Transcripts For SFGTV MTA Board Of Directors 51716 20160518

Electronic devices. Microphones, we respectfully ask they be turned off. Thank you approval of the minutes from the mayor 3 regular meeting is there such a motion. I. Opposed . The is have it. Thank you next item, please. Ms. Bloomer. Communications directors please be advised founded drortsdz not a disclose of the local t y local 200 at the policy and governance meeting on friday thats all for now and introduction of new business. Director borden weve golden gotten emails of Market Street you know about the upper market and that there say is anything well be hearing it again. Can to the call of the chair well talk about the governance and policy board. Thank you anything else okay ms. Bloomer item 7 directors report. Good afternoon director reiskin great report. Im not leaving. Good afternoon mr. Chair and members of the public and staff thank you for the opportunity to come down and personally give an accomodation to one of the valued employees that is leaving austin terrace our correct of Capital Improvement and construction to come join me a bittersweet and with a lot of jaeflz our great employees is moving on to to retirement for the few weeks heading up the Construction Division he oversees a hundred engineers and Contract Administration and Construction Managers in delivering the big muni Capital Projects the Rail Replacement projects, the technical projects like the radio, the Emergency Communications system and the automatic train upgrade unusual the capital core of the agency this is vinces second tour in this job in the early 2009s same position was instrumental like the t third late rail line the phase two the central subway and if a that point brought a lot of great experience and knowledge to the agency and 210 east he severed as the executive director the san ucla continent of government a combination of the mtc and the county Transportation Authority for Stanislaus County and we had a Transportation Planning and funding background as well as his engineering backward he served as the executive director of the Alameda County Transportation Authority he managed a billion dollars Transportation Improvement Program and before many in the private sector worked in various place across the country and came to the mta with a whole lot of great experience i dont know if i told vince this i didnt know vince from his first time i left the government before i jibbed the government his resume i called up Michael Burns the general manager of the muni and the mta would you vince is politically will be hire him he said i tried to hire him and couldnt get him to come to san jose thats one of the strongest endorsements and vince is about tremendous in the time i had the pleasure to work with him not just the expressive background and resume and criminals credentials but his manner the way the professional very even tempered with all the crazyness sometimes around the agency a steady solid presence with the project control system implemented within his division modernizing and keeping the big projected o projects moving forward and serving the demanding manager like john haley and the rest of the board is just such a strong presen not only in his executive team hell tell you hes a kid from west oakland but a mentor and role model to a lot of folks we didnt blame him not wanting to commute 17 hours a day but certainly wish him the best and give him in special heavy duty mta youve earned that plaque. clapping. mr. Harris on behalf of the board of directors and the all the people of San Francisco i totally agree with director reiskin with grace and style and like our support wish you all the best in retirement. Mr. Chair thank you very much and mr. Chairman and members good afternoon and ms. Harris this is my last time before i depart this is privilege. Thank you for the recognition it is truly appreciated my career director reiskin indicated like the others quite frankly is a true journey the sfmta is a very important part of that to me i want to thank dwrelg and my colleagues on the executive team and my Great Division staff and some of them are here for hire tireless work an enormous feat i thank them for the efforts and certainly this board for the opportunity to come back and work if this great city as a reminder our division is, in fact, responsible for major Capital Improvement and those projects unfortunately, all of them have some problems but the true test eve character is how we resolve those problems and our division we tide to solve them together and oftentimes possibility e together means working with you and its communities, the supervisors and other Agency Divisions working with the hope will be a solution that is fair and equitable and, of course, solves the problem my experience with the director indicated is unique i left the agency and had angle opportunity to become a director of another agency and sprooels was invite back glad to come back any return quite frankly given me a broader perspective for the kind of work we do and quite frankly for this great city so i just want to once again say thank you for the accommodate and honestly for me a privilege and honor to serve. Thank you. clapping. director reiskin. Thank you vince a few other things last thursday oh, okay. He on intersections well pause my report. You should be in the picture shouldnt you. No, no for the picture for the supervisors laughter . Hi there. Good afternoon welcome thank you so much mta board of directors and director reiskin are for making time for me, i want to come and express my strong support for the glth biennial on our calendar. Thank you mta for prioritizing the corridor one of the eastern corridors our office identified with the Bike Coalition and San Francisco Small Business commission as a priority as you may know that is would the the thought high injury corridors every 38 days someone is injured between polk street and Market Street and the one of the ways to calm the traffic loan along the heavily utilized corridors and we also building that additional cyclists on the corridor make the corridor safer that activates the corridors and supports the seniors and families on golden gate is really xrefrngs a lot of transformation to the historic y and down to one of the problematic liquor store big boy that is experienced so valencia and it is really great to see one the liquor store a Riding Program for the neighborhood and this is happening on golden gate complimented and protected by Public Safety really help to rae activate this street so thank you very much fewer support and sfmta not only for working us to prioritize had. Thank you, supervisor kim. Director reiskin. So that is the item on the consent calendar but fits nicely last thursday was dwarf day and supervisor kim and many other supervisors participated vice chair director brinkman was there as well hopefully many more i know some of you ride to work most days and this was reference to some of the projects were doing like the golden gate so it is a great time that is coming a couple of things we unveiled last thursday were two new viable automatic at that time bike berry roommates between 16th street and 17th street and westbound on Market Street between 9 and 10 compliementsz the eastbound direction also unveiled and a a bic system to roll out more 12 hundred signs citywide over the next two years im not sure it will be much clearer like lanes between 50 and 20 percent ridership on bike to work day a whole bunch of people on Market Street for example, between 8 30 and 9 30 the peek however, the ridership was up 13 plus compared to last year and so thats great during the a. M. Peak the bikes radio 86 percent of private vehicle on Market Street so pretty expressive there and what we talked about at the event was that in 2016 will be starting construction on 22 millions miles of bike lanes a lot of the work in the planning and design by the folks in liveable streets is really come into fruition in terms of the construction thats great and just to remind you from the last bike counts report we present at the the policy and governance last month we completed 23 projects with improving safety and people an increase from enforcement from through 2015 and since 2006 saw one hundred and 80 percent growth in chrysler it remains the faster part of transportation it is great we have a number of projects coming this year including the mosaic and polk and Second Street interpreting construction this year and currently a bike network that spans a lot of miles it great to see that on bike to work day moving uber to van ness as you may know the van ness bus Rapid Transit is a program it is moving forward were actually going to have an item at the next meeting to approve the construction project were getting ready to broub and when you approved the program well start putting into place next San Francisco month so well be doing business bus stop coalition with the work ahead of time to get the patterns in place and 0 coordinate with the construction we are doing some of the consolidation now to the operators and the public can be familiar with the changes before the construction starts which is this summer helps with traffic circulation and other issues during construction and the stops we maintain the ones near where the future center of boarding island will be what well have im not going to read where all the bus stops will be weve done a ton of outreach with regards to the van ness program but doing specifically with regards to the bus stops we will have ambassadors out there and buses and text message and press releases and blogs making sure that no one is precipitated and prepared as has the information kind of the physical step of this project this is been perhaps 20 years in the making were excited to see that coming in terms of the trains i on intersections i may have mentioned allotment weve done a soft launch of double stopping in the system and we have kind of left it in place now as as Ongoing Service in bound to the montgomery for those who for those of you who dont know it allows for a train pulls into the station and already a train there the people on the second train can get off and not be frustrated until the first car clears it is rider amenity we on intersections that would be great and ambassadors to make sure the people understood what is happening but generally the system determines when it hemispheres and it only happens during the commute hours we have a lot of trains and congestion by the way, it is helpful for folks coming to those stations well be leaving that in place available on the out bound side so thats well not use it b there but good to see it is a long history to get into being upgrades one rail on the motorbike loop last december the California Court of appeals listed the construction of the mission bay loop and tomorrow resuming construction on the loop that goes 19th street and illinois and back to third street the construction on those 3 streets met with the stakeholders in the dog patch neighborhoods over the last couple of months to get everyone prepared after the initial evacuation new rails and sidewalks and signals at the intersection of 18th street and i will and the new overhead lines and we repave everything and what this will allow is us to do is to on the busiest portion this is something we wanted to get done in advance the central subway came in r coming in well move to 2 car trains with the t line but you excited to be able to get this project back moving is will be an important part of t service and help in the meantime wanted to update you last as i understand as data breakers a significant event from the transportation stand point there was a lot of good planning lessons if previous years and a lot of activates management that made the day go fairly well, we had our very well Operations Centers staffed for the day that brought different departments of organizations and different parts of transit as well as our street enforcement our communications, everybody in the loop together to actively coordinate with the citys Emergency Operation center and the plans that were adjusted reverberations of previous years plans worked very well and adjustments made on the fly but there were a lot of things we were able to do to get poem transforming p to and from the event were you mother impacted we had a day without collisions great not two ocher on a day with unusual activity was great person with our cameras and other field reporting able to get much better information what was happening on the streets and will be able to use use that information to better refine the service and streamline it and make that more efficient we had a lot of coordination in the events post event work between public works and the Police Department to get the streets reopened we reopened the streets anothers 9 30 in the morning and muni was restored earlier than previous years i want to commend the numerous folks on a sunday to make sure the event went well from communications to other divisions to make that work last thing wanted to do was followup on an item we heard about a month ago with regards to the commuter shuttles going through part of mission want to ask tom maguire our sustainable streets advisor to give you an update. Good afternoon directors and chairman and directors you, you remember that last time we talked about the proposals for the mature stops on delores street with the network with the program that went into finally effect on april 1st the requirement we rove the commuter shuttle stops in april we brought the first batch to you but part of the delores to investigate whether there were technical raenlz for the existing large vehicle wait restrictions on guerrero street our team investigated the issue and did an analysis and found no technical impediments on guerrero two lanes in each direction both streets are less is steep and castro has a classification of aerial street on the caltrain map that was a question we were asked to investigate. Are the this may change the situation in terms of the where the stops are of delores can you ask you to come back with a recommendation. Okay. Thank you. Director reiskin. That concluded my report. Thank you. Ms. Bloomer. Mr. Chairman none wants to address you under the directors report so moving on well take item 8 with the Advisory Council i dont see mr. Weaver to be at item 9 general Public Comment at this time, members of the public may address the commission to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. With respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when hold on im having a moment with the machine starting with john and calling names good afternoon. Good afternoon my name is john alex the member of the Public Safety Advisory Committee i come to you with the presentation of vision zero resolution i speak to you on two points my response to the unfortunate fatality that occurred january this year of abraham what was in a collision in june of last year while he served as on the cable car line i respond to his family and promoted me to create the bay area walk a group for pedestrian pier to pier support group to affirm and provide grief counseling in any research in that unfortunate collision and fatality i learned a thirty day rule i have the document i can provide and email to roberta and have it on paper if you want a copy a memo by is vision zero traffic fatality drop out they defined the protocol and where they determined what is a traffic fatality ray is not considered a traffic fatality coauthored to sfpd and the vision zero traffic fatality group a point that she mentioned in her memorandum i can share with you there is a possibility this group will create an annual report on who died over thirty days from the collision it is not a defiant active a consideration by commander and devon and james i encourage you to should you we will. Thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names . Good afternoon eileen parks residents doing portions of a letter from the merchants known as pops opposing this was sent to the board of supervisors and read to the installation and handed to mta i quote the terryville merchant continue to have serious conditioners regarding the terryville rapid project those concerns are the loss of muni stops and transit only lanes and replacing the stop signs with traffic signal and relocation of parking onto resident streets the changes in the project its the merchant continue to have serious issues regarding the outreach process both the scope of the puck etch and the member of the General Community not sufficient time for people to understand the impacts of those changes therefore the terryville merchants are strongly urging the board of supervisors to address the unresolved sfmta issues beginning with holding a meeting on the muni matter we believe those have an urgency to void the unpleasant exhibitionists enconcerned by the merchant written by president pops. Thank you. Next speaker, please. clapping. good afternoon. Gilbert district 8 resident and San Francisco long time supporter of the central subway and i just wanted to direct the i make my yearly appearance here i want to thank the board and holy in the budget coming up that youre going to approve for the free for seniors and disabled i dont know long that program will run im a big supporter of it i use it so i hope it continues and i have been following the meetings watching it on my mobile device and i havent heard ive heard bits and pieces of expanding the central subway to Fishermans Wharf and north beach i know there was something in the budget for either a study or an analysis Going Forward for Fishermans Wharf and north beach and im not exactly sure what that is, i wondered how you can involve the community and the state legislator and the governor and the people like nancy pelosi and Dianne Feinstein to get money for expanding the system and i want to be involved with that as strong supporter for the central subway and its expansion to Fishermans Wharf and north beach i live on the evelyn and im not a tourist im a resident that use the f line and a lot of people going to Fishermans Wharf and north beach it is crowded during the tourist season so expanding the central subway is a logical and extension into the future for san franciscans. Thank you, sir appreciate it next item, please. calling names . Good afternoon good afternoon directors and director nolan and director reiskin im the policy manager with walk sf im here to talk about the walk sf we teamed up with mercy housing to look at Pedestrian Safety at the direction of Herman Laguna and market lets see if that comes up laguna and herman and market mercy housing is going to be opening a Senior Housing department as 55 laguna and 95 laguna up the block and open house opening a Senior Center hundreds of more seniors easing the direction we are considered considered that the treats we want to make sure they go far enough to protect the seniors that will be using this intersection we had the great opportunity to work with a group of seniors and do the training with the seniors and assess the conditions of this intersection 4 of the seniors are here to talk about that and share their expressions of that