April 5, 2016, meeting of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency board of directors and Parking Authority commissioner ms. Bloomer read the roll director brinkman director borden director heinecke director nolan director ramos mr. Chair you have quorum please silence all electronic devices. Any person responsible for disruption may be asked to leave the room. Cell phones set on vibrate can cause interference with the microphones, we respectfully ask they be turned off. Item four approval of the minutes to mark 4 regular meeting motion to approve emphasize. Opposed . The is have it. Thank you communication Board Members and walton flynn died was a think outstanding citizen and loved dearly a thinker public works when oversee muni in 1970 the first africanamerican to be serving this position and was the first chairman of the board with the manifesting he did an amazing contributions we flew the flag in halfstaff for what he did if we can adjourn the meeting in memory of mr. Flynn. Mr. Chair two items please be advised item m m m n have been removed from the consent calendar at the request of staff in order to make a presentation also want to clarify item 4 in closed session amended politician of the california code v two and San Francisco admin code the board will discuss the potential anticipated litigation arising from the sfmta permit from flint transportation arising there from item 6 introduction of new or Unfinished Business yes, he wanted to ask through the chair to the staff to review whether we have business relationships with companies located in North Carolina i think the reason for that request is simple but to put it out there as i suspect were on track there is similar legislation in other states because Bay Area Companies have exercised their financial strength showing their displeasure with the mirrors were a big contractor for services and equipment and appropriate to look at whether we have such relationships with companies in North Carolina so we can mr. Whether that he with respect to their employees and consider more broadly whether well use our financial muscle to get involved. I appreciate that i feel strongly and grateful to the mayors leadership for the City Employees attended the meetings one of the meetings is our transportation meeting no may ill write a letter to the board of directors to ask them to move it somewhere else i think the legislation is a real awe fronted to everyone. Director borden amiss miss passed something similar so also i gotten a lot of people reaching out to me on the Mission Street the red paint for people that met with the Mayors Office and perhaps we can have a months 90 days look at the implementation i know the beginning for people to get used to something knew new the buses are moving smoothly and it is a challenge i know weve gotten concerns it from others that are concerned about the impacts on the enticing clients obviously concerned of the loss of a bus stop but i just wanted to make sure to have a look back on that and looking forward to look at the permit denial we talked about in closed session it is important. Thank you and the members consent on both of those items any new items for business ms. Bloomer. Directors report. Good afternoon director reiskin and good morning to the board and staff wanted to start off two recognizing our outstanding employees and john haley to come forward to recognize longstanding leader in the agency good afternoon. Mr. Haley good afternoon oh, mr. Chair and Board Members it is my great pleasure to introduce and celebrate the career of one of transit deputy directors and probably the hashed it worker sincerely resident has been here for 35 years and here career really tracks the development from what it was in the late 70s and 80s to what is become today into one of the most growing Transit Systems of my city in north america i know im supposed to say how thrilled to recognize sincerely resident for her accomplishments it is so well, she deserves nothing but high honors for her accomplishment so with mixed feelings were losing one of the greatest human assets derrick the course of 12 thousand plus days here sincerely resident has held a job the Transit Division and other ones a leader on both the management side and the union side and one of the things from a personal stand point from her work ethnic she comes to work as a brand new day in signs whatsoever hes slowing down or ready to retire and one of the things that shes embraced is the initiative we as an agency made to improve our agency through changing the culture and while weve talked about somewhat employee morale sincere she remembered the goal shes the reality deal in terms of walking the walk and talking the talk they believes in Holding People account so at the same time serrata has been the most effective manager in terms of Holding People accountable but she serves the best food laughter because when whether you were at at rodeo on saturday or at some of the sister operators of the month you you know she takes pride in doing things right with that, i want to recognize here pubically for her accomplishments and not only for what she has done for the agency but no matter how busy makes time to mentor and develop people and while i have decided with mixed feels shes leaving and she 30s shows to sign of slowing down shes leaving us because of her good work in a better position and leaving us as an inspiration to many people and going out the door will, in fact, were better off from the roll shes played i feel an obligation because of her commitment i dont know who exactly i would send it to but i feel like i need to want somebody shes retiring and moving on to Something Else with that, its my pleasure area honor to introduce he serrata clapping. thank you guys ive been here 35 years ive served various departments what is was a dispatcher and right rail the p pc this was my admires depiction or decision and served as a union rep i know when i came i had goals that john and that others wanted me to do i believe in training educated people and people going to school our area and technology it changing so i came i have 7 divisions and great diversities with with men and women and our agencies i have two myself right hand is a very good leaders and outstanding everyone go knows him wouldnt have been possible i couldnt have accomplished and candice was good being involved in the agency and factoring that to women coming up so women and john has a lot of women in his department i enjoyed working with him, i retired i said i dont slow down i come to work everyday with a lot of just to say a lot of running and moving just moving and sometimes he tells me to slow down overwhelm to miss you on behalf of the whole board of directors thank you so much for your outstanding years. Thank you clapping. and was on the commission when i was here he was so he used to come to our operation and give us 50 he was an outstanding commissioner and man, i know him but thank you, again. Thank you director reiskin. Yes. Next, i want to ask our sustainable streets director tom maguire to come forward with his heroic transit inspectors. Good afternoon mr. Maguire good afternoon directors i feel like a month or two i was asking you to recognize by our fair inspectors and here the four inspectors in front of you calling names who have been with the agency for a variety of years sheryl 16 years and then for 3 and terrance for 9 years on february 19th those four inspectors were working on the street station when necessary noticed a man constitutionally at the station he feel to the ground motion timely they ran to his aid and a immediately starting cpr and Terrance Smith and others continued the com presentations the man had food in his airway they assisted with the crowd control and called 911 the San Francisco Police Department arrived a fair intervention of those four inspectors that prevented this from the airway blockage went beyond theyre expected duties a challenging situation and quickly took action with the cpr skills to please join me in recognizing them tod clapping. on behalf of the director of public works thank you for your outstanding work on a daily basis it is your extraordinary be to helping this individual so thank you very much would you care to speak to the board. A im terrance i appreciate this and the training that mta give us in first aid and cpr if not for the training maybe a different outcome it was our pleasure the gentleman is okay. And were at the right place at the right time. Thank you very much. Board thank you very much im african a native san franciscan i hold everything the city as dearly and my supervision of my supervisors and accessibility and the Media Department and the diligence of the city we did what we can and thank you for people that do this on a daily basis the Police Department and fire department. Thank you. Im sherman i reels appreciate the opportunity to be here and with my two partners they really did the hard work for saving that person thank you very much. Sergeant. Good afternoon, board and mr. Chair im sergeant broadcaster im accepting this award foyer inspector garrison so proud of all of them they bloufd their expectations thank you clapping. director reiskin. Yeah. Two other quick things one and i think mr. Brit made reference this saturday the 31st rodeo we held it at the cal palace this year lead by paul if our Training Division and your Enforcement Division and what the rodeo is an opportunity for operators and parking control officers to test their skills and in terms of maneuvering their vehicles they were obstacle courses for the two vehicle types that had a lot of ways they were evaluated for time and accuracy and it was impressive to watch those folks with the large or smoul u small so moving through the different courses the winner for the pco had bragging rights amazing how fast he could caulk vehicles and others and lawrence the defendant champion what the second and third theyre all occupying and impressive on the operator side more than 60 operators and supervisors who to throw their name into the operator driving portion this is a standardized course set by the American Public Transportation Association so very difficult course for them and happy to report that kooefrn o graded not just the reigning but the international reigning championing took home the top outoftowners are andrea the second place and a third place winner we had another category of nonoperators this was a supervisors and trainers and 3 took home trophies we are proud of all the folks that competed and competition amongst the employees were not in it to compete but the internationals competition but for the fun of it they were maintenance folks who were other operators that couldnt qualify and the winners in that category were jazz men that is the daughter of ms. Johnson that came in second the full and Mother Daughter Team by tony and michelle the first time weve done this since 2008 and we looked forward to competing a lot of folks had a good time and the late thing to note update on units plaza awhile since the changes and the contract came before you but construction is underway and should be completed by the summer this was the plaza adjacent to the City College Terminal kind of between the City College Terminal and the Mayors Office of Housing Project there are on ocean avenue theyll be at 210 by 65 foot plaza with landscape and pedestrian lighting a number of pieces of art from the Arts Commission and will serve the residents and this folks from city college and the folks that use the terminal at bayshore start their route it the plaza came but a Community Driven process through a 10 year better neighborhood planning process for needs for open space the area and public naming contest from the naming of the unity plaza and it the committee was helping to guide the construction well have to close the bus loop the last weekend april 23rd and 24 make sure to november the people to facilitate the construction at the ends of this year will be a great xhibd amenity were happy to support this that concluded my report. Members of the board. Thank you director nolan and director reiskin i wanted to add with an amazement on the caltrans as you may know ive been privileged with the opportunity to represent the board of directors on the caltrain board and had the privilege of welcoming the thirds bike car into all the trains they put me on a loudspeaker and the director heard me in her apartment that was surreal but i wanted to make sure that the public knew that was the case there are notice a new bilk an caltrain as we Work Together to get more folks off the centered in cars and get folks on to other modes of transportation caltrain is one of the most that offers a real option and for us that ride bicycles regularly it is not too long you go around and trying to link up with other modes of transportation you run into a wall you are stuck and i will encourage the public if you run into that there is a new more capability caltrain is working on a more bike parking as well to be able to facilitate more ryder and looking forward to representing anywhere of boards position on that board particularly the way funding the future so thank you. No one else ms. Bloomer any Public Comments. Ive there are no speaker cards for items addressed by director reiskin and moving to item 8 the Advisory Committee report and we do have the chairman from the Advisory Committee here. Good afternoon chairman. Good afternoon got a lot of collected deeds this is the budget season the time were challenged to make the biggest dent in our system dealing with a billion dollars budget this is what we picked out to focus on we start out with the months ago that were adopted first one the cac sports extending the t line with North Station and Fishermans Wharf a 1. 25 million for detailed funding and Community Outreach motion number 0 two the sfmta cac recommended that the sfmta increase youth age from 17 to 18 in order to bring it in line with other agencies and similar to the free muni program for low and moderate income use motion 3 to help address the fiscal year 20172018 shortfall and the cac recommends that the sfmta established discount fairs for youth and seniors and people with disabilities at 50 percent of adult fairs motion 04 to help address the fiscal year 20172018 budget shortfall and to encourage increased use of clipper card the cac recommends that the sfmta establish a 0. 50 premium for riders pga cash to reduce Cash Payments and also to reduce Cash Payments so 3 goals here deal with the budget shortfall, promote the increased use of chairman of the board and reduce the amount of cash needed to be processed motion. 05 the cac recommends that the sfmta increase the Commission Paid to vendor from 0. 50 to 0. 75 and motion 08 to help address the 20172018 shortfall the cac recommends the sfmta increase the aide pass by 5 above the index price letting the charge by bart for bart rides one San Francisco motion 09 the cac recommends that the sfmta provide a c0 Percent Discount for tokens and passes purchased by north korea agencies that serve motion 10 point one to address the shortfall the cac recommends that the sfmta board not lower administrative fee for towed vehicles and not raise the fee for storjd or stored vehicles ever watchful of cacs brth perhaps too much so well adopt that as a position motion 11 to help address the fiscal year 20172018 budget shortfall further support of citys transit first and allow for efficient Parking Management and reduce Carbon Emissions recommendations the sfmta reinstate the parking meter on sunday and appropriate locations motioned 12 and 13 were presented to us as an either or choice whether to immediately go with the 2 Percent Services beyond the 10 percent planned or whether we wanted to carry out other activities with the fund before we go for the Additional Service and we voted to not go for the Additional Service immediately but to support programs that will enhance transit performance including collision reduction and regulatory requirements and establishment of on independent Quality Insurance to fully staff the transit and provide maintenance and Technical Support to the Transit Services division and hire dedicated pcos and additional staff for overtime we understand thats the position the staff that make sense motion 15 manifesting cac recommends that the mta hire additional staff and purchase the tools for Preventive Maintenance Program number 16 the cac expend funds to enhance existing parking related applications and relaunch sf park 17 cac recommendations that the mta provide funding for hiring of Additional Resources and Safety Specialists and store keepers and outreach staff this is a different part of budget than the one he earlier read a different association of the budget but related motion 20 the cac recommends that the mta increase San Francisco operating contributions to the peninsula corridor joint powers board number 21 the mta cac sports the maintenance and repair of cable cars 22 cac supports the fund for the mtas new Training Facility weve rejected proposals for additional costs for singles single rides on express rides reject the motion to establish a premium fair for single rides on the express lines and rejected the motion unfortunately in my book but i was on the minority we rejected the motion the mta provide additional funding for education and outreach and trying to understand what my colleagues on the cac were thinking i think the theory was here that the agency doesnt quite have the expertise to understand how vision zero can work better but try to get the expertise before they try to do education and outreach not exactly my interpretation how that came out and finally another failed adoption motion which leads to no recommendation we failed we do not recommend the mta not provide funds to hire taxi investigators we have no say on the matter okay thats it any questions. You sit on the Advisory Committee and youve been strooerldz accurate it is truly impressive and provocative we see the recommendations of north beach so hopefully, this study will get on that and Board Members any questions or comments. Thank you. Appreciate it ms. Bloomer before we go into Public Comment grazed by the presence of supervisor avalos good afternoon supervisor. Hi there ill be very, very brief director nolan and others i want to thank the mta for directors and staff for the quantity report if so coming down to that he it is significant especially because its been years in the making about 3 years ago any office submitted a chart amendment to have a quantity framework for the mta and the mta especially alicia and others with the mta working closely with the office and any stakeholder and including the user habitat and sedating actions and on the Development Center and other organizations Human Services network to come up with a framework that has been the making and being up for the second minded approval thank you for this is very, very meaningful we look at how were serving the different communities the neighborhood of San Francisco and making sure that we identified deficiency within plan accordingly how to overcome those to give people a much better experience i fight for everyday and thank you for making that happen with that, ill go back down to my Board Meeting. Ms. Bloomer mr. Chair a member of the public be wanted to address the items related to the cac report but the cac report is relate to the budget so were confirming that the gentleman will discuss when the budget is called. Okay. Okay next item, please. Item Public Comment at this time, members of the public may address the commission on matters not on todays calendar. Robert, calling names . Good afternoon. Good afternoon i represent the cab industry in a very minor way unfortunately you seem to regard it in an even smaller way youre not supporting one of the best cabs industries in United States you had 100 percent hybrid you had one hundred taxi advancing with who cares and had a very high rating from the general Public Comment and for political reasons you have decided basically to ban the whole thing yes. You helped us a little bit but if you sell every year a hundred medallions that is 25 million and, yes im very glad to see the staffs now suggesting maybe you should collect money under parking meters on sundays. Charge seniors on the buses as well you need a lot of money but more than money you want to get rid of of all those cars and that has been the focus of all your things and youve abandoned us. