the board is approving a contract that authorizes the mta to purchase the 5 thousand additional meters, so in that sense, that piece is binding mta may purchase 5 thousand for optional meters. supervisor avalos' amendment includes an additional whereas clause that talks about the allocation of those meters, that is not binding on the mta, the mta has exclusive authority to determine how to allocate the meters, but the resolution reflects the board's understanding of the mta's intent at this time to allocate the meters in the way set forth in the resolution. er >> thank you. if i may then through the chair, if i can ask director ris k*en, and again, i support this item, i think the amendments that have been made make sense but given that the language that is i think the reason why so many of you are supporting this is not binding on the mta, i want to make sure i have a clear understanding that the mta as far as you know, as far as you're concerned, it's committed to making sure that you follow the intent, the very expressed sbept that's imbedded in the resolution. inger >> yes, thank y

we can forward it electronically to the board right now. we understand from mta staff that they would like to move forward with the allocation today and they are here to answer questions that you may have about the potential impact of moving this forward today versus moving it forward in january. >> and chair avalos i would like to recommend that we move this forward today. given that the mta has met the condition to get the maintenance plan but my hope is that staff can look at the plan and i think that would be good to forward to all of us electronically as well. >> okay. thank you commissioner mar. with no other public comment on this item, number 8. >> and seeing no one come forward we'll close -- are you coming to the podium? >> good morning commissioners avalos i'm a member of the cac i was at the program's committee last week when i heard this item. unfortunately i didn't get there in time for commissioner mar to hear me but regarding this item, doesn't muni have a budget that deals with maintenance this sort of thing and maintenance and operations -- shou

of the 10 projects, actually maybe i can ask the mta staff about the preliminary design of the projects and the additional 5 projects. are you aware whether the 8 axis is included in this list and/or would you like to hold off the approval of the funding for this design until we get more questions and answers? >> we have not moved in that direction yet. i'm not sure what is proposed in the project. we haven't taken that position yet. >> okay. i will ask mta staff but i will wait after public comment. or not. i think we should let public comment through. >> yes. we should keep going. >> hi, good morning. my name is jane martin and from people organized employment rights and we organize low income bus riders. while there are parts of the tep wr excited about but there are impacts that are a reduction for our communities and we know that the title 6 analysis actually hasn't been done jet and the mta is embarking on a lot of community outreach. we want to see the results of that and want to make sure as the board goes to make more decision about tep, the needs of our community is taken into

i have a clear understanding that the mta as far as you know, as far as you're concerned, it's committed to making sure that you follow the intent, the very expressed sbept that's imbedded in the resolution. inger >> yes, thank you for the question, and absolutely. i guess a couple of control points here, first of all, as i said with not to exceed amount of 5 thousand, that's what we believe we will need rally basically just to maintain the asset base that we have to deal with the routine maintenance needs, the retune replacement needs, the meters sometimes get vandalized, get hit by trucks, the 5 thousand really just enable us to do that plus keep a reserve for the port for their replacement. the second point of control which is to some extent moved at this point is the new smta board adopted policy with regard to outreach, so to the comments of i don't want to wake up and find a whole bufrnl of parking meters in my district or my neighborhoods which nobody wants to be surprised by new parking meters, we have a process that would inhibit that from happening but ultimately as i said in a

>> thank you, president chiu, i wanted to thank supervisor avalos for working with the mta. i know when it first came to the budget committee, there wasn't that much detail in it, so i think the reduction from 10 thousand to 5 thousand of these new meters is important and designating where they're going to go is really important. i think public space though is a rare and valuable commodity in our city and how we allocate it is important and that discussion came up in the budget department as well, i think the mta has committed through this process to a much stronger engagement in community process whenever they consider parking meters and other parking management tools, so i'm really grateful for mr. ris k*en and the mta for working with our offices as well, when it first dame to the budget committee, i urged the mta to develop a significant base lao*in for outreach for communities in neighborhoods that are impacted and sometimes the meters are the right answer, and other times they are not. as around usf, university of san francisco, we found out sometime last year, the size

the sf p.d. officers and sf mta and community members. because the overnight nature of the restrictions, the enforce ment is mainly carried out by night watch and p.d. station. the pilot location was originally selected to concentrate in two sf p.d. directs in ter very well and bayview to enforce the operations. we also consolidated the location extent so we have enough sample size in either location to be able to take some meaningful measurements and comments on the results. these locations were reviewed at an sf mta public hearing in the june 4, 2013. i will show you the maps of those locations in a second. in cooperation with the office of hope and also the san francisco department of public health and the homeless outreach team, we conducted outreach to particularly house those folks in the pilot area of 2013 and also following adoptions of the locations. flyers were issued as supervisor tang mention several times in those areas providing resources where those folks can ge assistance from programs and also accommodations for their need

i wanted to thank the mta for being here. several staff -- i know janet was here earlier but thanks to the staff and i wanted to thank the bicycle coalition for being here and mr. hill from the community advisory committee and others as well. really quickly i wanted to say a number of critical points were brought up. i think leah said "if we build it they will come" and i think the three-5% mode share has been increased over the years but much more needs to be done in reaching the ambitious goals as others have pointed out it's really important that we aggressively take an approach to improving the infrastructure but also education and advocacy as well. i wanted to say that mr. jawa from the conservation of league of voters mentioned bicycling for bicycleelists but for others and the equity issue and others brought that up and sustainable environment is critical and alternative transportation including biking is critical and this is about a healthier san francisco as others brought up as well, so full build out benefits many f

