Im scott wiener, the chair of the authority and mr. Clerk can you call the roll. Commissioner avalos, present. Commissioner breed, absent. Commissioner campos, present. Commissioner cohen, present. Commissioner farrell, absent. Commissioner kim, present. Commissioner mar, absent. Commissioner peskin, present. Commissioner tang, absent. Commissioner wiener, present. Commissioner yee, present. Commissioner breed, present. We have quorum. Thank you very much. Item number 2. Item 2, chairs report. This is a information item. Thank you. I was pleased earlier this month to join with mayor lee and Transportation Authority to welcome anthony fox to San Francisco. San francisco is among 7 sit ease for challenge grant offered by the department of transportation and volcon transportation and delegation including secretary bock was in town to demonstrate new ways to manage transportation mpt secretary fox is a former mayor taking initiative particularly regarding funding given the political realty and gridlock in washington and state capitals across the nation. Commissioner avalos and i are grateful for your support calling for the development of a transportation sales tax expenditure plan and funning measure for the novembers ballot. The need for a second half cent sales tax was discussed in the 2013 county wide trands portation plan and mayor lees 20 30 Transportation Plan. The plan by the mayors working group called for 3 part strat agcomprised of the transportation bonds, a sales tax and vehicle license fee. The first leg of the strat agis noted, transportation bond passed already and focus on state of good repair and safer streets. This is only a downpayment of a dramatically larger fundsing need and need to follow up with the second leg, a transportation sales tax. By extended from 15 to 25 years we can address several additional priorities such as vision zero, munis equity strategy, muni vehicle and Facilities Needs and regional investment included cal train electrification, bart vehicle needs as well as 101 corridor managed lanes for buses and carpool. On the topic of regional investment Contra Costa County decide today move ahead with revenue measure and santa clara is on track to make that decision in june. Alameda passed its half cent sales tax in 2014 so it is critically important for us to maintain our ability to contribute fair share of frunds the joint regional priorities mptd we need to maintain the ability to provide local matching fubds for state, regional and federal funding opportunities. Look forward to the discussion of the next steps, these involve coordination with all of you, the Mayors Office and moving forward with an appropriate structured funding measure for this november. Thank you and that concludes my remarks. Is there Public Comment on item 2 . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. Item 3, executive drether report. Thank you chair wiener and to the board to echo chair wieners appreciation for the funding resolution that you passed last week. My report begins with a update on the state transportation funding situation. There isnt a lot of progress or movement to report but the governor and leadership and legislature are working on potential packages. We are hearing the larger proposals are unlikely to move forward due to the 2 3 super majority approval fwhut governor indicated he would like any allocation of cap and trade to transportation to be part of the larger funding package rather than on a ad hoc base squs this limits the things we are trying to do this year but continue to press forward. Last week the deputy for policy and programming joined the chamber of Commerce City state trip to sacramento which included a number of meetings with cal tran, california transporpation and highspeed rail. That set a clear goal by bringing highspeed rail to San Francisco by 2025 and allow us to access the cap and trade fund that remain set aside and not part of the governors budget. We need that for Affordable Housing and transit and active transporpation. The highspeed Rail Authority helds a scoping meeting in San Francisco so thank you to them for that and folks wanted more information can go to the website [inaudible] they are taking comments on their Environmental Review process and documents. In addition i want to acknowledge that the Bay Area Metro Center rageinal agency has muchb movered to the sit a and holding their first meeting tomorrow so thauchck and congrtulations to them. Welcome to the 3 agencies. On the update on the transportation study, i want to mention we have a survey on the website, sfcta. Org child transportation study. This is a effort to better understand the School Transportation needs for k5 in public, private and parochial schools. This was initiated at the request of commissioner tang. Our neighbor transportation Improvement Study continue to work in district 9 and seek input on ways to improve pedestrian and bike safety at the junction of us 101 and 280 freeways and almany bul vard and are doing outreach in multiple languages and visit our website sfcta. Org [inaudible] outreach in june and will present a update on that work to the Sister Agency next month. Want to thank sfmta for completing several projects. The randolph [inaudible] and Pedestrian Safety project was completed uses