as chair of the transportation authority i want to thank you all for being her and want to thank you for your efforts so far in bringing up in project to fruition we have a ways to go but i'm happy to know we're on target. the construction of the westbound ramp simplified this the yerba buena island development. 17 years ago the u.s. navy closed it's basis and since then we've worked to approve 0 responsible and thought fulfill plan that will meet the needs of this area as a city as a whole. the future plan we at the board of supervisors approved hours for 20 thousand residents and new and upgraded roads including ferry terminal and extend bus services. this will expand the number of resident who will go live here. there's a planned transportation hub that is 15 percent walk and getting around and spending time here about will be different like with bused and ferries and so on. we're proud that the treasure island will be for the city and beyond a great benefit. with our many partners claiming the treasure island authority and the 0 deprivation and the workforce development have come

present are members of the sfmta, frank markowitz and cynthia fong from the san francisco transportation authority. i do have a short presentation that provides background on the treasure island transportation implementation plan and the role of the tima. if you like or i can take questions. ~ >> colleagues, any questions? >> as i mentioned, the treasure island mobility management agency was conceived first in the 2006 treasure island transportation planned authorized in assembly bill 98 1 in 2008, and the role of the timma and the scope of the treasure island transportation plans were further refined in the 2011 treasure island transportation implementation plan. it called for the establishment of the timma for management of the [speaker not understood] implementation. and the overall objective is to price automobile usage on the island through parking fees and [speaker not understood] to access the bridge to discourage driving to and from the future development on treasure island. the development program itself calls for 100,000 square feet of office space, 300 space is a [speaker not understood

mayor ed lee committed new resources for the pedestrian safety in the transportation authority we'll be k34i789d up to $10 million to improve the outcomes. i represent a neighborhood of san francisco south of 280 that not a week goes by you don't hear from several people asking for traffic coming. this is necessary to hone in to make the improvements in place and radical dozen. i want to thank the controller's office bringing forward the planning for walk first. i think it's significant that behind the scenes the controller's office this is a been working with city departments to come down and work collaboratively to protect the pedestrians all over the city. thank you (clapping.) thank you chair avalos. as i think you've heard one of the themes is this is something we're all unified behind and i want to acknowledge part of the leaders of that unity the woman who represents the district that has the significant challenges with regard to pedestrian safety and raised the bar supervisor jane kim. please give her a hand (clapping) and from the other end of the city someone in officer who

>> good morning, and welcome to the sf county transportation authority, my name is john avalos and i am the chair, and our clerk is cheng and recognize the work of our staff at sfgtv who are broadcasting today. >> avalos? >> present. >> breed? >> present. >> campos? >> present. >> chui. >> present. >> cohenn. >> present. >> farrell. >> absent. >> kim? >> here. >> present. >> commissioner mar? >> mar, absent, commissioner taning? >> present. >> commissioner weiner? absent. >> yee. >> present. >> we have a quorum. >> item two, approve the minutes of the january, 28, 2014, this xanax item. >> any comments or questions on this? seeing none, let's go under the public comment on item two, and seeing no one come forward we will close public comment, and could we have a roll call vote, please? >> avalos. >> aye. >> breed. >> aye. >> campos? >> aye. >> chui. >> aye. >> cohen. >> aye. >> farrell. >> absent. >> kim? >> aye. >> mar. >> absent. >> tang in >> aye. >> weiner? >> aye. commissioner yee in >> aye. >> the item passes. >> okay, item tlao. >> chair's report, this is an information item.

the local agency we got a lot of pope hope from caltrain's and mark and others from the transportation authority. the coast guard is had a aphasia a basis and they own the island and we've about that working with the coast guard 81 thank you for helping us goat the license if the coast guard you need the appropriate license agreements that's part of the agreement. by july of intuitively we got the construction funding approved and allocated which for us what a happy at a we started up new year's attorneys in 2013 we got the folks from the golden gate bridge we're happy to be with them. i want to recognize the construction transportation team their here in the audience and managing the efforts and overseeing the team and >> the subcontractors we're happy to have them here special thanks to the consulting group in particular paul payroll everything has been r0ir7bd and cooperated through paul and his staff and also barbary coast staff thank you in terms of the hard work over the last week. i want to get to acknowledge some very special the treasure island team bob is working as the new director we

here in the transportation authority, we wish to not only make the staff resources and funding available but also to create the capability for the board to provide the regular input, oversight and support to this multipronged effort, that is why you will see item 13, a proposal to create a vision on the board this will be a committee with the 24-month term and i have asked commissioner kim to lead it as chair, along with commissioner yee as vice chair. and in addition, we will have commissioners weiner and mar as vice chair and chair of our plans and programs on this new committee, and i will serve on it as an exoficio member and the hope is that by sustained and focused leadership we can help to get the safer street design in the ground and to facilitate more effective wide city education and enforcement efforts and meanwhile in parallel, i know that individual commissioners are taking pro-active steps to increase safety in their own districts in collaboration with the police departments including a buy lot that weiner is coordinating on san jose avenue, at the i280 off-ramp and includi

