunities role to improve how people move around san francisco and seen more people bicycling and walking around the city our agency has been working closely with the bicycle coalition and sf works really to make it easily for people to get around the city as you heard from the mayor and ed this is a critical spot t

works that is new to the design and public works contractors come in and do the physical work and the sfmta folks come in and that but in the stripping and the so forth a collaborative effort and mayor ed lee directed all city agencies to work together in a coordinated way to get the improvements done i want acknowledge of the sfmta our livable city section is here and mike one of the explosive wife designers and crews coordinating with public works and the sign shops to get those projects a lot of folks work together and the public works grateful to have a strong partnership want to welcome our public works director mohammed nuru. >> (clapping.) >> thank you e line e ed and thank you, mayor ed lee since 2011 when we passed the road bond we really had quite a few a number of opportunities role to improve how people move around san francisco and seen more people bicycling and walking around the city our agency has been working closely with the bicycle coalition and sf works really to make it easily for people to get around the city as you heard from the mayor and ed this is a critical spot t

. >> so, we have tom maguire, there he is, director of sustainable street at the sfmta will present on the status update. >> good afternoon supervisors. thanks again for having us here today to talk about the delivery of those projects that supervisor cam possess were talking about. this is the part of the presentation when we talk about following through on the engineering changes to the streets, the 57 projects that we laid out in the june committee hearing to track over the next two years and talk about our progress towards them. i'll remind everybody before we start there is up to date for all 57 projections at vision zero sf.org. you can click on the map and pull up any projects and get a depailed breakdown of what the project is about and milestone we are at now and the expected completion date and whether it is on schedule or not. i will highlight where we stand right now in early december 2016 on those 57 projects. as we said, in june we were hoping to move a large number through the completion of construction, other very long term projects the goal is nds of design or laurch c

works that is new to the design and public works contractors come in and do the physical work and the sfmta folks come in and that but in the stripping and the so forth a collaborative effort and mayor ed lee directed all city agencies to work together in a coordinated way to get the improvements done i want acknowledge of the sfmta our livable city section is here and mike one of the explosive wife designers and crews coordinating with public works and the sign shops to get those projects a lot of folks work together and the public works grateful to have a strong partnership want to welcome our public works director mohammed nuru. >> (clapping.) >> thank you e line e ed and thank you, mayor ed lee since 2011 when we passed the road bond we really had quite a few a number of opportunities role to improve how people move around san francisco and seen more people bicycling and walking around the city our agency has been working closely with the bicycle coalition and sf works really to make it easily for people to get around the city as you heard from the mayor and ed this is a critical spot t

talk about their negotiations with the ucsf i think that is an important part is anyone here from sfmta. >> first barbara. >> mr. garcia i thought i saw ed reiskin walk in with you. >> again someone else. >> barbara garcia parking is a big issue supervisor and that's when we built the original parking lot built it for expansion and so, now we are having to work at the issue of how to expand 24 parking lot using revenue from the parking and as our cfo look to add additional work that's the work with mta no immediate solutions but the long term solution to expand to the mobility of the parkmerced that exist there if is built for that purpose and measure that with the priorities of department but because this i said this before because ucsf research center came and we think that is so important and was going to take up parking this is a good time to work on the parking lot we got far on the mitigation of parking for the loss of park by this research center but couldn't get the deal done for the rest of the parking but in agreement with mta and working with them closely and will get a solut

on the grant award i was landline to join with colleagues mayor ed lee and director rahaim into the sfmtameet with secretary fox two weeks ago to receive the grants that chairman shared from the department of transportation for the deems of the town hall with the vehicle shutters that was mentioned in addition our staff works with the city and ripening staff from oakland and our own mayor's office in on the advocatvolkswagon program in tho we supported two applications four is $2 million i look forward to meeting with all of you to lay out to the opportunities and receive the input on this opportunity as well as all the opportunities around the treasure island mobility management this is truly an opportunity for us to be a laboratory for the sustainable development locally we were disappointed is not able to secure the museum location we work hard with the planning department and that work will continue as we support the tida to further develop opportunities for this site on project delivery our engineering work continues with the grant we received we have funds to begin further design th