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Carl. calling names and. Thank you another 25 tmc the cars with the pick mustaches you can make would 250 million by putting out medallions and selling them there is a remarkably chance the legislation will be referred to you within a year you should require proof of commercial shuns and limit the numbers talking about the insurance it is a fraud has been commented a pink mustache and by virtue of those people not spending 700 and month and not 4 hundred and 50 for a hybrid model youre able to cut offer half prices were getting crushed the cab industry they claim jurisdiction but no fortunate capacity by law the puc has jurisdictions over the preretained transportation and the its been the mayors responsibility the ruling was based on the fact that a rider has to file an application fee one time and therefore prearranged with the hearsay of vehicles hopeful and plus with the uber their services are striking on demand this issue will be in front of the california judge and fly wheel has sued the puc i want you to be aware that none what remove 25 thousand vehicles to make a lot of money so thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names . Good afternoon edward mason people the first implemented the minor aerial rating over the highway commuter we experience over 25 buses an hour the concurred to 4 buses lined up and snaring the muni buses also observed buses have driven around stationary buses the opposing lanes of traffic for a potential for a dangerous cyclist station we drive bus 2019 only residential streets now the Bay Area Council endorses the program and must take an activity or active role for the disharmony going on in any invitation to all the members of the board stands i would like you to stand with me from 7 to 8 00 a. M. In the morning to really see the implementation of the plan and how it is being implement on the streets and then if you want to come out with me the evening an 6 to 7 and ill show you what is happening the evening it is unbelievable what im experiencing and seeing isnt neighborhood and the amount of sdrurgs by those buses routed on the new routing system so again my invitation to you stands see me and ill meet you there at 7 oclock in the morning. Next speaker, please. calling names . Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. Good afternoon. My name is Mark Shepherd i work for the va hospital and here to ask for your support in renewing the borough stops controlled by sfmta boroughs covers between back and forth around nine hundred employees daily we utilize them to transport employees we utilize them to transport the veterans that are homeless and have no other way to the hospital without their help along with other measures in which we use to get people into the hospital our veterans wouldnt have access to care their health and cracking contact is important we respectfully are requesting our approval to make the stops with them thank you for your time. Next speaker, please. calling names . Im Martin Sanchez the General Council for transportation i want to convey we were surprised that the cha con is to the granting a permit we were partnered with the sfmta and worked hard and long to be a good partner and been around doing that from the beginning of the program you know bowers has a distinctive green labels we think that is were penciled it is a note from a report they say that bowers was 34 identifiable buses that were seep to be problematic when people complaint and the only thing problematic were more visual from a stand point additionally, we are requesting our Service Disruption was properly submitted i want the board to know we submitted in january we didnt have this incident that raised those issues the last time a vote with the union was in September September 30th of 20156 months between the time of the vote and any problems at a muni stop weve been informed by the sfmta were to call the San Francisco Police Department immediately but no traffic problems have occurred well make sure theres no reason we should be employed search warrant with openly stovm someone from a lawful protest but no reason a protester should stop the traffic that makes everyones jobs harder we want to be part of the problem but unfortunately, the situations are against us at this point thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names . Thank you for your time my name is gary with bowers transportation 37 years ago the majority of time in the city we were over 2048 Million People we reduced the pollution over 1 3rd to one half of riders that came here dont own a vehicle they take other modes of transportation we initiating by one pointed 6 tons of Carbon Dioxide off the revise and were one of the first operators to be out there the biggest concern when we found out the permit was not renewed i found out i talked to people at the Bay Area Council none was saying this was a problem that bowers was a problem we taken stops from them and cut them and a half the gentleman earlier is correct it is a challenge stops are a challenge to date weve done 22 thousand trips this year this year weve 21 tickets of those 21 tickets theyre next to enforceable and youre trying to make it easier or youre afraid youll get written up that is a challenge 99. 99 percent complaint Free Community or any on the departments are offering 99. 99 free the challenge for the folks no barrier theres no level theres no input that says youll losses a car track all you saw was the day before it has to do with with labor lets talk and it is valuable and broad and no teeth in that it is a situation weve got clients none of the clients are Big Companies gentleman earlier the va hospital fillmore apartment a lot of the clients get to and from and thank you, mr. Bower calling names . Good afternoon mr. Court. Im adrian with the Bay Area Council for the past several years weve helped to coordinate the shuttler with the mta to provide did sfmta with the data it need to come up with another Pilot Program and the subsequent permitting program and the council is dedicated to seeing the program succeed because we 23i6r78 building that Traffic Congestion is one of the Major Economic barriers for the economic success of San Francisco and the bay area at large were concerned that the bowers exit because bowers represents a bowers exit will weaken the program and lessen the chance of connect they currently transport 11 hundred riders every day that calculates to about 8 excuse me 8 hundred and 46 car trips per day and about 4 thousand 2. Or hundred and thirty per week on a year that is over 2 thousand vehicle trips a year if bowers is unable to participate that will have a Significant Impact on traffic of San Francisco and the broader reason ill additionally point out the violations that were appointment that bowers is guilted or suspected of committing over the course was during actually with a Pilot Program a lot of things were in fluctuation and a lot of stops were moved i ask the sfmta to work with bowers to come up with an agreement and correction to the issue and the bowers work with sfmta and turn to address some of the problems youve identified thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names . Good afternoon. Good afternoon its baseball season again and at the opening game last thursday night the cabstand it looks like youve spent a lot of money with the big signs and really big but none could get into the cabstand because one mr. Starr with no officer in that i put a call into staff on friday and i never heard anything back but i told him who was going on i have a big concern recently it announced apparently at a tinseltown meeting our agency is not going to endorse the Workers Compensation i must swear that ive been in compliance where the state law yet the staff at the agency said i have they have no ability to enforce the workmans comp ive been a commissioner for seven years and now im proud to achieve to get all the Cab Companies on board with the Workers Compensation and i dont understand why you cant levels the Playing Field because theyve cropped the Workers Compensation so when you go to a clinic at kaiser they ask you did this happen at work if it happened at work theyll not treat you unless you file a Workers Compensation thats the state law and the reason this came about drivers were injured and killed and getting dumps on General Hospital and general a hospital has to pick up the bill so theyre still want you to file Workers Compensation claim. Good afternoon mr. Lee. Good evening but no, thank you i call you m t and half a or m t a little your function is gone already we had the tmc group the entire Transportation System in to so youre really really minority now like us now the taxi driver is very, very, very struggle we have to borrow the money in february to make the payment for the medallions because of you excusing you cant take care of the tmc today, our taxi business is absent less but your office is trying to renew the free medallion as the leased medallion we run sweet spots toult meeting to put the lease for big times only we have no more big time now the drivers ready to make stopping the payment very soon because we dont see you had the power to fix the policy and not youre going to do or not looking ahead of your policy because of the 3 layer someone have to make a payment driving the cab and someone getting a freebie not putting their name on the lease we had a big time but no big time you can technician it the same as our medallionship be taken away otherwise people returning with the payment and going to come to see you soon. Thank you, mr. Lee. calling names . Dave schneider long time San Francisco cab driver and former legal aid lawyer in chicago speaking of rodeos ive spent time in the south west and at indian reservations and also some folks showed me things immediately that most even other indians never see i saw them immediately im very grateful the reason i rise before you today is to address the tmc and the proliferations in San Francisco and the bay area id like to make this recommendation ive also a former person on the Transportation Committee i havent heard back there ought to be concurrent jurisdictions of the mta over the tmc their polluting the city with the complaints of cab drivers the most single common complaint on the tmc drivers is theyre they dont knows where theyre going it is true they dont know and not too long ago we wanted to go downtown San Francisco when they went across the golden gate they didnt want to go there you need concurrent jurisdiction and specifically require quality tmc to complete a course like the Taxi Driver Institute they know where all San Francisco Police Station additional hospitals and heres the key point not allowed to pick up in San Francisco until they pass a course that they could drop off theyre coming in from the east bay and south bay from mars. Next speaker, please. calling names and those are the last two speeches on matters not on the agenda. Good afternoon i have been in transportation about 10 years in the coach and you shutter industry and bowers is equal if not better than the members of the program the transportation scene if not more complaints in regards to the gary bowers have said were complaint free understanding that as it developed all companies faced challenges and having worked for the city and the Police Department and work with the parking control officers equation working with the a Pilot Program you Work Together with San Francisco Neighborhood Services Safety Committee in this case you want to make sure argue doing the right thing and whats the basis of decision with the actual complaints theyve gotten more of the same stuff of van ness or 8th street and market they understand a problem and thats the education only bodies where are the levels of service for each provider each provider walks in a certain level of difficulty i saw and been to multiply meetings to understand the foundation of sfavtd and the private companies that operate the program were learning the Pilot Program were effected by this private program and doing what they do needs to be considered. Next speaker, please. calling names thats the last person to turn in a speaker card regarding matters. Good afternoon. Id like to speak on the tmcs im an attorney and represent people that have lost their homes i filed lawsuits and theyve lost their homes to foreclose we swim upstream but nothing to compared to what we face with the tmcs the city should be ashamed they didnt step in during the time that the ubers and lyft came on the streets left it to the state it said you you know what well fine you were going to get you off the street that was obsoleted later you know that we filed so the state has taken over i hope you dont succeed to the states this Workers Compensation you you know that tmcs have problems are passengers and the checking their drivers someone from la in any event the City Attorney are the da wanted to have a Pirate Program to check night Club Checking that lo will be something that will catch everything cabs are required to do that by the city and so with tmcs if their recollected by the city but the puc wrote back and said oh, no. Were working on that well get to at a some point you know it troubles me it really troubles me youve allowed the state to take over and the state you know what accident the puc do the evidentiary hearing for rules no, they had a workshop where people can say anything and their lawyers is dead we have the best driver backward checks thats not true. Thank you, sir mr. Chairman thats the last person i see others making their way forward and moving to consent calendar and director nolan 6 m m have been severed not a request to sever any other matters so the rest of the consent calendar stands unless a members of the board or a member of the public wishes to sever anyone to second. Any further discussion . All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The is have it. Thank you. Okay. All right. So mr. Chair if we move on to item 10 point m n and n m is has to do with with establishing four hour time limits from 8 to 6 00 p. M. Except as you understand and establishing the general meeting for the 4 time from 4 to 6 except sundays only various streets and the San Francisco Design Center. We can take those together. Is there anyone else who wishes to speak on this item. Sorry. Good afternoon good afternoon tom nolan and director reiskin and public here and on Television Im andy from the sustainable parking section thank you for the opportunity to make brief remarks about this we want to make sure this is out the open and give everyone a chance to understand and talk about that severalty years weve been hearing from the working group and the college of the arts and other stakeholders again, i, show you maps ill try to keep this brief and verbal were talking about the division developing and 16th street and offer to 7th street asking. The clerk of the arts and parkway very, very high daytime congested parking as you may know it, it is a busier and busier part of city and businesses and other stakeholders have come to us and said we need availability for our clients and customers and in general access to parking and so over the course the past couple of years with the consultation of businesses the cac and broadcaster and sf made and office of supervisor cowen weve developed a proposal it is simple what you have but a combination of 4 hour time limits and 4 hour parking meters no street that didnt have regulation under that proposal many are unregulated safe for street cleaning and what our proposal put a 4 hour time limits on all the streets and in some cases meters the mta staff believes from our experience and professionally theyre more the most efficient way for availability inform parking and some businesses said, yes we want to move to meters past the time limits and on to meters so we have several of the blocks the project will come on as meter blocks i want to point out the proposals there are no oversized vehicle restrictions proposed we understand this board wants none brought to you nevertheless, with the parking regulations in place there will be turnover a hardship for someone accumulated to parking a vehicle and leaving that is so for various constituencies like parkandride and at the public hearings were heard a dozen cars pack all day long and others trucks this is congestion those fellows are climate scientists that go to the lab everyday some i i didnt to that and i think youll hear from members of the public who have concerns about that also want to say we recognize that because we were focusing on a discrete area were leaving some areas urban address not forever but now we want to move forward rather than taking too big a bite and solve all the problems reunderstand that south of the 16th street we need to address that with the castro boosters yesterday and talked about phil the gaps and likewise