between the mta and the police. so there is a disagreement with the mta response. supervisor chu? supervisor chu: given that this is related to halpern officers are trained in the academy, i would take the recommendation, and that it to be referred to the police academy for their consideration and adoption. supervisor mar: without objection. the recommendation is by january 1, 2011, the police, in conjunction with police and post, should update the training materials and develop a plan to distribute such materials to officers. the police department's response is the recommendation is a sound one and should be recommended to the police academy for adoption. can we adopt that without objection? moving on, the item is cyclists may not be aware of the advantage of having liability insurance. there is agreement from the responses. can we adopt the agreement? supervisor maxwell>> without ob. supervisor chu: i think with the train of conversation we had before, perhaps not a formal amendment to the bike plan as it is curre

the mta serves a diverse population. looking at the board of directors, looking at the website, there is some adversity, but there are some communities not represented. i do not know that there is a latino member of the board of directors at this point. might be in terms of the representation of people across the spectrum, the socio-economic spectrum. there are people who speak many languages in san francisco. many of them ride muni on a regular basis. i wonder if you could speak to your ability to work with these diverse communities to make sure that their concerns are adequately represented. >> absolutely. i'm committed to making sure that any information, any changes, any benefits that we can bring to muni serve all communities, and that we can access all those communities. again, to my work with sunday streets, i know what a challenge that is. we would translate our materials into several languages and inevitably miss something, get something wrong. it is a big challenge. we faced that on the livable city board. we wo

and the mta response is that they partially agree. one officer was listed, however, using the acknowledgement of proxy for participation does not reflect the range. city staff members themselves what, bite, use transit ticket to work. the police department was fully consulted in the creation of the plan and the police department's response is police officers experience traffic safety and full-time bicycle officers should be utilized in the development of policy. i would be in agreement. supervisor maxwell: i would recommend that we adopt the mta response. having a different range of participation in the workshops that have gone through should be accounted for, even though it may not have been part of the acknowledgment. i think we should probably add to the mta response and say that police officers experience in traffic, bike safety, should be more fully utilized in the development of the policy. supervisor maxwell: also in the next plan that they and the pedestrians and more police officers. the recommendation from the sfpd should be

i just want to understand from the department point of view how the mta response. what would it mean if you were to amend the bike plan? are the implications of that? if we were to not go down that path, what is the option for us for some of these recommendations before us? >> smith, sfmta. we adopted our budget plan just last year. every fi

before introducing the civil grand jury foreperson, and wanted to say that with the san francisco mta sustainable streets group, we just met from the traffic department, someone from the mayor's office, the chair of the bicycle advisory committee, and people from the budget analyst's office, who have helped us looking at the findings and recommendations in the chart and giving suggestions to us as well. from the community side, we have members of the san francisco bicycle coalition. i want to introduce lizzie of the civil grand jury foreperson. >> good morning, chair mar. i am leslie couch. i was chairperson of the 2009-to this and 10 grand jury. -- 2009-2010 grand jury. this is our last report this year. the civil grand jury brings to the city issues that threaten successful implementation of the san francisco bicycle plan. its findings and recommendations are designed to encourage the city to educate residents about sharing the roadways, to increase police enforcement and safety. chairperson mar: can i quickly jump in? i forgot to call item 3, which is connected to item two. could y

this is a seminal moment in our city and i want to thank the mta board. some members here today, commissioner bruce oka, commissioner knollen and others for prioritizing pedestrian safety. i think we're ready to take it to the next level in expanding and improving pedestrian environment in san francisco. as someone that walked to work down van ness most days i can attest to most recent improvements and on-going challenges where the need to have pedestrian countdown signals on high traffic intersections or issues of the quality of pavement in cross walks or clarity of the cross walks themselves so i'm excited to be here today and be part toichl improvements and then on behalf of mayor newsom and administration we're excited to support the m.t.a's work of this. i'll give you 30 seconds of context and why pedestrian matters to ten environment in san francisco we focus and contextize most of our work around climate change and protection. when you look at greenhouse gas pollution generateed san francisco, just half are related. 51 percent come from vehicles and

the mta says it will not be implemented. it is not feasible to amend the plan and the plan already provides distribution of educational material. so this is another one where i am not in agreement that the bicycle plant should be amended. i think we should start by saying disagree and it will not be implemented, but in corporate with the bicycle advisory committee is saying -- incorporate what the bicycle advisory committee is saying about more educational programs to raise awareness. that would be my recommendation. supervisor chu: i agree we probably should say disagree with amending the bike and for this purpose, but perhaps we can incorporate part of the bac's response which is the educational program bursa's the materials -- versus the materials question. chairperson mar: without objection for that language. finding 2b is "a police training materials are out of date and not relevant. the plan's goals, objectives, and actions do not include the police. the california commission on peace officer standards or training is a