. >> so, we have tom maguire, there he is, director of sustainable street at the sfmta will present on the status update. >> good afternoon supervisors. thanks again for having us here today to talk about the delivery of those projects that supervisor cam possess were talking about. this is the part of the presentation when we talk about following through on the engineering changes to the streets, the 57 projects that we laid out in the june committee hearing to track over the next two years and talk about our progress towards them. i'll remind everybody before we start there is up to date for all 57 projections at vision zero sf.org. you can click on the map and pull up any projects and get a depailed breakdown of what the project is about and milestone we are at now and the expected completion date and whether it is on schedule or not. i will highlight where we stand right now in early december 2016 on those 57 projects. as we said, in june we were hoping to move a large number through the completion of construction, other very long term projects the goal is nds of design or laurch c

francisco local and regional levels we work in partnership with a number of transportation agencies sfmta, public works and planning department and environment and a whole host of agencies as well as the public we look forward to sitting down with you at the new year to understand your priorities in the district and citywide levels this is a critical year for transportation as chair spelling of the speakers name for the written record, and please deliver it to the secretary prior to kin mentioned with the regional levels and hopefully, the local levels in year two first, the slide that explains our roles the congestion management role that is the status that allows to look at long-term planning with the coordination of the transportation in this really were a sub regional commission to prioritize a whole host of state aid regional funds and the administrators if that role our financial engineers and strategists to make our local sales tax to go as if a sfta far as and, with the other roles refer to our funding roles for clean air for the prop double a double fees as we discussed the trick

to say a few words i received the agenda i'll keep to short greetings members of the audience and sfmta thank you for this wonderful recognition for the san francisco municipal transportation agency i want to especially thank the manage for mentoring and fascinating any placement from the redevelopment agency and like to thank my fellow members in the administration they can stand up for one moment we're a small team. >> (clapping.) >> so like to thank in addition (calling names) whose new to the team we're a small team of 6 everyone is not here we're a small team of 6 and the first people in problem solving unpopular decisions as director mentioned our team works to fill in gaps and answer questions and implement policy and to to look at the new issues about members having their own phone number and computer those are the little things people overlook but to make a huge impact on the impression on the workplace i want to thank the technology director who just spoke and director of transportation ed reiskin for trusting any ability to assess complicate issues problem solve, develop clea

to say a few words i received the agenda i'll keep to short greetings members of the audience and sfmta thank you for this wonderful recognition for the san francisco municipal transportation agency i want to especially thank the manage for mentoring and fascinating any placement from the redevelopment agency and like to thank my fellow members in the administration they can stand up for one moment we're a small team. >> (clapping.) >> so like to thank in addition (calling names) whose new to the team we're a small team of 6 everyone is not here we're a small team of 6 and the first people in problem solving unpopular decisions as director mentioned our team works to fill in gaps and answer questions and implement policy and to to look at the new issues about members having their own phone number and computer those are the little things people overlook but to make a huge impact on the impression on the workplace i want to thank the technology director who just spoke and director of transportation ed reiskin for trusting any ability to assess complicate issues problem solve, develop clea

i'm here to talk about the sfmta 4th speak project between 4th and zoe. wealth street was close td.ng everyone speak about vision zero you sound hypocritical because the last 2 weeks the sfmta refused to enforce no parking and inaction made a one way street two way. there has been no mandate for having a flag man there to direct traffic while two way traffic goes down a one way street. dpp has been called and been told and told us, we don't have any record of this and not going to enforce. various messages have been sent including up to last friday to am reiskin as well as his subordinates. we keep laering this will be taken care of, it isn't. this morning when i left for work at 9:30 there were 9 cars parked blocking one lane of traffic making it a one way streets. the contractors were there or supposed to be there at 7 a.m. and reports say work started at 3:30 so the contractors isn't enforcing and sfmta isn't if forcing. if this isn't a city project you would lead on the contractors to follow the blue book and have enforcement there. all i can do that is intention it be pushing t

