reserve and that will again, partially fund the construction phase and we plan to work with mta to continue to identify funding for the construction phase which is the phase to start in july of 2015. >> do you have the slide that outlines the recommendations. >> no, but the project solutions and if you do want to look in the packet, you can view the evaluation of the project, on attachment, let me see. and it is i think, i actually have it, and it is attachment four. and if you look and then our recommendations i believe, are encompassed within attachment five could you summarize what the recommendations are. >> so the recommendation is to fund about a million dollars 1.045 million to the mccallister street project. and that is within, the confines of woods and larkin in district six and then to fund, $365,000 and if we are precise, 364,000 to the webster street, and it is an sfmta project and the other is hastings and you may recall that we funded a earlier phase of the work, and the construction and design, but this would extend it, the project in additional block and cover additional costs foye with the first phase of the project. >> great, they seem like pretty, >> i just want to congratulate the sponsor on working in the neighborhood and many meetings to figure out how we could map out of the space and implementation and of our really important pedestrian safety plan and the little saigon project and we are excited that it is going to come to fruition, whether we are talking about the scale lighting and the sidewalk widening or the corner, and this intersection is definitely a hairy intersection for those of you who have been there and it is a major corridor for bart and for the law school, but of course for many of the folks that are coming from mid market and south of market into the tender loin and vice versa and it is just very confusing for the drivers too. you will see when the cars are there, that they are not sure where to turn or where to go straight and i think that more visible redesign will make that intersection much, much safer and i just did have one quick question and i was wondering what ocs was. >> overhead contact system, the system that can electrify the charlie buss that travel that route. >> congratulations, i would like to thank them, and so to be sure that they would fund the design cost so that we could spread out and leverage the double dollars even further and then, be able to fund additional projects that we see, that are before us today. >> and so i think that this is a really great example of a private public partnership. >> and i just wanted to acknowledge from uc hastings david who is the chief financial officer with us and peter mcdonald who has been a consultant for the hastings, street scape project and i would agree that the webster street project can move forward and i wanted to say that the webster street, the street scraping is so important for the fillmore district, where rosa park, and wheel is, and that whole area around safeway, and at geary and webster, stretching all the way to japan town. i am glad that the sf state project did not go forward so these other ones other could. >> let's open this up for public comment. >> is there anyone from the public that would like to speak? >> closed. >> breed. >> aye. >> campos. >> aye. >> kim. >> aye. >> commissioner mar. >> aye >> commissioner yee. >> aye. >> item passes. >> thank you. >>recommend allocation of $950,000 in prop k funds, with conditions, for two requests, subject to the attached fiscal year cash flow distribution schedules, and amendment of the bicycle circulation/safety 5-year prioritization program . and the transportation planner is going to present. >> good morning, commissioners this item is for two prop cases that will cost 459,000 in total and i want to give you the summaries and aattachments and the recommendations and for the first project. (inaudible) >> and the reason for the urgency was due to a complication that happened in the processes and detailed in the memo and the sfmta is using the purposes and to the agencies can join and by transit at a cheaper price. (inaudible) to rush and put on the order and the first type is schedule for june this year, and all of them are expected to being in the service by january 2016. and then for the second project, the sfmta has requested. 250,000 for the communication bridge campaign, filling the cap in the current safety campaign and this project was (inaudible) at the vision zero committee meeting and implemented in the 20 programs for the drivers of large vehicles for both private and city owned vehicles. as well as developing legislating for the state contractor and also develop the bike safety related public service announcements to augment the pedestrian safety education which was separated by the transportation enhancement grant programmed by the transportation authority and this focuses on the considerations that can be implemented in the next ten months and we will benefit both the bicyclist and to fund the goal and with that, the project managers and kept the manager out and to answer any questions that you may have. >> so, i see no questions. let's open this up for public comment, is there anyone from the public that would like to speak? >> miss hodge from the bicycle coalition? >> good morning, and i want to give our support for the safety program that is proposed we do express the concern that the comprehensive program meant to benefit all street users in general is being drawn from the bicycle category, and which is a very, very small component of prop k and we ask that the staff and the commission look forward for other ways to look at cross cut initiatives and making sure that they don't draw on the smaller portions which we are serving all members of the public for the safety of all users. >> thank you. >> and is there anyone else in the public that would like to speak? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner kim? >> thank you. and i do want to thank her for the five years of service at the sf bike coalition and i know that you are moving on and thank you for it across the city and i just want to say that i am happy to see that this aspect of vision zero move forward, and i know that there are longer pieces of conversations in terms of how to make sure that we are refilling funding for bike safety in the city and because this education campaign for our large vehicle drivers and our frequent city drivers, and i think that it is important that we do that today and we know that the four cyclists that were hit were done by the large vehicles and three of them that have the contracts with the city and so, moving forward with the education campaign is incredibly important to making this a safer city for all and especially as the economy is growing and the construction is booming and this is really a critical time for us to educate our large vehicle drivers and so, thank you, on sfdta for helping us to move this forward and great to see that they