intersection and could make them feel safer i applaud the seniors they come to 3 different emotions to be part of project so i ask you to listen to them and their senior voices we dont hear enough and not be able to come back when this item is on your agenda take to heart what they say and mercy housing is here to talk to i cant help but tell you what walk sf are concerned about the crossing at laguna here and so we can talk you and hear about that our priority for this intersection but youll hear more from mercy housing and the seniors thank you for your thank you. Next speaker, please. Shannon calling names . Good afternoon. Im sharon with the messenger in california im here to support kathy and the seniors on the it was a great project to participate in as kathy said well soon open 55 laguna and then in the spring of 2018 the open house on 95 laguna with 200 seniors to the z we have reviewed the upper market with the staff theyve been great with cooperating with the plans we you are interested in also the laguna street crosswalk and if interest is a possibility for right senior crossing signs that will help to attract the drivers attention to the fact that there are a lot of vulnerable pedestrians in the area and if at all possible lights ive noticed in the loose two years going up to the intersection because folks are coming north if guerrero street they dont see their focused on crossing the large intersection if you make eye contact their respectful i support the planned upper market improvements im a neighborhood another van ness and market and walk up to Church Street amend and the improvements on the south side of the street should help with Pedestrian Safety your time. Next speaker, please. calling names good afternoon hi good afternoon. Im jeanine im a San Francisco resident im 64 and a half i have support my life partner that is disability in 1989 after she was rear evident and open house will open their center and they several hundred of seniors on a weekly basis they have huge numbers of people they will serve and we want the seniors to be safe at the corners of lang and market huge numbers of pedestrians go through the intersection i do walk sf and here we have the jeep in the middle of a crack with the tires on the strips with the invasion of seniors we need the bulb outs that helps to keep the pedestrians safe. The last speaker was right there is numerous numbers of cars north from guerrero up to Market Street and a lot of get stuck on a yellow light and drivers are monk see monk do so checkout those mediums and please as a matter of law a large concrete medium that will slow down cars going north promote Pedestrian Safety and are prevent cars from going to laguna thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names . Good afternoon shes living in mercy house. speaking foreign language. and past she is attend the trinity for the walk sf speaking foreign language. she was wait a second through Laguna Herman and Market Street speaking foreign language. i observes that some areas of safety but some areas not that safety. speaking foreign language. especially for the senior person. speaking foreign language. in the herman street. speaking foreign language. and in the herman street the Transportation Departments should be putting Traffic Signals on the left side and right side. speaking foreign language. now i dont see any Traffic Signals on the herman street. speaking foreign language. for the senior person is very dangerous. speaking foreign language. when the time the left side or right side the senior person not seeing the cars coming or not. speaking foreign language. i suggest Transportation Department put a traffic signal on the herman street. speaking foreign language. to protect the senior for the safety. speaking foreign language. thank you very much. Thank you next item, please. calling names . Good afternoon. Bring the microphone down a little bit. My name is sue. speaking foreign language. i am 87 years old. speaking foreign language. im living in the mercy housing. speaking foreign language. i was training for walk sf. speaking foreign language. i worked for herman street Market Street and the laguna street i observed the Market Street. speaking foreign language. i observed the Market Street have traffic lights but speaking foreign language. the light is absent changing the corner she is is a senior walk very slow. speaking foreign language. in the streets theres a lot of seniors person Walking Around in this area. speaking foreign language. the senior persons walk slow they dont feel safety. speaking foreign language. oh, some people drive dont look at there and the. speaking foreign language. because their senior walked slow when he when they see the traffic so fast they are science scared. speaking foreign language. sometimes maybe car accidents. speaking foreign language. the seniors does not have a car accident but very scary. speaking foreign language. give them a lot of room. speaking foreign language. okay she said she hopes transportation can put the light and give them people warning with the seniors on the walk on the streets. speaking foreign language. and then for the yellow signal on the traffic lights they will be the driver and people can be accelerated and drive a little bit slow and the senior people feel more safety. speaking foreign language. she said please protect our seniors. Thank you thank you next item, please. calling names . Good afternoon. I want to say. speaking foreign language. she speak have got english laughter . San francisco. speaking foreign language. she was attend the training class in San Francisco. speaking foreign language. i was are the herman and math and the laguna street. speaking foreign language. laguna street does not have any traffic light. speaking foreign language. i went through lefthand side or right side they dont feel safety for the senior person. speaking foreign language. okay. Because for the safety so she insists the Transportation Department put a righthand side or a lefthand side so the senior can look at. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Ms. Bloomer. Francisco da costa followed by Herbert Wiener and then larry kaplan the last period of time to turn in a speaker card. I on intersections go ahead mr. Da costa. Huh . Ged and give our testimony. My name is francisco da costa and some perspective to what is happening in our city sometime ago sent a letter i norman dont do this the light is right a letter giving me the authority from the first people of this area the Muwekma Ohlone i have a very Good Relationship with director reiskin ive said this before and i hope you understand what im saying because i work as as farther our what im saying today that is were not addressing the common footprint and lick fax and flooding nine hundred tons of meth gas into the atmosphere pursue in the year 2016 we can have real the data on this things now were talking about transportation and it factors in he know that we have the big one and before that we have to be prepared to have sound transportation that takes us from one place to another so id like to speak but director reiskin with a letter of authority ill bring sent it to you to have preserve for the future thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names Herbert Wiener do board is free to throw a history i didnt fit after my statement bus stops have bang eliminated on the grounds of making them run faer i believe that stops and lincoln way have been eliminated if im not mistaken and this is adversely impacts on people that previously walk long blocks and now walk longer ones so i say with the progress and making the buses run faster a receipt of cruelty and contempt towards the seniors and the contamination you have to correct the hardship it sloouks solution is offered as a remedy to a problem that could have been prvenltd those changes should not have been implemented instead of the solutions the parties have become part of problem itself and while the planners and the related parties get great salvation from the above their defeating themselves when they look into the anywhere they may not see a reflective next item, please. Good afternoon. Im larry kaplan a taxi driver here in the city and county of San Francisco for the past 36 years fulltime and for the past 10 years a San Francisco medallion taxi driver medallion holder so i guess what i have to say is simple im here to implore you to waive the upcoming annual medallion fees this year you heard it in various forms before ill put it this way the taxi business in San Francisco has bang tolerantly destroyed and the livelihood of the taxi drivers has been completely devastated i used to be able to make a living in the town i cant make a living here anymore the allowed uber and lyft to invade the city the way they have is nothing short of a cancer many nobody at the state level or the city level has done anything about i do remember a few years ago when it seems to me the city as essential hell believability that moneyizing the medallions and the city has nothing done nothing for a medallion theyre worthless nobody wanted to buy or lease a medallion were hooking most of the time most of us dont have the thousand dollars to pay for the renewal fee what will happen were very, very unhappy about the situation i mean to have the rug pulled out from underneath you is a horrific thing youve counted on something for many years and put your life into it and suddenly its gone thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Somebody needs to come to the microphone. Yes. Are we using a 0 clock today because that clock is not working again how many minutes do we get to today. 3. I want to start off with number 07 on my list because wheelchairs have lost a taxi service that uber and lyft do not support and you kind of let that taxi service go so if you recommend a lawyer id like to sue the city for allowing them to fall apart you must know professionals and 1 3rd lets get to number one third of the piece of pie is a large portion of that pie 1 3rd of wheelchairs used for ramps on the buses okay. And if youre sitting in a new one without a ram your moving this way or that way it is very uncomfortable not right and should we should have are real locks also a handicap light only the back of the bus to say that the rack is being engaged and next overhead i have to switch this will takes the slant in the ramps that are coming out the overhead please which the middle can yes there we go. And move up this is part of what im saying when the new buses have that middle ramp it is a tough one you, you have to go up a hill again and go up backwards they need to open up their ramp and the bus needs to be lowered at the same time the rattles there are no reason that new bus of 27 miles rattles like a trap we dont have any i on intersections of the mechanics did a good job on it. I have 3 minutes. You have 2 mr. Chairman the last person to address you under general Public Comment. Okay. So moving on. To cds calendar, are considered to be routine commission. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission, the public, or staff so requests mr. Chairman several items have been severed 10 point one p through t which has to do with with establishing a bike lane on golden gate avenue 10. 2. Say that again 10 point one p there t and 10 want ab with regards to a commuter surety zoned on van ness and c e and f has to do with with commuter shuttle on golf and franklin the rest of the consent calendar is a motion on the consent calendar must 10 point one to ab c e and f. Correct. So motion to approve. All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The is have it. So okay ms. Bloomer 10 want one. 10 want one p through t has to do with with a when we get to there. Establishing and bike lane on golden gate in the vicinity of golden gate. Take all those together. Yes. calling names are our speakers. Good afternoon mr. Stall. Good afternoon. My name is ken im a Pedestrian Safety organizer at the corroborative and an advocate for vision zero im here to support the improvements for the golden gate after the tenderloin streets have been high injury corridors for years and no changes to make them save now with the golden gate zero to eliminate all pedestrian deaths by 2030 the neighborhood will finally be safer for the children and families and disabled residents many of the trader joes that work in the tenderloin are enlists instead of car owners so having a bike infrastructure is important to make sure this area the city flourishes and you are thrives for future residents and others in the tenderloin thank you. Thank you, mr. Stall next item, please. Madeline. Good afternoon. Nice to see you all again yes madeline folks for polk im here to speak for the Lower Polk Neighborhood Association for the cd and the new leadership the Polk Association there is great support for the bike lanes and as jane kim and kevin referenced crisscrossed by freeways one way streets of which people go high speeds and the residents suffer a one, two punch one of the biggest crash zones but disproportionately for bicyclists ive personal rind there are no bike lanes that offer that route from downtown towards the west through the t l and dangerous and thus people rides on sidewalks or whatever and then suffering with the citations they get and supervisor kim referenced the nature the neighborhood and golden gate avenue is changing to which i want to add that bike shares have coming up with the second roll out we would like to see this in the ground and more safety for people which will 2, 3, 4 turn increase the uncle of the bike share system and relief some of the congestion i want to quote the mp a leadership it promotes safety and they would to see a 2way street with wider sidewalks we look forward to protected bike lanes like ellis and others. Mr. Chairman the last person to turn in a speaker card. Is there a all in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The is have it. Okay 10. 2a and has to do with with establishing a commuter shuttle a bus zone on valencia street. Ab yes. The first speaker is j. D. calling names . Good afternoon good afternoon my name is j. D. Ive lived on the corner of valencia and 26 street and my comments will be two issues one safety and the second traffic first vision zero plan was implemented to reduce the traffic deaths and mass no sense for the shuttles a major bicycle avenue they blocks o block the bike lanes and as they wait theyre blocking bike lanes and 3 or more shuttles idling and people find themselves trapped one in front of them in the stop blocking the bike lanes and the 3 on the left side this mick of huge buses and bikes is no way to reduce the high injury corridor the second point is traffic and congestion the shutter operators claim to take cars off the road ill argue they relieve congestion further i counted 34 bus stops the commuters can take bart or caltrain to the peninsula and have a shutter you pick up them theyre having a saving and assuming a fraction of the 8 hundred shuttle trips from thirty to 40 miles of congestion on the highways those living more than 4 blocks away with the shuttle take them to the nearest hotel station and traveling short distances within the city will reduce commemorating and this will help reduce the Green House Gas emissions and four of them less than a thirds etch people will walk to the station this is a common sense method and reduces the need for more public space. Next speaker, please. calling names . Good afternoon good afternoon directors my name is dan ive been a funeral director in San Francisco for the last 43 years our family owns the mortgage on 26 and van ness r valencia street im a fourth adjudication funeral director on valencia street my father and great gathering owned. Funnel home on have a seat street on the valencia corridor since the last 80s when the funeral per sessions were by horseandbuggy we host 4 hundred Funeral Services every year we as well churches in that direct vicinity have historically been allowed to park vehicles down the center deprived of valencia street with morning and evening having anyal or Rosary Services we also line up femur per sessions in the admitted divide ill argue between ourselves and st. Lukes hospital between st. Lukes and ourselves and our three hundred and 50 to 4 hundred services we have more detail volume of visitors and vehicles including the bicyclists than any other buses in the valencia streets of San Francisco corridor my daughter is a trauma nurse at san frgeneral hospital and seize many bicycle accidents in conclusions i ask to you when how make our decisions the 4 v the very important the volume of visitors, and vehicles including bicyclists on 26 and valencia street thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names . And then laura. Good afternoon, sir. Good afternoon thank you for the opportunity my name is martin i live on valencia street and i am here as a residence id like to echo any support of j. D. And mortuary theyve put forth before the board i want to cite some statistics and propose alternative transportation that i on intersections should be considered in 2011 when valencia street the greenway was permanence and allocated to bicycle lane and widened the skraukz a boom and increasing the bike traffic to the last consensus to 13 hundred bikes a day 13 hundred bikes traveling down valencia street has to compete with the stretch the newcomers commuter shuttles that are traveling when i compare that to Mission Street it has less than only about 15 percent of bike traffic about 100 percent and 70 bicyclists in the last consensus and also zero percentage of the commuter bus stops on Mission Street and 16th street with the terms of the muni bus blockade when you take into consideration along with the street changes on Mission Street where you have to turn off and make resistant and it is transit only between 14 and Caesar Chavez it didnt make sense to the bus corridor i propose it be considered we consider utilizing Mission Street as a sole first street oriented street and leave it to the bicyclists and improving the safety of the bicyclists and the businesses around thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names . And thats the last person that turned in a speaker card. Good afternoon. Hi im cindy the Community Relations i director the Salvation Army with the Rehabilitation Center the bus stops is going to be foreclose of our building our main concern about 50 feet towards Caesar Chavez our main driveway with our 32 box trucks leaving at 6 30 in the mornings with the concern with the buses parked at the bus stop it going to cause a blind stop for not only the driveways but the cyclists on the street and also, if there is a pilot and our trucks cant get out it impacts our nonprofit business if we dont get our trucks it out out to pick up the donations it will impact us we have a nonprofit that provides drug and alcohol rehabilitation free for men and women we hope this bus stop is not go in front of our building thank you. Next speaker, please. Laura calling names those are the last two people. Nominees a lauren im a resident on valencia and 26 well weve brought 6 speakers i present one hundred