right now, the mta is negotiating the acquisition of the properties. they should go to bid by march of this year. also part of the project is an arts program, which is in accordance with seven to discuss city policy. -- san francisco city policy. the purpose of this is to commission some of our local pieces. right now, the budget for this portion is $14.5 million. basically, it is intended to enhance the rider's experience. you notice the station we have on market street right now are rather bare, except for advertising -- utilitarian is a better word. to that effect, in july of this year, two artists were selected for the project. they are now in the development stage. mta submitted the report for the new starts. the letter for prejudice approval. that will allow them construction on that access to it. -- access pit. then in february, a major milestone, full funding. immediately after, construction will begin. revenue service, just for the christmas season. the funding plan is mainly unchanged from the baseline. the funding shortfall has been reduced

supervisor avalos: do you have budgetary numbers for what the mta is currently paying -- d get a sense of what the fda is saying then hough and the morning. >> good morning, shorthand -- because i do not have a site map -- roughly $5 billion this year. funding is very prominent in the bicycle area. dobbs out of a total of about $80 million in prop k funds. supervisor campos: thank you. and questions from the committee? do we have a notion -- and motion to approve it? it is fairly important, whether or not we are talking about traffic or safety issues, often times the answer is education, education, so i would be supportive of continuing to include this. we have one motion without objection. >> item #6, recommended appropriation of $100,000 in crop k funds with a condition for the purposes of partially defraying the cost of a management for its audit of the municipal transportation authority board. >> this is a follow-up to the something that the board dealt with in june. the original item was that with at the board of supervisors and was presented at the time is a proposal for a second

and i would like the mta -- and i would like the mta to answer questions in that regard. clerk calvillo: thank you, mr. president. supervisor elsbernd: this would cover our graffiti laws, and in district 11, the number of vehicles attached to some commercial stores have been sitting out in front of their warehouse space, collecting lots and lots of tags come in yet, there is nothing on the books that requires them to clean up their vehicles and to cause blood to accumulate in certain areas. one establishment in particular is a market on the corner of main and mission streets, and this legislation, if enacted, would help to assure that we had recourse, that they were improving the conditions around their buildings, especially around the trucks that they use for their business. that is my one item. thank you. clerk calvillo: thank you, supervisor avalos. supervisor daly? supervisor daly: thank you. about building the bocce ball courts. , i thank them for setting it up. it is with some mixed emotion. the recreational activities that we should be thinking about. i appreciate

amount not to exceed $200,000 for audit services for a limited scope management performance audit of the mta. >> this item is on your agenda packet starting on page 5. essentially, there was an initiative by the board of supervisors -- i'm glad that the chair of the authority is here because he was one of the key proponents -- to do a performance audit of the municipal transportation agency. this was several months ago, and at the time, there was a request made through the plans and programs committee to allocate funds to match other monies that the board of supervisors was earmarking for this purpose. $100,000 got earmarked for that, and the authority was asked to approve the procurement of the management performance audit services. we work very closely with the office of commissioner david campos, who was the lead on this item, i believe, together with commissioner mirkarimi. the board of supervisors put together a scope of work. we issued an rfp, and were very clear that this would initially be dealt with by staff, but it would be directed by the board itself, and at the time, during the

the system is currently accepted in ferry, mta, and vta will offer clipper in 2010. the clipper program is also included on page 55 of your packets, a presentation prepared by the mta for the board. the overall project is funded by a variety of federal, state, and local funds. an $11 million stimulus grant for phase 1. phase 2 is [inaudible] dollars. phase 2 will install ticket vending machines at several stops and provide project support. procurement will begin this summer with project compleion expected by spring of 2013. the second project is the light rail corridor improvement, a $100,000 request to leverage almost $500,000 in federal funds to upgrade signals at 115 locations, over 50 on the line and shown to be improved under the project. it will also upgrade pavement markings to enhance no u-turn instructions. the counting project will do counts at 25 locations this fll, to complement 25 studied last fall and reocmmendation will be in a pedestrian exposure model based on volume and collision history. past allocation has provided for consultant services for model

