mainly from the m.t.a. >> chair peskin: and what did the m.t.a. purchase that they didn't bill you for? >> vehicles. >> chair peskin: so has the m.t.a. acquired those vehicles and how do they -- they have enough cash to buy them and how does that work? >> so we are on a reimbursement based program. every department must incur the costs before they come to us, where we would use our proceeds to reimburse them. once we receive the sponsor reimbursements, we drawdown on the proceeds with u.s. bank as our trustees. at this point, i am getting indication from m.t.a., but tot total accounts payable i'm expecting from the city and county of san francisco is 15 million, and i know that is -- know the majority of that is from the m.t.a. >> chair peskin: okay. i don't think we care, as long as our agency is not dragging our feet. but it does not sound -- we have not been billed. >> correct. this agency is not dragging its feet, this agency is paying the money, waiting for reimbursements to come? . we still have a good amount of time to spend the remaining 1

the next request is from the m.t.a., the bike-to-workday 2019 event. we have a long-standing of funding this day of activity as well as the events leading up to it. there are a lot of outreach to normalizing bike transportation. we will be requesting on receiving before, during, and after counts to enhance the effectiveness on the ridership on the day of, and how that compares to the prior years, as well. with that, i can take any questions, and project leaders are here, as well. >> chair peskin: thank you. colleagues, are there any questions of staff? seeing none, is there any public comment on this item? okay. public comment is closed. [gavel]. >> chair peskin: and is there a motion to allocate the afore mentioned $3.48 million? motion by commissioner fewer. is there a second? seconded by commissioner mandelman. colleagues, can we do that same house, same call. the motion is approved on first reading. [gavel]. >> chair peskin: next item, please. >> clerk: [agenda item read]. >> chair peskin: mr. young. >> good morning. eric young, senior communicatio

they laugh at the m.t.a. when all the drivers go there and plead and say that their families are compromised, they're losing their homes, etc., etc. you know, you all -- you all must be trained to do some medication, so you all can focus on something and go deep and represent the people correctly. thank you very much. >> chair peskin: next speaker. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is kristin, and i am a community organizer on staff at the san francisco bicycle coalition. on behalf of our over 10,000 members i am here to express support for the valencia street bikeway implementation plan. with the mayor's directive, we've seen valencia street transform in the last four months. i'd also like to thank commissioners mandelman and ronen for their continued support for the need for change on the corridor. with the valencia street bikeway implementation plan, a vision was laid out for a comfortable neighborhood street. with the completion of a pilot, valencia between market and 15th streets have become more

the board can let the m.t.a. budget can go into effect by not acting. or the board can reject the m.t.a. budget proposal within hitle30days. today m.t.a. is proposing this appropriation. you should amend ordinance to match up what he described and beyond a, ultimately the board can vote to approve it within 30 days or vote to reject it by 7-11 votes by 30 day >> supervisor fewer: i believe the b.l.a. has a report for us? >> our report is the promotion of the $38.1 million baseline allocation excess eraf fund. board has approved the contract. it includes expansion vehicles mostly for the subway. to date the m.t.a. has 46 of those vehicles. we've had some differences of opinion hear. in terms of responses what supervisor mandelman was talking about, on page 29 tables 2 and 3 we look at total funding sources for the light rail vehicle. in terms of committed funds, it's assuming out the entire budget it the $38 million will be applied to that. now if it's $19 million, that means they'll be about $19 million short of what they have with their total budget whi

and the next request is from the m.t.a. this is for the residential transportation demand management program. so this is essentially a program that is to identify cost effective strategies to get new residents out of their single-occupant vehicles and onto transit or biking or carpooling and so it's a program to let folks now what's available to them and for encouragement and education. this is a multiyear effort. this is for the early work to establish the program and to ultimately impact -- implement a pilot and work will be done by m.t.a. and the department of the environment. the next two requests are related to the sfmta's light rail vehicle program, and i'll just node that i'll make my presentation, and then, we also have here, julia kirschbaum, the acting director of transit. we've heard a lot of great feedback over the last couple of weeks from board members and we actually have a couple of options for amendments to the staff recommendations which i'll present in just a few slides to address the feedback and concerns