funds by the Transportation Authority in this case life Line Transportation thunds and mission bay loop is underway. Funds to finish that project very soon. In addition the masonic streetscape improvement open held will be held may 25. It will be on the 25th from 5 30 to 7 30 at the San Francisco day school. This is to provide more information and updates on the safety and streetscape features for masonic avenue. Glen park saw transit access improvements finally after several years but it was a Large Program at diamond and [inaudible] so hope pedestrian calming and transit acscess and striping and repaving left pockets and shelters so a lot of work using prop k and federal funds that is available and there to help the Glen Park Community Plan recommendation in that area. I know chair wiener is pleased to see that go in. The walk First Program saw Continental Cross walks. Sfmta used the prop k sales tax funds to small cross walks on 109 locations. These are locations that constitute 70 percent the severe and fatal traffic collisions in the city. Finally, a word of thank you. You honored peter albert at a boardf pr visors meeting and want to share another certificate of commendation we will present to him as his Retirement Party from the transportation thort in recognition of over 20 years of service to San Francisco and to our region. Peter worked at sfmta delivering important praumgects and helping support the park merced and water transportation work and americas cup races, he worked at Transportation Authority and Bay Area Rapid transit bart aerjs so we are pleased to honor him and thank you him for his service and look forward seeing what is next for peter. He is a big asset to our city and region so thank you very much. Thank you. Colleagues, any questions or comments . Seeing none rsh any Public Comment on item number 3 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. This is information item. I nugleted to thank leo [inaudible] of sfgtv. Item 4 approver the minutes of april 26, 2016 meeting. Any changes, questions, comments regarding the minutes . Seeing none, is there any Public Comment on item 4 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed and i think this is our first vote so if you can call the roll. Commissioner avalos, aye. Commissioner breed, aye. Campos, aye. Cohen, aye. Commissioner farrell, aye. Commissioner kim, aye. Commissioner mar, absent. Commissioner peskin, aye. Commissioner tang, absent. Commissioner wiener, aye. Commissioner yee, aye. The minutes are approved. Okay. Item 5. Item 5, adopt positions on state legislation. This is action item. Any questions or comments on item 5 . Seeing none, any Public Comment . Seeing none u Public Comment is closed. Can we take item 5 same house same call . Without objection that will be theordser. Item 6, appoint asher butnik and alexandser post to geary corridor bus Rapid Transit citizen Advisory Committee. Any questions or comments . Any Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Same house same call . Without objection that will be theordser. Item 7, allocate 9,599,451 in prop k funds with conditions for 3 requests, subjeblth to attached fiscal year cash flow disbution schedule. Any questions or comments on item seven . Seeing none, any Public Comment . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. Can we take item 7 same house same call sphwithout objection that will be the order. Item 8, development of a transportation sales tax expenditure plan. This is information item. Okay, we have a presentation from the Transportation Authority staff on item number 8. Thauchck chair wiener. We have been working with sfmta and the Mayors Office to try and develop a draft process to support the potential for revenue measure this fall. Maria [inaudible] will provide a update for the half cent sales tax measure and look at the potential process for Public Engagement. Need a little Technical Assistance can rescue me. I know there is a lot of conversations about this. Moving fast and furious. Some are probably aheads of me. Feel free to chick in and give a special shout out to [inaudible] great partner working on this. For the powerpoint which is handed out to you, the main focus today given the recently approved board of supervisors resolution that the chair mentioned get input on the draft presenceples for development of the expenditure plan and also Public Engagement strategy. The good thing when you look at the schedule it has a small heart attack when you see how small it is we are not starting from scratch. We have had conversations from 2013, 14 and which wh chair wiener was reelected this year as head of Transportation Authority we talked about the need to move forward with the recommendation from the 20 30 task force which is a suite of revenue measure tooz address unfunned need in all areas of the transportation system. This thereis a lot of great work done there and in the prior Transportation Plan and the goals up on the screen still stands true today. We just moving forward addressing them bet squr helping at the local level and have this more competitive for state and federal funds when they materialize. We are building a Strong Foundation there are changes. The other principles deal with what i call tweaking at the margin to responds since [inaudible] the first is we want to embrace city and Agency Initiatives that are passed since then that are focused supporting equity, affordability and traffic safety. The vision zero policy is really key. The third principle is simp low going through and updating things that changed with projects. We had cost increase, which is always isnt the best story but many projects that secured funds we didnt anticipate bh wh [inaudible] was approved so we want to update and get a sense of our needs. We had more clarly on the key regional asks which are priorities ranging from cal train electrification project to bart request for contributions from alameda San Francisco and Contra Costa County to relieve crowding on the bart system we have seen trends in the past, San Francisco is expected to get unbelievable amounts of growth and we are already feeling that pain. I know chair wiener squz others mentioned the pace of growth exceeded anything we accepted so that accelerates the needs to deal with capacity issues. One fall out from that principle, in order to be able to deal with all the state of good repair and safety enhancement we need to also deal with the capacity issues so one recommendation is t 20 30 had a 15 year horizon and suggest a 25 year horizon which aligns with plan bay area year 2030. This is big picture principles for putting together a expenditure plan. I want to put up a letal more in the weeds but very important principles that have to do with fundsing and it gets to the fact that we cannot develop an expenditure plan for revenue measure in a vacuum. We need to be cogsent. There is quit a bit of possible for new revenue measures that local level. As we put together a expenditure plan for half cent sales tax we have a couple measures we need to keep in mind. In year 20 of the prop k plan we can adopt a new expenditure plan extending prop k between 2033 and 34. It is a easier list than increasing sales tax. We have the vehicle license fee San Francisco is authorized to go after a geo plan. The region is talking pretty seriously about a probably bridge toe increase. We are trying to be strategic what will go in the half cents sales tax measure, what may fit and prepare. One thing we wanted to talk about with importance of replacing vehicles. Veckerize hard to fund with local funding. That is the little bit in the weeds details but something important to consider as we put together a expendsture plan. Easy math for planning purposes. We see about 100 million a year from half cent sales tax. Currently the San Francisco sales tax rate is 8. 75 percent and if approved it bumps up to 9. 25. On the screen it is little small but at your desk and well put this on website we put together a table that shows sales tax rates in the surouning jurisdiction squz counties and also flagged a number that are considering half cents sales tax or quarter cent sales tax for transportation and other measures on the june and November Ballot. I just note if the San Francisco measure passed there are jurisdictions that are higher. The highest is elsureado, [inaudible] and san leand row. Every dollar we spends we want to stretch farther so positioning that to leverage state and federal funds is key. For a good point is prop k sales tax tiply every dollar we invest [inaudible] 4 to 6 times for each dollar spend. We receive 100 million a year and expect to leverage 10 to 15 billion. This pulls out the comparatives from other counties. The middle column is current maximum county rate. Some cities within there have different sales tax rates so it may not match you sheet. If the measures under consideration approved, conta costa, San Francisco are looking at a half sent sales tax and [inaudible] Public Engagement approach this is where we appreciate your input on this. The basic message for this outreach recognizing that we are not starting from scratch and have a very constrained timeline. They have [inaudible] they would be these up on the slide that we recognizing educating the public and those interested we have significant funding needs to meet the goal squz need to continue on the path of implementing the t 2030 recommendations. Secondly, recognizing that the prop a bond approved in 2014 did a lot of wonderful things and focused on state of good repair and there were other things we were not able to fund because of [inaudible] two good examples is there wasnt a lot of street resurfacing money and thinks like vision zero because we didnt have the policy at the time so want to address those in the new measure and want people input. There are many opportunities for input. One huge save of that input is in development of the expenditure plan, but in scubs quent meetings because these are long plans there are opportunities throughout the process. In am prop k Program Every 5 years we go through oo public process work wg agencies and parties and members of the public to figure what projects we should funds over the next 5 year period which is about as long as anyone can figure what to do. In terms of Public Engagement, super tight timeline so we want to leverage as much as we can existing venues and forums for gathering input. There is a tremendous mount of conversations happening. Spl are very recent and over a long duration. A good example is supervisor avalos worked with