and 15 signatures from residents and businesses and customers near valencia and 26 street that oppose the proposed commuter shuttles there and thats my personal statement 70 percent of severe and fatality are 12 percent of the students valencia street is considered one of the high injury corridors according could sfmta data is a significant number of injuries to pedestrian and cyclists why are continuity shuttles allowed on valencia the main northsouth thoroughfare for cyclists and moving the shuttle from one block at valencia and 25 to valencia and 26 which this proposal does were not making us safer and moving the blocks east or west to other high injury corridor streets that is mission and south jean e van ness and according to the mta data will not make the pedestrians and cyclists safer i on intersections that sfmta mediate to step back and create a plan not allow the shuttles that are ramped up 800 visitations to drive the i know this is on your plate to do; right . Those transit hubs really will be outside of the city and bart is a great idea the new transbay terminal i urge you to consider the locations that provide safe spots away from residents and businesses and schools safety first thank you. Thank you and. I actually thank you. Next speaker, please. Last speaker tie walker. Good afternoon mr. Walker. Thank you for your time for hearing me, im a residence of 1457 north of the proposed commuter bus stop on valencia and 26 street the issue is a Health Concern with regards to the commuter buses offending off valencia im a bicyclist and suffer from allergies that are aggravated by diesel and other manages and further contemplating this resulted in the removal of part of my i have asthma rooerpd when im cycling and caught behind a bus and i noticed an increase in any allergies the second issue is in regards to safety i regularly witness the operators of the bus driving too fast and waiting to enter the intersections and at mortuary and church with 3 popular bars and restaurants all in our block that results in a nightmare in terms of parking so basically what i see routing is you know cars parking in the middle of the street and on the right and the left and the computer shuttles running up and down 0 intolg those gaps it is disconcerning not only as a cyclist but a retained it is sort of a matter of when someone will get hit in closing thank you to the board for hearing our concerns regarding this bus stop i realize it a difficult discussion your weighing a lot of facts but we live on the block and it is becoming so congested and thank you and take care. Members of the Board Director reiskin. Director rahaims. Please ask what are the spots out of curiosity. Every block will have merchants it is a Silver Bullet but just. Good afternoon decorations so the reason we brought this proposal because an existing computer shutters southbound on 24 street that is a shuttle zone eurozone large enough for one shuttle when happens some of the speakers adu alluded to the shuttles will block the bike lane and drivers at the crosswalks the new zone on 26 street is large enough for two shuttles theyll park there without blocking the Salvation Army driveway the logic to remove a zone two small and one that is alongside. This will share the zone okay. Not a frustration. Director ramos i want to remind us all that is a very much are still a relatively exploratory phase of what we want to make permanent these things can be adjusted relatively easily i certainly emphasize with those who ride their bicycles up and down hate street during the commute times i have to commend with the large vehicles and i know they can be imitating at the same time i know that i recognize theyre taking a bunch of cars off the street and one professional driver driving on 15 or 20 more people than those 20 people or maybe 15 of them driving their individual cars were put in a position to make trade offs the thing that really stood out i hope well Pay Attention to the Salvation Army trucking and delivering i on intersections this is something that i mean, i for one value our services im sure a lot of folks that do that we can speak for so ill just encourage us to be cause how it is accounting in the long run the blind spot is real i believe especially, as bicyclist thereer pedestrians walk where the traffic is that is a concern i for one been keeping an eye on this and confident staff will be where respect to the petitions i saw ooechld and a lot of the comments made i on intersections that is more helpful if alternative transportation were proposed i mean, i would opposite those verngz vehicles on my street as well but the reality of this they have to go somewhere we need a place to go and cant keep them around and around and need alternative transportation to oppose i feel that we ended up were compromising here so i will as a board member be open to ideas and suggestions but at this point, i feel that staff has done you know their Due Diligence were not going to make everyone happy but again, it feels like this is something we can change in the future if we need to ill, supportive. Pardon mr. Maguire earlier in our report on guerrero street will this impact this particular decision this afternoon potentially. So the decision we are making please replace one with another so not increase or decrease but move into a place a theyll more curve space and certainly we know or understand that van ness and delores are part of south systematically system so continue to be look at ways to relieve the pressure. Members of the board is that a motion any further discussion . All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The is have it. Id like to associate myself with director ramos position. Ms. Bloomer. All right mr. Chairman 10 want 2 c e and f has to do with with a commuter shuttle on golf and franklin street and you have one person that wishes to address on this matter and that is marlene morgan. Ms. Morgan. I see ms. Morgan here. Oh, shes coming. Oh, great. Hello commissioners. Im marlene mortgage of the Commuter Association i want to mention we did a lot of work with the camtc hospital a bigger supporter of the van ness brt we on intersections that will do a great job in businesses and move traffic but because of complexity right now with the polk being revved for van ness and transit and golf and franklin are still the corridors for northsouth traffic from the Golden Gate Bridge and actually, i thought we were doing prospecting with the commuters on van ness what a lot of bus stops people waiting for them in the morning later unfortunate morning in the evening their empty from 6 to 8 and 4 from like maybe 6 to go 8 at night theyre heavy yes used before moving on to these to golf and franklin which are gridlocks now can there be more study about how many of these buses are hitting those stops everyday how many people in them fully uses and shorten the time period love to get the marin county people out of their single contributor occupancy vehicles that will not happy overnight how many people and whats the impacts and particularly in ellis and golf the Cathedral Hill crossing the school is a very dangerous crossing thats a very bad place to put a bop if you on about that well appreciate that. Im familiar with that area lots 0 a lots of traffic everyday with the high school especially in the moorings and acupunctures could we inquiry. I on intersections that is also at the top of hill talk about other spots i know because of the construction going on with camtc particularly along golf street sometimes that lane is not available for the traffic a lot of congestion from about geary to california. Mr. Maguire weve looked a lot of stops the reason it is here we need to move the shuttles off the van ness awhile today youre looking at stops and franklin and golden gate and bush through additional locations golf and pine we withdraw the neighbors expressed concerned about the traffic problems and blocked driveways and for franklin and hayes to be a shutter stop but clftsdz with safety there so we looked a wide variety of locations van ness is a high volume place. So thats the near itself stops. Ill ask my colleague to speak. Thanks tom and members of the board. State your name for the record ami alex working on the Commuter Program for the last couple of months currently stops along van ness at van ness and california and van ness and madam secretary weve proposed an extra stop to sprayed out the shuttles stomping so the shuttle that are stopping at california and bush stop the shuttle at golf and ma marpt. Our concern is when school stops and starts is it possible to limit the shuttles during that period of time can you do it later or earlier. Its a big school. Yeah. So these are proposed for the standard 6 00 a. M. To 10 00 a. M. Thats the majority of southbound or northbound you know the 6 to 8. Could you do it on eddy it is just the park not the a lot of traffic going to eddy. So we look at every single thing on franklin and golf we generally have not put shuttles in front of parks there is all kinds of pedestrian traffic into the parks thats a location. There is a baseball diamond that is flater your at the top of hill as ellis im not trying to make our life for complicated but i used to live actually in that building 15 years ago. So the thing about secondguessing at the Board Meeting it is difficult to your point try not to put them in front of parks i respect that but between 10 and 6 00 in the morning more traffic at the schools than the park again that is a dangerous cyclist road to go down but if there is a minor tweak. Have we heard from the school itself. No, but alex reminded me an issue with the trees at eddy due to the visibility. laughter . So we look at the trees extend out of the right away when we look at the shuttle zebras and at that location at eddy the trees limbs extended into the street that preventive shuttles from pulling to the curve and block traffic so trim the trees. What if we approve that the first time. We cant say trim the trees im sorry, i mean it is a rec and park thing in terms of safety it would be much better at that location those fields are used at night life and the sklsz in full sections in the daylight or daytime im not trying to make that difficult there are real concerns because of hills and the school and what if we approved that with exception of one stop and come back and talk about the trimming of the trees. Well visit the eddy issue with rec and park and come back to the next meeting met the july deadline. Well ask the gentleman next time yes, thank you. Okay. Thank you very much. So mr. Chairman for clarity item 10 c e and f the item is to the approved. Is it possible to remove golf and eddy. Just c so then e and f. We approve thats the motion i assume we have the motion. Yes, sir. A motion and second any further discussion . All in favor, say i. I. And ask the city to come back with an evaluation of the park positive only the alternative thank you for coming appreciate it. Ms. Bloomer. All right. All right. Regular calendar item 11 dedicating cable car willie junior on the 85 birthday more fun. Mr. Chair we had the great honor a few weeks ago you remember there along with the mayor and larry bear the head of the giants and others to celebrate the andrew of two San Francisco consciousness associated with number 24 our own cable car number 24 that was built in 1897 that is mindboggling not too many over one hundred vehicles but cable car 24 was actually coincidentally rebuilt in 1958 when the giants saw the light and laughter left the great city of new york we had the honor of celebrating willie mays 85 birthday by recognizing him and what hes done for the city and for the sport and for the country by honoring him with a cable car dedication we were joined by video by another special guest ill play the video for you now before i im going to turn it over to to the rest of the board. Okay. San francisco. laughter . Today is one of the were honoring a favorite son and the longest living ball player willie mays. Wow. He got here hit his 6 hundred plus homeer wins and 2 thousand inaudible so when they say San Francisco cable car was the first historical thing in San Francisco we know that inaudible that is baseball cable car rolling down the hills thats San Francisco with both of them 8 sites or whoever got into their was laughter today with an important number 34 to see two icons coming together and the city loves you and youre n important person as you were an army veteran and someone with a special ability to put a smile on a kids face and inaudible he refused to hand out baseballs he signed inaudible as he believes in inaudible on air force one people like inaudible more inclusive here the legacy of the giants happy birthday congratulation on this special honor. To recognize this idea came from director heinecke who arranged this this is really director heinecke. You made me follow the president laughter you know well ive known willow as as you may know longed services and personal lawyer and it was my sons idea i moved it along causeandeffect talking with the mayor about that first of all, willie was touched ive been in a lot of sidewalks with him he received a lot of accolades and phrase this moved him you should take pride and all san franciscans and specifically i have to say that candice and paul, and, of course, director reiskin and the Mayors Office were fantastic about putting this together and tom was there to help to dedicate the cable car there is a lot of work that went into that i dont on intersections. All of it but part of it setting up a video from the president s thank you for all of you who made it happen you made an old guy happy from my owner experience we took a 3 block ride in a cable car way to go so ms. Bloomer members question. I have to ask for one official request he noted to me that he has not paid for the cable car ride well give him a free pass to the cable car. So mr. Chairman no member off the public that wishes to speak saw a motion sure . Tom my i was baptized in 1954 or 55 a photograph of me as a young kid and my dad took it in the evening a dark photo im baptized with the giants and a giants jacket and 3 years two years later my father suffered the worst heartbreak born in 1921 in new york a hundred block the giants were his team and he had watched mustard and the empty cans of beer toss at the along the rivers another Dodger Stadium a rough time if my mom volunteered my father he wouldnt have felt as bad and a as when the giants left new york he loved willie and it was a difficult time when i was older when Bobby Richard caught a long drive that ended the world series in 61 even though i was still in new york i was heart broken myself so congratulations to willie he did do a wonderful job a genuine human being. A motion on the resolution. Motion to any further discussion . All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The is have it. Thank you next item, please. Item 12 authorized the director for 3 charter with peter and associates for as needed the inadvertent and transportation and documents for terms not to steady 2018 and the option to extend for two terms for a total millennium not to exceed nine hundred plus dollars mr. Chairman no members of the public that wishes to address this matter. Good afternoon im victor with mta and joined by my colleague on the project so im sure weve heard that the city can do a better job of implementing the project and today is the opportunities to show our commitment to project delivery as you may know weve been focused on how quickly to import the transportation prongs and in fact, project delivery in terms of ceqa streamlining youve seen as it relates to level of service and actually frankly staffing working with the planning departments and the Environmental Review we had other successes is he activated a system to track the folks that are butt the projects and identifying the issues in advance and mitigate them in the process as possible so weve moving forward with our project delivery successes but a resource with the project delivery is as needed contract and able to use them to quickly bring the resources on board to design and move forward we on intersections this is going to be a useful team for the project sponsors streamlining the administrative process to be able to and the expertise we need to inclusive some of the projects and, of course, increase the staff abandon width and environmental clear them but allowing us to incubate those staff will deliver to move forward and i want to highlight a couple of things 6 contracts in front of you for approval up to 9. 3 million total there is 6 contracts with two firms and we are going to have a local contract and f h w contract with each of them allows us the flexibility to essentially receive the services irrespective with the federal services we have lbe and others ranging from 16 to 25 percent that is great but the 3 buckets of Services First one is ceqa and au into the weeds we can use the particularly for complete streets and last one is transportation Data Collection and analysis so just to give you an idea of the kind of prongs well use this one again example townsend street the consultants will help us analyze basically the Traffic Circle and recommend safety improvements and other examples is sf barts planning theyll assist and work closely with the communities for the prigs to more meters in the city and then bicycle corridor planning, of course, across corridors with powell well utilize the services so far a needs for review for stockton as part of this streamlining delivery i ask to you authorize this ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. Board members questions or comments. Motion to approve. Second discussion . All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The is have it. Next speaker, please. 