are going to be replacing these 35 vans, and that is something that we hear so much about from the most senior residents who depend on the service. >> thank you, commissioner kim. i also wanted to thank miss kim, and also cavana from the construction project manager for the projects and jonathan from the mta as well. and i would like to see para transit fleet as a potential future, and agenda item. and i think i share miss hodges comment that my hope is that as we look at limited funds for bicycle improvements that we move forward on street safety, but not have that cut into bicycle, the limited amount of money for bicycle programs and i was wondering if miss kim could just address what miss hodge just raised? >> sure. we do understand her concern, and that this program even though it does focus on (inaudible) and as well as the expenditure that was developed at the time and the bicycle advocacy was not as well developed as bicyclist and the come position is not visible to be done from the pedestrian safety categories and so, (inaudible) i just and this is a great segway to the next item. what they put together prop k in 2003, the focus was a capitol program and there were a few programs, and we do not have a generic category to fund this mult tie model and that is something that will reauthorize the sales tax and in that term the november, 2014 ballot measures offer a real good source dedicated to education and endivorcement and we are also working with the mta and the department of public health on alternative transportation program application that will help to provide a more comprehensive city wide education and out reach, campaign related to vision zero and you can probably answer any questions from the mta. >> thank you. >> are there any other questions colleagues? >> have we opened this up for public comment yet? >> so let's open this up for public comment. >> we did. okay. >> then, let's have a roll call,. >> number 6, commissioner breed in >> aye. >> campos. >> aye. >> kim. >> aye. >> mar >> aye. >> yee. >> aye. >> this item passes. >> thank you. >> please call item 7. >> 7, major capital projects update, and muni radio replacement project, this is an information item. >> good morning, commissioners my name is lous. and i am the project management oversight consultant and i am joined today here with mr. frank lou who is sfmta project manager for the radio project. the project will replace and modernize all of muni communication systems and some that are 40 years old and additional imp itus to the project is to vacate the 25 kilo hertz of the frequency. and it was too old to accommodate the frequency change and so replacement was the only option. and in addition to providing new communications the project will incorporate a myriad of systems and summarized of this that will enable muni to improve the operations across all modes of service and the system will also incorporate the additional base stations and included in the coverage throughout the city. here we have the project budget. at 73 million dollars in 2010, the current budget for the project is 116.4 million dollars in years of expenditure and this increase, is mostly due to receiving only one bid. and this is very specialized, and only a few companies in the country have the capabilities to perform it. and in addition, at the time that there were many across the country undertaking similar projects due to the mandated fcc deadline. and after protected the negotiations that took over a year, the mta board authorized an award to the harris corporation in the amount of $109.2 million which included 86.6 for base, and some for optional services and the optional services some of them were subsequently executed once they secured additional funding. expenditures equal 8.84 million. >> could i just ask you to just explain in every day terms how this will have a day-to-day impact on riders and how it will impact the servers and how it is going to help the system. >> just, well, it will help by facilitating and making more intelligently, and by having basically until the transportation systems and so, knowing what the vehicles are, and it will allow them to better do the forecast for arrivals and departures and also, be more in communication with the operators, and more systems for the vehicle and live as the vehicle is being driven and they will be able to diagnostic and to figure out what is going on with the vehicle if there are any problems or whatever. and also, for helping with incidents if there is an incident and to be able to manage them better and get the system back on track again. >> thank you. >> so, with the 6 to 1.8 million dollar contribution, it is the largest funding source for the project and allocations made in 2007 and 2009, and however of the 18.4 million dollars expended today, only a (inaudible) and there are reasons for this. and the first one, of course is that the three year delay that happened. and the separate one which is an interesting one is the type of contract, and instead of looking at payments and just the most common way of contracting for construction, and muni was able to negotiate and a milestone based contract and where the contractor is paid on the quauters with the schedule and only when that milestone is reached, then the payment is made. there is no monthly payments and therefore, muni, is able to allow payments later, and in the process. and finally, afmta has been using other grants with earlier expiration dates and the authority policy that the other funds be used first whenever possible. up here we have the major milestones for the project. and in the accordance with the design, the final day is october of 2015, as we mentioned earlier that is three years later anticipated. and now the 2012 completing date in 2009, was arbitrary mandated by the fcc which wanted to work with the frequency. and this deadline was later reskinneded when the fcc realize that had most properties will not be able to meet it and as a matter of fact, the change is no longer required. harris corporation is to be the contractor and they received the proceeding in june of 2012. and harris is one of the most important communications consultant in the country, and it is the main communication contractors for the u.s. armed forces where they have provided 70 percent of all communications for all branches of service. and the project is not reaching the greater milestone and the package has been completed and it is under review and they expect the completing in june. and final design. and in that application of the department is also under way and in january the construction in the tunnel of the total also commenced. the enterprise goal of 15 percent, and to date, there have been no payments because their scope is concentrated in the construction phase and so they have not gotten to the part where the sbs are going to be participating the challenges of the project and the main challenge is that the project is behind because of what i explained earlier