and they are providing the m.t.a. for shelters and main nance for shelters that i believe are at least even to their expenses, so it's a good arrangement for the m.t.a. and perhaps not as good an arrangement for clear channel. i think because that does not work out too well for clear channel, they are not always in the business of providing street furniture in exchange for advertising rights. that's a niche that decaux has kind of carved out for itself in the advertising industry? generally speaking, those advertising companies don't provide capital furniture, you know, and maintenance often, although i do know that the more common mode for this is bus shelters, and i believe that in both new york and chicago, the decaux arrangement there is more around bus shelters in exchange for advertising than kiosks and toilets? but in europe, they have many of these kiosks in exchange for toilets, and in southern california, i believe there's other street furniture that decaux has provided to cities in exchange for advertising

so the m.t.a. under the thumbs of every mayor since gavin newsom has back stabbed the taxi industry at the same time, they use as a cash cow. so the m.t.a., and the city of san francisco, for not having the political will to challenge the cpuc and up the number of uber drivers operating on our streets without the very same medallions they sold to balance their budget. they should buy those medallions back. the only way for the taxi industry to prosper and coexist with the unfair competition we've been faced with for almost ten years, is to achieve a level playing field in the transportation for higher market i urge this board to stop this madness, to work with the mayor 's office, and our legislators in sacramento to challenge the cpuc, and achieve a level playing field in the markets. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. i will just remind the public to address their comments to the board as a whole, not to individual members of the board. >> hello. my name is bob. i liv

the next request is from the m.t.a., the bike-to-workday 2019 event. we have a long-standing of funding this day of activity as well as the events leading up to it. there are a lot of outreach to normalizing bike transportation. we will be requesting on receiving before, during, and after counts to enhance the effectiveness on the ridership on the day of, and how that compares to the prior years, as well. with that, i can take any questions, and project leaders are here, as well. >> chair peskin: thank you. colleagues, are there any questions of staff? seeing none, is there any public comment on this item?

recently, the m.t.a. was at a neighborhood committee meeting, and supervisor safai was concerned about the lack of outreach that the removal of 61 trees in two different districts was going to have on the community. i think we need to delay this a little bit more come, and come up with an idea that's going to work. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. is there any other public comment? okay. seeing none, we'll move onto rebuttal. mr. hough? you have three minutes, sir. >> thank you. i think you've heard from the community, and mr. buck seems to be separating these projects from -- these two trees from the other 61 and prioritizing. maybe because you know -- he knows who's in that building and the push back, and wants to isolate it to these two trees, and that should not be allowed. these two trees are part of this project. it needs to be considered as a whole. the idea of trimming -- and i saw a lot of pictures, branchs, etc., you know? and i'm sure there's a lot of branchs -- they could take some weight off th

the next request is from the m.t.a., the bike-to-workday 2019 event.we have a long-standing of funding this day of activity as well as the events leading up to it. there are a lot of outreach to normalizing bike transportation. we will be requesting on receiving before, during, and after counts to

so again, the m.t.a. has made a very strong commitment to addressing the need of low-income customers throughout the city, continue to do so, and i'm happy to answer any questions. >> i appreciate this, and i appreciate all of these programs that we have, and great to hear that we're leaders in them. one of the things that -- that i'm wondering about is it's likely that these -- this particular category of workers -- and there may be other people who are in this situation for other reasons -- likely wouldn't qualify for a low-income discount or a low-income deferral. they're in sort of a short-term situation. are there -- are there any opportunities for people who might find themselves in a situation where they have a temporary economic hardship but would not qualify for a low-income, and is there -- do we have anything like that? i mean, is there any contingency plans for people to get into a payment plan or anything like that if you're not low-income, which i think, you know, it's an immediate need that

