Plan development articulate how this is going to be able to reach the promised goal by 2020 thank you. Thank you very much. Any other member of the public would like to comment . Okay. Well close Public Comment. And colleagues commissioner wiener. Id like to respond to ms. Hodges comment. Absolutely. We very clearly support the bicycle strategy implementation. Implementation of that plan requires a lot of funding as well as increased project delivery strategies partnerships with the mta and communities really allowing those projects to go in efficiently we can accelerate it with a concerted effort by the community by staff and new ways of doing business to implement these projects to design them faster and get in them in the ground faster and i believe theres no reason why we couldnt keep the pace of that investment but at the moment were deliverying five Million Dollars per year and the new investment levels represents a large multiple of that about 38 Million Dollars per year if we w
Campos absent. Chiu absent. Mr. Farrell farrell present. Commissioner kim. Tang present. Commissioner wiener. Wiener present. We have quorum. . M. Any comments or questions on the minutes . Okay we can do comment on item number 2 seeing none well close Public Comment and the motion to approve the minutes a roll call vote. Commissioner avenue avenue. Aye. Commissioner breed . Chiu absent. Commissioner cohen. Kim aye. Wiener aye. Commissioner ye the item passes. Chair report this is an information item. Good morning colleagues it has been another busy and productive year at the Transportation Authority. In particular i wish to thank vice chair scott wiener for your partnership and leadership on transportation issues and eric mar for plans and programs and on behalf of my colleagues i wish to thank all of our aids to help with the large work we have here and the transportation staff. During the Selection Process i would like to thank you maria for your great work keeping the Organization
Cleaning the water were. We offer free service to san. Good morning today is december 17th 2013 welcome to the San Francisco Transportation Authority my name is john avalos the chair of the authority and todays Authority Meeting is broadcast to us by jessie lar larson thank you for your work. Madam clerk will you please call the roll. Campos absent. Chiu absent. Mr. Farrell farrell present. Commissioner kim. Tang present. Commissioner wiener. Wiener present. We have quorum. . M. Any comments or questions on the minutes . Okay we can do comment on item number 2 seeing none well close Public Comment and the motion to approve the minutes a roll call vote. Commissioner avenue avenue. Aye. Commissioner breed . Chiu absent. Commissioner cohen. Kim aye. Wiener aye. Commissioner ye the item passes. Chair report this is an information item. Good morning colleagues it has been another busy and productive year at the Transportation Authority. In particular i wish to thank vice chair scott wiener
Sets our Investment Priorities for policy discussion for years to come i want to thank staff and our sftpc and the public in this complex and important work. I also want to recognize great staff work on innovative tools such as my street sf. Com easy tools to find out where transportation projects are happening and weigh in on priorities. To congestion management and neighborhood access together were tackling important issues. The agency also kept the funds flowing this year helping with our economic recovery and addressing pressing needs in every neighborhood across the city. This year the Transportation Authority passed the one billion mark for our Sales Tax Program allocating funds for projects to improve the safety and accessibility of our Transportation System citywide. Weve moved a strong group of projects forward. The brt program moved ahead and the major Capital Projects of the prop k plan are all under construction. To the. Our impact extends beyond the investments on the grou
Believe have been met and i was going to ask if staff could brief us on what our options are. Commissioner mar thank you for the pointing this out we have actually just received the Maintenance Plan for mta staff we had worked out with them to receive it and its reflected in the resolution before you that we would receive it by friday. We can forward it electronically to the board right now. We understand from mta staff that they would like to move forward with the allocation today and they are here to answer questions that you may have about the potential impact of moving this forward today versus moving it forward in january. And chair avalos i would like to recommend that we move this forward today. Given that the mta has met the condition to get the Maintenance Plan but my hope is that staff can look at the plan and i think that would be good to forward to all of us electronically as well. Okay. Thank you commissioner mar. With no other Public Comment on this item, number 8. And se