13 authorize for the contract amendment under the 632 with the flyers of america to exercise the option to purchase more trolley buses for the manuals and special tools for 55 thousand plus thousand dollars and for a total contracts amount not to exceed 150 million plus to not change the term of the contract no members of the public have indicated an interest in addressing you on this matter. Good afternoon. President director nolan and director reiskin and the board of directors so the division. Introduce. Gary chang with the sfmta project manager. So actually, this is the 7th time were coming back to the boards seeking approval to approve the purpose of 33 quality 60 foot trolley vehicles within the last few years sfmta has successfully put in three hundred new vehicles and in general the public is pleased with the performance of the vehicles and the feedback weve been getting is really happy with the performance so actually for this approval for this option one contract the delivery schedule will be 33 of them completed delivery by next year in 2017. Obviously sfmta has has been working for the last few years to bring in more vehicles coming in the muni because actually, we tried to average down the age of the fleet and by doing so we increased and help to translate up to a cost focus Maintenance Program so i wanted to highlighted a few key items first of all, inventory since the trollies and also on the ohio brussel theyre using the same chase i didnt it is the same so with that said our maintenance inventory it has reduced it by 50 percent and then also i know nowadays a smart phone or smart tv ive been calling the vehicles as smart vehicles a Computer System that collects the data from the vehicle and with that information maintenance can try to diagnose the problems faster and also, we, also prepare for better prevent Maintenance Plan since those now coaches are all new approaches not maintaining the trvp wheelchair lift i recall when i joined muni in the 90 it was the most costly for the labor and parts with the simple design the wheelchair ramp the public loves it i want to point out the slope is the rational is one. 5 degrees so basically the operations to make sure they deploy it onto a flat area one gentleman suggested and it brings that to 95 degrees also on the electrical labor door were incorporating into the past we have been using the new doors it is very troublesome were moving away to electronic doors we changed the interior lets to led so basically the typical will the for the led is 2 point puss many years more than likely well not replace the led this is one of the major last year around this timeframe we brought in the trolley 60 for another the first system in muni so far the public loves it and like today, the weather the people will appreciate that more so besides the advantages transferring to a cost maintenance Fiscal Program we want to point out we can lock into a lower Vehicle Price all the vehicle are into the p ti and San Francisco has been blessed weve been getting this blossoming and the homelessness o homelessness o population has increased it with new vehicles we can put them into service so far the daily demands and the future last but not least in about 6 months from today actually ill be coming back representing transit and seeking for another approval for the 40 for another trolley procurements thats all i have thank you. Quite a bit this is great we are able to purchase overseeing new vehicles weve been here talking about the vehicles breaking down this is a really good i know i know there an awesome lost work any further discussion . Move to approve. Thats a second. All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The is have it. Thank you, mr. Chang. Actually want to point out i prepared it was mr. John haley i took his from there. Thank you, mr. Daily. This is to conduct a session. Second all in favor, say i. I. All. Announcements for closed session to discuss the landmark with no action and there was that was that and disclose or not disclose discussed. Move not to disclose. All in favor, say i. I. Were adjourned thank you. Good morning everyone. Lu [inaudible] city librarian and like to welcome to the visitation branch library. We are very thrilled to be here today with mayor lee and just a little bit of context about the neighborhood branch, this july will mark the 5th anverseraphy of the library and we are vore proud of it because the community has fully imbraused itment serves about 23,000 residents and it is in deed the most diverse neighborhood in all of San Francisco so we are proud of that. Great partner shch with the community and will see a lot of children today see proud it severs many daycare centers, middle school, high school, we work with Community Partners to make this a private anchor for our neighborhood. With that, again welcome to visitation Valley Library and like to introduce very proud of the support for the library, mayor ed lee. Thank you lieu ease and welcome to the visitation Valley Branch library. This is one of those gems that way back in public works days luis teamed up together with Public Works Department and designed this beautiful beautiful building and think all the residents who use the library with families and kid appreciate how we restored the building with a great architectural touch as well as the actual content and hours. This is a example of what we are talking about that is reflected in the budget for neighborhoods. I have always loved the city because it has strong neighborhoods and one the anchor institutions that make our neighborhoods strauss is sth public libraries. Opposite to what sometimes i read about other cities when they have economic troubles first and foremost they go after their libraries. We do the opposite and when ineconomy is strong as it is 4ist torically today eel well invest in more public libraries. This is where places work and want to say thank you to our librar ian, she wundserful leader and let us have their family children space. If we are here too long the kids will get rowdy and they have every right to because this is their space and respect that. I think they know why im here and happy to be here to unveil the may 1 budget, but before i do that i want to share a bit of good news and that is in concert with our libraries and great leadership of Library Staff here and every branch we have in the itcity, we runouncing a increase to the library hour frz the entire city. That means that there will be a minimum of at least 50 hours a week the libraries are open. There are more program jz more story time to be readic to and read to in Branch Libraries like this. This is part of the enrichment programs violate to families and children and in fact, a numberi think at least 3 to 4 that willect attend the hours to 7 day as week. That is a incredible part to do so but every library will have a minimum of at least 50 hours. The Chinatown Branch and Ocean View Branch and Mission Library branches will be at least 3 that will experience fis clt upgrades to make sure they are the libraries for the 21 century. Again, i will emphasize just a few years ago, we were having e to consider cutting so many thing jz had double digit unemployment but as a result och good investment jz result of having great bond ratings and borrowing opportunities well invest in our libraries and make sure that they reflect what we want for our families, for our kids, for our parents, a safe, clean place to read, to learn. More and more you see the libraries are full of computers now too so they can access the internet, learn how to use it effectively. We do that and know we do that in the Bayview Library branch jz other branches so that we can use the libraries as 1 of our ininstruments to fill the Digital Divide at the same time. [inaudible] [yelling in background] for anyone to suggest that investing in our neighborhood Branch Libraries is i think a incredible gap of understanding. But, let me say this and ill want to make sure that you know that the 12 departments of the city out of the 53 departments is the announcement for todays may 1 budget. Those 12 departments comprise the 4 enterprise departments and a number of departments that have fees as rather than the general fund as their major source of revenue and includes all of the departments that deal with our cities basic infrastructure. They together all 12 together comprise some 4. 9 billion dollars in investments in the next 2 years that create and sustain some 41,000 jobs in the city. This is announcement and proud working with our office, they are working and will be presenting of course in the budget to board of supervises and well seek their approval of their budgets and it continues our Strong Economic Foundation for the city in making sure we take care of our infrastructure. In the 12 departments ask include the airport and port and Public Utilities commission, the Municipal Transportation Commission or building inspection as a example, you have at the airport. They will continue refurbishing our terminals and making sure they support the incredible historic levels of visitors coming into the sitee. They also have a incredible turnout the airport is building its own hotel that will be part the Visitor Experience that will be reflective of the number 1 driver in the citytoryism and haase pitality. We will make invisment in theport that will be one the biggest infrastructure challenges in the time and chablg for reziziancy and that is making sure the sea whaul wall will be there for hopefully another century or. The sea wall is something well teach the public about because it is underground and along the entire eastern side the city and you dont see it, it is below ground but if we dont rebuild the sea wall and make sure it is safe, everything along the water front from embarcadero to piers is under incredible challenge. The puc will make investment jz water system and sewer system and our pawer system and mta that will be improving transit and making sure the city is safer and longer last aing and includes funding for some 30 vision zero projects that total 70 million. We want to come pleat the vision zero projects and make sure the goal is met in 2024 so this budget will do that. Well also have something we are experiencing in the mission and that is a much more cultural Effective Response and prevention and too the fire squz anything that will destroy Affordable Housing so we have within this and again thank you to the leadership of tom howee and building inspection collaboration with the Fire Department to insure education in the communities where fires seem to be still ones that we want to prevent from happening that will have a comp tent response making sure that all of the residents and building owners have a higher level of safety for these very valuable Historic Buildings and buildings that are housing a lot of affordability at this time. Those are the sros and the low income apartment buildings that still exist in the mission district. This budget will also reflect the moving forward and muni forwardforward muni program we have that increase the service ublth by at least 10 percent. Muni seems to enjoy a better relationship with the riding public these days and want to continue that investment, make sure that we continue to have free muni for elderly and for people with disabilities along with youth up to the age of 18. Again, to also make sure that we instrest in the routes that make muni more efficient, gives people moving to the places of work or to their education or Branch Libraries in a more efficient way. This is just the may 1 budget with these 12 departments. The other departments that are general funds related will be part of our june 1 budget and we are working hard on that and we are making sure that we could step up with the 246 million challenge we have. It is a deficit we have for the next 2 years and well bridge that without decreasing services in the general Fund Departments and we are working hard on that and will be ready to have a balanced budget by june 1 and beginning discussions with members of the board of supervisor so they know what we doing in a transparent way. We are Holding Community meetings and neighborhood meetings and meetings with the supervisors to get their input to see what the next budget will reflect. The budget is reflection of sth cities values and will continue reflecting that. We have been able tobalance our budget. My tum as mayor for the last 5 year jz continue doing so i fill unthe gaps and making sure the cuts that may come from the state or federal government we want to reflect in the budget are taken care of, but other things whether they are homeless shelters improvement or Navigation Centers or Affordable Housing or challenges of affordability in general, i think the Branch Libraries is a huchblg contribution to the affordable because they are all free and safe and have the modern technology in them but also the books that we increase and the link to our Public Education system. They are linked to our neighborhoods they are strong. They are linked to even Small Businesses who may want to come in and take a respite from the Small Business and get on the internet and maybe open up a business they want it through the business portal, all that can hpen inl the Branch Libraries. With that, i want to say we are happy to initiate the may 1 budget of the 12 departments i we are working hard to make sure the rest of the departments get the treatment deserve and will have announcements in the coming week. We are work wg the board sw neighborhood groups and can do this because we vastrong economy and we can do this because we are transforming our actually transporting the type of revenues we do so from evonets like the superbowls and the neighborhoods that need them and continue building strong neighborhoods. With that, i can take a few questions if you have them, the budget or anything else and then well go on. [inaudible] well, it is a old old library just like this was and the physical changes we identified in some of the paperwork we are passing out. They will havethey are kind of behine the walls. They want more technology in the Branch Libraries and part of that will be upgrading the wiring system that is very old. We dont have room to expand so we actually have to comp sate for that limited space and make sure that all the spaces used and upgraded with wiring and new technology. We also will increase those hours in the librarylike i said in all the Branch Libraries including chinatown that will have the Library Hours expanded as well. When i go out there it was very crowded and everyone uses them throughout the weekend so expanded the hours is also part the deal. Well, certainly muni has ever reason to do with transportation so one the programs that we supporting is called muni forward and that means increasing the services of muni by at least 10 percent. All the Services Include additional routes and includes improved routes and includes making sure muni moves deliberately on those routes in a safe way so it is very hard to get all the specifics but we can do so because it is part of the muni forward plan they approved. At the same time, they have some 30 vision zero projects. Projects that will make the streets safer and engineered and designed to be safer. Slow down traffic where the projects have pruben traffic going too fast and people are not taking the turns in a safe way to cause safety challenges for pedestrians for seniors, all that is in the 30 additional projects we want to complete and want to do so i cost some 70 Million Dollars that is incraseed in the muni projeblths. And keeping muni free for seniors and people with disabilities and youth, that is all part of the budget as well. Thank you. You get your room back kids . Good morning, everyone and welcome to our plans and programs meeting of our stowers county Transportation Authority, for may, 2016, im kati e tang the chair, we have commissioner avalos. And london breed, and we would like to thanks sfgtv. Mr. Clerk, could you call the roll please . All right, the roll call, avalos. Here. Breed . Here. Farrell absent. Pes . Absent. Tang here. Could you call two. Citizen advisory report. Thank you if we could have chris, our cec chair, if he is here. Okay. Maybe not. Maybe if we could push to this the agenda, and okay, great, we will come back to that and if you can call item three. Approve the minutes of the april, 19. And seeing no questions or comments, if we can get a motion or the Public Comment on the minutes . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And if you can get a motion on the minutes . Thank you. And motion by commissioner avalos and he with will take that without objection. Minutes are approved. All right, thank you. Item four, please . Item four, recommend appointment of two members to the geary corridor bus Rapid Transit citizens Advisory Committee . We have the Senior Transportation planner here. Good morning, commissioners. So this is item number four, page 19 of your park ket and as you know the project that we are working to improve the transit travel times and reliability as well as implement the pedestrians along the corridor. And so we are in the environmental phase and so we published the document last fall and we working to incorporate all of the comments that we have received and released a final to bring to the board this fall. As the project has a dedicated citizen Advisory Committee consisting of 13 minutes who serve in two year terms and you can find a list of the current members in the attachment and those meetings happen every two months. The structure of it is shown in the attachment as well. The number served, either appointed to serve, as the section of the corridor or at large. And there are currently two vacancies of the two members terms and neither is seeking reapoinme reapoinment appointment, and one is for the rich manned district and one is at large. We received, 35 applications for the cac and of those, all of them are eligible serve in the at large seat, 30 of them are eligible serve in the richmond seat and we have encouraged all of them to come today to say a few words, which is optional but not required. The information on all of the candidates is be found in the enclosure which are in the packet and as a reminder, the staff does not recommend the candidates and that is just up to you. And we can seek appointment to the cac. Thank you and so at this time, i want to see if there are any applicants who happen to be here today for item four, for the geary corridor vrt, vac, if you are up, come on up and make a couple of minute presentation of why you would like to serve on the cac and please remember to state your name when you come up, thank you. Yes, if you can line up over there by the wall . Im nooel johnson and i have been a resident of the bay area since i was 7. And i have been in San Francisco since 92. And i am a daily rider of muni and i also drive a car in San Francisco and i walked halfway here and i am also a pedestrian. And i was encouraged to apply for this to put my input in to the planning of the corridor. And what i have to offer is that i am smart and i can read the eir and documentation and understand what they are talking about and i have a lot of different insights into different roles that the people play along geary. And i would like to get involved in this because i want to stop complaining about muni and i want to do something constructive thank you. Thank you very much. Next applicant. All right. My name is nelson. If all of the applicants could speak into the microphone. Thank you. My name is nelson bunia and i have lived in the Richmond District for the last five years and i am a daily muni commuter and i took it to get here to 38. And i work downtown. In the past i have worked in morin and so i have driven a car and i drive and take the bus and so that gives me input into the Different Things that are trying to be managed my family is from la and there is a successful line there called the orange line which i have ridden men times and so i have the experience with the brt form of transportation and i want to give my input and bring a perspective of a commuter and a driver to try to make this be best project possible, and make the transit times as fast as possible for you know the thousands of people that take the 38 every day. Okay. Thank you. Next applicant . Hi. My name is osher, and i have lived in the Richmond District the entire time that i have been in San Francisco and i dont own a car and so i am dependant on muni. And i really think that it is important to make this