the city of san francisco sfgtv meeting of transportation authority occurring on march 25, 2014 will begin shortly. >> good morning. it is already the 25th day of march of 2014. welcome to the san francisco county transportation of authority. my name is john avalos of the chair of transportation authority. our clerk of the committee of the board is erika cheng. today's meeting is being broadcast by s fgtv staff of jessie /hrar sin and coal man. thank you for your service. madam clerk, would you please call the roll [roll call]. >> very good. next item please. >> march 25th 2014, this is is national item. >> we can go with the public comment on the minutes. any member of the public would like to comment. seeing none, we'll close for the comment. >> let's have a roll call vote [roll call]. >> minutes passed. >> great. let's go on to our next item, please. >> item three, treasury report, this is an information item. >> thank you, ms. cheng. colleagues, i begin our report this month in recommend /pwrapbs of joseph flanagan who passed away in early march. many of us knew him from district

thank you, president chow and one of another partner that the transportation authority thank you tilly chang she's one of the leaders in the city. the transportation authority is governed by an 11 member commission it happens to be the same commission it sits as our board of supervisors and they're led by a great advocate for equality and safety and transportation please welcome the chairman john avalos (clapping.) thank you, ed i'm really glad to be sharing this room with our city departments and the mayor. president of the board of my colleagues who have taken giant steps around the pedestrian safety supervisor yee and he supervisor jane kim and in particular i want to emphasize where we're at we're at a place to do new ways of business. we have about that as supervisor chiu discussed we've been tied and held back by dysfunction that can no longer happen. i've really dedicated the staff and transportation authorized to work closely that the mta and the public works and the department of pubt and the controller's office to do everything we can of new because of business. we've establi

i see no public comments to the county transportation authority is now open. seeing no members o-coming forward, we will close public comments and now we'll exhale. next item, please. >> item 17. >> commissioner kim. >> thank you chair avalos. i was told this is the appropriate time to submit an memorial in memory of our chair joseph flanagan. in many years, it has already been mentioned on our transportation authority advisory committee. actually, chief commission of district 6 lives blocks away and came to every single one of our meetings and probably had a better attendance than many of us on the transportation authority. to thank him for his work on behalf of the city and for his commitment to improving transportation for all residents here. so we'll like to end and adjourn in his memory and thank him so much for his work. >> and, on behalf of the entire county and the transportation board, i'd like to adjourn in his memory. thank you for bringing that forward commissioner kim. >> so madam clerk -- >> on behalf of commissioner kim and we will adjourn on be

special thanks to lee of the transportation authority and eric and our chief director dan the 3 of them got together and maid this project is delivered. the partnership starts they top i'm grateful to have a partner liken 81 i didn't chaupg who sets the goal of collaboration for the team to follow. i want to thank did california highway patrol for our construction workers and keeping our roads safe and our contractors. and i want to thank you for incorporating the small businesses into their work that's important to be inclusive when we do this type of work. more than anything please continue to be patient my drive slow past the cone and make sure when you see flashing lights please give them more room. it could save a will and that life could be yours. thank you for including us in your program >> thank you, very much. we're glad to have our leadership to keep our economy moving forward. and as i'm sure you're aware of the transportation authority is committed to the small business and the dbi firms are a valuable connection in terms of community bansz based economic development. we we

. >> colleagues, this month at the transportation authority, we focus on safety and on the latter we are pleased to see the project celebrate the opening in late january, this project was a great example of community involvement and interagency cooperations resulting in the complete project that serves as a model for urban design and i would like to recognize commissioner campos for his leadership on this project, based on the two year process, that includes the series of public meetings and workshops the project improved safety for infrastructure for bicyclists and pedestrians and enhances landscaping and traffic calming and repavementing. and we have the transportation contributed $3.4 million in agency blocking to the 3.4 million project. going forward, in march, we are looking forward to two great events, on march fourth, commissioner farrell and i will be with the procidio trust with the opening of one of our first prop aaa vehicle registration projects and they are a pedestrian gap closure projects on march fourth and on the 7th, kim and i will be attending the ground breaking

i know that the transportation authority has to develop plan. do you have any concept of how that would work? >> we are working with the transportation authority already on some preliminary studies for the mobility management and congestion pricing. there are a number of variables that we're looking at. but the main vehicle to managing the congestion pricing is calling on and off of the island. we're looking at the question of whether those tolls should be collected only when leaving the island, when arriving on the island, when leaving and arriving, whether tolls should be limited to just peak commute hours or should be -- have different prices or have some periods of day where there is no toll collected, whether toll should be applied just to the 8,000 households on the island or to all vehicle access to and from the island. so, there are a number of parameters that are being studied and we're just in the process of initiating those studies with the transportation authority. >> and i see particularly director fong and [speaker not understood]

corridors but where we saw our first fatality last year >> thank to sfmta and chad from our transportation authority for his work. ms. chang >> chair and executive director tilly chang. >> regarding that it's the third street feasibility study i want to note if came up in our county wide transportation update and last year community members raised a question about the project evaluation in our analyzed it has high benefits in terms of high ridership did harassing also has high costs business recognizing that requires more costs and the different sliechlt impacts that analysis was considered to make the next phase to again put that in context you'll see us look at the 19th avenue i think line as part of the geneva corridor study and the analysis that's being evaluated with the embarcadero sector and this is to put them on an even footing so the sfmta can look at them comprehensively. it was looked at by community members by supervisor chiu's support >> thank you to tilly changing reminding us of the work that's been done. so supervisor kim and i'm sorry this is a comment not a question this is on the