later in the agenda a presentation about the san francisco transportation plan, which is actually the long-range vision for transportation investment by the authority here in the city and county of san francisco. that plan is mandated by state law and its purpose is to really figure out what the transportation needs for the city long-term are. and, so, i think it's important for us to begin the discussion of what those needs are, what the future looks like, and what the challenges in meeting the needs that the city has and will have, what those challenges will be. we need to think about this issue and specifically focus on ways in which we can bring revenue into the system, the kinds of investments that need to be made not only by the county transportation authority, but other agencies like the san francisco mta. i look forward to a substantive discussion. and again, this is the beginning of this discussion and we know that we will have additional discussions that will take place. i also want to note that because of the good work of our staff at the authority, we recently received some money on the planning front. we actually received half a millio

these different parcels and the cost to do the transportation projects and the ancillary projects that were listed in that resolution. when the transportation authority looked at this earlier, they were looking at money going back to the agency and thought that was money going to affordable housing instead of for transportation purposes. but really what it was was that we were looking at what the purchase price the agency was going to pay. and at that point from early estimations we could tell that the purchase price was going to be the lower amount. it wasn't going to be 17-1/2 million, but approximately am around million. the shortfall was going to be a little bit less. the money was not going to be given to the agency and now mo, affordable housing. in essence the amount they overpaid up front as we were wait tog figure out what the purchase price would be, they agreed they would pay the higher amount and wait i'd the end of the day and see if that was ing to be the lower amount for the purchase. >> then it would be a true up? >> yes, that would be a true up at the end of the day. they would look at the difference between all the proceeds coming i

amendment by the chair of the authority to remove ability of successor agency to delegate any authority whatsoever to staff, which some of us found to be extraordinary. the transportation authority was raised by commissioner elsbernd, where a authority is delegated. given that was a pretty divided vote at the full board it does make sense to put this forward without recommendation for debate by authorities. is that a motion, supervisor or commissioner? is there a second? second by commissioner chiu. colleagues, can we take that motion without -- actually, open up to public comment. any members of the public who would like to comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, can we take that motion without objection? that will be the order. item five. >> introduction of new items. this is an introduction item. >> any introductions? public comments? seeing none, public comment is closed. item six. >> six, public comment.

okay the san francisco county transportation, the san francisco county transportation authority and the so-called experts. they don't even represent the diversity of san francisco. they don't represent the diversity of san francisco. how are we choosing this so-called experts? on lifestyle, something else? if you speak the truth, you say, that's not politically correct. what is politically correct? is transparency politically correct? is accountability politically correct? when a high-level mta official talks to me and says she doesn't trust or he doesn't trust the san francisco transportation authority, and the deliberation and if we say what we have to say, after we have the documents is that politically correct? come on, man. y'all have a conscious. use it. thank you very much. >> thank you, is there any other member of the public that would like to speak. please come forward. >> san francisco supervisors, transportation authority. congrats, you're doing a great job of sacking the job all in the quality of life in san francisco. it's a perfect time right now to get away with absolute

i will turn it over to liz -- from the transportation authority. >> good morning commissioners. good afternoon, liz brison san francisco county transportation authority, steve asked me to recap highlights from the transportation investment strategy, approved this past may by mpc and abag. a little background on what the regional competition planning processes.something going on since sb 375 was passed, updated every four years about those regions long response petition activities they do revenue forecast.this update, 277 billion. and then they speak about how this funding should be prioritized. 91 billion is considered discretionary to the region. the rpp is quite important for two reasons. it is a sort of gatekeeperi to federal and state funds for transportation projects in san francisco might need to access. you have to be in the rtp in order to get a federal action on your project. it is also the regions policy statement about transportation. indicates where we are headed in this region. with adding context i want to recap maybe four of the highlights from the transportation i