line work well. And i have been working with a number of different transit advocates in district one over the past couple of months. To really try and make that people get excited about this line and i think that it is really important to make sure that everyones voices are heard in the process. And i think that i could do a job representing the riders of the line. Hello. My name is renee, and i believe that i am number ten on the list and i am here for a few reasons. Number one, i have been living in the richmond and raising a family for about eight years now. My son is in school so of course, i am interested in providing the quickest and safest Transportation System for him. In the Richmond District. Secondly, i have lived overseas in a lot of countries and cities where they have fantastic Transportation Systems. I think that is an area where i can add some value to the brt program. And thirdly, i do have some experience with the Public Transportation and the city traffic engineering. When i was at grad school i worked for the city traffic engineer and provided a lot of help to the staff there and coordinating meetings and working with the community and it is something that i enjoyed and i would enjoy getting back into. And i believe those are all of the reasons. I understand that there are two positions. One for the richmond and one for at large. I would prefer the richmond if i do get appointed because that is where i live. But the at large position would be fine as well. That is all that i have to add here, i hope that you will consider me for this position, thank you. Thank you very much good morning, my name is stanford kingly and i am a native san franciscan and a life long resident of the city and 32 years in the Richmond District and life long on the muni many years on the 38 including yesterday, this is an important project, 50,000 people a day ride this bus, the Richmond District is one of the few neighborhoods that does not have access to a high speed form of transit like bart or street car. But it is also very complicated project. It the median strip issues, the underpasses, the rest of and most of the businesses that are on geary boulevard are owner operated and they are mom and pop businesses. We have a few banks and some chains. But most of them, 80 percent of them are owneroperated. And it is important to this be a sustainable project that is something that they do in the ride off during the construction phase. And have that still becomes an attractive place for people to go for to take care of their needs for the dry cleaners and go to the restaurants that line the boulevard. I am a lawyer by training i now have a full time medation practice. One of the things that i do as an immediate aa mediator is that all of the par papts have the voices heard. I think that it will add to the process in that manner. Make sure that we can get the fair process, where a lot of constituents want to speak and be heard and come up with a solution, idealy that meets the needs of all of the parties concerned. So, i urge, you know, urge your support for my candidacy and like the previous speaker i would be happy with either position. At large or richmond. Thank you very much. My name is thomas, and i moved in San Francisco . 1962 with my parents and sibings and i went to elementary and junior high and the high school in the district and the city college and uc berkeley. I got an engineering degree. A botachelor and a masters degr. I have been working for a corporation in the downtown San Francisco continuously for 37 years. So, right now, i commute every day in the 38 blocks to work. And on the weekends, i drive through the geary street and so i need to have the driving and the bus because it goes smoothly. And in the company i have been working on the regular projects both design build projects and i also have some experience in construction support. So in summary, i grew up and educated in and near San Francisco and i work in San Francisco, and i have experience in and related to Construction Projects and i guess time is up. So but, i have the vested interest to improve the daily street traffic now and into the future and based on my education and Work Experience i hope that you will be able to understand and analyze different proposals thank you. Thank you very much. Good morning, my name is alexander post and i am from the heights and i appeared before this Committee Last month at the april 17th hearing. So i will try not to repeat myself too much here. But you got my application materials. But in summary, i am very passionate about Public Transportation and i have particularly interests in the geary street corridor because i am a regular user of the 38, and the bx, and i am excited about the prospect of Rapid Transit along the corridor and so i think that that passion along with my legal and policy experience will make me an effective ambassador, both for the project and to the project to bring the city wide concerns to the Advisory Committee. And i just want to pass one down, i attended the Advisory Committee meeting on april, 28th. Where they were actually one number short of the quorum, which forced the significant delay and they actually then lost the quorum before they were able to complete the agenda. And because one of the agenda items was neighborhood out reach, and you had many concerned citizens who take in the time out to come to the meeting and including representatives from two japan town neighborhood groups as well as representatives from the planning and association for the richmond. And who all understandable are frustrated at the process. So i think what this committee may need most of all is someone who is willing to take the committee and the projects seriously. And if you appoint me, i will be that person. And just a final note. I know the previous at large Position Holder was a richmond resident and so i think that it would be good to diversify the at large position to other neighborhoods. Thank you for considering my ka dancy. Thank you very much. Last call for any applicants who are here for item four . Okay. Seeing number we know colleagues, i know that it is in our hands now, commissioner breed . She wanted to Say Something before we go to Public Comment. I wanted to ask a question if i could be reminded of the people who were here at the last meeting . As well. Do we have that information on the minutes . And if you want to go to Public Comment you can. Thank you. And just for the public we are also joined by commissioners aaron peskin and farrell and we will go to Public Comment first, this is item four for the cac, if you would like to come up and speak, please do so. Good morning i am on the cac but there is one individual who has this application in your packet and you have seen it before and that is brian larkin and he is also on the cac. He was a chair person that that you have seen many times give the cac report, and then it had to be done and this sort of thing. He was on the original cac for the geary Rapid Transit. And for this geary project and in fact, i have known brian since 1986, when we both, and a group, where we were with a group of people that wrote prop b. The sales package that became prop k that i helped to pass later. And if you look at his, and if you look at his experiences of brian has had, working with and with and you know that he is a very, vocal in our meetings regarding anything, regarding the bus Rapid Transit and wanting it to be light rain, i think that you should consider him as your richmond appoint ee because he is the one that really knows what is going on out there. I have known brian for many years, i have known him since 1986 and i was appreciative if you would appoint him for the richmond representative because he was on the original cac. Years ago. Thank you. And just one question for you just only because i have not heard from that applicant directly. Do you know if he still wants to . I dont know if he wants it. But i know that he is very vocal. And he has a very, he is very vocal in this project as well as i am. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please . And to the supervisor mars office, and to send the support for butnic for the richmond seat, and the brtc, and asher the transit advocate who has been working on the period with the district one transit. Riders group. And that has been formed with the transit rider, and leaders who have been really strat strat guying what it means for the richmond and feels that asher will work for the voice of the riders to make sure that the voices are heard. And he is knowledgeable about the geary corridor as a whole as well as other brt and cities, and he has been taking the time to look at the transits in seattle and all inspiration to enhance the project here in San Francisco. And he has been an advocate that really is looking not just the transit benefits and adjusting the service gaps and connectivity and liability but he is able to think critically about the impacts. And what that looks like for the neighborhood and how this project can be about Development Without the displacement. He is passionate and has a vested interest both in the neighborhoods. And so, supervisor mar would like to extend his support for this candidate. Thank you. Any other members of the public who wish to comment on item four . Seeing none, closed. Commissioner avalos . Thank you. And i want to thank everyone for their interest in wanting to serve on the geary bus Rapid Transit, citizens Advisory Committee. And with the at large seat that we have the number of people who are very, very qualified and very interested in serving and it is a hard decision to decide what to do. But i do want to make sure that the supervisor mar he wanted to see asher and that is fitting for the supervisor to recommend his appointment and i know that he has also done a lot of work with supervisor mar in the transit and he has familiarity with the project. And it will be great to see that. I would like to recommend that position that we accept him for the richmond seat for the cac. Other people that stood out for me. Nelson, who actually has some experience relative to and thomas as well, and i think his engineering for the background and as well as worked for the committee. And posts are the ones, and i am not making a motion, but engaging on a conversation i dont want to wait longer to keep these seats open. Thank you, breed. Thank you i would like to ask asher a question. How long have you lived in San Francisco . Three years, and how long have you been taking muni . The entire time. Can you tell me specifically what projects related to transit that you worked on with supervisor mars office . So, i have worked on helping notify residents and getting the input on the muni forward changes that have happened insurance since i have been volunteering with the Office Starting in last august, and that included working on the 28 r, and the two reroute, and it did get postponed and kind of talking to residents and making sure that they understand the project and kind of make sure that they understand the purpose of it. And i have been working on and talking to local businesses to make sure that they understand the project and the concerns are heard and also, talking to a lot of local residents. And both in the d1, transit, and advocacy group, and also, other times that the people that contact our office and are reaching out to the different people. And before that, you were involved in transit related issues and in cities and can you give me some examples . No, i have always been a transit ride sxer this is the first time that i have gotten involved in organizing the advocacy. Thank you. Thank you. Farrell commissioner farrell . Yes, i wanted to echo. I am sorry, commissioner breed. Thank you. And you know, actually, i would like an opportunity because it means a lot to me that so many people came forward to speak and i would like an opportunity to even though i have read through the applications, it is great to associate the applications with the comments of the people who came here. And i am definitely more inclined to support someone who came here and i would like an opportunity to maybe review those after mri indications based on not only the individuals that came here today but the individuals who came here last time. I definitely would say that you know, from my perspective, although, i definitely will honor and support the recommendation of the district one supervisor, here we have a number of candidates who have taken muni and been in the city and some cases their entire lives, and we are chosing no disrespect, someone who has only been here and taken transit for the past three years. And i do think that it is a mistake. And again, you know, and in this particular case, you know, normally our process is to honor and respect you know what is suggested by the district one supervisor, which is the only reason why i plan to appoint or support that recommendation. But, i definitely dont think that it is fair for many of the applicants who definitely have significant engineering experience and significant experience with understanding of the actively engaged and transit in our city and this is going to make this choice even that much harder. But i will say that definitely a number of individuals stood out. Mr. Renee. I am sorry if i am butchering your name, because i am really terrible with pronouncing names. And stanford, kingly and thomas and post, and as well as yeah, those are the main people who stood out for me. And i would like an opportunity to just which will take some time to just take a quick look and make these appointments today, of course, but take a look at their applications as it relates to the folks who showed up here today in order to make a good decision for this committee. And i will say that what i do appreciate most are individuals who express a sincere desire to serve. But more importantly, to show up at the meetings and to respect i think, it was alexander post and was at the last meeting and there is business, and we take that seriously and when the people take the time to attend the meetings and i do want to move forward with this process today but i would ask the colleagues if it is possible to make the decision, and later on in the agenda as i review this to decide what exactly i think is my preference is. So, i am going to go to commissioner farrell first. And you can discuss whether to postpone this. I would say, echo supervisor avalos about supervisor mar, for the richmond seat and i think that is appropriate and we want to honor that. And then in terms of the at large seat, i will say, that especially to me i think that it is kingly, and mr. Post, have come now twice in a row and i think that does demonstrate, some commitment level here that i would like to honor as well. So those would be my thoughts in terms of discussion for us. But happy to do whatever the committee likes in terms of moving forward right here. All right, thank you very much. Commissioner avalos and peskin do you have any objections of continuing this until later in the agenda . Okay, we will continue this until later. And thank you to all of the applicants here, and i do agree that for at least the at large seat it is difficult and because everyone has varyed backgrounds and i see attorneys here, and i see mediator and i see engineers and advocates and transit rider advocate and there are so many different backgrounds that we could choose from. So we will get back to that. Shortly. So, at this moment, then i am going to back to item two because our chair chris is here. Welcome. Sorry commissioners for being late. I forgot my bike lock key. The 9. 6 for prop k, peter sacks regarding the bike lanes was given assurances that the highest degree of safety was applied to the streets by and inside the bike lanes, and what he considereded a buffer protected lanes. And my concern with that project was with the spending of so much money on paint treatments that would be reapplied within a year or two and for the paint costs and but, public works needs to have that delay. And supervisor mar apparently requested that the stripes be, or the bike lanes be put in place now, as a safety precaution and the extra cost is with it. And then jackie, sacks was given the assurances on the signal timing on the crosswalks that will be taken into consideration. And all of the intersections will accommodate the speed of 2 and a half miles per hour. And during the Public Comment it was suggested that a 1. 5, mile per hour, be considered that is what cal train uses apparently and so it is only that we may want to think about. For s disabled members of the community, especially around the churches or senior homes where we may have more disabled people. We also heard that the churches in the area may not have been contacted i want to make sure that out reach is being done on these projects. Regarding the charlie bus purchase, they wanted assurances that the buses will be able to make it up the hills and read that the previous models could not make it up the hills and she was given the assurances that they could. Item 6, and the replacement project on your agenda. Peter sacks describes problems in the air traffic industry, where harris that is mca, contractor seems to under bid and expand the scope of these projects that they work on and thus, increasing costs. Harris was the only bidder and came 40 percent over the sfmta estimate and this caused about a years worth of delays in getting the contract out that is all that i have. Great, thank you for your presentation. And i can see that the district four member is very vocal. Yes, and this item which is great. Yes. And any questions, comments from colleagues . Okay, seeing none, we are going to go to Public Comment on item two. Any members of the public wish to speak . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed and that was an information item. And now we will go to item 5. Allegation of 9,559,451 in prop k funds to present to the plans and Programs Committee and this is an action item. Thank you. And it looks like we have a different today. Okay, maria. Okay. Good morning, and i think that i can work three here with three allegations that you have before you. So that the first allegation i would like to start the vehicle allegations there is nothing left that we can do to improve the service and buy new vehicles, whether replacing old ones which is the project that is before you today or buying expansion vehicles and this is why the largest category and in prop k is for the vehicle replacement. Primarily from muni but also, bart and cal train and so this project before you is a combined allocation recommendation for 5 million in prop k funds. That will average, 20 million in federal funds to replace, 14, 60foot, trolly coaches. And then there is also a commitment toal kalt, 6 million and, that is a commitment because the commission has yet to program the matching federal funds that are anticipated to take place this fall and the meeting will come ba back to us afterwards for the rest of the allegation. And because there is a great deal of interest in because muni is in the effort to replace the fleet as well as the light rail vehicles. This chart shows you from left to right. If you cant read it, the top of the bar is the number of vehicles planned to be replaced. And then the purple part is how many have been ordered already and the dark blue on the bottom are the ones that are delivered to date. And you can see how we have a lot of new motor coaches and the trolly buses are comeing in and there are 36 that have been accepted and the vehicles and they can correct me if i am wrong here. I think that the prototype is due to come in at the end of the year and so we have not started to pay for those yet but it is soon. I want to thank, mta for helping us to confirm the data. We average an enormous amount of did you understand, in the 300 million, that we allocated, about 1. 