north of the college of the arts we need to look at regulating as we bring this forward and suits the boards and move forward that will increase the pressure and displacement inform to the perimeter so ill conclude my racks ever remarks to say we reminded the outreach protocol this board adopted a couple years ago and multiple Community Meetings and public hearings twice a robust email list and mailed cards to all the address and now we come to you for your consideration i believe that a representative from supervisor cowens office maybe present so i wanted to say that, of course, ill available for questions. Mr. Brinkman. I want to clarify the areas that are getting the parking meters and the management of this the businesses the various areas are supportive of those parking meters. Yes. They are youll hear from some of them today, the meters were very much collaborative concept that came down. Im concerned as we add new meters maybe bump up against our meter limit we had a limit set bids the board of supervisors only contracting for so many as we add those areas well have to go back and revisit this as the city changes and other commercial operations well have to continue to look at block places and add meters. Thats fair an important point this proposal sort of the high water estimate is 5 hundred plus new meters and survey much fortune that many curb cuts. 4 hundred in which was looking at the locations very soon over the past couple of years weve taken seven hundred and 50 meters off the street reactor i hope the press is listening there were few meters than years ago because of the projects that have come to you for daylighting and transit and other things the shops have approximately seven hundred and 50 meters in stock and reserve well be repurposing some of those if it pleasures the board it had a scope and sensitivity again, thats why we want to make sure were transparent about this discussion. Thank you. Ms. Bloomer. Thank you all right. calling names . Oh, im sorry are you from the supervisor cohens office. No, she is. Martin thompson. Oh. President of the San Francisco Design Center here representing the tenants to high ends show rooms theyll like to be here but couldnt come we are supporters of Parking Management proposal specifically the 4 hour parking for the area id like to raise a parking issue effecting our neighborhood weve seen an increase in r v parking and families and individuals that go to work everyday living in the r v weve tried to be part of solution by reaching out to the Service Partners like hope sf and others to offer our support well, were extremely compassionate there are a few bad actors that are making this difficult at the Design Center in this picture is an r v Methamphetamine Lab blowing up next to the building this is a remains of another r v that blew up those r v take up valuable Parking Spaces for the customers coming to the Design Center we want to see this plan approved and implemented immediately because the Parking Spaces are valuable to our thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names . Thank you for having me. Do the businesses support the parking meters is odd for me to be here slooufl supporting the parking meters he raked up 11 ticket before i sold my car and havent had one since but now on behalf of the businesses parking space controls in our neighborhood been the business son not taken and as mentioned your plan is a small bite that launched we need to move forward for the businesses and the petitions fully, fully support this as the controls are enacted were literally outside of our front door was a truck with graffiti the paint it is easy to identify that truck it sat in silver paint for a week no parking controls for years weve pushed and strongly recommending moving forward there is no parking in the area it impacted the 90 percent of the parker see are not in our area theyre packing here and parking and storing vehicles not fair to the businesses traffic from any of your customers that the San Francisco Design Center is along 2 henry adams is 60 percent no business can continue with 60 percent drop in foot traffic there is driving theyre bringing fabrics and not going to be taking Public Transit we need and encourage you to please move forward with the parking meter and the 4 hour controls. Thank you. Your here from supervisor cowens office. Yes. Thats. Good afternoon. Supervisor cowens office i think thank you director nolan and others for hearing us were here to briefly support the supervisors support for the parking the supervisor would be here but her own Board Meeting now the supervisor supports this proposal and indicated and eagle everything he said none says it better this is a plan that has been developed over a couple of years and has involved a number ever stakeholders including businesses, residents and homeless advocates at the table and this really is the best plan she buildings to put forward to allow our businesses to survive and allow folks that are vehicularly houses to be safe and allow our businesses to operates again to voice support and also take this opportunity to thank andys for all his work and his communications with the community. Thank you, sir next item, please. calling names . Director nolan and Board Members im one of the owners at the sf d. C. A stakeholder this is a photograph i took of a no parking sign newly erected the back with no overnight parking from 6 to 10 00 p. M. Weve been trying to get parking controls for the last two or three years everything has parking controls but not our area he support this issue thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names . Holds on a minute please. Thank you i have a business down in the Design Center developing and 16th this is my that trying e 25 year the area this is a changed as San Francisco has changed we need to move forward with this plan it is a good plan were not asking that particularly the Homeless People are gone or what were asking for is our businesses if 8 00 a. M. To 6 00 p. M. Our customers have parking my customers have not being able been able to get in i get ad t calling me this picture shows the street with the r vs and yesterdays they were gone so the other thing there is vehicles like were saying just storing their evaluating vehicle theyre there all the time and those vehicles have been there for years those r v have propane tanks on the street those two were taken this morning to give you an idea this is instant and we need to get parking restrictions so we can get parking and move parking thank you. Thank you, sir next item, please. calling names . Good afternoon, sir. J i want to express as a small Property Owner were in an area their talking about meters and absolutely support that i want to say as a resident of the neighborhood and i drive through frequently like as early as 6 30 in the morning we see people are creating a parking lot they park their cars and leave for the day it concerns us were desperate for our customers to get interest we hear the reputation and we dont want that to be a thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names . Good afternoon. Good afternoon director nolan and others in support of items m n and n m i see the management is the viability of the San Francisco Design Center allows for cars to come and go and supports the businesses should the items are approved like sf enforcement i thank you for your time and consideration. Next speaker, please. calling names . Good afternoon. Hello thank you for having me. Cecil the manager of show place east in the Design District we have requested do meters around our building and appreciate this plan as proposed being accepted i do have petitions as i understand 68 signatures from 22 Small Businesses the building and from the business stand point it is said here im here to say that we need to release us sooner than later and appreciate our approval on that thank you calling names . Hi once again thank you so much for everyone that represents the Design Center and from hardware Vice President and directors if loss preservation were in support art gallery is impacted and broken into several times and your clients and other employees dont feel safe with those longstanding vehicles around and once again that was taken this morning this is a vehicle that has been in one place near 2 henry adams over weeks theyve been pretty much a home some of the vehicles are generated to make sure they stay there a long time and this was taken this morning by one of the loss preservation Operations Manager this is directly behind one of the vehicles beyond one of the r v a direct impact our clients doesnt feel safe and it is had an impact on the surrounding neighborhoods please support this for short term next speaker, please. calling names . Good afternoon im tiffany i work for restoration and internal audit and loss preservation im a proud homeowner and feel the improvements with the parking are going to continue to raise the bar for our San Francisco Design Center were so proud many people come all over the state of california i think our as weve expressed our foot traffic has gone down were anticipating great improvement with the park changes also as far as contract for new meters ive had many parking Space Tickets they they pay for themselves anything the businesses could do to advocate for the extension of the parking meters or using the open mind meters and the so i understand costs will be out there i guarantee others drivers will be spending that as easily by adding those restrictions were proud to be in San Francisco and want to see this building we own the restoration owns the building were proud to bring continue revenue and growth and beatify the city with the restoration. Next speaker, please. calling names . Hes the last permanent turned in a speaker card. Good afternoon. Thank you so much sleep a primary resource needed to make good decisions and police meter maid continue to strip us of our resources to recover from our circumstances interrogatories now get total sleep is a form of it is your tour my mere existence is breaking the law theyre telling me i dont have the right to exist since those zones will be going into place and continue to be hazard is and a garbage dumping and people urinating around the vehicle and broken into and stolen a battery and alternator and tools and supplies to keep the vehicles in working orders im treated by the meter maid like im a criminal and spoken to as a criminal im criminal in his for the crimes been perpetrated against me the sfmta allows the meter maids to intimate me without education or correction is appalling 0 to it is my responsibility im not the cause of my homelessness and again, i ask that the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency directors give us a safe place to park we cant overcome our circumstances and society that demands i offer come any circumstances while stripping me of all resources required to do so thank you for your time. Next speaker, please. calling names . Good afternoon. Any him kelly im a human right organizer are the coalition on homelessness im here on behalf of the coalition as well as the many vehicle housed individuals that expressed theirs increased limitations the board of supervisors is called for a donated of emergency on homelessness thats an issue across the nation with that the case the federal government has purported guidelines for addressing this crisis a major focus have been an moving away from the displacement and criminalization and resources the practice of increasing limitations on parking is displacing an oven criminalized people in the communities there was an article published yesterday that interviewed the homeless sam dodge and he explained that creating a safe parking alternate like an r v park would be a step in the right direction weve been advocating since 2012 i think that was and yet it has failed to happen so far that is something that is continuing in the works and the coalition and hope has schedule meeting next week with the vehicle housed individuals until that alternatives are established implementing more regulations and limitations on parking is making the issues worse and hurting a vulnerable population the city thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Thank you im a volunteer and Homeless Coalition and im serving other agencies and im not here to support gone i want to say that homeless poem that r v are most fundamental likes month smart Homeless Population they save money for r v and they have at least drivers license and many of them have computers and laptops and with the internet and sometimes support other people other Homeless People with advice or inspiration and whatever theyre working on their situation so people cant just disappear as objects of worse without reappearing somewhere else or returning somewhere else so making has i didnt position what do you want to happen with those people accepting them to find a job the next day is not an option at all because they lack marketable skills and other problems so they may turn into permanent tents dwellers and going from within part of city to another well not been able to rehabilitate and make the problem much worse or like where they can be i totally understand the problem the problem should be addressed and Serious Problems and shouldnt be using disturbing somebody. 20 years. Thank you thank you, sir, your time is up. Thank you very much. Anyone else ms. Bloomer. No, thats the last person didnt disappear that anyone else is moving forward. I recall the offer sized vehicle we asked that the outreach to the faith communities so Sonoma Community a church up there theyre available in the parting and bathrooms and all of that we tried really hard to find some faith communities that will be willing and able we didnt find anything i believe the entering father council. Yes. Mr. Chair weve been in conversation with mr. Dodge and with the council there is interesting opportunities we continue to work basically through sam and his office and as weve heard some news yesterday, i saw this morning is mr. Dodge is talking about it personally i think this is a pro tem idea we should be and you saw san rose not far from here on behalf of the mta and your staff, of course, not only be supportive but a program we cant start up. Mr. Dodge that is a creative idea findings a place is very, very did the but thats the ultimate solution for a lot of folks. If i might none of the restrictions are dimensionly specific if an u go or an r v will be hard to produce in some way. Thank you director. Ill go ahead and make a motion i know that people brought up the factor of parking tickets correct me if i am wrong but i believe that our citation rate with the new meters is lower it is easier to pay and add times and those are 4 hours meters correct. With the pilot we found amongst many things to make it easier and more convenient the citation the average citation per meter went down and, of course, every metered is a meter you can pay with just about any kind of currency we expect the citations to gown we dont want the citations to be the point we prefer everyone pay. And is there a second. Ill say that obviously that is weve been trying to figure out a way for the issues of the Homeless People the vehicles that are homeless i think theyre continuing to pursue with the Mayors Office Homeless Office i forgot what it is called but anyway, i see this go complication of creating one part of city with no controls and everywhere else the impacts is great so happy we can pass that this year there is a motion and a second discussion . All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The is have it. So thank you very much. Ms. Bloomer. Mr. Chairman that concluded our consent calendar now on your regular agenda discussion and possible action regarding the railway yard and feasibility study. Mr. Chair were fortunate to have our director of city director rahaim to present his work on behalf of the city the reason it is relevant to us because this is primarily about transportation and about supporting ripening and statewide transportation that is incredibly important to San Francisco and youll see a director rahaim preservation at the core of this somewhat large and complex body of work to get the rail service into the transbay rail center and director ramos and others from serving on the caltrain. Youve got those extra cars. Things are improving on caltrain and the directors have a place laughter but to really bring value to caltrain we need to bring it into downtown San Francisco i sits on the Transbay Joint Powers Authority and we do have a plan to get the trains from figuring out and king to the Transbay Center that is a decision that well on have an opportunity to get right once, once we build the tunnels we have those with us for one hundred years therefore we thought as a city valuable to look at alternatives to make sure were choosing the best path this is what this study is about so again, very happy to have director rahaim and very glad heifers e he was able to enjoy an hour and a half of our meeting. This is a very short time. I think im used it this your meeting was only a 9 and a half hour. Thank you director reiskin im joined by susan the project manager and mr. Chair thank you for viewing having us and Board Members ill go through this quickly as ed mentioned a study to look at it how to bring the best transportation into the corner of this city and more specific how to get rail to the transbay terminal the form weve mind for a very, very long time since ballot measure and before it is a study to look at those different systems and ill go through some slides there we go. And can i feel give you a quick backyard we give you this and wanted to remind us all on why were doing this today there are 3 major Public Infrastructure of transportation projects happening corner of the city the caltrain electrification and the high speed rail and also, of course, the downtown system those represents on the orders of 67 to 8 billion of Public Investment and a small corner of the city it seems ed was saying to look at the systems collectively and how we can get the bang for the buck and by itself eliminates the funds that make those systems more efficient and added a piece of analysis which has not been considered in any daily how to create the best system that fuven uhhuh eventually connects to the east bay a second tube of some form is in our future how, of course, go yet to be determined but it is incumbent to look at how we can make that happen the future so these 3 projects whoops backwards t the as you may know theyve present a new Business Plan were grateful for and it is coming north first instead of south we are excited by connecting into san