plan requires a lot of funding as well as increased project delivery strategies partnerships with the mta and communities really allowing those projects to go in efficiently we can accelerate it with a concerted effort by the community by staff and new ways of doing business to implement these projects to design them faster and get in them in the ground faster and i believe there's no reason why we couldn't keep the pace of that investment but at the moment we're deliverying five million dollars per year and the new investment levels represents a large multiple of that about 38 million dollars per year if we were to do it by 2018 as was discussed at the hearing so this question of how much investment is not a concern i don't believe for us because it's really about can we get it done quickly in a timely way and to really discuss how we're going to do that neighborhood by neighborhood and corridor by corridor it's a whole new paradigm of delivery and community involvement in the outreach process to really discuss what we're wanting to see on the street how quickly we should be responding b

is the mta open to this idea? i think chair cohen raised this issue of this idea of what's happening in seattle of actually designating an area in the city where these people can park. >> i think it's what was mentioned is one of those programs where seattle and where they are working with private entities where they are housing those individuals on off sight parking lots. what we talk about is doing something on street which would be very problematic. part of the reason we are doing this is because of the over sized vehicle impact and designating an area in the street where they can park for that purpose. it's difficult to implement on street. i would hope there is an open mind here. i think we should look at what seattle and eugene are doing. we in san francisco have never been afraid to do something what no one else has done before. i understand that you want to respond to what you are hearing from these residents. but, we are talking about folks who at some point, you know, many of them were living in homes and

asking that the mta and other agencies involved with this plan development articulate how this is going to be able to reach the promised goal by 2020 thank you. >> thank you very much. any other member of the public would like to comment? okay. we'll close public comment. >> and colleagues commissioner wiener. >> i'd like to respond to ms. hodge's comment. >> absolutely. we very clearly support the bicycle strategy implementation. implementation of that plan requires a lot of funding as well as increased project delivery strategies partnerships with the mta and communities really allowing those projects to go in efficiently we can accelerate it with a concerted effort by the community by staff and new ways of doing business to implement these projects to design them faster and get in them in the ground faster and i believe there's no reason why we couldn't keep the pace of that investment but at the moment we're deliverying five million dollars per year and the new investment levels represents a large multiple of that about 38 million dollars per year if we were to do it by 2018 as was

the past. i'm john brewer with mta. the question you are asking is 5 years ago is what our plans and what sources we looked at and how we executed on that plan 5 years ago. i think adam got to some of that to each extent. each area develops and certain amount of impact fees which is what we did with the mta and other transit improvement and the others of the sales tax which supports many projects and you as towards the board enforce those dollars in the eastern neighborhood and planning and design are sources that we use to move those types of projects forward. there is the o bad grants that are released throughout the city. we are recently making improvements in that area and traffic and safety and bicycle improvements. there are funds and federal funds that will apply to this area that we are looking at now. we'll look at other grants such as highway improvement grants as it becomes necessary on data we get throughout the city, there is numerous grants that we are looking to constantly close the gap as you have noted w

the mta rail lines have 83 million passengers. the hudson line it alone moved 16 million passengers a year. this is a key part of the mass transit for people who live and commute into the city. the mta issued a warning to the hudson line passengers, they need to find alternative means of travel for tomorrow. >>> 67 people were hurt in that train crash and several were in pretty bad shape and sent to nearby hospitals. nic robertson is live for us in st. barn baabas hospital in the bronx. you said some of them were in surgery. >> reporter: some of them still in surgery. two critical. of the 12 people, one lucky young boy will be discharged. he just suffered cuts and bruises. his father not so lucky. he's still being treated here. doctors here have been describing to us just the severity of some of the injuries and the trauma people can expect in the future. >> among the more serious injuries, there's one gentleman with a spinal cord injury that could be quite, quite serious. the other more serious injuries are severe fractures and wh

the mta will be cooperating fully with the ntsb in this investigation. the mta wants to know what happened with this accident and if there is a lesson to be learned. safety is job one. we want to see the trains perform and perform on time, but safety is job one. any lessons from this tragedy is what we want to know. that's basically the purpose of the ntsb's investigation on site. once the ntsb is finished with the investigation, then the site will be turned over to the mta for repair work. there is a crane that is now in route that will right the trains which will be part of the investigation and part of the review of the site, but only once the ntsb is finished with the investigation can the mta seriously start to fix the tracks. the mta will be updating people periodically as to what the schedule will be for the repairs and the return of service. i think it is fair to say that tomorrow people using this line should plan on a long commute or plan on using the harlem line. mta. info is where you can go for the most recent information on service. i want

and first, i would like to thank the mta for meeting with the small business commission. and secondly, i would like to thank the commission to convening this meeting. some of us in this room were involved in the creation of a commission, going back to 1985. and at the time, we created the mission, the commission, to give the small business a voice and that has been our montra for 30 years now that we want the small business not to be the only voice, but when the decisions are made, that impact us, we want to be a voice in the discussions. it is important and i also want to thank, director executive director reiskin for meeting with us over the last few months. i think that it is important for the board to understand that decisions made by the mta, effect our livelihood, and they effect our employees, and there is steven cornel said we have a passion about that. and we want to be good people, good citizen and promote the interest and we want to promote the transit first, but this is our livelihood and your decisions impact our livelihood. the second thing that i would like

i am with the mta. i wanted to clarify a few statements that were made. i think that the way they're written is a little misleading, specifically the number of staff that is dedicated to bicycle projects and 37 people part of the traffic calming bicycle pedestrian, pedestrian safety, and school guard crossing program. the $7 million of the bike projects that some of the staff work on. it's not all 37. i wanted to clarify. i ask for that to be clarified. in addition we are worked on all of the funding recommendations that we put together with the strategic plan scenario were fed into the mayor's transportation task force process so they're in the recommended categories there, so we're happy to move that forward. of the recommendations that the legislative analyst made i think we're working on almost all of those and we're happy to come back periodically as it makes sense to update whether to this committee or the transportation authority whatever you think is appropriate on the update and the progress. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> so those are t