7 billion, and we will keep this up to date, if not monthly at least, quarterly on the website. The next allocation is for a merry go round that is happening that you have seen in the board of supervisors where the mta is planning to vacation, 1401, which will become the new location for the an monthly care and for that happen, the long term project is happening at a quick pace and that is renovating the facility, and the project right now, the building as essential warehouse for like main nens and they ship them out to the other shops asneeded from here and about half of the building will be renovated to be more efficient and effective for that central warehouse function and the other half will be wrote troe fitted to have the over lines, and which is currently working on the 1401, bryant location, and the 4. 4, million in prop k funds recommended and most of the rest, of the cost will be paid for by the mta, general share of the property general Obligation Bonds and we just note that the project does face a couple of challenges. A tight time line and it also has to undergo the construction work while keeping the facility open for use. We have got a few stocks on the staff that are developing in this Delivery Area and they are going to support the project team by serving on the project team meeting and we have, i can do this right. One is the First District one is the capitol project, and it is forced on this request and the bicycle improvements between fulton and west the faive tick avenue and these are the things that there is already the bike lanes and adding the striper to make it two foot, and the daylighting and intersections and adding the crosswalks. There is a paving project, that could happen as soon as 2017 but that schedule is a little bit in flux and so the mta and commissioner mar has supported to go ahead with these improvements. And add additional improvements such as the green paint in the bike lanes. One question regarding the safety of the bike lanes this is what we have typically seen. So after the repaving is done, is there a plan to create a buffered bike lane or keep it the same . The later touch and this will be buffered but it is paint buffered as opposed to physically separated. And that is the comment that you observed the question that the committee was regarding installing or physically separated or the parking separated and it is something that we investigated and it is just, was not deemed feasible and we are looking at an upgrade to the stripes on the painted buffer zone on the existing bike lanes and promote the visibility and to narrow down the over wide, vehicle traveling on the streets . As a way to take up space. Okay. There was also another concern raised by the cec, regarding putting in the paint before the paving which 2017, but we never know if it is going to be pushed back further, could you tell us what the cost is for the painting of the temporary ones before they have to be removed. About 190,000. Only making changes that can be made with a bear minimum of cost at this point. And during the time before the road resphrasing happens, will there be a trial observation or how the bike lane was working and to make sure that it is safe for the bikers there. Yeah, and we are making, you know, several improvements and the bike lanes are one of them and some other, you know, pedestrian island, and the safety up grades, to the south. And we are going to be hon tore and evaluating everything that we put in and making the changes asneeded until after the paving project. Great. Thank you any colleagues any other questions or comments on item five . Okay. All right, seeing none, i would just say that you know, since this is a funding request, and it is coming to mar, and i would support the choice to put in the bike lanes before the road resurfacing occurs. So, at this time, again i guess that there are no other further commen comments. Going back, and i appreciate the laying out of the chart of what we have planned and what we have ordered and what we have already received. Thank you for that information. Okay. So at this time, what i am going to go to Public Comment on item five. Any members of the public who wish to speak come up. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. All right. So now it sounds like you can go back to item four which about the cac, commissioner avalos . We will take a vote. Okay i am sorry. Lets do that. Recommended. The house has changed and we have a second for that yes, seconded by breed and we can take a roll call on item five. Commissioner avalos . Aye. Breed. Aye. Farrell . Aye. Peskin. Aye. Tang. Aye. The item is approved. Thank you. Yeah, and now we will go back to item four, the geary, and commissioner breed. Thank you and i want to thank everyone who came out here today and thank you so much for your patience. We have so many wonderful applicants and often times it is really hard to make decisions about really important committees of this nature. And what i try to look for is commitment and i also try to look for you know, how long people have been in the city to understand it and spshlly around Public Transportation. How long they have taken it and what, and how can they lend the kind of voice that we need in order to make it better . It is not just going to be made better because of the board of supervisors or because of the Transportation Authority. Or because of the advocates. It has to include the people who ride muni every single day as well. And everyone with different knowledge whether p anger, lawyer bus driver, or just you know regular citizen. In our city. You know, all of those opinions about their experiences are important to have. Or to make sure that we have those individuals seated at the table and making the decision but also, respecting the process, and serving in a way that respects the public, and is prepared to come and roll up your sleeves and do the work necessary and because it is a commitment and i am truly grateful and this is why i am always, appreciative of the people who take the time out of their schedules to come to these meetings and to the present before us to express an interest in serving and so i am more inclined to support a candidate that shows up here today and i take this really seriously, and with that, i am wondering definitely, stood out and i would like to for the ad large seat make a motion to move forward on alexander post and my colleagues, supervisor avalos and farrell both mentioned this individual as a stand out candidate and i would very much inclined to move this name forward and i hope that my colleagues will consider supporting that. Thank you, commissioner breed. I would supportive of again, commissioner mars suggestion, for asher butnik, but out of the did i have reference for the supervisor and i would happy to support mr. Post. I did like that he has been showing up to the cec meetings even though he is not even a meeting there. Commissioner avalos . Thank you i did motion on supervisor mars recommendation and i dont think that it was seconded. But i did motion that. And i am and will do, commissioner farrell will second that and can we take that one without objection . Then . Okay. So, we have confirmed asher butner to the district one seat. And now for the at large seat, do we have a motion . I make a motion. Breed. And seconded and by farrell and we can take that without objection. Congratulations mr. Post. Okay. So we are that was item four, and now we will go to item six chlts up date, and this is an information item. Thank you we have luis. ; is that correct . . That is correct. Good morning, chair tang and commissioners i am project management over the sight conduct ant to the authority. And i am joined here today by the project manager for this project from the mta. The radio project is intended to modernize the system, the systems that are in place now are 30 years old and as you know, in this age in which Technology Becomes obsolete, muni is forced to be working with the technology that is for the 70s. And the project is a lot more than just radio. The video, is treated in the back bone, but it is used to overlay Transportation Systems such as the vehicle, Health Monitoring and the vehicle locater and incident management and then such that are intended to improve the service and the defend bltd of the system. The project is being delivered by the sample contract. Which was award inned 2012. To the heritage corporation. And right now, the project is in the study and the investing stage and that testing is under way. And they are hoping to start with the vehicle equipment installation in june. And those vehicles will start in september. And finally, the fleet, will take place between january and march. The budget as we see here is 126 million. And this is an increase of 11. 6 million only the 2012 budget that was set at the time of the award and that number was 114 million. The custom, his a variety of issues and some of them were of the conditions and they were the project that were more complex because of the variety of the vehicles that muni utilizes and they also have some contracting, i am sorry, they have staffing issues. Apparent apparently we have the Technology Sector that are approaching of the contractor. And this project represents a 5 percent contingency. Prop k is the biggest contributor to the project, contributing 48 percent of the budget and 61 million, and 61. 7. To date, mta has only, incurred 24 million in expenditures of which only have 4. 4, million that have been invoiced to date. And in addition to the delays that the project has had, there is also the structure of the contract, the contract is schedule in payments that are based on milestone achievements. Most are based on the monthly progress payments. But this contract is based on the notes. And so until the contract that reaches the milestone, they are getting paid for that work. And also the Transportation Authority has been no, because you know, munichlt, has elected to use other funds first. Which have the use of the funding and such. And which is a practice that the Transportation Authority encourages and so it allows for to reduce the prop k financing cost and allowing for more funds to remain for the projects. The system is expected to be free of in march. This coming march. And this is 18 months later on the schedule, and already talked about the problem that they are having with the delays. As far as the disadvantage, businesses and slow business problems, i am happy to report that the public has a goal of 15 percent, however, up to date, 34, and 32 percent of the buildings have been for the Small Businesses. The remaining challenges of this project the service date is 18 months later than anticipated. Which basically has affected the final transfer of operations to the new Transportation Management center. And that facility has been completed for a while now. And it will come into full operation, only after the radio project is completed. And in order to meet that date, the bus installation has to start in june of this year. Mta has schedule a series of testing and tracing because they want to make sure that the roll out is smooth. And that concludes my presentation and if you have questions i will be ha py to answer them thank you, this is an information item. But i am just a little bit confused about since there is an increase in the project costs, where was the approval that came from the Transportation Authority . Commission, to amount for that cost increase . The budget went up but not the contribution from the prop k. The funds they came out from the sfmta revenue bonds. And that is where the eleven Million Dollars showed from, was, and so we had approved that the board of supervisors, that increased to the revenue bond . Or those approvals . It was part of the revenue bond, yes. Thank you. Commissioner peskin. I just wanted to say that this project is a long time and coming and it is amazing that that has been kept together with the shoe string and bubble gum and it is long overdue and it is time to bring it to the dawn of the 21st century. Hear hear. Thank you, commissioner peskin. If you could explain the significance of this project and how it will help to impact or improve the experience for transit riders. Well, the main, the main benefit for this project is reliability. Right now, for example, the system that is in place, you cannot buy Replacement Parts for. Muni has to buy equipment that is decommissioned from other facilities in order to down for parts. And in some cases that is not even enough. They actually have to make parts at their shop. Which is like commissioner peskin said miraculous. And they have been using the old parts and canabalize the parts from the old system. But in addition to that the different systems for example, they bring in the locater and it will allow the control center to go at any time, and where each vehicle is and basically when they, for example, see the bunching, and they can alert the drivers as you are bunching up and you know you should back off to get more separation from the vehicles and the same that i think with some that are behind schedule. The vehicle that will have the reliability and they will be able to jump in real time, from the control center. And if there is an issue with the vehicle. And so that they can pull it out of service before it causes problems for the passengers. Thank you for that up date. And again we are looking forward to this project completing next year. All right. So commissioner avalos . Just a reminder, my office had requested a tour i think that there are other offices as well. And would like to get a tour thank you very much, are there any Public Comment on item 6 . Please come on up. They were alive, and what happened on 9 11 took place. I know that you are making ramdz that this is overdue and the person who gave the presentation, never once mentioned safety. And that is what is happening here. And so, the mayor and there are some supervisors and they vouch for the buses, and the modern buses. But our Communication System is primitive and wlfr the presentations are given the evaluation from the experts and so we know that we have to go to the other agencies as far as la and other place to get parts. But the people at home should know how stupid we are that in the year 2016, we dont have a mun indication system that works and so the responsibility of such a thing kind of falls a little bit on the board of supervisors who represent. And now we have today, is a very hot day. And we have had five, six, 7, buses break down. New buses. I would like the mayor to know this and the supervisors who bought these new buses on board to know this. What we are having here is the San Francisco county Transportation Authority, and spoke about some candidates. And this candidate should know about this. I have been accounting this weekend from, i dont know, maria, will tell you from i dont know when, and this is not just attending it, it is about doing something, about it. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Any members of the public who wish to speak on item 6 . Come on up. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And colleagues that was an information item and now we will go on item 7. Item seven, up date on the San Francisco Transportation Agency bike program and this is information. We have jamie from sfmta. Before we start, just this that i called for, especially as we are seeing that the boik Share Program start to expand across the city. And i will make sure that we are linking up our building out of our bike strategy and our facility across the city as well. And i think that this presentation is timely as we see the bike Share Program starting to proceed. Colleagues, any other questions as well . Ement emily is also here from motivate. Thank you. I am the Section Leader with the street and the sfmta and manage the Bicycle Program. And i am hear at the request of mr. Avalos, and the Bicycle Program that we have currently, and with the particular focus on the results of the prop k allegation that we got for the strategy, and last year and, how that is figured into our prog m program. Before we get started i have been with the city for six months and i came over from the city of oakland and i am sessexd and learning a new city and on the personal note i have owned a car for 15 years, i get around by walking and biking taking it seriously is personally gratifying to me. I would like to start with the Strategic Plan. And everything that the sfmta does, the bicycle plan does the guy ans from the plan. The plan, lays out four core goals. Two of which are important for the bicycle lanes. One of those, is to make sure that less than 50 percent of the trips taken in the city of San Francisco are by private automobile and those goals and especially with that, and say that in order to do that, we think that 8 to ten percent of bicycling is a key part of that goal and it is increasing bicycling is the key of reducing the private. And the goal about safety, is a little bit general in the Strategic Plan and we are lucky to take the guidance from the vision zero to eliminate the serious injuries on our streets by 2024. And just, by the major role in the Bicycle Program in two different ways. One is that Analysis Shows that 70 percent of the grasses on the streets, take place on just 12 percent of the network and so we are thinking about focusing our Engineering Resources that is where we look. And it is really important for us to remember that these are not just lines on the map. Each of these lines represents multiple real people who were killed and mamed in traffic. And so what i think that is more unsuddenly is that represents the future people that will be injured unless we do something that is really a focus for everything that we do. Is looking at this map and figuring out what we can do to improve the safety. We may have a project that is a bicycle project, whatever street we are on, we need to make sure that we improve the safety for everybody. And you know, the Pedestrian Group or the Transit Group to make sure that any time that we touch a street it is not just the buy sicking safety, it is Pedestrian Safety and the everybody who is using the streets. Vision zero as the guiding framework and we are also lucky that we are not starting str scratch, and a lot of the work that we are doing right now, more, and the bike lanes, and at least, there is the bed Rock Foundation of the Bicycle Network in the city