jose in an earlier phase you see accident dates they expected to be operational so less than a decade under their current thinking and to the settings four years later were excited and certainly supportive of that idea the current thinking though for one challenge among other things for a long time the current plan is for rather than is trains to be press below street level to do do opposite and depress to build up the train ms. Large problems for this part of city for disconnecting mission bay and having a tunnel for a long time expressed our concerns to high speed rail this is one of the changes weve identified and part of imputing its for doing the study there are those challenges are as i said one of many we need to coordinate the efforts and improve the local and future regional connections and look at the benefits and costs of those impacts and we need to look at potential opportunities that might arise future housing open space and job space in this area our goals are to understand and coordinated those holistically and then obviously to help shape the future of this future part of city so quickly sequoia just to go through the components of study the first and probably the core of that to look at the downtown light rail to get to the terminal and the second to look at the possibility of that loop that will create an efficient way of leaving the terminal and looking at the potential for a future connection to the east bay and the third to look at the rail yard 20 plus acres of lands and the core part of city other configurations for that land to be used for other purposes and the figure out of 180s to be partly removed to accommodate the Transportation System ill enthused this is the most press this is on this to look at the larger issue of creating a better Transportation System and the fifth to look at the Public Benefits that may arise from the changes so quickly the study is really the area in blue each component has various commons but rough were looking at the area from Market Street on the north to 22 on the south and roughly to 101 on the west were looking at a number of different components, of course, in this area as i mentioned and but this is the corner of city where all the Transportation Systems colonel together and where we are, of course, seeing a tremendous amount of growth in the city today the first components then the downtown rail this is the alignment which relies on a tunnel that travels along townsend to Second Street and the extension of second to the transbay terminal not assuming any changes under the proposal and this is actually most of this proposal has been environmentally cleared i want to nullification our goal here not to delay any potential prelims of this project but to see if there are alternatives that could be achieved that are more focusing efficient and create a better system and more cost fiscal in the long run were assumed this as one of the alternatives so those alternatives include what we call the baseline which is the existing environmentally clear with the potential with a slightly reduced version of the 14 yard to see if that land can be used otherwise and simply tunneling under the alignment a 3 option pennsylvania avenue immediately particularly through potrero hill and the fourth a completely different alignment along third street to mission bay so this is the baseline essentially the current option perhaps slight molestations to the Fourth Street and king railway yard it understands the needs of fourth and if it can operate on a smaller footprint and actually helps us to better understand the grade separation ive mentioned earlier that occurred these on 16th street and mission bay and to depress the streets under the tracks and is opposite needs to happen this second option were looking at would actually created a tunnel under that existing alignment rather than assuming the street level taking that and drop that below grade it helps us to understand whether the caltrain and tracks can be depressed and helps us said to and from 280 and proposed and helps understand how moving on ground can effect the adjacent neighborhoods one of the goals of the study as well the third onyx it pennsylvania avenue that is immediately adjacent to the two tunnels here in orange through potrero hill today and looks at removing one of the unconstitutional that current has a lot of environmental conditions that floods intersection and in the final configuration the Fourth Street and king rail yard will be the assessed through this well look at a reconfiguration of rail yard looking at underground helps to connect the streets and avoids impacts to 280 removed from the pilars and helps us in terms of Current Operations of caltrain and that that removes the alignment from the caltrain operation allowing the train to be continually pratsdz while construction takes place and fourth the fourth option is moab a completely different alignment in blew it veers you off from the existing alignment in a number of locations before and after and crows airport and heads up Second Street one the advantages here thanks to you all at the mta the all the utilities were removed from 3rd street when you built the 3rd street light rail nothing underground that is effected by such an alignment on thirdstory 3rd street this will build a new station somewhere in the 1ri7b9 within mission bay probably some more between 16th street and around at t mark the summer this is messy alignments in one location based on the analysis your consultants accident theyve done a tremendous job we removed one possible of those four options one option from the table and this was the one that would tunnel under the existing alignment it requires major work to have the pilars not a physical action given the nature of i 280 and that configuration so were casing the other options forward into the next phase ill talk about the next phase in a moment this is the first major components of the overall study the effective component the pathoof a loop from the transbay terminal and loops into the alignment going back south we looked at four pockets the reason to look at whether it makes for an efficient operations allowing the trains to move one way and a potential connection to the east bay we looked at for the main street in blue and spear street number 2 in orange and steward and an alignment that is farfetched but physically possible to go out into the water after an initial analysis weve removed two from the table both main street additional spear street are not possible because the turning radius for handler trains were carrying forward two one on steward and the bay as to Carry Forward to see if we want to study this further 0 on a map a number of possible ways to connect to the analysis were using this as an opportunity to set up a transbay connection the thirds component 0 actually, the retail yard themselves and circulate completed initial work three years ago looking at different ways of configuring the rail yard for some development on the infringes of the yard to allow for a reduced footprint a number of ways to look at this again, it is a question of making sure they have the yard to serve the system and see if part of rail yard to be relocated if some of the lands can be used for park space for housing or whatever it is simply considering this as part of study under that component the results of the initial plan that the caltrain did our starting point were working with caltrain and high speed rail to determine if this year options to decrease the footprint and we have to, of course, look at not only caltrain needs and the expansion theyre doing but high speed rail and high speed rail, of course, has a longer train conscious i guess is the word im learning a few things we need to look at it long track availability for high speed rail as well finally the fourth component is looking at the existing and proposed for i 280 the possibility of removing it like the embarcadero a part of freeway north of mariposa it was you may know that was intended to connect all the way through and, of course, never did that became more of a it has become more ramps, if you will, similar to embarcadero we are talking about were looking at pulling the ramps back the only reason is if, in fact, it helps us solve the others transportation and not causing impacts on 101 the process so it is important to place it in that context of course, weve done this before with some great reluctance this may or may not be a similar positive impacts but we think this is important again the concepts of spending 8 billion of public money it is important to look at it is in that context we do on the potential benefits the reconnection of many of the streets that current dont go through the typography but the freeway represents a bit of a barrier in connecting those parts of city this is obviously well looked at but not the only reason for looking at them so in some well looking at the summary of kind of phase one at this point but carry 3 of the four option for the alignment of the tracks as i mentioned earlier looking at two of the 4 options that we initially studied in terms of loop and looking at the rail yard configuration and looking at the possible relocation and removal of part of 280 i shouldnt say relocation but as i said portion of removal of a portion of 280 i want to take a moment to remind us this study is done in coordination with all agrees thanks to addressing and caltrain and caltrans and the ta, tjpa, and all the other agencies that have been involved an important effort we will look at it and in the end well look to see if there are other poebltsd it what move forward and land that becomes available for other purposes this is something we need to look at a by product of another study so i wanted to just conclude by talking about our outreach we do have a number theres a survey that is prepared there are a number of well have two Public Meetings that were heavily attend we didnt anticipate the crowd a few weeks ago a huge standing room we repeated it and had one and 50 or hundred and a lot of controversy thats the nature of those projects we certainly expect that but we will be having future mayor edwin lees were going to be doing in the next phase setting up a Citizens Working Group and sending out invitations will or that be help us on the work on phase two this is where we take the smaller alternatives and do a finer grained analysis we think this will take 9 to 12 months the phase three will be looking at alternatives and carry those ideally into the future and think that another way of looking at this is we do anticipate another major public merging in the fall and the winter duo to look at the results of this next phase of work as well as the siding over the next few months ill say were happy to continue our public process at the Planning Commission and others board commissions thank you for your time that concludes my presentation. Ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. And to hear comments from the public. Thank you director ramos who represents caltrain and. Thank you very much yeah. This is has been an Steering Wheel existing project you folks have been doing phenomenal and caltrans there is excited about the prospect i feel their eagerly anticipating whatever it is we dias did i obviously what we do effects the rest of the line in per actuality it is one of the things im eager to stay engaged i hope you and your staff will be inclined to keep me personally engaged i want to make sure we dont miss anything and were moving along as quickly and holistically as possible it is a b. C. And looking forward to staying engaged in whatever capacity. Thank you. Ms. Bloomer members of the public address the board. Yes. Mr. Chairman weve had a request from 3 people calling names . Good afternoon. Chairman and members of the board not my interest in Public Transit i got excited about the way it was done and managed to wiggle myself into working for muni and not too many years when i came to work for muni a 24 hour average speed and director reiskin will have better it is dropped to 14 percentage with the Market Street street in 1970 there was no subway only surface cars but the trend is not something anybody should be happy about the question how to change that i heard good things about parking restrictions you cant do it all by restrictions you cant force too much on people too fast one opportunity that is come along and recognized by the people of San Francisco in 1999 the downtown transit not only the environmental clearance but approved by numerous agencies local and regional and federal and state it needs funding it needs the support of San Francisco to get that funding and what youre hearing in that study as far as im concerned, is about 98 Percent Development of mission bay and two percent extra i dont have time to tell you what is wrong with that ill mention that is impeding actively impeding the implementation of b t x which is a big, big problem the state of San Francisco ann thats american peoples inundocumented not to drive 5 hundred trips a day 5 hundreds trips a day and the insanity of the San Francisco and proenld to go up by 50 thousand riders a day this extension will take some of the pursue off of San Francisco. Thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names . Good afternoon mr. Pilpal. David pilpal speaking as an individual if i could use the in any event slide number 5 is 15 street missing the 22 trolley coach that is anticipated as part of the 16th street work and building this this project or at least elements may conflict is puc project the City Public Utilities Commission and the central bay does the relocation of the general effort main the part of sewer system improvements project and further and director nolan when the j pb required the rightofway from the s p railroad there was a clause i believe for figuring out and townsend when there was no longer transportation need for that property it would revert not to s p or u p but to ca tells someone needs to check that and whatever conditions on the title i believe strongly such a provision so there would be continued transportation use at no cost for figuring out and king but the effect that ended the cattells will develop the prop property i believe caltrain is significant and the traffic in the neighborhood would be significant with removing i 280 and those major impacts are not offset only by the negatives i support and continue to support caltrain and the downtown extension and oppose this project and study the form it now exists. Thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names . Good afternoon. Good afternoon Peter Strauss ive been working on this with the Group Calling themselves friends of dp x my concerns we in San Francisco have an appetite for 30 billion of Capital Projects for Rail Infrastructure your involving dp x and this and high speed rail and involving parked subway and subway and the list communitybased organization ongoing and to support a program we want them all tomorrow and thirty years requires 500 revenue stream we dont have we need to be very strategic in terms of what we plan and in terms of what we ask for and implement projects the downtown extension at this point the citys highest priority after the central subway completion it must make sure that basic downtown extension is implemented effectively and expeditiously there maybe opportunities for saves but we want to make sure whatever we see as a long term deserve it as excluding others Capital Improvement plan projects but a basic dp x extension for affordable price and as soon as possible and urge you to bear in mind that to the extent you have impacts on this project. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening i speak transportation the future of San Francisco not only that for the whole state and the whole ups not nation but im nature in china too many trades maybe before as you may know we make a big mistake for t line about 1997 we put in too much waste of time and all the concrete is empty you know totally empty and subsidized in the system there is around the decision but if we can get 3rd street it should be straight shot to downtown were wasting the concrete and the railroad known take it the whole transportation the whole saturation in order to sue is not only the train can bring you from a to z the transportation is important to the public could use it but anyhow i say 2008 i stop diving muni before a small car is actually, they make it all the condition cnn and new york city it a small electrical car and she is Clean Energy Just like the bicycle station you can put a lot of electric car on this there is really small like boxes so this is the transportation sooner than later the bay bridge has this car running an is bay bridge the bay bridge make all the traffic happen so where to ban it in the future and push the public. Thank you, mr. Lee next item, please. calling names hes the last person that turned in a speaker card. Good afternoon. Good afternoon, commissioners im peter cohen from the coincidental of Community Organization theyre involved in the work of building housing and preserving housing and helping Building Community and fascinating to see the preservation presentation i wouldnt come to you as a traffic engineer i dont have the position on most of the slides whether this is a Transportation Program or for us the Housing Program about land use and their talking about a major piece of San Francisco a land use future that is being sits is it mission bay the question is there a vision as being a motorbike point to weve seen this as a Broader Community and neighborhoods building vision that includes housing and includes the public amenities and the open space is includes job production or we just seeing is it as a transportation pulls i hear hear the planning director his minds is saying a different frame to the Planning Commission but it is important to think of this as a future opportunity for a whole Community Building process and in that if you look at the example the packet whether or not 280 come down octavia is about rebuilding and rebuilding a neighborhood 50 percent of the parcels went to Affordable Housing in mission bay thirty percent of the housing is affordable and that was by intention from the giving up i suggest you invokes make sure your vision is a comprehensive as youre getting down to the weeds thank you. Next speaker, please. Howard wong is the last person. Howard wong i also encourage dp x is accelerated and not detailed as an architect ive handled large projects where clients we tweak the program and load to there in costs and more details the Transbay Center shouldnt be a fairly empty bus station it needs rail there are years of environmental cleaners pg pa