as you know colleagues after a vetting process we appointed tilly cheng to her executive director position. and i look forward to discussing later on our agenda. 2013 also was a big year for local and regional transportation planning with the adoption of plan bay area the first regional plan to respond to statewide policy and investment policies that tie trapgs transportation to housing goals. last month brought conclusion of the mayor's task force report and much needed revenues for transportation and we'll continue to discuss and shape as we move into the new year and on today's agenda is the adoption of the san francisco transportation plan or sftp and it's our city's strategic transportation blue print that sets our investment priorities for policy discussion for years to come i want to thank staff and our sftpc and the public in this complex and important work. i also want to recognize great staff work on innovative tools such as my street sf.com easy tools to find out where transportation projects are happening and weigh in on priorities. to congestion management and neighborhood acc

. >> good morning tilly cheng executive director. my report is on your desk. it's only been a few short weeks but we've got a full report for you today at the federal level we noticed that the house of representatives passed a 2 year budget agreement which reduces the likely hood of another shut down which is always good news and shows highway programs however will not be subject to can you cuts. it is positive. at the state level cap and trade discussions continue. the legal hurdles have been cleared or 2 of them have been cleared and there also appears to be an expected state budget surplus so renewed energy and see if the governor might be will to repay some of the cap and trade funds so we'll continue to work with the san francisco city family and folks around the state on that effort. here region ly the cap and trade discussions will be happening tomorrow at mtc continuing on the framework that was introduced last month that we discussed in my last report talks about a very significant investment in the 3 major transit operators bart and muni and ac trans

and >> regarding this -- i've been on the cac since 97 i worked with the executive director, tilly cheng on one five year and i think you should look and see what's been done in the past under the five year and prioritize the projects that have not been done before you move forward with anything else. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> next speaker please. >> good morning my name is kate hodge. i want to commend the staff for the tremendously hard work with this plan. based on a five year plan the strategy developed by the mta an excellent strategy but it's been turned into a 25 year plan this is a strange development and i wonder how our city is going to live up to its promise. right now what you are asking for -- so we're 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. >> absol

i want to thank tilly cheng for her work over the past several months in putting together her performance goals. that review while not made public was a document that was used and made discussions in putting together the performance goals of the executive director among other parts that were contributing to the performance goals. and developing these goals and making sure that the departments and input and community input had been put forward. of course she's done a lot of work internal ly with the organization in helping to put together these performance goals and i want to give her the opportunity to present these to us here today and we'll give her a moment to come forward. >> thank you chair avalos i'm pleased to present the performance goals for my position over the coming year and as you can imagine these goals reflect our aspirations and intentions for the whole organization we had very thoughtful discussions among the team, management team and entire staff division by division meetings and i certainly did continue to work with a number of you and met with my counter parts over the

as you know colleagues after a vetting process we appointed tilly cheng to her executive director position. and i look forward to discussing later on our agenda. 2013 also was a big year for local and regional transportation planning with the adoption of plan bay area the first regional plan to respond to statewide policy and investment policies that tie trapgs transportation to housing goals. last month brought conclusion of the mayor's task force report and much needed revenues for transportation and we'll continue to discuss and shape as we move into the new year and on today's agenda is the adoption of the san francisco transportation plan or sftp and it's our city's strategic transportation blue print

because they are all doing an excellent job i've worked with tilly before, the five year ppp and they are all doing an excellent job and i think ms. cheng should go forward and continue to be the executive director without any problem whatsoever thank you very much. >> thank you very much any other member of the public who would like to comment please come forward and seeing none we'll close public comment. >> i'd like to thank our executive director for coming forward with her performance goals and i want to encourage you colleagues to make sure that you work with her to make sure that we're all living up to those goals she has really reached out to make sure. okay. so if we can have a roll call vote. >> item 11. >> avalos aye. >> breed aye. >> campos aye. >> chiu aye. >> cohen aye. >> kim absent. >> tang aye. >> wiener aye. >> yee aye. >> item passes. >> great. next item please. >> item 12 this is an information item. >> colleagues any comments or questions and seeing none we'll go to public comment. >> and seeing no one from the public come forward we'll close public comment and go to the next item. >> item 13. >> public comment. >>