with the west plan, which is something that came out of the transportation authority study, is that something we are looking to down the road? >> so we are recommending funding for something that was included in that neighborhood transportation plan, mid-block crossings at seventh and eighth, submit bid the authority. we have been in discussion with mta. they have agreed to be the sponsor and internally developing a project and schedule tol -- schedule to deliver and other authorities as well. >> thank you. >> finishing up on ellis and eddie, attachment 3, the authority submitted a bunch of projects because when we do plans we have to work with implementing agencies primarily and make sure they take ownership. ellison eddie will follow up. one of the other points is estimate was around $6 million, a big bite. maybe we can phase or backfill so we will follow up with your office. >> okay. let's go ahead and open for public comment. >> good afternoon, committee members. my name is tony moran with san francisco park and rec. i would like to say how excite wed are to have the project corridor cons

the future. >> thank you very much. >> thank you commissioners. we cannot move forward to item 9 on your calendar, informational hearing on san francisco transportation plan. >> i'm here to introduce rachel hiatt from the transportation authority to talk to this item. >> good afternoon commissioners -- that it it for planning with the transportation authority, thank you for having rachel and me the present on the long-range transportation planning update to the transit system partition plan. i appreciate the comments of commissioner antonini and several of you speaking to the tremendous challenge that we have; the existing needs and the mass of the place on it every day for all communities but especially communities who our transportation captive and have fewer choices and rely on public transit. for example we have been in discussions with your staff and the rest of the region as you know about the regional planning initiative; san francisco have demonstrated leadership. we can continue to do so, with the help of the public and you all elected leaders i know by way of introduction to rachel hiatt will present an update that we have a leadership roundtable, all participated. as well as several board members; they noted that ev

this is sponsored by the municipal transportation authority. the first meeting will be on tuesday, october 23, at 2:00 pm at 1 south van ness. the public is welcome. what the committee plans to do is review existing state and local walls that govern placards in blue zones and make recommendations for either new policies or laws. some of the numbers that are behind this ert are that san francisco has 29,200 metered on street parking spaces and 53,500 disabled parking placards. now, a parking placard, of course, allows you to park in a blue zone but many people who use placards also use them to park on the street and they can legally park in a green zone or at a metered spot without feeding the meter. but there is a problem that has been at least broadcast in the media of late. so if we set placards aside for a moment, i think everybody who's tried to park in san francisco knows it's really hard to find a spot. we're all in competition. and this is one of the reasons why our city supports having public transit and other modes of transportation lik

. >> thank you, supervisor chiu, the transportation authority makes all modes of transportation possible in san francisco, and sfmta garage is one of our corner stone location partners for the launch of our public data, we're very happy to have director of the sfmta ed risken here to say a couple of words at our launch. er >> thank you and good morning, as the city's transportation director, i have the privilege of managing the mta which is the agency in san francisco responsible for implementing the city's transit first policy. in order to implement that policy, there's two key things we need, we need strong leadership and innovation and what we're seeing today is the manifestation of just that in san francisco. what we need to do as the government and the transportation agency is make sure there are good choices available to people in terms of how they get around san francisco. we want people to feel like they don't need to get in their car, they don't want to get in their car, maybe like supervisor chiu and i, they don't own a car because there are other good options for them to get a

yes, all of the information that people submit will come to the transportation authority for us to analyze and look at the range of priorities and trends; this input will be advisory to us as we develop possible investment scenarios, both financially constrained as well as potential vision scenarios; what are users interested in? the other way that we are reaching out to people, traditional ways, reaching out to neighborhood organizations, the board members, organizations and constituents, going to festivals each district, community events, as well as through online. >> people who deal with muni and people who deal with the ta; everybody knows muni, not everybody knows the ta. how are you working with them? >> we will be going to the ta board a making presentations. we have been working with mta's public city staff to get advertisements onto muni shelters; and onto buses. this week we started doing outreach in buses throughout the city itself, working through muni and mta's sort of outreach projects as well. >> i'm curious about how you will synthesize all of this information. and understa