has a good Financial Plan look at the distractions and independent projects and tunnels can be tweaked current alignment can be modified if needed, the tomb was built under the English Channel norway hasability built large tunnels tunneling is a creative art the Railway Yards can be the projects the project in manhattan was built over a large operating rail yard and millennial park and barkley was built over an operating rail yard i 280 he supported that freeway when i worked with the extra freeway demolition there are many ways of adjusting freeways you can build over ground or build rail side freeways many things but creativity of the designs and engineers so look at all the options as a separate entity but accelerate it and commit users and ourselves and the voters lets get the dp x built heats not delay it i want to see something going into the bus stations thank you. Anyone else care to address the board. Thank you for the preshg presentation it was fascinating and as everyone said we need to get this right and rail for the attributing terminal ill speak up for options that roar that and meet the freeway as someone that walks and bikes in this area it is challenging to get across that stretch it really separates the eastern neighborhoods and ill speak up in support of the option that does that and as mr. Cohen appointment not an engineer but realize the huge land use issues will do great things and good work and anything we can do to support you. Im sorry director rubke. This may be outside the scope is this 3 a exists in some form whether we look at how this might change maybe susan. Yes. Depending on the alignment. Introduce yourself. Im the project manager so some of the options keep 22 street in the same location some of the options well be moving it into a different location the city of San Francisco has our two stations whether the stations are located their today or someplace else. Ill encourage whoever has power to make sure that station as related is relocated be accessible to pope people with disabilities right now it is a key station underutilized because of this so i want to put that out there. Director borden. Ill agree with director brinkmans commits about to restore the connections and caltrain to me as m of as we underground and tunnel the realignment make sense and interested to see what the bay option looks like this is fascinating i dont know how had entering seconds but a great direction to go into. Director heinecke. Yeah. I agree i think the comment we get one chance lets do this rights for generation and generations and adjudications to come resonates with me any way to take the rail underground that is the way to do it and really make sure that were not only avoiding conflicts in various issues weve talked about were talking about a neighborhood we hope will thrive and continue to thrive and objective more palpable for the used for the neighborhood from the train is underground as opposed to as the street underground theres obviously two phases the high speed rail train and the sort of caltrain extension and i appreciate and support did the notation of caltrain coming downtown the question i had youre talking about some plan for connections to the east bay and all that absolutely a transit hub and as the commissioner was talking about were thinking about baseball season in concrete he terms everyday all the people coming in not only for work during the work hours but using the baseball time hours the east bay connection to downtown. Assuming which i think is a fair assumes as at downtown the bullet train and the new tunnel to the east bay my question is this would that be possible what is the current thinking behind connecting bart to the east bay with the Transit Center people get out and walk on the sidewalks to the bart station . So are you talking about with the transbay is today. Could be today but in the future im more interested what is the distance between that term and a bart station. Currently the Transit Center as zoned has an underground connection point to. Is it montgomery. Montgomery yeah, it is approximately a little bit more than a block the Transbay Center is in market that right now is not part of funded space to have transbay Transit Center and so phase one is construction phase two the downtown that extends and connects does all the rail stuff and the elements that connects up is not a opportunity part of what is phase two if im understanding correctly. If i can add to that the last funding plan for phase two which was the rail extension exclusive of the bart connection for the project of 2. 5 billion the last estimate of costs for the downtown rail extension is about 4 billion and some of the revenues that were part of funding plan for the 2. 5 billion project were moved into phase one to get the phase one complete so we actually have a big funding gap on the order of 2 billion to get dp x done it is the regions top priority and regional priority we dont want to slow down we want to accelerate that the mtc a funding partner in phase one and phase two has made it clear for the reasons your stating that that bart connection needs be part of phase two and not put off to a later phase pb b as we revise the 4 billion level low include the underground connection to bart it susan referenced. And the connection is the tunnel it is a pedestrian tunnel essentially. Correct. And if im doing my distance thinking right it really no longer than the walk were talking about between powell street and the new i mean a couple hundred of yards. A short block between that and mission. It sounds like not surprising you thought of this is a critical part i dont know how much it will cost it operationally is an underground tunnel but less than bringing a train into be downtown i dont want to be the position we have the systems visiting each and the folks the 4. Billion estimated the cost review by the mtc and many of its commissioners not surprisingly some in of the etc. By a recognize that the value of transbay Transit Center with the trains terments there is greatly enhanced if there is a direct connection to bart. Very good thank you. Thank you so much and thank you director rahaim for that and all the work that went into putting the presentation i also appreciate the comments made by the public i expressly want to support what mr. Cohen said about thinking holistically and thinking about this as an opportunity to change the dynamics of that part of city historically those meg structure projects have had a pretty bad history in the bay area making things worse for a lot of communities weve learned a lot since then im hoping what we can do institutionalize or whatever wrap weve gone in has the same kinds of results as what happened with octavia and or what happened the mission so far with all the Affordable Housing created i would encourage you to think outside the box and try to think of a system of metrics that can help elevate whatever alternative that would really vandals not just a commercial and transportation Success Story but a Success Story of exhibit and looking forward to how youll go about that but the folks are thinking outside the box typical metrics you go into supporting or picking an alternative. Thank you for those comments if i might one of the reasons why the Planning Department is managing the study for the very reasons youve mentioned we want to make sure whatever land use happens here happens in coordination and part of the uncertainty we dont know what the land use implementation we think that is important to first look at the transportation solution and, of course, a lot of it depends on whether or not i 280 is to come down here and the land implementation are different so all of that goes into our thinking i completely agree with mr. Collins comments the other example that was not mentioned the removal of embarcadero freeway with 35 percent Housing Solution all of the factors will be take into consideration an important opportunities for the city because this is where all the Rail Infrastructure comes together and the land use and density are greatest in that part of city. Excellent and the one late the comment with respect to a second transbay connection i mean, i think that state might not be something we need right now but any of us it commute across the bay were at our breaking point and at some point well get to the place we need to figure that and i will hope that as youre going through the alternatives thinking of a way to make sure the one that is suitable for this connection. Youre right may not be needed today but were planning for thirty years we have to figure it now so thank you. Ill be 101 by then john. Youll ride for free laughter two things id like to say mr. Pilpal was not wrong about the agreement of the Transbay Joint Powers Authority board that lands my understanding refreshing my memory the land for the fourth and king under the tjpa control in per actuality so caltrain is not one of several groups but the most important partner ill suggest not easy regional things are not easy but essential well look at that laughter the other thing the central crew im glad the aortic area is very, very nice but traffic i hope weve learned lessons it is a mess i live on ellis and laguna getting out of city is a big problem i hope a lot of attention is paid to this and the housing and parks and other stuff that matters too well, thank you for an outstanding presentation youre used to 9 and a half hour meetings lets see thank you, john. Thank you. We have 3 more items. Country d know. Okay ready to go okay. Well continue the meeting with item 12 mr. Chairman item 12 authorize the contract twin peaks trackway with the nc to replace the tomb 24 7 west portal the amount of 32 million plus for a term of 4 hundred calendar days good afternoon mr. Harris mr. Chairman and Board Members and director from the subdivision as indicated that requires the director contract of 12 twin peaks improvements track not to exceed 32 million plus for an item of 4 hundred calendar days the lottery responsibly and responsive bidders for the members of reference that replaces tracks to include ties and rail and equipment between the west portal and the old ykd changing basis track at west portal and forest hill and for new cross offers adding wayside Lubrication Systems loophole control panel and kiosk wrltd station for improvements reprimand the members that the rail has monopoly been changed out for the last 40 years so a critical project to be before you today staff has implemented did design facility accuses to the design staff for completing the work and complete our advertising and bidding and process 3 bids were received on february 16th of this year and shown on page had our staff report submitted from n T C Construction at 59 employed must with the Construction Incorporated at 43 million plus and conquest to a venture at 35 million plus this on page had the staff report evaluated difference prices how we set the low bid ranking on the low bid this price take into account the overhead rates with the proposed counteracting day and a number of assumed we understand there will require to complete the work in skeesh an opportunity to improve the bid rank t if they can decrease the planned 21 weekend shouted and none bidders take advantage of that and a list of subcontractor for n t c k it the provided for reference a number of outreach meetings were held to notify the public and on page 5 of our staff report like many of the fuchdz that is provided through federal government grant and bridge funds im happy to report to the board today no protest were received from any bieshdz on this contract and staff recommends that that board approvals this item that completes my short report and joined. By the deputy contract deliberations and matt lee and your project engineer mr. Wilson is here to support any questions that the board might have mr. Harris an excellent presentation. Any member of the public. Yes. Mr. Chairman mr. Pilpal. Mr. Pilpal david pilpal again speaking as an individual some points here it was difficult to get the environmental document that was referenced i had to talk to roberta and carolina all the documents particularly short documents should be included the packet and not force people like me to go through strooerlt steps that is failing to address the passerby impacts only in the document has a couple of paragraphs i think those things should be discussed in the staff report there are there will be bus substitution on 210 west entire weekends this is a major hassle for passersby that suffered another night closer for 6 months work on the emergency phones and the radio replacement and continue to suffer delays and bus inducing for other projects sunset tubule and fourth and king those big projects really ought to have more discussion in the staff report acknowledging the impacts on passersby airing and how their dealt with and not leaving that to a later time and finally, the staff report selfindicate that will improve the action under chapter 31 but the agendas for today is e todays meeting fails to announce the chapter 31 i believe so i have a question whether or not you can take the action several others items on our calendar indicate there are final action constitutes this for chapter 31 but this item did not so question whether or not you can take that action today and pleasure denying i i know weve gone over this 21 consecutive weekends when did it close. The construction will be before revenue serve. So from friday night. 10 00 p. M. Friday night and finish in times well get service by 4 00 a. M. On monday. A weekend only. So but the usual bus runs during that time and 21 nonconsecutive. Their nonconsecutive their voiding conflicts with special events. But sometimes two weekends in a right now but during the giants games and holiday were avoiding. Any other projects the pipeline that requires closing the i assume this means west portal to castro. South of castro yes; is that correct. But the closer i mean will you run service to castro and turn it around or talking about closing the whole tunnel. I believe the whole tunnel well have to go obviously make sure that is acceptable to transit nevertheless operation and in terms of how this is down done. Well run the transcripts to castro and turn them around and rail service between castro and embarcadero outs on the embarcadero and down 3rd street. And then will the outline no trains on the all that works so the l and n will be the bus service on the above grade. Ill ask julia is here for the next item but speak to the service plan that accompanies this plan. Good afternoon. Good afternoon the working plan right now, were still finalizing the details we will have service to castro station and well have bus service to the outer terminals the intent to minimize the trips for the transfer at castro and have to transfer at west portal but working out the details. So the n n is not effected. Yes. It is contracted to be 21 nonconsecutive weekends well have a high bar with the intent we will trooif try to get it done as quickly as possible. Final question does this contract include a rail switch at west portal so Shuttle Service can flip more easily Going Forward. This includes a cross over between foresting down in her west portal there is subsequent Software Work so. It didnt require closing for weekends software; right . We dont have a contract for that i think that is a nondisruptive change but not operational on operational as a manual switch as much time we put it into the control system but has that compatibility well add that cross over to the system it didnt exist today. Very good thank you. Just a quick question mr. Harris he remember a number of years ago some other work if that tunnel i think director reiskin remembered the trains can speed up. It was a replacement we had a little emergency situation where we were slowing down the trains to 10 or 15 Miles Per Hour for the eureka curve we went and replaced that curve portion one or more to the point we couldnt operate at that designed speed so that was on our folks on off hours that is the true followed of the railroad replacement. I hear the points will the Customer Impact we doing everything we can to minimize that is critically important work it is inconvenient and that it doesnt come with shiny bells and whistles amongst the most important work with for the rieblth of the system. Thank you for bringing that up i know that is a disruptive i know it is tough but doing this type of work weve seen agencies by and large suffering it is upsetting for the druchs but for the wellbeing the system that was a motion to approve. Second. Any further discussion . On that no. All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The is have it. So thank you, mr. Harris. And 13 strategy report for 20172018. So this was what she was really here for you heard reference from supervisor avalos but this is something that you know, i think is really groundbreaking in transit as far as i know ive told julia she should be writing papers and teaching others to do what we did in large part based on the first from our Community Partners and saw them some of them are still here i hope youll hear from them directly and the policy you adopted 2 years ago and exciting to be including it the budget this year. Hi there im proud of work and very fortunate to be supportive i have a strong staff that developed did product before you including sandra and who did the bulk of the analysis apple this the muni service combblt report is here for your consideration the muni policy i adopted last may calls for the report to be adopted prior to the budget and to the extent there their budget implementation they remember incorporated into the budget as in this case the strategy identifies key needs in the routes serving 7 neighborhoods and neighborhoods have a lot of protecting holders and communities of color we also identified several routes heavy used by seniors and people with disabilities that analysis was made possible by the fact were using clipper card for the process weve got better data the past how the system is being used the strategy dont care a deeper dive for crowding understanding and others types of performances we looked at all times of day the types of trips the customer for example, might be different than a 9 to 5 pattern the early reluctance are positive we took 2014 as a baseline year and also elevated strings 2015 data and were already seeing sixth improvement in the neighborhoods and the roultsdz were focusing on and a lot of that comes from the underlying investment we support including the Service Increases and the Transportation Management service the supervision that allows the combblt identified tequity iden the recommendations were