Transportation Coalition and helped developed the muni equity framework and help inform a potential new measure. We need to Leverage Opportunities and be very innovative about what we can do in a short amount of time. You should have your desk a more detailed schedule for key dates. I wonets bore with every detail, but the main two book ends to get to the November Ballot is under to state Public Utilities code to administer a sales tax we need the board of supervisors to place a sales tax on the bal lt. In terms of this body we want to get to end of june probably early july where the Authority Board aprubs a expenditure plan and ask the board of superveez vises to place the sales tax ordinance on the ballot. The timeline is driven fwhie board of supervisors rules and regulations for getting a sales tax ordinance on the ballot. The plan is introduce the first state on the slide the initial draft expendsture plan so we have a place holder to start the clock ticking bought it has to sit at the board for 30 days. The last chance to introduce amendmenticize the first hearing the budget and finance Committee Meeting on july 13 so we have a very compressed winnow to finalize the details and ill leave that there. Those watching this is dedicated half cent sales tax that requires 2 3 vote from the board of supervisors and 2 3 vote from the voters. This is separate and independent above prop k. Up here we cant do all of this in the next 6, 7 weeks, but the menu of strategies we would engage between now and november if this is placed on the ballot to seek input on the expenditure plan and going forward. I can talk about what we think we can do in the next 6 weeks but let me highlight one or 2 things i think are particularly important. One is [inaudible] hear of your needs. Jumping into existing meetings that are already scheduled or special meetings we can put on the calendars for the mta board as well as the ta board. Tomorrow night at 6 p. M. The Authority CitizensAdvisory Committee we will seek input on the new revenue measure. The last two is innovate v one. We have ideaed such as telephone town halls. They may be the most effective way to reach a lot of people in the short timeframe. At the plans and Programs Committee [inaudible] several of our colleagues in other counties seeking sales tax mesers have done this approach which involves getting phone calls and remindsers there would be electronic town hall where you dial in at dinner time and participate. It sounds boring and like who would do this, but the results have been amazing. People have gotten orders of magnitude increase for people participating for relatively low cost and people participating who normally dont. I got a call on one of these and was able to do it during dinner and while doing homework. Last but not least in the short term and longer outreach we would engage in various strategy tooz reach out to communities of concern with multilingual and other and welcome input on how to do that. I guess that, if you want to add anything, otherwise that is all we have for today. I think that is it. Well take questions. Colleagues any questions for staff or comments on item 8 . Seeing none rsh move to Public Comment. Any Public Comment on item 8 . Please come forward, i see a few people. Good morning Peter Strauss boferd San Francisco transit rider jz part of the transportation Justice Coalition. We are herethis is a information item but here to strongly support this process of developing the transporitation expendsture plan. It is a continuation of the unmet needs identified or some identified as part of the 2030 process. We worked with sfr visor avalos and wiener and particularly with your Transportation Authority staff and thankful to tilly and maria for the time they have given us. This isnt the time to dwell on the nuts and bolts but would like to mention a few things. We very much support the Transportation Authority being the allocation agency for the expenditure plan. I understand this isnt something that is completely decided yet but it is embedded in what is at the board of supervisor jz feel this is pornt because of the continuity and expertise. We are in strong support of a element of the sales tax to support unmet Service Needs and in particular things identified as part of the transit exwuty strategy. Like the evening and night Service Needs. Things like providing additional metro capacity and service. All are many needsthality are not met and we do not center the ability to meet under our present structures. We support the vision zero processes inclusion and developing complete streets. We are also in support of looking at partial funding for affordability programs such as free muni for youth and seniors particularly because of the regressive nature the sales tax. Thank you and well continue to work with the staff and developing the transportation expenditure mpt thank you for your time. Thank you, next speaker. Hello commissioners. Jans lee and serve as a advocacy director [inaudible] our city is getting more and more expense v by the day and that lack of safe and affordable transportation aupsh option places a growing burden on low income working communities. It is important first step that you be board of supervisors have taken to develop a transportation expendsture