i'm here to talk about the sfmta 4th speak project between 4th and zoe. wealth street was close td. hearing everyone speak about vision zero you sound hypocritical because the last 2 weeks the sfmta refused to enforce no parking and inaction made a one way street two way. there has been no mandate for having a flag man there to direct traffic while two way traffic goes down a one way street. dpp has been called and been told and told us, we don't have any record of this and not going to enforce. various messages have been sent including up to last friday to am reiskin as well as his subordinates. we keep laering this will be taken care of, it isn't. this morning when i left for work at 9:30 there were 9 cars parked blocking one lane of traffic making it a one way streets. the contractors were there or supposed to be there at 7 a.m. and reports say work started at 3:30 so the contractors isn't enforcing and sfmta isn't if forcing. if this isn't a city project you would lead on the contractors to follow the blue book and have enforcement there. all i can do that is intention it be pus

to say a few words i received the agenda i'll keep to short greetings members of the audience and sfmtathank you for this wonderful recognition for the san francisco municipal transportation agency i want to especially thank the manage for mentoring and fascinating any placement from the redevelopment agency and like to thank my fellow members in the administration they can stand up for one moment we're a small team. >> (clapping.) >> so like to thank in addition (calling names) whose new to the team we're a small team of 6 everyone is not here we're a small team of 6 and the first people in problem solving unpopular decisions as director mentioned our team works to fill in gaps and answer questions and implement policy and to to look at the new issues about members having their own phone number and computer those are the little things people overlook but to make a huge impact on the impression on the workplace i want to thank the technology director who just spoke and director of transportation ed reiskin for trusting any ability to assess complicate issues problem solve, develop clear

works that is new to the design and public works contractors come in and do the physical work and the sfmtaks come in and that but in the stripping and the so forth a collaborative effort and mayor ed lee directed all city agencies to work together in a coordinated way to get the improvements done i want acknowledge of the sfmta our livable city section is here and mike one of the explosive wife designers and crews coordinating with public works and the sign shops to get those projects a lot of folks work together and the public works grateful to have a strong partnership want to welcome our public works director mohammed nuru. >> (clapping.) >> thank you e line e ed and thank you, mayor ed lee since 2011 when we passed the road bond we really had quite a few a number of opportunities role to improve how people move around san francisco and seen more people bicycling and walking around the city our agency has been working closely with the bicycle coalition and sf works really to make it easily for people to get around the city as you heard from the mayor and ed this is a critical spot that

vehicles a couple of weeks ago that was we expect delivery the major delivery of the light rail at sfmta and finally important our transparency and accountability we had a clean audit 13 year in a row our credit rating is reaffirmed by double a plus level and continue to be rated by other agencies that potentially moving our debt program into the bond because of the again, all the procurements and vehicle delivery that mta is planning to take over the coming years and the management system will be yuthd the project management to help to expedite that the transportation authority sf.com to plug in a your address to see what the transportation authority is putting funding on and that the sister agrees are developing look into there and see the planning and funding and all the projects that you have in our neighborhood so check that out our dbe and feedback performances is strong that's important to make sure that all the entities in the organizations smaller firms across the city can participate we do our best to incorporate that learning and partnering with the firms and finally a big tha

from a sfmta standopponent we agree and not looking just to encourage to give more training materials but look frg ways to show themselves to be more accountable for the behavior hap ong on sth streets report ing out to work together to solve the issues because as we know right now it is slightly a black box and we know there is data out there that could help us identify problems we could solve and what you speak to gets not only to getting that data but way tooz use the data to change behavior and think it is good idea. >> i really appreciate it. i hope they will voluntary work with us on this and think there will be people that-some of my colleagues may be interested doing legislation to put it on the table. that is just one thing but there is many issues around this. >> absolutely. the reason it feels straisk to write a letter and take a couple months to figure what the letter is but it is complicated and layered issue and think we want to make sure that if we are going take this step wlaurfb level it ends up being we want to address key issues with long term impacts and help us mo

that helps us to make the case what are the transit across the country a great partner but and the sfmtaffice as well and in the region the mayor made reference to a member of bart the board of directors and doctor from uc berkley two of the smarter folks in the region of the country how to make transportation better here so a lot of brain power in the room and region we work together and make that happen part of brain power from the county of transportation authority they've lead a lot of great groundbreaking work in how to develop the brand new community in treasure island and part of the two of the projects of this grant are focused on treasure island the secretary mentioned the guidance that his administration put out with autonomous vehicles see how 24 fits on the ground of treasure island with the transportation authority under the leadership of the executive director tilly chang >> (clapping.) >> thank you so many ed and secretary fox and mayor ed lee and all of our honored guests thank you so much on behalf of the community of the transportation authority thank you to secretary f