from the legislature of the task force that the transportation and impracticable advocates they took the time to come in january and here today im not going into a long prerj presentation we went over the details of report in january and present to the mta and the cac as well as the Transbay Joint Powers Authority and citizens Advisory Committee and we are fortunate this will be a living document that comes to you on with every budget cycle and the off year you can measures the performance and make sure the investments are working we have a caltrain Planning Grant i think an interesting outreach between now and the next to bring this to you to make sure were seeing the data reflect what people are experiencing on the surface the recommendations as youve incorporated include the fy 20172018 budget the Service Strategies are built into the baseline budget and what i mean i will theyll essentially be funded under the efficiency the schedule either route that are more service than it needs or under Product Service or introducing additional apartment operators for example, those types of efficiency you will see that immediately in june well do slight reduction routes traveled by students and the service in the summertime the Capital Strategies have been linked to the Funding Sources and are include in the Capital Budget that is also the hero thank you for the policy and for endorsing this first ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you. Appreciate that i personally wanted to discuss the specification of those links thats an awesome love work and you know the overview of the thing is one thing but getting down though the details is something. I agree such good work on this getting down to the details t the entity how people got to work and the riderships number were eye opening we see that number all the time in the budget we carry 78 hundred thousand trips a day but were seeing that broken down into line by line hits home how for the Public Transportation is for everyone the city and particularly for the neighborhood good work i agree with director reiskin you can teach a masters class right now but dont laughter thank you munoz. Is Herbert Wiener here . Followed by calvin and david pilpal. Mr. Wiener and. Mta imposes improved service for ellis acted seniors and people with disabilities on their heavy used line the problem all disabilities dont show the suffering to be roosted to treat the worthier i didnt for their services because of firefighters and income it is a service that should be for everyone not for select groups all seniors and disabled will be expected to walk a quarter of a mile some say that walking is good for you despite those who are barely able to board buses the buses was dropping individual of a neighborhoods target in the mta inevitability plan was disconnected sided not more convenient to travel to the Medical Center what happens to seniors and the disabled and i an van ness on 19th street coordinator was the explosion of humbug for mta and more train wrecks ahead are you proud of this. Next speaker, please. calling names . Calvin committee of the Human Services network we are the folks we service in h s n are transit didnt want their transit reliant not only for protecting. Middleincome people are used our services i have to say that dealing with the sfmta as not always been a pleasant experience this, however, was staggering reversal we starred by talking about a line by line analysis bringing concern of the gentrification of transit we had underground an enumeration gentrification of housing in which the privilege entities involved had no concern about the impacts of gentrification the Housing Market imagine our surprise when we raised a questions of gentrification in a Transit Service hitting transit reliability people in neighborhoods of low income and also moderate income id like to point out to the previous speaker a number of lines involved serve the inner sunset and the hate ashbury hayes valley areas no longer because of gentrification of housing necessarily low income but still transit reliant great job on the part of the staff and great job on mr. Reiskin and the staff times used surprised we need operational funds to make it real this is not about comblitscy capital but nuts and bolts of service that is critically important franciscans. Next speaker, please. calling names . Mr. Pilpal speaking as an individual again, it was difficult to get the one page environmental documents i strongly encourage that that be computed in the calendared items as long as as no specific changes are proposed at this point and any Service Changes that were referred to in in report are brought back for approval i have no specific objection to this process i appreciate that julia explained that was supposed to be cost neutral over the next few years any Service Increases that will be offset to reallocate the Services Best used i certainly support that approach i have a general concern this particular impliciimpliciequity cant we service everywhere isle ill hope we apply to the same kind of approaches on a line by line gastro basis i thought part of that was within the t e p moving forward but to the extent other efforts like this i hope theyll be applied citywide thank you. calling names . The last person to turn in a speaker card. Thank you peter straus for the transit riders i want to echo with supervisor avalos said this is an incredible ride started in a Charter Amendment you know a few years ago and out of that controversy you know came a positive reception from the mta staff julia and others have been credible and turning what started with controversy into something that everyone agrees and most everyone agrees is the right way to go and shines well on the mta and the staff and its efforts with that said, this is a work in process and something that will evolves over time and weve worked on the working group will continue to work with staff to refine over time and lastly i want to eagle what calvin said im concerned about saying we will find the resources by taking it away if other services and we really need to develop Additional Services so far Additional Support well talk about this process underscores that you cant over time address did kwoiblt needs. Thank you. Next speaker, please. The last two people. Sir. Good afternoon peter Cohen Council of the Community Housing organization like the Human Services our member organizations for the most part working with population transit reliant we get the users does the importance of improvements and to start with i think that is now soundz like a chorus of how mreeldz were we were to work with julia this is too easy that makes us all wonder is there something wrong it really was something i think everyone got into thinking though how to go from insuring the transportation improvement are throughout through an equity lens and how to bring it to you folks with data driven and User Experience driven fantastic now we get to see how it works if i could have the overhead for a minute. Right above the words this is a slide from a previous presentation staff has shown which i think just gets right to the center that is if were going to have the entity strategy Needs Resources it is great to hear youll get through one or two of the cost neutral prelims but you cant say revenue neutral your way over a 20 or thirty year program youll have to have money to implement it a lot of us are fluted by the the course of this trial f s the idea after 35 years of a Funding Source with flexibility implementation across all 3 of the points on this circle this is what it takes to run the system capital and line not just capita we say that constraint only capital and now a fall revenue measure only capital folks this is dangerously two narrow thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names the last person to submit a speaker card. Good afternoon. Good afternoon Board Members ill echo what everyone said having survived some processes we were trying to if you get with an impracticabldzz a more impracticable system this is a start we know that with displacement and gentrification there will be changes and changes in demographic and transportation the city again not the only places to look at we think other folks mentions the implementation will be the key i know that senior disabilities theyre working on disability assess other pieces were trying to layer on but staff has been generous to interact integrate the needs whether the free trait promissory notes programs this comboiblthd strategy having a conversation im happy to see this Public Agency like bart tweak with a wake up call we really need to think about what the odds of that is as we hopefully move to a conversation about fall measures beyond the Transportation Network and have a realistic balanced approach to raising revenue this strategy will not work without Real Investments and operating an additional and the system will not work without that we hope also this is a great process and a great conversation. Anyone else hear to address the board a pleasure of the board. Motion to all in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The is have it. Thank you, thank you very much go back. Mr. Chairman would you like me to call the other two together one is the operator budget and the staff has one presentation and very good. Item 14 approve the changes to the rates and charges e for the amendment of the transportation code and ask the board to approve the fair changes effective september one various fair changes as the board to approve the analysis of the changes on low income and Minority Community and certifies that the 20172018 operating budget is adequate for us to achieve various performance standards approve the fy 20172018 budget nouchld of one 54. 74 million and plus respectfully for the fairs and new years eve and makes various concurrences with the controllers variation for the work being performed by contractor at a lesser cost than employees authorize the director to make various necessary corrections to approve the budget provide he shall return to the board for corrections status 94 percent increase in the capital and respectfully the next item is item 15 which requests approval the sfmtas fiscal year 2017 announcement of 40 point plus Million Dollars and 60 million projects within 12 Capital Projects addressing the infrastructure needs and certifies those to capital buthsd are adequate to make the process towards meeting the goals and objectives. Director reiskin. Would you mind repeatedly that. So thank you, mr. Chair were at a pointed after we first brought item for your discussion in june our many months of staff work to do do preliminary budget and to the point this is your first opportunity to consider adopting the project but walk us through the final presentation some of it much of that will look familiar ill go relative quickly and focus on the issues that are new and different in this budget if we can go to the slides please just kind of a reminder for the public various stats for the scope and scale of the agency and the demands placed on us the vision and goals you established in the Strategic Plan in 2012 with this bucket will, for the third and final two year fiscal year cycle of implementing that plan and to refresh your recollection we started out with the baseline with 14 million in each the fiscal years and capital 5 year Capital Budget on the order of half a billion dollars heres what the more recent part of progress to date theres been numerous different Public Outreach opportunities both in this room and elsewhere including online and were now as i said at the point you have your first opportunity to approve this budget if you choose not to do so today you have another chance in two weeks to remind you by charter have to summit improved balanced budget to city hall by may first so just to recap more further for the public you on the board know that the priorities came from the Strategy Plan but really comes from you and what were trying to reflect in this bucket first safer streets and safety is the number one goal in our strategem plan and, of course, you have made vision zero a top priority for us as a as the mayor and board of supervisors worked cross numerous agencies to make our city satisfactory weve heard the equity strategy and were proud to continue and really fully implement for the first time the equity strategy and continuing the free muni for low and moderate income riders ill say the umbrella of the biscuit issue is affordability there is a lot of people thinking again, it and talking about it and frying trying to figure out what to do about this agency and muni is one area were doing concrete things to address it both brick in terms of the jobs plus or the housing plus transportation valuation by making the transportation side evaluation but the more and better public and low cost affordable transportation we can provide the lows people building buildings have to extend buildings Parking Spaces and spends those dollars building homes for people not cars theres a lot of we can be proud of her more we should be doing but a very big principle of the budget and the vice chair said more than seven hundred thousand trips on a week day the core of our Transportation System theres a lot were doing capital to invest in muni and then infrastructure the entire system i appreciate the approval the twin peaks contract as i said important state that is essential to us be able to serve the hundreds of thousands we do everyday and then the streets side of the evaluation not only our buses rile on other people driving the commercial vehicles and people walking and on bikes and other various ways people get around to in the budgeted help to make that work more effectively as were doing all those things and the lions share in support of Transportation Needs we need to plan for the future as director rahaim said you know it is probable ineventual we need to look at the bart crossing as director ramos were almost at capacity this is is it true in a number of areas and parts of Transit System are at capability this is towards the thinking of the future so we did as as i said have a numerous chaenltz for soliciting Public Feedback we have feedback from to angle im addresses on the bucket portion of website and Public Comment and Public Meetings and, of course, the citizens Advisory Committee youve heard the recommendations those are some of the things weve heard the Public Feedback and many of those things im recommending as part of budget not all of them but most of them we started with about a 14 million shortfall in each of the two fiscal years i want to crosswalk how we get to the balanced bucket allison park proposing to you there are should revenue changes that we previously discussions ill be recommended today which compasses the fair proposals the towing fee reductions, and contraband parking Martin Luther king you recommend at the last meeting and previously discussed the use of funds balance for one time needs and also be able to based on revised revenue stems as we are further along in the economy and the stronger revenue stems for numerous indications of our revenue for transit fairs to parking but also additional general fund support and ill speak to that when we get to the revenue picture because i think that relates to some of the Public Comment on the last item between all of those changes as well as revised estimates well create a little bit of a surplus relative to the growth that allows us to do a small amount of adjustment to the expenditures we were able to accommodate the Debt Services from the revenue bond thats not on the agenda but adjust for an uptick in Workers Compensation costs to adjust the lease and i will mention the lease is not approved by the board of supervisors it was up until today, we requested the board of supervisors again to continue the item we are looking at some alternatives with respect to this lease including a Purchase Option should we be successful we live come back to you but right now the proposed budget assumes the cost of the facility lease it assumes the increased operating contributions to caltrain that was requested by caltrain staff and it also left a little bit of room 10 million of room based on the revised revenue projections to invest a little bit in ongoing programs and as we have previously talked about one time expenditures of funds balance is on the revenue side noting none of those are new at least on this slide were recommend as i think was largely sprtd by the cac was get the feedback up shes trying to make me go faster than i want to acknowledge our cfo therains this is coming out in a simple presentation but creates a billion dollars operating balance and but those proposals youve seen before within is changing the youth distinction from 5 to 18 compliant with the muni and the discussed changing the discounts to 50 percent of adult fair as opposed to a greater amount for seniors and people with disabilities that are not of the free funning program that has 80 thousand people registered in that lets think that that one in 10 san franciscans registered for the fee muni those are not for people in the Program Consistent with the Lifetime Program 50 percent of the adult fair the third one here i think the cac remedies a 0. 