but we meet regularly with the m.t.a., with the p.w., and i think it's upon opportunity to expand, but not only that, to include a lot more youth in our organization, in our government. and the second proposal is to look for the administrative title 14, administrative code to include that, but also to have a permanent youth member, who is a floating member, who's a 12th member. we work for consensus. so having an odd number is not nearly as much of a necessity as it would be for other committees. so with that, i'm open to questions if you have any. >> chair ronen: no questions. >> that was fast. >> chair ronen: okay. i'm now going to open this item up for public comment. if there's any member of the public that would like to speak, come up. hello. >> good morning. andy thornton. i'm a resident of district one, and i will voice my support for both of these applicants. you have in burt hill one of the city's if not the nation's foremost educators and ambassadors for safe, inclusive bicycling. kristin represents the other end of goodness, an expert citizen, not professional, someone, as y

of folks giving a lot, and although you know, our only option at this point is to send it back to the m.t.a. board. i have received commitments from staff and from you, from colleagues, that if there is additional eraf money in the future, we believe there will be, we will close that gap. >> i'm committed to doing it, and the priorities you all care about, we in san francisco make sure we are making the right investments. we need to put our money with our mouth is. thank you. >> president yee: and before you leave, any questions of any other supervisor? at this point? >> not at this time. thank you, president yee. >> president yee: thank you for coming out to the district 7 new year this past weekend. the people really appreciated. and thank you for your answers. so this concludes the district 8 topic discussion and madam clerk. to the next items. >> clerk: items 2-4, consent calendar. considered to be routine. if someone objects they may be removed and considered separately. >> president yee: any items severed from the consent agenda? seeing none, call the roll for items 2-4. >> clerk: ite

the addition of new garages or signature trees due to development where there's a private profit taking place. that's often recommended. that can replace that canopy size. in this case, one thing that m.t.a. it's three to one replacement. it's true that the larger the size of any plant, the longer it takes to actually acclimate and transplant. the smaller the size plant, the quicker the acclimation period. if feels good to start with something really large. i understand that. within a few years, the younger plant catches up and surpasses the larger tree. i point out that we're not looking to move the trees for development. we trying to address public safety concern. i know i answered your question. of these 53, not 61 trees that will come up and be part of the public hearing with public works, there's really only two out of the 53 that are really conflicting as part of the project. 51 are really just poor structure that we want to move because there's a project on the street. just circle back and address that question. >> vice president swig: you're picking on these two trees because they are dangerous and risk of causing public harm. you feel the urgency is such that you can't wait for

m.t.a.? >> funding to remove the trees would not come from the m.t.a. for these two trees? >> but you then said we have no money to replant trees? we have no funds to replant trees. i heard you say that. >> correct. so it is public record and we totally agree. it's a martha raddatz o public . it's amazing one positive thing that happened on that date two years ago. it went threw with no money for new trees. i assumed it was going to include replacement trees and we wanted the public to know we're committed to maintaining existing trees. it's not a matter of will right now. we've put in a number of grants for a million dollars here and a million dollars there to get the money for planting. the planting will come. we don't have funding currently. >> did you hear that i was going to win the lottery next week? i heard a rumor. >> the feedback is, we're aware of the problem of the replacements and i have said to our team, we're implementing proposition a. we knew we were going to come across removals. it's not a good time to not have the funding to plant replacement trees. to me

so as we know, the part of the eraf discussion relative to the m.t.a. -- and i want to thank supervisor safai who pushed that $5 million for mitigation funding for relief. in light of that and our discussion, what i would like to do is ask our t.a. staff to analyze and present policy recommendations, and they can do that in conjunction with the sfmta and other agencies, including our department of public works as to how this fund ought to be administered, what the eligibility criteria should be or would be, how small businesses can effectively be built into the oversigh oversight. and also speaking of oversight and structuring the fund, i am looking forward to hearing the final recommendations from our c.t.a. staff as it relates to oversight and restructuring and delivery of the caltrain retail extension, something that took on a whole new shade as the govern governor announced about an hour ago it doesn't appear this administration is going to support high speed rail from los angeles to the city of san francisco, so we need to weave that into the discussion. there are different interpr