thing you mentioned how it is we can also utilities this opportunity with the mta to work with other sfmta agencies and there has been times i have turned to ta staff the wonderful ta staff to help us whether or not initiating the studies that work you, you know push other agencies i want to thank you for that and hopefully, we'll continue building on this incredible work together congratulations. >> thank you commissioner tang if no other comments from members mr. stamos call the next item. >> allocate the $6 million plus in prop k fund with conditions for the downtown rail extension subject to the task force distribution schedule an action item. >> ms. lombardi. >> congratulations chair and vice chair welcome to the new commissioners this is the nice allocation to start off with given several months have lapsed this my idea why this is coming to you today and turn to michael to give a brief synopsis this is related to the electrification program with the boulevard study and the high speed rail not to mention a significant caltrain effort that is going on in the area this is a request for

to see if there was a more direct approach and want to thank sfmta staff for the work they have done aroupd the video jz walk sf and around the educational y videos-i feel the companies themselves should be in a appropriate professional world they would be here reporting themselves on what they are doing to insure our streets are safe and making sure their companies and employees are actually abiding by our vision zero goals. it is disturbing i think that we really haven't seen any kind of reciprocal kind of interest on their part and being-outside the great work john is doing on the working group. i read with great interest the state regulatory filing that sfmta put forward and i would love to know and think commissioner peskin would love to know what more can we do to try and regulate them locally out of safety concerns. whether it is limiting their movement around school zones. whether is limiting movement around other vuliable areas like senior sites. what can we do-clearly-i was on my way over here crossing market street at 8th there was a tmc blocking the cross walk that had dr

an up date on the 57, vision zero projects that we are tracking together with the various agencies sfmta and public works and others, as well as the status up date on the ch geary brt.org for details. and in terms of management and administration issues, we would just want to mention that our request for proposals for general engineering consultant services was well received. we held a preproposal conference on november 9th and we had 94 attendty and by the end of the deadline, we received, 43 responses and the statements of qualifications and this will allow us to turn to a broader bench of expertise as we do our work and advise the board on a range of technical issues from engineering to project delivery, so the evaluation panel, of course is comprised of our staff, and the sfmta staff as well and we will bring in an award recommendation to the finance committee in january, so in closing, please let me say thank you and warm holiday greetings to all of the commissioners and your staff. thank you for all of your work in 2016. it was a banner year, i am going to save the list of accompli

to say a few words i received the agenda i'll keep to short greetings members of the audience and sfmta thank you for this wonderful recognition for the san francisco municipal transportation agency i want to especially thank the manage for mentoring and fascinating any placement from the redevelopment agency and like to thank my fellow members in the administration they can stand up for one moment we're a small team. >> (clapping.) >> so like to thank in addition (calling names) whose new to the team we're a small team of 6 everyone is not here we're a small team of 6 and the first people in problem solving unpopular decisions as director mentioned our team works to fill in gaps and answer questions and implement policy and to to look at the new issues about members having their own phone number and computer those are the little things people overlook but to make a huge impact on the impression on the workplace i want to thank the technology director who just spoke and director of transportation ed reiskin for trusting any ability to assess complicate issues problem solve, develop clea

peter [inaudible] the sfmta projethmanager on van ness improvement project and will take you through a short presentation. what we looking at with the new street lights. so, as i'm sure everyone who works in the building is aware, the van ness avenue is backgonebone of civic center life in san francisco and one the most important thorough fairs cecktding the reej nch. the project will make the street more acsisable for everyone through the first rapid transit. utility maintenance and improvements including repaving of the street, replacing waterline jz sewer lines that are over 100 years old and insure thg future reliability and public improvements like more sufficient street lighting and new sidewalk squz landscaping. the existing trolley poles and don't meet codes and must be replaced. the poles date to 1914 to support the street car that connected the civicsenter to pan pacific. the cast iron, the spiral bracket jz deckative bases date to 1936 when van ness was widened for the golden gate bridge. over the years menee poles and parts are replaced and all the light fixtureed were re