. >> we had an estimate from the head of the transport authority who said it could be four days until they get out the water which is before they are able to assess the damage to see what the water has done to electrical systems and trains still in those tunnels. they hope they have managed to move as much out of harm's way as possible. also the impact on getting around the city banned in the wind has now dropped so we expect the bridges to be reopened in. in lower manhattan, the area most exposed, it is pretty impassible at the moment. >> thanks very much for that update. we will be back with you throughout the day to keep us posted on the situation. joining us now is david from the disaster relief organization operation. i can see a little bit of daylight behind you. is that a street or a river behind you? >> it is a streak but in the last 48 hours it has been a river. the floods have now receded. this is the first time i have seen the street in a couple of days. things in virginia are starting to get back to normal. a sigh of relief for virginia but now the focus is turned to the s

>> good morning and welcome to the san francisco county transportation authority meeting of tuesday october 23rd order, 2012. my name is david campos and i am the chair of the authority. madam secretary, if we can roll >> commissioner >> present. >> commissioner chu >> carmen chuy. commissioner cohen >> commissioner elsbernd >> present. >> commissioner >> commissioner >> present. >> vice chair wiener. we have quorum. >> please call item two. approval of the minutes. >> before we take action to this item. is there a member of the public that would like to speak on item two? seeing none. public comment is closed. colleagues, you have the minutes of the meeting before you. if we can take a motion to approve the minutes. motion by commissioner avalos. seconded by commissioner farrell. we will take that without objection. >> on item two. roll call. campos, >> roll call taken. item passes. >> if you can please call item number three. >> report, this is an information item. thank you very much. colleagues i have a very brief report today. we had two significant transportation events. on october 11

today the transportation authority we had discussion about shuttle buses and in the city we're see ang increase of the use of shuttle buses both within san francisco and those that commute to outside of san francisco. the shuttle buses clearly provide a real benefit around decreasing the amount of trips that are taken by automobiles. often people who choose to go on shuttles, if they didn't have a shuttle as an option would be in a car driving by themselves. so we know there is really great benefits to the shuttle system. we know we're seeing a proliferation of them and we don't quite have a handle in the city how to manage our shuttle -- the private shuttle fleets in the city, especially as they relate to public space that we have around muni stops. so rather than not look at how we can prevent the wild west of the shuttles to become what is happening in san francisco, it's best that we look at how we can manage that. today i am requesting the city attorney to help us draft a permit process to regulate shuttles in san francisco and colleagues, i would be very interested in having inpu

the strategic plan, along with first allocations. good morning, i'm chad tradman, transportation plan nr with the authority n. terms of the agenda this is 8, begins on page 83. maria did background in terms of bringing forward different pieces of development, the first strategic program. 150 million over the life of the program and establish three programmatic plans. construction, public safety and transit reliability and mobility improvements. the slide serves as a bit of table of contents for what the final plan will incrude. as maria mentioned, very much in some ways like the prop k plan with several key differences. maria hit on a couple so the prop plan will be shorter because it has overall smaller dollar amount. there is no financing assumed within the prop and simpler plan. the five-year priority plans for each of the three programmatic categories established in the plan will be included as part of the plan for prop a and prop k, the five pps are separate apart from the strategic plan n. addition from the slide the policies criterias were adopted by the authority board. the key piece is programming no

the san francisco county transportation authority did play a role in it and think that's fine. you spent $700 million. starts at fourth and king and ends in the middle of visitation valley in no man's land. it's high time that whenever balboa station is mentioned, you are really a transit-first city, we connect balboa train station with visitation valley. the second point i want to make is on this so-so called mobility study. new right, the transportation system especially any of the buses that go up to hunter's point is very precarious. and this has been going on for many, many years. over 15 years. but in the last three years, it's despicable. you do not know who are the focus groups gathering to talk about some mobility program, but as far as the really plight of the people, something has to be done. and that's one of the ways where [inaudible] is fostered. the sfcta, loves to talk the talk, but cannot walk the walk. finally, i saw this thing in the bus that you be a czar for a day and now to the year 12-2040, you can spend $64 billion. we are not dealing with monopoly and th