we're going to have the project manager of m from theta -- from the mta take us over to the ticket machine. they will give us a demonstration of how the machines work, and they will give us cards from the new gates. we will come back and use the clipper cards on the new fare gates. >> and they will want to thank them for the lumir willingness. i want to recognize that we also have a very diverse group of individuals serving on a diverse group of boards and bodies. have the pleasure of reappointing someone who has a connection that goes back generations, larry mazzola, sr. i'm pleased that subject to approval, p.j. johnson will serve again. president of the arts commission, who has been doing an outstanding job, really raising the bar in terms of public art and our commitment to neighborhood arts. i want to thank lisa gruwell for her willingness to serve on the civil service commission that sets my salary. i wish you luck and independence from whoever is serving as mayor. i want to thank the environment commission, which is something we are very proud of, for his willingness to serve as a n

there were options that were proposed before the mta and the task group to make sure that we could have technical feasibility. we also have subsequent to the publication of the draft and garmin to review an updated and review meeting with the staff that we met with including construction and operation off just to make sure that they were aware of the latest and newest developments. now a couple of words that are important to understand and the difference to train the steady and the individual projects. the supervisor asked the city to look at what is happening in the southwestern corner of san francisco and to look at the large developments proposed because so much was being proposed for change. san francisco stages completed its master plan. some came before the city planning commission and while back. that was after concerns about the development proposal. we would like to make this fit better into the san francisco neighborhood. this project overview, we have put these together with any significant proposal that we know of and we put them on the same table and we started to analyze d

none of the data is stored on the meter or by the mta. it is handled by the meter company and processed as quickly as possible. there's very little risk of using credit cards at the meters. >> [unintelligible] concerned about the possibility of [inaudible] [traffic] >> one of the great things about the meters is that it makes it so easy to pay. people should get a lot fewer parking tickets and area. that can leave people with a bitter taste in your mouth. that is one part. the demand response of pricing , the mta is legally obligated to charge lowest pricing available to create a target. it will be easy for customers to come and find a space quickly. my name is jay primus. i am the program manager for sf park. thank y>> thank you very much. why don't you do a demonstration for them? >> meter has some time on it. you concede the flashing -- you can see the flashing led. now it is cancelled. it is going through the verification process. it starts with a minimum of 30 minutes. you can add or subtract time. [traffic] when you are ready, you ca

the bicycle plant injunction has been lifted in 2006, we will continue to work together with the mta to make sure, as has been our goal for the past year, that there is a steady stream of projects ready to implement. at this point, up 21 bicycle projects will be completed by the nba next year -- mta next year with a bike schedule of the end of your packet including the names and locations of the project that are fca funded, many of them using crop k. we kick off the san francisco transportation plan with additional members for the community advisory committee and applications that are due on october 1 and anyone interested should check the web site, or call 522-4800. on the transportation plan. we are actively working on the sustainability efforts strategy, thursday we will be hosting a leadership roundtable with participation from several members of this board looking at the big issues that are coming up related to greenhouse gas reduction in the air resources board approving targets on thursday for sb375 a capital reduction target for 2015 of 15% per capita by 2035, which are ambiti

supervisors and was presented at the time is a proposal for a second phase of a limited scope audit of the mta. the program authority committee was to fund managing performance with funds identified by the board of supervisors. at the time, the committee and the board deemed it appropriate to spend that kind of money on essentially the largest client of the authority. we proceeded, during the recess, to try to get that second phase contract out for the purpose of having it under way when you came back. but there were a couple of problems in executing that. the first was that i only had a $70,000 budget authority to get going. the second is that the amount of money available in the inclination for pursued was not a quid. we did advertise the scope and we receive one responsive bid. i felt uncomfortable with the idea of moving forward with a piece of work as uncomfortable as this -- important as this on a single bid. so, we canceled that procurements. at this time we advertise a scope with a maximum of $200,000 for the scope that was initially discussed. we did receive three bids for the second

. >> the mta says we are $800 million in the hole.lack. >> there is nothing funny about it says james mcdougal. public sector unions are parasites that will bankrupt america. >> it is literally the parasite devouring the host. >> the host he says is private enterprise and the parasite is unions and government. >> it is crazy that the private sector is literally dying and the federal government is providing more and more and more pay and benefits to its own ememployees at the same time. >> mcdougal built this payroll service company from scratch. his business was all about employee pay and so over the years he has been dismayed to watch government award their workers raises and special benefits like retirement at age 55. >> used to be the deal you could work for the government because it is safe, you can't be fired but you make less. now, they make if you include the pension, double. >> more than double because they have fantastic benefits. >> people say you union thugs are sucking the life out of america. >> you know what i say to tha