and this means that the portions of the control cannot be fully operational until the project is completed. and sfmta and harris, they both have last year, assigned more senior project managers. and as recognition of this project and over the next year or two, we will be monitoring very closely this project, and provide our assistance and support whenever possible. >> and that concludes my presentation. and i have to answer your questions and like i said, mr. frank lou is here also. thank you. >> any questions from the colleagues? >> so i see none, let's open this up for public comment. >> is there anyone that would like to speak? >> public comment is closed. >> colleagues, if there are no questions, less have a roll call. >> this is an information it el. >> so it is an information item. >> okay. >> so, thank you, mr. surnaga. >> let's call the next item? >> 8, san francisco municipal transportation agency capitol improvement update and this is an information item. >> and we have miss lumbarda >> and the introduction to have it for the city here, and as you probably know is we are going to present on only the second capitol improvement program done by the mta and it is a very important planning document, for the mta in a timing for us is absolutely excellent and what you will see in jonathan's presentation is within the program which covers fiscal year, 2015, through 2019 and mta makes assumptions about local funding sources that it controls, and other discretionary sources in terms of what it can put funds and deliver in the next five years and it is capitol program and it is distinct from the operating budget and this seats very nicely into our prop k priority that will cover the same period and come back to you for approval and because the authority board is our responsibility and to approve the plan and to approve the criteria and actually assign the funding to the specific projects in each of the 22 categories and so as jonathan describes as the massive process and just keep in mind that what the mta does is make the assumptions about the revenues and that the other funding entities will actually program the funds to the pro-yekt and set this up nicely and welcome jonathan and give you a quick presentation. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> and i want to thank you chair mar for giving us the opportunity to present this to plans and programs. >> i am with the transportation agency, and as maria noted we are going to be covering a quick presentation on our five year capital improvement program. just really quick i will just go some highlights on the mta to kind of understand where we are coming from, just an overview of the capitol infrastructure and this is a slide that we actually show all of the public groups and we present this to and give the good perspective and overview of the five year cip and what is exactly being proposed over the next five years. and so just really quickly, a lot of our bases in the decisions that we make are based on our sfmta plan that goes to the fiscal year, 2008 and our vision is the san francisco great city and excellent transportation choices and of course our number one goal is to focus on the greater transportation system for everybody and trying to make the non auto modes and focusing on the environment and having the outstanding service for our customers. and just we would like to tell people that about the things that the mta does, for the people here, in the city and county of san francisco and for those that like to visit, and one thing that we do operate over 1,000 transit vehicles that travel 24.4 million miles a year on the road. and the earth is only 24,000 miles around and so that really gives you perspective of how many miles our vehicles are running and of course you see other things like our 281,000 street signs, 208 miles of bike paths and 40 off street garages and a lot of infrastructure that we provide to everyone. >> just our capitol infrastructure, we have the bus and trolly coaches that we are sfonsible for maintaining and 217 miles of your overhead trolly wire throughout san francisco. and 27,000 parking meters that we have, that are responsible for replacing and 40 cable cars and if you didn't know, we actually build those ourselves on a five year cycle, we have the shop that does that. and all of the tracks, the subway stations, and then, 3,000 bicycle racks and we will be adding a lot more in the years to xom, just give you a sense of the infrastructure. >> what is the five year program? well, this is, as maria noted the seconds five year capitol program and to get across to all of you why we have it, in the world of transportation, we have very large projects that all of you deal with every day and sometimes when we talk about the planning and the funding of those projects those can take a long period of time ten to 20 years and we figured out the projects such as the m line and the projects that we are talking about on the 19th avenue and the projects of that scale and but we also have the shorter term that the mta is responsible for and something as small as a $15,000 bike rack project and so we have the extreme scales from the very small to the very large and the prior to 2012, we have done was a ten year capitol investment plan and that included everything that we planned on doing, meaning intentioned on doing and what the needs were and plus the funding that we thought would be available and what constantly showed people is that we had massive gaps that we could not close and so what we found was the members of the community had very little sense of what the mta would actually deliver and like with the funds that you have, what can i actually see be delivered on the streets of san francisco? >> and so what we did was, we split up that ten year investment plan into our 20 year, unconstrained capitol plan which has the needs over 20 years, and the five year capitol improvement wham that is restricted to the revenues. and so with that, the five year cip is a financially constrained, program of projects and so what we do and what we started last august is that we look at every funding source that we intend to getting within the five year period and we are honestly very conservative about those sources and so we typically think that we will get more than we project and we project a very conservative level because we don't want to assure someone that we are going to move forward with the project and not have the dollars in place, it is a tool and so we do fund the projects by phase so that the people can get a sense of when the things will start and end and it is implements a lot of the plans that you hear us talk about and the pedestrian strategies and the bike strategy and the fleet plan and other plans and strategies that we have at the mta and we also >> the city of san francisco sfgtv meeting of the san francisco entertainment commission occurring april 15, 2014, will begin shortly. >>

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