that helps us to make the case what are the transit across the country a great partner but and the sfmtae as well and in the region the mayor made reference to a member of bart the board of directors and doctor from uc berkley two of the smarter folks in the region of the country how to make transportation better here so a lot of brain power in the room and region we work together and make that happen part of brain power from the county of transportation authority they've lead a lot of great groundbreaking work in how to develop the brand new community in treasure island and part of the two of the projects of this grant are focused on treasure island the secretary mentioned the guidance that his administration put out with autonomous vehicles see how 24 fits on the ground of treasure island with the transportation authority under the leadership of the executive director tilly chang >> (clapping.) >> thank you so many ed and secretary fox and mayor ed lee and all of our honored guests thank you so much on behalf of the community of the transportation authority thank you to secretary fox a

works that is new to the design and public works contractors come in and do the physical work and the sfmta folks come in and that but in the stripping and the so forth a collaborative effort and mayor ed lee directed all city agencies to work together in a coordinated way to get the improvements done i want acknowledge of the sfmta our livable city section is here and mike one of the explosive wife designers and crews coordinating with public works and the sign shops to get those projects a lot of folks work together and the public works grateful to have a strong partnership want to welcome our public works director mohammed nuru. >> (clapping.) >> thank you e line e ed and thank you, mayor ed lee since 2011 when we passed the road bond we really had quite a few a number of opportunities role to improve how people move around san francisco and seen more people bicycling and walking around the city our agency has been working closely with the bicycle coalition and sf works really to make it easily for people to get around the city as you heard from the mayor and ed this is a critical spot t

an up date on the 57, vision zero projects that we are tracking together with the various agencies sfmta and public works and others, as well as the status up date on the ch geary brt.org for details. and in terms of management and administration issues, we would just want to mention that our request for proposals for general engineering consultant services was well received. we held a preproposal conference on november 9th and we had 94 attendty and by the end of the deadline, we received, 43 responses and the statements of qualifications and this will allow us to turn to a broader bench of expertise as we do our work and advise the board on a range of technical issues from engineering to project delivery, so the evaluation panel, of course is comprised of our staff, and the sfmta staff as well and we will bring in an award recommendation to the finance committee in january, so in closing, please let me say thank you and warm holiday greetings to all of the commissioners and your staff. thank you for all of your work in 2016. it was a banner year, i am going to save the list of accompli

it is typical of what we have been hearing from some of the sfmta projects on the transit projects, sometimes there is a single bidder for several contracts so we're left to negotiate with a single bidder or reject a bid and take a risk that you're going out to a more favorable bid environment. i don't know for sure if -- the number of bidders on the original scope of work, we can find that out if the commission is interested in that, and then so there were -- so, there's the additional scope, there was the contracting environment and then there's corresponding contingency amounts and projts management costs that go up when scope increases as well, so naoez are the corresponding costs that go along with the scope increase. >> okay. great. and then in terms of -- i can't recall, did you have an issue, mr. wad ling, about design as well. i'm not sure if bart can address the design. >> this was also brought up at the citizens advisory committee meeting and bart staff replied that there had been many, many discussions about the design at the time that the head house was being designed and one of

an example to how powerful the transportation authority is co-sponsoring to the centralizing with sfmta and real estate and with states agencies and caltrain so several members of cca voiced consideration of the powerful for increased bike safety and the flooding issue for future projects regarding the geneva and representative of the hollywood neighborhood expressed concerns over the new ecology for the central sector is not shown to the public but regarding the new options will be part of funding requests and residents were concerned that the brt is only severing now populations go did new neighborhoods again adequately the way they see this project going forward didn't adequately consider the needs of existing residents i want to voice the concerns for the residents in those projects on item number 5 the child transportation survey we - very interesting survey it is well worth paying attention to with over 50 percent of parents driving their children to school it is a really good effort to look at how people are getting around the city and getting their kids to school some of the rec

works that is new to the design and public works contractors come in and do the physical work and the sfmtaome in and that but in the stripping and the so forth a collaborative effort and mayor ed lee directed all city agencies to work together in a coordinated way to get the improvements done i want acknowledge of the sfmta our livable city section is here and mike one of the explosive wife designers and crews coordinating with public works and the sign shops to get those projects a lot of folks work together and the public works grateful to have a strong partnership want to welcome our public works director mohammed nuru. >> (clapping.) >> thank you e line e ed and thank you, mayor ed lee since 2011 when we passed the road bond we really had quite a few a number of opportunities role to improve how people move around san francisco and seen more people bicycling and walking around the city our agency has been working closely with the bicycle coalition and sf works really to make it easily for people to get around the city as you heard from the mayor and ed this is a critical spot that is a

