good morning. welcome to our go transportation authority plans & programs committee of february 10, 2015, my name is is katie tang i m the new chairperson looking forward to working with the sfmta staff and want to welcome julie christensen our new vice chair and supervisor yee as well as and hopefully by the other colleagues soon our clerk is steve we want to tank sfgovtv jessie larson and marcus book store. supervisor breed supervisor breed absent. commissioner christensen supervisor farrell absent supervisor tang supervisor yee we have quorum. thank you if we can please call item 2. citizens advisors report this is an information item. thank you i d like to call up our cac chair. i m the new chair of the cac so good to be here i want to give a brief update on item 6 forced the lifeline program and item 8 the reprogramming of the grant fund on our agenda all items passed with no one opposed and a little bit more specific on item 6 they wanted to mob that th
store. supervisor breed supervisor breed absent. commissioner christensen supervisor farrell absent supervisor tang supervisor yee we have quorum. thank you if we can please call item 2. citizens advisors report this is an information item. thank you i d like to call up our cac chair. i m the new chair of the cac so good to be here i want to give a brief update on item 6 forced the lifeline program and item 8 the reprogramming of the grant fund on our agenda all items passed with no one opposed and a little bit more specific on item 6 they wanted to mob that the lgbt prop fund were for the community of concern and jackie saks wanted to be sure that we ll precede and both concerns were addressed by staff and item 7 the cac involved the rectangular rapid flashing beacons and how the location were alcohol and sfmta staff was forthcoming on the other item there was only positive comments on the fund swap i wanted to mention an item not on our agenda it got a lot of de
entirety and the prior year approved amount slide 8 or 9 shows the contract amount from 2006 7 to 2016 you see in fiscal year 2003 and 4 to excuse me. fiscal year 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 amounts include the cola previously approved by the board but as you can see 0304 approximately $1.7 million and reduced down to $20 million we ve kept it stable for several years until last year when we approved the cola increase or the year before i think it was annual listed in the current year final slide shows the outstanding items i want to make sure that the new committee had an opportunity to review and consider the departments graft budget as we presented it to a different committee in addition to the general fund appropriation for lafco and the cola increase for the budget analyst that concludes my presentation. unless you have further questions that s correct madam clerk colleagues, i welcome questions or comments i ll say the cola for the budget analyst mr. rose and the team i m
to emerge. you may have a plan that this is what i want to create. here are the ideas i want to play with, but then you go into the room and there maybe some fertile ideas that are becoming manifest that are more interesting than the idea you had initially set out to plan. so there has to be this openness for spontaneity. also, a sense that regardless of the deadline, that you have tons of time so the you can keep your creativity alive and not cut it off and just go into old habits. it is a lot like listening. really listening to watch what is going to emerge. i like this thing where you put your foot on his back. let s keep it. were your mind is is how you build your life. if you put it in steel or in failure it works. that works. it is a commitment. for most artists, it is a vacation and a life that they have committed themselves to. there is this notion that artists continue to do their work because of some kind of the external financial support. if that was taken away, ar
to be sure that we ll precede and both concerns were addressed by staff and item 7 the cac involved the rectangular rapid flashing beacons and how the location were alcohol and sfmta staff was forthcoming on the other item there was only positive comments on the fund swap i wanted to mention an item not on our agenda it got a lot of debate and public comment it was in regard to the private shuttle program that sfmta is bringing up the concerns are in our packet but if there s anything you want me to explain or go into detail i ll be happen to do that. colleagues questions or comments for mr. stacey. thank you, very much. for your presentation we re screened by supervisor breed and is there anyone from the public who wishes to speak seeing none, public comment is closed now if we can move to our consent calendar. item three and four compromise those and if a member objects any items can be screwdriver separately. colleagues any public comments seeing none oh first publ