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the main construction in this area is due to the city -- the m.t.a., rather, having their mission bay loop project under construction. however, i have confirmed by e-mail just this morning that the said project's in fact to be completed this may and therefore, the majority of construction at this location should cease, and it should become a much more amenable section for sidewalk dining. a restaurant is proposed, however not feasible without the said sidewalk dining. therefore, it is critical that the port of san francisco approve this encroachment permit. the restaurant should be completed right around the same time frame as the completion of the park and therefore should coincide nicely with the termination of construction. there is very little retail connection between pier 70 and chase center at the moment. we are locate the ad 18th and illinois street and therefore would create additional pedestrian activation in addition to the proposed park which should create a very nice synergy between the two uses. i would like to reference the port's strategy plan which states the followin

there's other stuff, is that accessible on the website like the m.t.a. capital program audit? i like to see that? >> we're not yet done with it. >> i'll wait. >> we'll be more than happy to fit everyone on our distribution list so you'll automatically receive our audits. we'll work to get everyone email address to make insure that happens. thank you. >> i have a question for peg. page 6, the lincoln homeless clients with benefits. i think this is a great idea to educate and walk through these clients and i noticed that some of the benefits that we're providing would not be reimbursed if the client is not registered with med cal. some way you found a we to deliver services at reduced cost. you call this a pilot. obviously it seem to be working based on your results. how would would this be continued? they are picking up the best practices. you call it a pilot. how can we find a way to continue this best practice? >> you'd have to confirm with the departments it's my understanding they intend to take the procedures and the format that was used by the benefits navigators and inst

. >> so within the m.t.a. dget, is there any part of the budget that could be tapped to support something like this? >> i think it is all trade-offs. it would be something that our board of directors struggles with every year, as i mentioned to, this is one group that certainly is a need, but we have a number of other groups that also have expressed a need that don't necessary qualify for these types of programs, so it's a question of, where do you place that line, and two qualifies while still protecting the revenues of the agency. >> great spirit and beyond the budgetary challenge, can you explain or identify any other challenges as far as administering a temporary emergency, fair free program for a group of impacted community members. >> i really couldn't. i can't think of any at this point. we usually figure out how to handle the administrative side. >> yeah. echoing supervisor mar, i would love to know more about whether something like this would be possible to have. and the situation with the federal work

i'm getting periodic updates from the port and m.t.a. police, i'm working with them. ey sent me an annual calendar of known events. a lot of the ones that i'm missing with, like, the first amendment events, and then i'm working with police districts to figure out if these first amendment events or parades are happening again. i'm still trying to reach out to the other departments. i've had good conversation with environments, transbay terminal, 311, city hall events office, as well as bill graham and parks alliance. there are still several more departments i'm trying to get meetings or information from. i'll keep you guys posted and then i'll do an evaluation or a survey six months down the road, just to find out are they using it, is it useful to their needs, what can you done to improve it. then lastly looking ahead to the entertainment night life summit, there will be an outdoor event component, so i'm working on that, just brainstorming with maggie today about that. we think that this idea of the cannabis theme has a lot more traction and a lot more opportunity to

so, while we have an opportunity to rebuild the maintenance yard consistent with the m.t.a. facility's vision back from 2012, there is an opportunity to make a better use of that site. especially in this time of scarcity of housing and other needs. as it is a very large and would be a very large construction and development project that the community engagement and process will be important. so to that end the two workshops we're holding will be this thursday and saturday. thursday is 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. and saturday is 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., held at the mission arts center at 745 tree. and it will be an opportunity for us to both share kind of the needs and the importance of the facility but also start getting feedback from the community about what could be much more detail. we're excited for that to be moving forward as the yard itself has significant needs. but there is other needs in the city that we can address through this promise as well. now i want to ask our transits director julie kirshbalm to give you an update on metro service. >> good afternoon. i'm here to