plan that address the known Capital Needs and new initiatives since the 2030 planning efforts. We also know that of the original t 2030 task force we need to continue pursuing every revenue option beyond the go bond in [inaudible] plan to insure that the expenditure plan is properly vetted by the public and there are real ways to insure engagement and you chiming in how to make that work. We also look forward working with staff to get the word out and grothe number of people beyaunds the transportation Justice Coalition because we know transportation effects everyone, every san franciscan regardless of age, where you live or what modes you do and dont use to get around. The San FranciscoBike Coalition recognize there is a different cost not reflected here in the numbers which are the lives of someone injured or killed on the street. We want to make sure the final expenditure plan does everything it can to build out safe complete streets for the city and most vulnerable user which are those biking and walking. Thank you for your attention brought to the plan today and look forward working with you to meet the cities needs. Thank you, next speaker. Good morning commissioners. My name is jackie sax and im a member of the Citizens Advisory Committee for Transportation Authority. I worked on two transitsales tax packages already. The property sales tax passed in 1989 and prop k sales tax. Before you consider this sales tax package you got to remember in the few years we will have to goif you want to put this on the ballot in november for another sales tax package you have to remember in the few years even though prop k is 35 year package, in a few years we will have to go before the voters to have them extend prop k like we did with prop b when that was half way through the process. Also, regarding prop k, one of the projects in prop k you are all looking forward to the geary bus Rapid Transit, but there is nothis project is supposed to be rail ready and the 5 year ppp that i worked on for many years at intervals, the last one there was no money for a geary lightrail Transit System and the geary lightrail Transit System is the only project from prop b that was grandfathered into pop k that isnt getting funding and you should look into that before you look into anymore sales tax packages. Thank you. Thank you. Any Public Comment on item 8 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. This is information item. Item 9. Iletm 9, introduction to new items any introductions today . Seeing none, any Public Comment on item number 9 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Also a information item. Item 10. General Public Comment any general Public Comment . [inaudible] National Integrity and foreign relations. [inaudible] successful relationships for [inaudible] this is a principle of politics that governs the nation of [inaudible] leading a common effort of [inaudible] and success. National leaders bear the responsibility of maintaining a state of developmental progress [inaudible] National Leaders should drop [inaudible] and disagreement for being in unity to lead political platform to nourish [inaudible] a better understanding of true principles. [inaudible] can show bright wisdom for [inaudible] what you have a complete [inaudible] to the plan of policies in details for a set of [inaudible] thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Last february the Citizens Advisory Committee had information item regarding the other 9 to 5. We were given a multipage outline of what was going to be done for the people that were after 5 oclock at night or those people that worked at hotels and restaurants downtown. I have been involved in the working group since october of last year and i think that i told them at our last meeting that they should bring their final reportbring the progress to the Citizens Advisory Committee tomorrow this month so we know what is going on and i feel that before anything gets done, before they [inaudible] does anything they should come to the Citizens Advisory Committee first to see what we have to say especially the new members in district 3 and see how he feels about the 9 to 5 before you take action watt what so ever. As far as the geary bus Rapid Transit system is concerned the money in prop k was priority 3 project and [inaudible] think about that before you try tothe fact they dont have money in the 5 year plan for geary lightrail, think about that before you do anything. Thank you. Any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Item 11. Item 11, adjournment. We are adjourned. Thank you colleagues. [meeting adjourned] how are you good evening, and welcome to the San Francisco board of appeals. Wednesday, may 18, 2016, the presiding officer is commissioner honda and we are joined by and joined by Vice President commissioner fung and commissioner ann lazardus. Commissioner swig commissioner bobby wilson that be absent to my left is thomas owen for legal advice at the controls is gary the boards legal assistants boards legal assistants executive director. Were joined by representatives from the city departments that have cases before this board. At the table in front is senior building inspector joe duffy dbi providing the advice for the department of building inspection and joined when i scot