and that is the substan hally complete, and it has resulted in 120 lane miles of the bike facilities and one of the highest rates of lane miles per square mile of any city in the country. We have identified, 69 new corridors and it just went out in the loosely defined term in terms of the streets were not identified and that is where the 2,000 of prop k money that we allocated last year came in. That allowed us to be in each of these corridors and understand a little bit more what each of them could be so that they become more than just lines on the map. What we did with the exercise, is about ten hours on each corridor and that is not a lot of time but it is enough time to bring every single corridor in there up to the same level of information and which included a field visit and the data that was available, and to understand what they limit on the corridor are likely to be and if there are parallel routes, and it may since that the types of facilities that make since in the constraints that were likely to face as we move forward. And that really figured in to a prioritize of the corridors that allowed us to move forward for the 17, to 21 cic. And so what we tried to do, is come up with a balance project and focusing on the network and what we can do the most to improve safety and also making sure that we have a mix and we dont want to take on the complex projects at once, because we will not have anything to built for the next four years. And the comr complicated and also mentioned the goal of trying to create a network of facilities that connects the city. I am sorry, by facilities you mean, bike parking . So, right now, i am just talking about corridor projects in terms of like the on street facilities but i also want to mention, the bike and share and as later on as well. I will get back to you on that. So the map here generally shows where we anticipate. And the other projects that we have in process. Are and so you have roughly 20 corridors that are included in the cid that will begin the planning soon and representing about 90 Million Dollars of work by them. And so in particular, it is a little hard to see, but the green lights represent what we are calling the neighborhood green way and that is a relatively new concept in San Francisco to something that we are promoting more and Going Forward. And it is the use of the low volume and the local streets that are parallel to the major routes. And prioritizing them. And that will be 20th avenue, rather than trying to shoe horn and instead making 20,000, the Nuclear Connection and so we have a number of those green lines and if we think that those makes sense with we are calling those neighborhood green ways. The question on that is that i know that there was a huge interest in creating better north, south, connecters and using the boulevard and using 34th avenue in state. But is mta going to be doing more to highlight the fact that it is a bike route instead of putting these white painted on the ground . Yes. So, 20th avenue, is included in the safety for the significant investments and so there are chairs and but also, cropping improvements but all of our Bicycle Network will be getting new signs and we have about 1200 signs that we will be going out to cover the network. Including 34,000 and other streets like that. What is the timing expected for that . We just put our first 12 signs in the inner sunset last week. And at that case for working with our shops and rolling out the process, but the entirety of the program will be rolled out in 18 months. And they will be going in in batches starting later this summer. Are you doing anything different in terms of the ground treatment, i mean right now, you can barely tell that it is supposed to be the north and south connector on 34th avenue. Right now, 34th avenue is not programmed in terms of the near term, but it is part of the over all network and 20,000 new in the sunset is the street that we were going to focus our resources on. Okay. I would like to follow up with you on the 34th avenue. Okay. Issue because we had brought this up internally. Last year. Or before that. So i would like to put the movement on it. Okay. Okay. And you were talking about some of the other efforts that makeup the Bicycle Program. And many of which are funded by prop k, and the fund for the clean air. And it come through and request that we get from the coalition and the citizens and deal with that immediately, rather than waiting years. And so f, the recent lanes that went on harrison street and near 16th, and just a few weeks ago. And the left side bike lane on page street and things like that, and that is something that we are continuing to do to make sure that we are not waiting years for the major improvement and we can get out there and do things quickly as well. Bike share, as, you are pretty familiar with this, and we want to mention that we have had a pilot system in the ground, but we are preparing for a major extension of over, 1,000 percent that will bring, about, 4500 bikes and 300 throughout San Francisco. And emily, from here as well and can answer the additional questions about bike shaur if needed. Bike parking is an important part. If you dont have a place to put your bike, the trip will not work for you. We have a sidewalk rack and on the Street Program that is by request, and so this is request, and the rack and the corral online so that we can get out there and typically in 90 or 120 days and install those racks. And we are also just getting in to the proactively and going out to the communities that may not know about the program and identifying gra it locations as well. And the long term biking is something that we are talking about for a while. And we are starting the evaluations of the sites including the west portal for the long term bike parking station to figure out how we can create an operating model that works, with our revenue stream. Bicycle and i talked about this a little bit. We want to replace the existing route number signs that are out there throughout the city and they were a great idea when they started and the people dont really think about bicycling in terms of the route number that they are on, they think about it in terms of the definition and where they are going and how long it will take to get there and learn bg this and 1200 signs over the next 18 months and that will cover every route throughout the city. . Ethat sounds great. Yeah. We are really excited about that project. And then, last, and this is not just the portion of the program that i work in, most closely. But in addition to the Capitol Improvements we do spend, a fair amount of time working on education and encouragement to make sure that the people know about the bicycling and that they know how to do it safely. And so tclasses for children an adults. They are all part of what we do. And that is a quick overview. And in terms of our next steps, i did mention that we do have a lot of projects that were included in the cit that will start on july first and so, a lot of the Community Work that is coming up to plan each of those corridors to make sure that each of those facilities and the projects reflect the neighborhood needs and so that planning effort will throw you to the corridor will be kind of getting rolling later this year and next year and so there is a lot of Community Planning coming up. Thank you, for your presentation. And one of the things that i did want to follow up on is regarding the bike parking and so our office had sent over for example, an example a list of the places that we felt like could use the bike parking in order to further encourage the bicycling in the district. And we have not heard back or seen the movement in a year and so i would like to, i will send you the list and also, i am hoping that we can follow up given that you said that the turn around time was 90 to 120 days for installations. We did start a contract, so that is just a couple of months and should be able to turn things around more quickly. Commissioner avalos . Yes, my request, my question is very m similar on the bike racks and parking. Is there a place sfmta remember sight, where you can apply for those . What is the interaction with the public . It seems like our offices dont quite have that information. Yeah, that, and i can provide that. And there is a link online, that you can either email or there is a form to fill out and you can request. And we also just created some new brochures that are in the process of thinking several thousand this week and also in the languages to describe the program and how the businesses can interact with it and get what they need. And so happy to provide those prosu brochures as well. That will be great and i am just trying to find, okay we have the bike racks and i am just looking at the web sites and trying to find where i can find easily, the links to apply. Yeah. It does not quite seem to come up. Okay. Here we go. It is fine. Thank you. All right. What happened to the goal of our 20 percent rider ship by 2020 i heard you say we are idealy we are at 8 to ten percent. For the rider ship and are we still looking athe that 2020, goal that was a feel good resolution that we were doing for the board of supervisors and i am not sure that was one that the mta saw as realistic. And so, the thing that the bicycle and we identified aid number of scenarios and the giant circle there is the most aggressive and that is what will allow us to get the full out of the system. All right. And just to kind of like i guess, a locked portion for this, and i know that it is kind of built on why commissioner avalos called for this hearing. And in the first play it is how that it is that our city is existing and the new infrastructure that we are creating for the bikes, connect with the bike share or other modes of transportation such as muni. And i am sure that you have it mapped out, and i want to make sure that we are being very explicit with our goals for our bike network. Yes. And we are working closely with motivate, and to understand where, it is like, what it is and we are making sure that we have safety improvements that are going in to support that system as well as investments to get the people. And those are all things that we are coordinated. Call, eight. And for the plan of 2040, and and across from the deputy, director for policy and programming. She is pulling it up, and thank you, good morning and so barely, in the sake of time, go quickly through these, but i will be happy to answer any of the questions at the end or speak with anyone later, and so when i get further into the details. And today we are going to be talking a little bit about the project performance evaluation which has been going on at the regional level, since october and then a little bit on the recent performal for the mta and put together regarding the Regional Housing action all of the input from us and the other regional and county, entities and we pulled out the largest in the capacity increasing projects to do a performance assessment fechlt but to identify, which projects rise to the top and which need an additional amount of explanation of why they should be included. One is the benefit cost. Assessment. And it is quantitative, and a model that mtc has. And and the targets that the mtc adopted last year, and gauges how much each project advances each of those targets and there is an equity lens where they look at the project and determine, what is providing for the low Income Community and so the projects from San Francisco, that were evaluated. And this includes, both the ones that we set the priorities but also, the ones that touched San Francisco, and that other regional entities submitted. And there are increasing and they found that the state that are prepared for the local, streets and roads, and the transit performed well, and the highway, congested corridors and kind of the back bone of the transit infrastructure and also performed well. And then, congestion and the projects out performed in general. With respect to the San Francisco, there is kind of good and bad news, up here is the 2013, area, and the list of high, performers that are highlighted in yellow and the hyper formers th, high, performs and we have one project added and that is for geary and the low performers that were identified, there is six of them, and the good news being that only two of them were locally set. And so that is the south east, transportation Improvement Project and the gene va, project and the rest of are the projects that touch the city but other people are priorities outside of the city. Just wanted to point out and i will go into this in a second. But these projects are on the list because they are low, performers in the benefit cost assessment. We also and again as i said, being a low performer is not the end of the world. It justifying where you can approach mta and make what they are calling a compelling case in order to have the project moved forward and be considereded for inclusion. Nd so in the case of these two projects they both served low income, communities and so that is kind of automatic. And move on to the next level. And the key to why these projects are performing lower, and that we believe that there are flaws in the mtc evaluation, and mostly due to the model and not picking out the important, benefits like relating the transit crowding and improving reliability and it does not capture any benefits for the bicyclists and pedestrians and we are giving a lot of investment and safety as part of our larger project. And all of that is dismissed and it under estimates the trips compared to other transit operators. Is that another flaw in the mtcs formula . Or. Yeah. Evaluation. It is actually identified as you go back to the sight here as a high, performer. Oh, gene v, so right now, we are planning what is going to be much more dense, population. And we are not necessarily by having a huge impact on the current rider ship but we know that it is going to be dramatic in the future, and the mtcs evaluation, and capture what is going to be done in the future . Rather thatn what the current positions are . They do look at the benefit that is based on projected in the area of 2013, for the area and so it is based on the last times and assumptions which i believe is probably likely to be lower than what were currently anticipated and the issue or one of the issues is that the model issues of a lot of the cost is related to safety improvements and the complete that go along. And so it is a little bit of extra cost that is not reflected in the benefit cost assessments. The other issue with that project is they have bundled it together and a road extension and that is necessary to complete a later phase, and so we are working with them to rephase the project to get the number up above one which is the requirement to pull it off of the low perform s list. It makes the sense and it is connected to part of i dont you are Development Areas that we would want that to be one that was score well and get support and funding. Right. And that is also a reason why they had a compelling care argue. Is that he they recognize the case and even if perhaps it is not the most Cost Effective project on the list. Yeah. So, really our feedback to mtc has been emphasizing what we think that their model is flawed and playing up the performance assessment on the target side, which we perform better. There is one that i wanted to flag. There is one of the target that has come up in conversation. As being some what problematic in hindsight the way that it was set last year and that is the displacement risk target and we have been in the conversation. And especially when i set the target and it is everyone acknowledges that the displacement is a problem and there are risks and you dont want to make investments and they are going to make that worse. However, the what i that it kind of ended up in the evaluation is that they look just at risk and not at what actions at local jurisdictions are taking to combat affordable. And so essentially, San Francisco got dinged across the board for all of our projects and even for Treasure Island that is doing the one for one, replacement and guaranteed right of return for displaced. And so we have been talking and i think that it is counter intuitive and in the communities that are experiencing displacement, when all of them are low, where the region is looking to build. And so we will be working with the commissioners moving forward to identify some other way of measuring displacement pressure and moving toward the solutions to adjust it at the regional level. And it goes into the second part of what i wanted to share with you, is what mta and they have been talking about with respect to the housing action. And because those get into the touching on the displacement problems that the region is facing and so not surprising we are in the housing crisis that the strategies is what we know already is the new housing protective the existing housing on the newer term, it is the most pressing things that is moving forward is the strategy and mtc has found an additional 70 million through the Grant Program that will be provided over the next five years and is putting together a recommendation for how to proceed with and spending that ininvolvement. One of the proposals is the Housing Program and the options that they have put forward as rewarding the jurisdictions that are creating housing. And provided additional funding, that are adapting the policies, and the displacement concerns and perhaps the direct investment either in the one program or some kind of a direct purchase trust funds and for existing low income and Median Income housing. They have come up with some really interesting ideas in the medium to the long term and beefing up the infrastructure and the two options that will require the legislation at the state level that will be a jobs fee across the region and perhaps, entire housing bond across the region. I will come back with more and next month will be talking if we hear what the proposal is for the 72 million in housing funds is, and with the revised list for San Francisco. And with that i am happy to answer any of the questions that you have. Colleagues questions, comment . Now. Thank you for your work on this. All right, so, do we have any members of the public that wifsh to speak on item eight . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed that was an information item. So we will call item 9, please. Introduction of new items. We have no introduction, any Public Comment on 9 . Public comment is closed and now general Public Comment, number 10. Yes. Good morning, commissioners we see, the inaudible people thank you, very much, any other members of the public wish to speak . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Are there any other items before us today. Item eleven, adjournment. All right, this meeting is adjourned thank you. What if you could make a memorial that is more about information and you are never fixed and it can go wherever it wants to go . Everyone who has donated to it could use it, host it, share it. For quite a great deal of team she was hired in 2005, she struggled with finding the correct and appropriate visual expression. It was a bench at one point. It was a darkened room at another point. But the theme always was a theme of how do we call peoples attention to the issue of speci species extinction. Many exhibits do make long detailed explanations about species decline and biology of birds and that is very useful for lots of purposes. But i think it is also important to try to pull at the strings inside people. Missing is not just about specific extinct or endangered species. It is about absence and a more fundamental level of not knowing what we are losing and we need to link species loss to habitat loss and really focuses much on the habitat. Of course the Overall Mission of the academy has to do with two really fundamental and important questions. One of which is the nature of life. How did we get here . The second is the challenge of sustainability. If we are here how are we going to find a way to stay . These questions resonated very strongly with maya. On average a species disappears every 20 minutes. This is the only media work that i have done. I might never do another one because im not a media artist per se but i have used the medium because it seemed to be the one that could allow me to convey the sounds and images here. Memorials to me are different from artworks. They are artistic, but memorials have a function. It is a beautiful scupltural objective made with bronze and lined with red wood from water tanks in clear lake. That is the scupltural form that gives expression to mayas project. If you think about a cone or a bull horn, they are used to get the attention of the crowd, often to communicate an Important Message. This project has a very Important Message and it is about our earth and what we are losing and what we are missing and what we dont even know is gone. So, what is missing is starting with an idea of loss, but in a funny way the shape of this cone is, whether you want to call it like the r. C. A. Victor dog, it is listen to the earth and what if we could create a portal that could look at the past, the present and the future . You can change what is then missing by changing the software, by changing what is projected and missing. So, missing isnt a static installation. It is an installation that is going to grow and change over time. And she has worked to bring all of this information together from laboratory after laboratory including, fortunately, our great fwroup of researche e g researchers at the california academy. This couldnt have been more Site Specific to this place and we think just visually in terms of its scupltural form it really holds its own against the architectural largest and grandeur of the building. It is an unusual compelling object. We think it will draw people out on the terrace, they will see the big cone and say what is that. Then as they approach the cone tell hear these very unusual sounds that were obtained from the cornell orinthology lab. We have the largest recording of birds, mammals, frogs and insects and a huge library of videos. So this is an absolutely perfect opportunity for us to team up with a world renown, very creative inspirational artist and put the sounds and sights of the animals that we study into a brandnew context, a context that really allows people to appreciate an esthetic way of the idea that we might live in the World Without these sounds or sites. In the scientific realm it is shifting baselines. We get used to less and less, diminished expectations of what it was. When i came along lobsters six feet long and oysters 12 inches within they days all the oyster beds in new york, manhattan, the harbor would clean the water. So, just getting people to wake up to what was just literally there 200 years ago, 150 years ago. You see the object and say what is that. You come out and hear these intriguing sounds, sounds like i have never heard in my life. And then you step closer and you almost have a very intimate experience. We could link to different institutions around the globe, maybe one per continent, maybe two or three in this country, then once they are all networked, they begin to communicate with one another and share information. In 2010 the website will launch, but it will be what you would call an informational website and then we are going to try to, by 2011, invite people to add a memory. So in a funny way the member rely grows and there is something organic about how this memorial begins to have legs so to speak. So we dont know quite where it will go but i promise to keep on it 10 years. My goal is to raise awareness and then either protect forests from being cut down or reforest in ways that promote biodiversity. Biodiverse city often argued to be important for the worlds human populations because all of the Medicinal Plants and uses that we can put to it and fiber that it gives us and food that it gives us. While these are vital and important and worth literally hundreds of billions of dollars, the part that we also have to be able to communicate is the more spiritual sense of how important it is that we get to live side by side with all of these forms that have three billion years of history behind them and how tragic it would be not commercially and not in a utilitarian way but an emotio l emotional, psychological, spiritual way if we watch them one by one disappear. This is sort of a merger between art and science and advocacy in a funny way getting people to wake unand realize what is going on wake up and realize what is going on. So it is a memborial trying to get us to interpret history and look to the past. They have always been about lacking at the past so we proceed forward and maybe dont commit the same mistakes. Good im [inaudible] public address anounssment for you 3 time World Championship [inaudible] [applause] the team must always be introduced. It is my honor to welcome you to this very special celebrationment we gather to celebrate the birthday of the greatest player to ever play the game of baseball. Right San Francisco treasure and Living Legend the hall of famer number 24, give it up to mr. Willie mays. [applause]. Before we begin i like to mometd to recognize our dignities. He is on his way, mayor willie brown. He heard that a few times. Chairman tom nolan. Mta board member malcon hine iky. [inaudible] ceo mr. Larry bear and his wife pam. Mr. Peter megalen is on his way. He here yet . He will be here, yes, sir, you know he wont miss this mr. Mays. Supervisor mark farrell. Also we are expecting fire chief joan hayeswhite. And director of the mta ed riscon. Let me tell you about our honored guest today. Born in west field alabama in 19thry 1 willie mays junior was introduced to baseball. His professional career began in 1947 still in high cool. Ofew short years later the new york ginets signed willie a Minor League Deal and made his major league debay in 1941. The next year the army drafted willie removing him from it game befr about a year and a half and returned to baseball in 1954 with a bang winning the mrp award and selected to the a l star team. In 1958 the giants franchise relocated to beautiful San Francisco where willie spends most of his career. Over 2 twentytwo seasons with the new york and San Francisco giants and the new york mets the beloved say akid with 660 home runs won 12 gold glove awards and two mpv awars and played in 24 all star games. 1979 in his first year of eligibility he was elected to the Baseball Hall of fame. Willie mays is one the greatest to ever play the beautiful game of baseball but equally impressive is his cairth. He is president of ceo of say afoundation. Provides ecass to education, health care and safe communities. He also workwise institute on aging here in San Francisco. Many bigitaries recognized willie for generous contribution tooz the society, most recently president obama awarded with medal of freedom. Willie mays name is synonymous withsuch giants baseball every game day 40,000 fans [inaudible] greeted by a larger than life statue oof mr. Mays flanked by 24 palm rr trees. The namesake speaks volumes about the franchise and todays event [inaudible] speaks volumes what willie means to the the itsy of San Francisco. Willie, we wish you a very happy birthday, right everybody . [applause] now at this time i like to bring up the mayor of city and county of San Francisco, the honorable ed lee. Mr. Mayor thank you. Welcome everybody to the cable car barn of San Francisco hosted by local 255 a of San Francisco thank you in the men and women are so lucky because they work in a great city and proud of their job and get to put this carbol car out every single day for peoples enjoyment. They will be proud to do that. Happy 85 birthday willie mays we are here to honor the greatest athlete in america and let me give you a snap shot. I know [inaudible] went through some of it but there is other data i love to have and it is when i think about giant, i love the data and stats. Rookie of the year. Remember those days, willie . Two time most valuable player. 24 time all star. World searings champion. 660 home runs hall of famer and of course when everybody gets on this cable car they will say, where is the catch . he was a legendary baseball player for sure but know willie mays is much more than that. His connection to San Francisco goes way beyaunds the baseball diamond. As a civil right leader he paved a way in the really many time said during the social upheaval happening in the United States when he was playing this game. Drafted by the u. S. Army he served our country honorably and has a roll model he always inspired kids to dream big and as a human itarian he made the world a better place. Everyone knows willie may saz great baseball player and i say he is the best every. He became a superstar around the world because of his good nature. His infectious personalty and good heart. That is one of the reasons why president obama awarded willie the president ial medal of freedom. The nations highest honor presented to individuals who made contribution tooz the National Interest of the United States. He is our National Treasure that we should haun frr generations to come. So, we are here today ladies and gentlemen joined by all our city family and the audience and giants and baseball lovers and transportation lovers coming together to join a National Treasure with a National Historic landmark 6789 today we dedicate cable car number 24 to the one and only 24. Before we unveil the delaware dedication we have a special message from someone who couldnt be here today in person but wanted to send his congratulations. Tee it up. Hello San Francisco. It is a even year which means good things happen in this town and today is one of them because we honor a favorite son and greatest living ball player. When the giant moved west willie mays said he would work [inaudible] once he got here he hit many 660 homers against the wins of candle stick park. He collected more than 3 thousand hits many times running [inaudible] when they say the San Francisco cable car was the first National Historic that moved they forgot to include willie. Willie running second or pop fly is baseball. A cable car rolling down the hillicize San Francisco, both of them can be fiercem sites for over whoo ever gotd in the way. [inaudible] will ask a dodgers on the diamond. Today with ilweas 24 cable car to american icons come together to create a new landmark. Willie, your city loves you because you are as complete a person as you were a player. A mentor, a community leader, a army veteran and ambassador for the game and something with that special ability to put a smile on a kids face. When willie would visit Sick Children in bay area hospitals he refused to hand out base balls he already signed. He wanted kids to watch him sign his name so they know the autograph was real. I got to spend 250i78 with willie on the white house and air force ones, two places i would never be if people like willie hadnt pushed towards a more inclusive america. His legacy is giant so congratulations my friend on this special honor. [applause]. Happy birthday, willie mays suprise yes, you do that. [laughter] alright, you are very welcome. Now for the ceremonial unveiling of the plake rr i need these special individuals to join us, mr. Bear and mr. Mayor if you would return. Did willie brown make it yet . Still waiting. We are not going to wait, we will keep it moving mr. Mays. Tom nolan come up, malcolm hine iky and ed riscon. Whenever you guys are ready. [applause]. There we go. Cable car number 24, willie mays cable car give you time to get your photos in. I think we should all sing, right . I think we should sing. Please join me singing happybirth to the greatest ever. Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear willie, happy birthday to you there you go. [applause]. Big round of applause to willie mays mr. Mays has a few comments for us. We got it. Thank you very much. First of all, i didnt sleep last night to tell you the truth. Those guys going to kill me at the ball park. 17 runs. I started to cut it off but said i got to watch this and watched and went to sleep maybe 1 oclock and woke up and couldnt hardly see because i was watching hits all the field. This is great honor for me. I have been involved with the city for such a long time, but before i get to that i like to thank larry [inaudible] for doing something for a friend of mine back in new jersey. I think it was a wonderful gesture he goes back, that he read a letter that renee and i happened to write. Did a very very good job. Just like to thank him because he didnt have student to do that but if he didnt i would probably get on him. I like to thank him for that and also like to thank pam for escorted him there to make sure he got there. Very much so. When you have a city like this, i didnt come out here until 1958. You didnt know anything about me at the time, because it was something strange, it is [inaudible] city and joe was my [inaudible] when i came out here. Nobody know that, but i did. The thing that i never seen a picture oaf and when joe hit his last home run in 1951 we played a game in new york and he had a grand slam. Im out there clapping for him. You dont do that when you play the opposition in new york, you just dont do that, but i was clapping and my think was, why didnt you want to get that pitch in. Im glad they did want because [inaudible] probably would have shot me right away. It was just a wonderful gesture on my part and forgot all about what was geing on but he was my guy. I also like to thank peter [inaudible] he was the guy that came to me and says, you will be in San Francisco the rest of your life and i said im doing fine and dont need anything. Yes, you do. He said you will need something later on in life and i didnt understand what he was talking about and he says, we will do something at the ball park and make sure you have a life time job, who ever may be here, you will be here to honor them. I thank peter for doing that for me because at that time i had a wonderful life and call her may because i couldnt call her mays, i said may and she understood. She was a very very nice lady. Anyway, when you come to a event like this and you have as i know the lawyers i have and he talks all the timemalcolmhe is truly a lawyer and he truly a friend. He says, we going to get a cable car for you. I said what do i need a cable car for, i have a car to ride down the hill, i have been on one from the Fairmont Hotel to the hilton and said it is okay. He said not this cable car. He said a cable car will be number 24 and it will say mays 24. I said to him, what happens to the [inaudible] they come and play here, they brought me here. He said no, the giants will come later, we are going to do something for them later but the cable car is yours. You will see it when you come to a event like this. It was kind of heart warming because i never had a car that moved as fast as i did when i played, so i had to take a back seat. Now, all these things are coming into play and what i like just a couple minutes ago, the president called, nobody told me the president was going to call, nobody told me anything but im surprised he didnt call my house to tell me he was going it doall this stuff. He is a friend. Avenue every time i went to the white house it was like home, what can we do for you. I said you cant do anything for me, im okay. I have a friend at the white house named rejy and i said rejy i need to take Something Back home for the kids that i can give like [inaudible] or something that comes from the white house. The president says, whatever he wants, gets it to him. In the mean time take 1600 from him so we can take care of everything. I understand all these kind of things. I wish i was as great a speaker aslarry, but im not. I was just a player and larry wasnt a player like i was. On a lot of avenues when you stop and think look at all the things you have to do during a course of the season and i only had to play 162 games. After 162 games he had to be there so it is just a wonderful feeling for me to understand so many people helped me and all the kids around the country and what it is all about is it is not just San Francisco or new york, i go to birmingham and arizona, i take care of kids because they are kids, they dont know where they are. They are just kids and kids to me make a difference in the world and think it is so important guys like myself are able to play 22 years base ball, go in the service and come back and [inaudible] they know you. There are a lot of guys that come up and say i was there when if 9 or 10. I dont know who these people are but they know me. What i like to do, i havent been in any trouble yet, trouble will come. You cannot go in this World Without having trouble and i said to myself, i just hope i dont get in trouble so the kids will not change their mind about things that i do, so im so pleased malcolm and the mayor got together and said, we going to give you this cable car so it goes up and down the street every day and the cable car will be in your honor. It is just a wonderful wonderful feeling so like the thank the giants and mayor and malcolm and all the people that will be involve in the cable car because to me the t is just a wonderful feeling so, i like to thank all of you ahead of time. Thank you very much, okay . [applause] mrs. Mays we thank you inmemories and all you do for the community and continued support and dedication to our youth is definitely commendable and thank you for that. I believe that wraps up our ceremonyism mr. Mays and dignitaries will take the inaugural ride. You ready . There we go. Thank you everybody, hope to see you [inaudible] where his Birthday Celebration with continue and it is metallica night so there you go. Well see you tonight okay. Good afternoon. It is 1 03 p. M. This is the regular meeting of the commission on Community Investment and infrastructure. The Successor Agency commission for the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency for tuesday may 17th, 201. Welcome members of the public. Please call the first items. The first item of business is item one, roll call. Commissioners please respond. Descriptioner pimentel is absent. Commissioner bustos is absent. Missioner singh. Here. Vice chair