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 c
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 identifie
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
Good morning and welcome to month late meeting of San Francisco conte Transportation Authority. 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 f
Use rankchoice voting and rank both finalists, which if you are trying to make a choice on who the winner should be . It doesnt really make sense to be running them off against each other and indicates uncertainty about the situation. Having a primary for the mayor also would make candidates forums much easier. When you have just wave and waves of a dozen of candidates, its hard to have a forum and its difficult to support Public Financing because you have a smaller field. You could have two or a handful of candidates. Rankchoice works good with a handful, but up to a dozen, it really starts to fail. Thank you. Any other speakers left to speaker for Public Comment . Madam president. Thank you, seeing no other speakers for Public Comment, Public Comment is now closed. [ gavel ]. Madam clerk, lets go back to the item that we skipped over. Item no. 9. Lets go back to item 9. Supervisor avalos, are we ready for that . Absolutely. All right, lets go. Thank you, madam president. And i want t