it is typical of what we have been hearing from some of the sfmta projects on the transit projects, sometimes there is a single bidder for several contracts so we're left to negotiate with a single bidder or reject a bid and take a risk that you're going out to a more favorable bid environment. i don't know for sure if -- the number of bidders on the original scope of work, we can find that out if the commission is interested in that, and then so there were -- so, there's the additional scope, there was the contracting environment and then there's corresponding contingency amounts and projts management costs that go up when scope increases as well, so naoez are the corresponding costs that go along with the scope increase. >> okay. great. and then in terms of -- i can't recall, did you have an issue, mr. wad ling, about design as well. i'm not sure if bart can address the design. >> this was also brought up at the citizens advisory committee meeting and bart staff replied that there had been many, many discussions about the design at the time that the head house was being designed and one of

an up date on the 57, vision zero projects that we are tracking together with the various agencies sfmta and public works and others, as well as the status up date on the ch geary brt.org for details. and in terms of management and administration issues, we would just want to mention that our request for proposals for general engineering consultant services was well received. we held a preproposal conference on november 9th and we had 94 attendty and by the end of the deadline, we received, 43 responses and the statements of qualifications and this will allow us to turn to a broader bench of expertise as we do our work and advise the board on a range of technical issues from engineering to project delivery, so the evaluation panel, of course is comprised of our staff, and the sfmta staff as well and we will bring in an award recommendation to the finance committee in january, so in closing, please let me say thank you and warm holiday greetings to all of the commissioners and your staff. thank you for all of your work in 2016. it was a banner year, i am going to save the list of accompli

works that is new to the design and public works contractors come in and do the physical work and the sfmtain and that but in the stripping and the so forth a collaborative effort and mayor ed lee directed all city agencies to work together in a coordinated way to get the improvements done i want acknowledge of the sfmta our livable city section is here and mike one of the explosive wife designers and crews coordinating with public works and the sign shops to get those projects a lot of folks work together and the public works grateful to have a strong partnership want to welcome our public works director mohammed nuru. >> (clapping.) >> thank you e line e ed and thank you, mayor ed lee since 2011 when we passed the road bond we really had quite a few a number of opportunities role to improve how people move around san francisco and seen more people bicycling and walking around the city our agency has been working closely with the bicycle coalition and sf works really to make it easily for people to get around the city as you heard from the mayor and ed this is a critical spot that is an in

currently the poles are shared ownership between sfmta and pu c with adoption of either treatment plan, new owner arrangement will need to be worked out between the city agencies. or a new owner identified. at city hall preservation advisory commission hearing commissioners reaffirmed there position there is no long term treatment of the existing light poles as stated in the letter to the hpc dated november 13, 2015. the commission favors achieve thg greatest visibility of the original arthur brown designed lights in front of city hall. again, thank you for your time and happy to try to answer any questions you might have. >> thank you. commissioners, any questions? at this time we will take public comment. any member wish to speak on the matter? if so please come forward. seeing and hearing none we will close public comment. back to the commission. so, this is a certificate of appropriateness. commissioner hyland. >> i have one question, was the potential reuse of the 6 good poles exploreed? is there something limiting the- >> so, early on in the project we exploreed reusing all the p

peter [inaudible] the sfmta projethmanager on van ness improvement project and will take you through a short presentation. what we looking at with the new street lights. so, as i'm sure everyone who works in the building is aware, the van ness avenue is backgonebone of civic center life in san francisco and one the most important thorough fairs cecktding the reej nch. the project will make the street more acsisable for everyone through the first rapid transit. utility maintenance and improvements including repaving of the street, replacing waterline jz sewer lines that are over 100 years old and insure thg future reliability and public improvements like more sufficient street lighting and new sidewalk squz landscaping. the existing trolley poles and don't meet codes and must be replaced. the poles date to 1914 to support the street car that connected the civicsenter to pan pacific. the cast iron, the spiral bracket jz deckative bases date to 1936 when van ness was widened for the golden gate bridge. over the years menee poles and parts are replaced and all the light fixtureed were re