Good morning, tuesday is june 25, 2013. My name is john avalos, the chair of the authority. We are joined with us by our clerk, erika and would like to thank sfgtv staff for broadcasting today jessie and charles. Could you call the role please commissioner avalos, present, shoe present; kim, absent; mar present; tang present; yee present. We have quorum. Thank you. Could you call our next items. Approval of may 21 minutes. Opening Public Comments on minutes. No one coming forward. Closing Public Comments. If you could call our next item please. Oh, sorry. Madam clerk, could we have role call . Campos, absent ; chew, i ; commissioner mar, i; tang, i. Item passes. Next item please. Chairs report is an information item. On may 30 we held a board workshop on the San Francisco Transportation Plan which provides needs for the citys transportation system. The plan is in its final stages of development. Coordination with local transportation agencies, regional transportation offices as well as
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 ground. Were Engaging Community based organizations in our outreach to communities of concern and increasing the involvement of neighborhood groups in the d
Keep the project on schedule that we worked on with sfmta and the federal transit administration. It is skwred jewelled for 2018. Our biggest project in the prop k Sales Tax Program a [inaudible] good news report is a project has been khal he thinked over the last half year or so in terms of Cost Increases in the first phase of the project, the transbay transit center. Were hoping to fill the funding gap through these two a bgs today and through nec million through recommendations to provide 6 Million Dollars to the project and additional 41 million from prop k funds. The board will be asked to adopt the baseline next month. Those savings are a result of savings from financing costs so theres additional capacity despite lower overall sales tax revenues. The other good news i want to give is the transbay highway facilities opened bids last week on the steel structure. When it went out to bid the first time it was one giant package. We had one bigger that came in significantly over the e
Francisco sfgtv meeting of the San Francisco Transportation Authority finance commission occurring february 12, 2013, will begin shortly. Good morning, everyone, we are going to get started. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the regular meeting of the Transportation Authority committee. To my left we have commissioner chiu, norman yee and chu. And i would like to thank you eric for being the clerk of the board and also like to thanks charles and jesse e for the sfgtv broadcasting of this meeting. Are there any announcements . Noe. No announcements. Item number two, approvele minutes of the january 15th, meeting this is an action item. Are there any changes to the minutes . Okay. There is a motion to approve. Is there a second . Without objection . Excuse me. Lets open it up for Public Comment on the minutes. All right, seeing no Public Comment on the meeting there is a motion to move and accept the minutes. Without objection. So moved. So. Madam clerk, number three. Recommend auth
Year and advocating for small starts including vanes and brt. New, federal transportation funding. The federal gasoline tax at 18. 4 cents has not been increased since 1993 and has lost a significant amount of its value over the last 20 years, the Highway Trust Fund can no longer support the programs that are authorized under the federal transportation bill. So, we will be working with folks at the federal and at the state level to come up with ideas for what we will up port the Highway Trust Fund in the upcoming years and offer to carry out the project priorities under the local Sales Tax Program including the sbit projects downtown extension and better market street. Federal transportation the reauthorization and what will the success or to map 21 look like . The current zone map 21 just basically continued at appropriate levels as seen underpass federal appropriation bills. If we are going to be supporting the expansion and state of good repair programs that their local Transit Agen