50 premium for cash were sticking with the recommendation of 25 percent premium for cash payers weve discussed to reduce the amount of cash in the system and speeds up the boarding process is other commissions relative a small item we think an important one and worth the investment as discussed with or supported by the cac change the a pass the muni place bart in San Francisco below of i could above 5 a significant value that the folks that buy that pass to avail themselves of bart and providing that same 50 Percent Discount off the fair the tokens we provide for Human Services and others nonprofits that serve individuals the fees are something you have already approved and the last item well came from the discussion we had at the last boards meeting recognizing that while today on showcase square we have addresses a geography graphic and Parking Management there are holes in the Parking Management and im proposing we work the first year fiscal year develop the proposals with the Business Community as the board suggested that will provides for enhanced project and citywide we have time to develop that and come back in the second year with proposed changes. So in terms of expenditures because of the changes in revenue projections we are able to identify about 10 million to invest in key priorities again where i think are responded by the cac the lions share of this going into what was transit top priority outside of service increase that was investing in safety, state of repair and appliances key things the transit provision identified to improve the reliability of the service some additional maintenance investment in about sustainable streets also for investment and expansion of demand based parking and staffing to better start to manage more proactively use the flows of data coming in from various resources that could help us better manage the Transportation System a number of other things ive walk throughed before every from safety staffing to meet the new fta mandates funding for taxi investigators and store keepers and outreach and h. R. Analysts those are things that supports the front line delivery i think are worthy of ongoing this is a short list of things youve seen before it is about 10 million on top of the billion dollars operating bucket not an investment but a lot more we would last week to do not just service increase but tens of Million Dollars of ideas in staff this is essentially what were able to afford based on the realistic revenue projections Going Forward and we talked at a number of occasions about the fund balance and the following slide will show you what that side to the fund balance we have because of strength of the economy and bringing the revenues far beyond appropriations the fund balance is more than healthy so based on the feedback that i got from you in terms of expenditure of funds balance on a critical safety issues on thing that will improve efficiency this is what ill proposing for use of funds balance ill note that there are some aspects of this particular in the second year we will essentially put on reserve and not spend first of all, from the revenue projections we have for the current for for the next fiscal year are accurate and remains strong because i heard loud and clear youre not comfortable with going down even to the 10 percent level this will take us blow the 15 percent so an evaluation of what the projections will be Going Forward and the next slide shows where this takes us we expect to end the year at a 24 percent almost two nature times based on the projects 17 percent if our projections held and extended all the recommended it brings us to 13 pressor and not advance all the second year spend until we are confident we get back to the 15 level thats at recommendation of the fund balance this is what it looks like as youve heard the lengthy introduction a one point one 5 whether they would say proposed budget the first year one. 17 and the second year if you could go back to the revenues please the different source of funding relatively in similar proposition to what theyve been but ill not i think this is relevant to some of the comments on the last item general funds continues to grow as im often reminded talking to folks we have at largest set aside of budget funds this happens by charter formula and theres by the prop b that tied this growth to population and the city has been boom weve really gotten the benefit of this so we are while i support the previous statements we should be looking for more operating revenues and flektsd and any Revenue Source we have seen a pretty significant increases in revenues that provided for a 10 Percent Service increase in the custer fiscal kayak and even as the signs on the horizon suggests the economy must not be continuing to grow as fast but allowing us to make the investments that i just walk throughed and proposed them in the next fiscal cycle i think that is relevant to note on the expenditure side to show you that one. 15 breakdown by the expenditure category and by operating division not substantially different breaks down than what youve seen before i want to put that out there that is essentially the operating budget do you want me to pause for questions. Oh, no. Your on a role here laughter regards to the Capital Budget nothing ill say substantive different than youve seen before remember the Capital Budget is the 5 cpi is about the same level as the one you approves two years ago but again, i pointed out last time a smaller portion of central subway weve completed more of the central subway and the assumptions about revenues for funds vailor transit and expansion and safer streets so specifically and there was a reference in the previous item were assuming that manufacture that were recommended by the the mayors transportation force moved in 2018 for the two year budgets it is really only the november 16th measure that has impact but ultimately were assuming well those measures in place and the millennium that will be going to other needs streets resurfacing and bart what will be available is 45 million in the first few years and 65 million the next slide may show you how were assuming that will starts kicking the second fiscal year it was approved that november and assuming on the orders of 45 to 55 million that will essentially be advancing muni forward type of work as well as the fleet facilities we dont have other funding for and the additional second measure another 10 million Million Dollars a year to expand our vision zero and expanding them this is how the program looks at i dont think this slide a substantially changed and the remaining slides again highlight the key projects have not changed either those are the projects that are maybe some refinement in the final report but essentially this is the budgets weve been working through in terms of Capital Program for the last few months that concludes my presentation. Ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. Hear Public Comment and then welcome a discussion. Thank you director reiskin you want to hear in the members of the public. All right. Mr. Chairman well have sfgovtv just get us back to the life feed all right. All right. Public comment calling names . Mr. Wiener. Herbert wiener i wish to discuss the senior disabled and youth discount fairs i take Public Transportation and use my vehicle for traveling outside the city ill not drive the city as a rule and alleviating pollution your safer the purpose of pollution and sfmta has a per pellet deficit i promise you 10 years from now ill still be saying that but taking money from seniors for discount feces fairs is not right our money will continued to be taken from seniors because we ride muni that constitutes punishment for guilt also people who create pollution and also i must say the service is awe atrocious so this is im categorically against the increased youth and senior discount fairs and weigh this seriously this is outrage next item, please. Charles jim and robert. Good afternoon directors charles on behalf of the lurking cab company i want to start off by acknowledging and recognizing the many benefits to the im thinking of the access to red lines this is tremendously valuable im curb space as taxi stands up throughout the downtown area and i am the turn privileges and the top quality screening and training of drivers like our staff provides to the industry and the stepped up enforcement weve seen on the streets thank you all of these valuable services to the taxi industry recognizing that value in normal times we have a no problem with the fees that we pay these, however, are not normal times speaking for luxembourger your company is having distress dozens of cabs sits idle and repeated staff layoffs so luxembourg requests a waiver for medallions and companies if for accounting reasons you canned do that, please consider so a future sale or transfer of medallions that way instead of a zeroing out the fee waivers it can be a deferred to future payments and thank you. Have a good day. Thank you. Jim robert and mary which he will. Jim is not here he had to go to another meeting you have to understand that tmcs have no Business Plan except to getting into the weeds of taxis over the last puc meeting which was a couple weeks ago a number of tmc operators were pleading with the puc to raise the rates they were being paid by uber because were in the way to the bottom and who is going to fall by the way side are the taxis because the general Public Comment will rides in anything as long as as it the cheap and this is the problem we have to face and the truth is the tmcs dont make any money they lose money return the rate of tmc vehicles as told by mta, and the inspectors, etc. Is round about 4 months we cant say survive on tmc rates and it is up to you to form a coalition with supervisors supervisor peskin and other supervisors are interested in doing a number of things so that you will at least powerfully be able to control tmcs thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names . Gamechanger. Director nolan and Board Members as you look at at our budget and approve changes and fees i urge you to look at carefully into the situation that taxi industry of these itself we have strooulg as my colleague said before in posing 5 thousand renewal on the medallions is difficult times creates for hardship on the industry on the verge of clap unnecessary until you have jurisdiction over uber and lyft are regulated to the similar matter of taxis that is more than fair to ask you to waive this expensive fee so i urge you one thing to look at it and help us we are a city asset please does not neglect thean f sncisco taxi industry thank you, thank you next item, please. calling names . I dont see mr. Lee dipped and david straus. David pilpal hopefully, the last time today for the first time i have no major quarrels with the proposed budget except for one that is the proposed 0. 25 surplus is fair as title of report and thanks to julia and others on that properly nodded there will be an impact of that particular change on protecting passersby that dont otherwise qualify for the free programs i i dont believe this proposed change has been well communicated to passersby i think that staff understands the issue but not heard enough from passengers that are impacted by this i think that as bad idea and unfair clearly the agency is replacing thats fair bos but charging people more particularly those who can at least afford to put stored value on a permits clipper cards or have access to clipper functionality is as i said unfair finally the clamgsz in the fair proposals a chart on page 61 or 62 includes what i understand the occlude fair increases and a slide in the budget overview that has some of the i could fair increases ive not found a proposed change the fairs relevant effect dates some things that are cement one and july one and january and other things deferred and no where that includes the 5 for the seniors, etc. I hope you have a single document that pulls the fair changes together. Thank you. calling names . It mary ma gunfire still here. Thank you peter straus for the San Francisco transit riders since we saw the last budget the expenditures has been bridged if i look at it by fair balances i have no problem with that but also good see to the proposal for 4 million on Parking Management and then Parking Management is someplace we address accident policy needs and raise revenues you you know from that prospective i say there is 4 million in there for Parking Management rates revenues about 6 and a half Million Dollars from the combination of tow weight adjustments and the sustainable streets extra expenditures were not closing that gap i think the proposal last time looking at the meters and parts of rpp zones you might look at on the upside here glad to see the 6 million to address the top needs in terms of mr. Haleys program were concerned there is nothing on the 2 percent operating increase i want to note a lot of comments made about how we dont needs that immediately and i dont think anybody says we need to immediately but inspected the next two year period get both that like the last budget the largest increase was pushed to the last of months and latest when you saying we dont have enough the funds the asset needs and dont have enough for the 2 Percent Service increase same date were not using any of the prop b revenues for service we would like to see the agency recognize that there are shorted commissioners, on that motion if even if we get the funds we sunshine still have shortcomings and need to have the Revenue Sources. Next speaker, please. Carl the last person oh, we may have another one. Thank you, again tom. Im looking at my time havent started when i walked in i didnt know there was an approval of the medallions about one thousand dollars if you go for this and say. All in favor, say i. I. It will create problems i ask you do one of 3 things wave at fee were a population of people basically trying to pay for a food and medication and rent and operating at a loss or to sever the item and holds in awe benefits or amend it charging one hundred dollars the impact reduce the 50 piece of metal and prop a of 2007 interest was go major housekeeping issues but if you charge us a thousand dollars for a piece of metal youll charge us 10,000 otherwise well mobilize and flood the board of supervisors protests and demonstration we dont want to go that route ill talk to the issue the house act of 1937 in new york after the Great Depression new york city thousands of people took their cars around 1923919 thirty and the taxis were raised to the bottom they were violence and one person ill take you for 0. 10 were seeing that with the compleemgs with the tmcs so again, the medallion system how that regulated the number of taxis and the rates for fair we have a public process you could are putting out one thousand medallions a year i hope you look at that as a source for revenue not going after the going to anyone else want to address the board sorry. calling names . Good afternoon. Hold on just a moment i need to get out of here so i can get your hold on a second. Okay. Good afternoon, board my name is jessica with the sflbz first, im sorry i missed the last item on the entity strategy but excited about the work and look forward to prelims with all of you so we have two concerns about the budget your major concern about major change to the trait with people people with disabilities and people have not able to get to a bus stop people are isolated that dont think fair transit to get to city hall for example, or that the decreasing office to connect with others people the communities and those are people that tend to be very poor were top with 4 is challenging we have many, many members who use fair transit that have to limit how often they get out they cant afford it question urge you not to increase those fairs and unfortunately we also hear Horror Stories people are waiting for hours or paratransit didnt show up for hours and working with free muni and people with disabilities when we have a lot of problems with service to ask people to pay more oar paratransit is unreasonable and the last issue very, very quickly we oppose the 0. 25 cash fair increase above the uber rate we have senior disabilities and people with disabilities who dont have clipper cards they dont trust it thats the reality maybe they feel like theyll lost their cards but people dont feel they can work the system shouldnt have to pay more for that. calling names thank you. I speak to the issue of reducing or waving the taxi medallion fee mr. Reiskin talked about a booming economy and you know maybe it will slow down a little bit taxicab and the taxi industry it is a desegregation a terrible desegregation and talked about the booming economy given more funds youve able to do one thing or another i see you have more taxi investigators as part of budget it looks very good and talked about affordability as a senior and i am a senior although im an attorney im on a fixed income it is difficult to pay a thousand dollars in an industry that is being devastated just a point i know again against the tmc judge ray could have great judges the district of new York Federal Court basically allowed a lawsuit to go through rather than being dismissed to anti trust concerns the tmc had and owing to some of the problems that he saw is tmcs have which i think theyre an evil genus with the way they behave i dont know how that couples i know that judge ray cost saying the supplement was two small. Thank you, thank you next item, please. Your last speaker howard wong. Hello howard wong safe muni im speaking against the 1. 2 million for the study whether there are better used for the funding bart has been facing great challenges as their board has many of their Board Members has stated left the core system by extending a great deal of money on the Capital Projects including extensions mtc and bathtub acknowledged exceeded billions of dollars for capital ridership in our region is declining mta and muni has fairs that remain stagnate despite huge expenditures if in continues it bodies balanced for the streets and neighborhoods and quality of life if you really do have one pointed 25 million to throw on a study that is lobbied by Pro Development groups and not from neighborhood groups then consider spending that money instead on reuben, junius rose kearny bus that connects to montgomery station and consider the full service to the union that is cut to peak hour only that connects to the embarcadero station and extend the muni buses back to the waterfront and restore ninlt service or expanding service on f and e line with integration of cable cars for everyday residents and not just the tourist vehicle and consider expand all the transit lines for the mile distance from downtown Fishermans Wharf thank you. Seeing. Board members questions or comments. Director brinkman. I have no questions my only comments weve done a go back putting together the budget thank you all very much i do intend to support this budget i say i have reservations of cash charge but im going to defer to the fact weve discussed it and study it we understand that we needs to make sure that clipper cards and clipper card loading is assessable i know weve talked about that before so as it is im willing to support this budget. Theres a motion is there a second more discussion, of course. Ill second that i think the question of the c will be is another adjustment if we wave the taxi fee. There are numerous fees over the course of last few years weve eliminated and some weve waved about 10 million forgone revenue over the last couple of years it depends on people speaking to different a few different types of fees and at the same time, we have costs that some costs are increasing the drug program and as far as we know every jurisdictions is passed along to the city we are assuming that could have cost of one Million Dollars a year were certainly well aware of the states of taxi i agree with everything everyone said about the tmcs we have limited control over them very nfl they have a huge adverse impact not only to the industry but we took stock and weighed the issue refltd to the fees we can revisit but if he were to make the changes now director that will create a hole the proposed balanced budget. Directors. I had had have some thanks for the budget i know it is so many work to get the pieces together we have a big concerns of the 25 increasing kind of especially in the of the data from the inevitability strategy how income groups i agree with mr. Pilpal about his comments i have huge concerns im wondering if we can do anything you guys discussed this at the last meeting when i was not here he hope we can move forward to mitigate those negative impacts that were held helped those contingency get integrated into the city and county system or make sure we not have adverse effects like us to missouri before we move forward ill not delay it but express my thoughts about that i do want to see what we can do with helping the paratransit i didnt realize that recent a was a big concern and i apologize for bringing that up but i want to see if there is anything we can do to help that. And the other two other minor questions if you dont mind im a little bit behind one thing i was really a minor thing on the work orders a huge increase from year to year for dpw on earth do you guys know what im talking about three hundred percent increase from last year to this year im sure there was a good reason i want to know about the details all of a sudden we are doing work orders with dpw. Thats largely attributed to the fact id like to addresses the other issues on the work order and good catch on that we as you recall we completed the visions studies and move forward weve done Commission Assessments of all the facilities and are moving into prelims and implementation and part of slide that addresses the commission and the bar the lower part of bar chart is fleet and part of that is were investing in the facilities well be renovating the bart the warehouses to be a new home for the overhead lines crew that works out of massy building not go seismically safe and public works is doing the design and could go on expansion of the muni east facility and public works is helping with that a number of smaller projects including some im proposed repairs to the bank and public works is doing a lot of that work so these the work order budget for public works is an allowance based on what we expelled but to the extent we dont do the work we dont have aethsdz within our agency it shows up in a contract line item like professional Services Line item so i appreciate our catching that but actually, i think that is reflective of a good sign were investing in the facilities weve altercation not be able to and one the proposed uses of the new revenues because those facility dollars have been tracking o traditionally the harder and in the revenue bones that goes to facilities were investing more from in facilities where therefore using for Architectural Services and purchase those services internally from public works. Thank you. I thought that was an racial explanation. Do you have one other. Another item i didnt see it specifically laid out but discussions around having the van ness elevator and i didnt see it in the Capital Budgets i wasnt sure if i missed it are money we budgeted for this fiscal year. I believe there are forms for rehab of the van ness escalators in the current budget what weve been closer with City Real Estate who owns real estate on the two corners and private developers on the other two corners are relinquishment of the elevator perhaps in place or a different location such as in one of the city facilities so we do have plans to try to keep that one that is there russian ultimately it needs to be replaced not big enough it is difficult to maintain were looking at paths to do with within the next fiscal cycle i dont know if it is called out it could be incorporated into the Building Designs or different mechanisms by which this is fund but one of the top elevators. The funds are available this year so. With regards to the paratransit fairs i think what weve had this discussion probably both of the last two budgets we do theres a lot of investment were making in paratransit the point of the service is welltaken on the capital side of the budget the cpi contemplates a replacement of paratransit and vehicle and expansion the fleet in the meanwhile our costs are up significantly in terms of running the paraTransit Service we brought you contract i think a contract amendment earlier were negotiating the new paratransit contract we have so you get the board of supervisors support to basically protect the wages to subject those contracts to the prevailing wage laws of cityhey would not otherwise be subject to those folks are doing important work we want them to be fairly compensated as a result our trait costs are increasing millions of dollars a year so we believe that sticking to the index fair increase is reasonable and defensible i dont know if kate has anymore to add to that it is something that has come up in the last few budget weve provided rational we say capital side. Kate director of taxis and assessable Services Yeah back in the day the paratransit fairs were just based on a pass and the pass was problematic it is took us a lot of worked or work to get the individual fair for paratransit and it makes sense in a lot of ways we indexes the fairs to the picture of fairs what happened was we had a huge gap we were really had to play catch up and that become harder for the community to capture we skipped 3 cycles of reasonable fairs we thought it was reasonable increases indexes to the fair we have a paratransit fair Subsidy Program called the helping wheels for the prament customers that are in need and needs fair subsidy there is supports for them. Thanks. Thank you we discussed the cash fair within thing the data that we were looking at we did the last rider survey it showed slightly higher cash usage as you went down the spectrum that was done before the free muni program a good chunk of the folks down tars the lower spectrum are not paying anything there are 80 thousand people we thought more current data that looks at better or less bad i think that looks at better if we had current data but with the data we believe weve demonstrated through the analysis we dont have the desperate impact we have already started with the transportation go commission that holds the contract for clipper including the outreach and the Vendors Network to discuss strategies about how well Community Based about the outreach weve commented we will do another round of cars for free like 3 to buy a clipper card but as we have in the past when clipper was rolled out another wave of card issuance and do what we can if any holes in the network well fill the holes by finding vendors for people to reloads their cards if they choose not to do so online or auto loads this was do give time to get cards in peoples hands and other issues that jessica mentioned we still have half of the people and muni that are paying cash despite the fact of clipper we think there as great opportunity some even with the action will choose to pay a higher fair we think there is opportunity to move a lot of people to a more convenient way to pay for the overall system i hear the concerns and we can largely address them. I appreciate that. Thank you, sir. I think what. Doing is great there is time built in and plan built in and a distribution amongst the riders the number that sticks auto mentioned is how many folks are still using cash we this takes us blow 15 percent i prefer 15 percent if we get to the point we cant spends the sorrow will that effect the first Year Spending for example, if you buy half a bridge in one year and have nothing half of the bridge is no good i assume the first year expenditure are independently sufficient if we stop well not have policymaker here is a you have to stop were going deeper into the fund balance. Absolutely there are. There are costs we can those are the most flexible dollars we can dial up and down in particular well, looking at somewhat holding back on youll see those are backload in the second year we keep leveraging along with the older vehicle for example, if we didnt think that prudent to continue with the fund balance but sever any particular project you know partway through that wounded make sense and work with your costeffecti costeffective. If we dont hit the target will we have to come back to you if we dont highest executive balance in this situation our fund balance will not go lover youve set it youll not offset the revenue balances well have to consider that ill be happy to report if you want me to come back ill do that basically your 30 years level of expenditure if we look at a year from now and see that level of expenditure youve authorized the second year bringing it to a level we dont think it prudent well stop it executive although youve authorized me to extend those ill not authorize the expenditure if you like to okay. I get it i appreciate that that our fund balance will be the lowest fink or thing if we hit revenue. So one more thing at the end of every fiscal year we give a report on the fund balance so at the end of 417 well see if we are dipping blow the 17 percent director reiskin will take the necessary. Oh, yes 17 is the first year thats more comforting and then the thinking is if we go through the whole thing the second year will be at 13 percent. Okay our goal, of course, to be higher than that we expect to have more revenue and spends less than we project. We have a fund balance is rains sometimes not all of a sudden as you recall to the extents the official revenues come in we wont have authority to spend them to the extent that the economy continues somewhat as good the revenues the first year will just fall to the fund balance so it could be higher. Well gets reports as we go correct. Yeah. The training center. So well need to come back first of all, if we pursue a different there are technical adjustments throughout the process weve already heard speaking of order for the agency of Technology Services maybe were ahead of the citys budget there maybe others adjustments weve heard the second year hit to our budget for pension costs perhaps can increase but well have to make adjustments regardless if we dont move forward with this lease well have some funds within the operating budget to help us with the adjustments but coming back with a different recommendation on fund balance because were pier 70 a purchase of the property well need funds to side that so we can do it through essentially technical adjustment and report back to you as we do each fiscal cycle by the way, i but the way we go we submit our budget may first and a bureaucrat hearing towards the ended up of may and submit to the Mayors Office on june 1st where the supervisors act not until july on the budget the final city budget and even though they dont have line item authority over our budget things if the city budget can have past impacts there are adjustments we will need to make regardless throughout that process if this lease assumption changes thats one of them. Thank you that completely answers the question for me final substantive points on the taxis i will turn to my friends the taxi industry i hear youve got any sympathy i dont think addressing this with a single fee waiver is the way to do this if we open up that door it becomes sort of a situation where we are hearing one thing especially for requests that effects a certain seethe of the taxi industry my view to proceed with that budget you have my personal commitment that will not be a situation we make a 10 thousand medallion renewal budget to balance the budget the coming years but rather that we you know agendize an item to come back and say this board is hearing and what can we had a a regulatory body to address some and give them further relieve director reiskin said this is a relief and others saying our hands are tied i appreciate many racketing bones comments i think the important thing to let you this this board is open to hear participation after discussions with staff and other things we can do to ease the tension and bridge this gap if it is true the tmcs are making no money the time will tell im not sure this is the case just more my view that as customers and people in San Francisco realize how resemble taxis are become im sensitive that it takes time but i understand the request i appreciate the sentiment behind it i dont favor waving the medallion fee but would favor we set an agenda after the gentleman meets with the staff representatives to i think some of the people to get further ideas what we can do to alleviate the pressure open is taxi industry my final point and this is you know a compliment to director reiskin and maybe our chair and vice chair i cant remember in my how many years it is this process being handled so smoothly it is theres tough decisions and things in here i dont agree with weve talked about the industry b overall no surprise and things not learning things the papers or reporters saying would do you you think about in this is handled well and the fact that you know the Public Comment is it is what it is a reflection on the better Economic Times of the agency but my preference to move this and have this done today im not sure that a further meeting and discussion will be productive it be counterproductive. Yeah. I wanted to echo everyones comments here i think that for me with respect to the clipper the premium cash fair i would you know the reason why i can moved in good conscious we is a have a paradigm shift in the way we accommodate people with the protecting and free muni for seniors and people with disabilities i mean those are extraordinary programs those programs are not free they actually cost a ton of money and in order to accommodate that something has to give and i remember having the conversation years back about relunge to entertain this to produce it and keep it going and so i feel like weve all got to give arbitrate for those of us who can we need to be on clipper to director heineckes point out in that a cost it is not reflected i wish it would have been there is a cost with increased times and what have you im hearing concerns director borden pointed out this morning guarantees it there are people getting upset cabin the transonly lanes and the red paint were all having to take it with you know were going to give a little bit and it feels like this is one of the ways to ask people to give and get on clipper a ill suspect they want to know how we are doing that i encourage the staff to have the strategy and give good answers to how were going about that not ideas but an actual strategy and partner with community communitybased organizations or Service Providers get them i know this is not within our purview but to do what we can to make clipper more assessable be the i really appreciate the free card liv im going to support moving forward with the amendment. I appreciate director heineckes amendment with the taxi industry and reviewing that at a at a later time we dont need to do that right now but the mention of federal legislation about the tmcs to keep that in mind and see where we are ill be open to some of the suggestions made of reducing it or so the second thing a fund that was mentioned helping the protecting folks i forgot what that is called its called do helping wheels fund. How much is in there. I can check with staff and off the top of my head i dont know that. But enhancing this fund depending on what level i assume we can use more but appreciate. The more is better i thought of who to other points one is the ada allows their transit fairs twice the fixed rate were blow that and the whole bay area to give context our paratransit fairs are much lower than our neighbors and what theyre loud motion and a second any further discussion . All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The is have it. And thank you for your entire staff. I do want to thank everyone the room everyone that had a part City Attorneys office and the Communication Team so this is a huge effort for all the agencies thank you. Thank you mr. Chairman would you like a motion on the capital bought pardon me. On the Capital Budget that was on the Capital Budget. Enthusiastic. All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The is have it. So ordered item 16 approving the one or more theories of the Revenue Bonds not to exceed 200 and 75 million and up to one and 62 million for other projects such a a all right. Vehicle van ness transit and various financing costs and approving various forms, etc. And making all the appropriate respecting for the projects to be finance. Ms. Boss and mr. Chairman staff requests an amendment to the resolution which i will review with you now several whereas clauses all of these resolve clauses requested amendments has to do with adding language to address the amounted to the first time for the van ness brt project which concludes the replacement of trees along the van ness coordinator not ruled in an Environmental Review so well request the board to consider amendments to on the second page to the resolution to the second whereas and adrc two new whereas clauses regarding the van ness project eis irs and a final resolve clause that was adding language that says and constitutes the finding of the board so those are all amendments related to the amounted to the van ness project. Still below the policy service you policy cant exceed 5 percent were in compliance and the agencies our Credit Rating this is a time to go to market and take advantage of our dead ratings so were asking for your approval. Mr. Chairman none has indicated an interest in addressing on this matter i dont see anyone making a move forward. The first action to adopt the amendments; right . Motion to adopt the all in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The is have it. Motion to adopt the amendment and all in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The is have it. Sorry order. 17 to conduct a closed session. Motion to conduct a all in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The is have it. Thank you very much thank you ladies and gentlemen, and mr. Chairman that will take me a moment to put the room into order for the closed o rejoin u our there we go. All right. Announcements of closed session with the board of directors to discuss a sfta with the board of directors very trotted to settle the case and took inform action a discussion of anticipated politician litigation but the board took no action property for disclose or not disclose the information discussed. Most to not disclosure. All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The is have it. Okay. Were adjourned no is that right were adjourned in memory of our beloved flynn to all of us were