Transcripts For SFGTV MTA Board Of Directors 71916 20160727

For Market Street to Mission Street everything within a boundary but 75 of all the Housing Units would be in that area. Just interesting note is that fully 50 of our housing pipeline is a small handle very large masterplanned project. By treasure and. [inaudible] unique challenges in terms of infrastructure building up these places are really almost blank slates in terms of transportation parks and everything that comes with that. On the jobsite, we are the bay area has been growing more robustly than the state or nation is over number of years. It has reached sort of milestones in terms of total jobs in the region that have not been reached before. Just like on the house inside San Francisco has really picked up its growth share of the region. On average, weve gone over this long period about 6500 jobs a yet but if you look at the recent decades and if you look at the recent 56 years is double that again. The pace thats really unprecedented. In terms of the regional productions, similar story. The plane banner area adopted in 2013 thought we would grow about 190,000 jobs were 70 of the region by 2040. We well outpaced up your weve taken 20 of all jobs achieve more than half of all the 30 year growth in just five years. So, not surprisingly the projections for 2040 are being revised and showing us growing by the detroit 250,000 jobs by 24. As you can see the pipeline of commercial space is pretty robust. About 23 1 2 million square feet is entitled were under review and no provide space for parents about 80,000 jobs. Just another note similar to the housing picture,. The location of particularly office space and job space in general has shifted since the 70s and 80s and is accelerating in this direction for the first 1520 years after the adoption of the downtown plan three quarters of all the office space in the city was entitled in the downtown. The next seven years was cut in up to 40 and currently, only 10 of the citys office thats proposed untitled is in the downtown get the rest is on the south of market in areas south and east along the waterfront. Willie, the downtown is reaching the sort of full buildout under the conception. This clearly presents new challenges particularly in transportation basis to address where [inaudible] so, that brings us to our current ongoing talk a little bit in the first part about some of the projects that we are Planning Efforts undertaken whether central soma southern waterfront the hub but we really try to coalesce to work program into key challenges that we shape our focus and our aspirations. The first is advisory equity and inclusively. This is challenging the basic soul of the sitting see that is where the paramount challenges for the city. Access and mobility. This is clearly yourand we talked a lot about those challenges within four. Resiliency and sustainability. Climate change we are a coastal spit zero arise presents unique challenges for some other heavily populated part of our city for waterfront and transportation infrastructure. Lastly, place making. Building places for people whether thats neighborhoods groaning or not growing. We train our attention to making places the people we want to inhabit good taking these things we have five place initiatives. That most of our work falls within few part of the citys we focus on the Market Street corridor and the neighborhoods in public spaces that hang off that corridor and make it Pacific Commons that we all hope and aspire it would be. The city of neighborhoods which is really looking at neighborhoods brilliant many which are not growing robustly the way that others are. Trying to make sure that everyone can meet their daily needs within a walking to my short walk or bike short transit ride. They can sure housing policy support the diversity our households reflect. The nextgeneration sf is kind of a coin of a term to reflect the Growth Management aspect of our. Promote the sums up these part of the city where you see a lot of growth happening but making sure nudges planning for growth in terms of housing and jobs and making sure the live transportation system, open space systems, educational systems, Community Facilities are really doing huge amount of growth and relatively concentrated area that need good we talked a little bit about the waterfront and bridging the bay. We are really trying to engage in a much more robust level with our partners in oakland and san jose and really looking at how we collectively solve some of these problems and regional basis engaging with plane banner and a area and are [inaudible] in a much more deliberate way. Then we have in the past. So, that concludes my presentation at happy to take any questions and look forward to dialogue on thursday and beyond thank you very much for the presentation. Especially appreciate the regional considerations. Im hoping that this moves forward were on touch with our regional partners on this side of the bait and north of the bait and south of the bid. Are we working with them at all on this. Is i think around renault working with the other areas . In terms of planned bay area itself were in close dialogue with our partners in both shaping the projections and making sure that large extent they reflect how we view the Growth Prospects of the city not just throwing out numbers that may be unrealistic or misallocated as well as providing lots of comments on the transportation packages that go along with those. Even separately, we reached out to planning directors in oakland and san jose. We were just on a field trip to san jose just a couple weeks ago meeting with our staff and talk about our common issue could were doing that and how it was more formal processes did so to think about the immediate neighbors like brisbane for example. Highspeed rail. Their idea to build Storage Facility there. Having conversation i dont know whats going on with that at all and i dont know if they have the ability to condemn the property. I suppose they do. But thats optically neighborly. Yes. We have a particular project as you probably know in the Planning Department to look at the arrival highspeed rail. Often referred to as bad or railyard alternatives study. We are in contact with brisbane on that project. This sort of future many ban in brisbane is in question but theyre going through their own planning and domicile review process but we stay in contact with them on that. We are really reaching out to a number of communities on the region on the speaker transportation question. So, open is reforming a Transportation Department right now for example. The kind of beefing up their ability to participate. Thank you. Vice chair brinkman great presentation. Ive been in this city long enough to really understand how the Planning Department helps us shape the city. I remember mr. Given a presentation to walk sf ages ago about how the bank on hill and downtown plan was going to restore the look of the hill in the valleys of downtown known across the bay bridge there they appear we actually have done it. I think a lot of people dont realize with incredibly longterm view you have to take in your department. I was getting really nervous when i was looking at this and looking at the sort of southern bayfront Housing Units coming online until i got to the next presentation which showed how we are going to do without in the transportation. Its great. Its good information and im so happy having this presentation and working together with planning to make sure were covering all these things. The last thing i just want to say is i will also appreciate the Planning Departments focus on what people need in the neighborhoods and Neighborhood Services and place making. In my neighborhood, we squared section for nine months and left such a hole in the neighborhood. Theres nowhere and where people go further evening walk or go to just watch the dogs plate or hang out. I appreciate the sharper focus and the experience you all have with that. So, thank you director borden i have a question have we done mapping like you do with planning how our dissertation overlays how we done with transit and ridership and infrastructure maps with plan. I think thats one of the challenges we see today with the stressors in the system because weve not looked at how that correlates. Ive never seen a presentation like that. Does one exist . Personally i have not seen it. It doesnt mean it doesnt exist but certainly part of the connect sf after im sure we will be part of the dialogue and provide a background context to that point, we looking at i know were moving forward and obviously making a lot of improvements and symptom would talk about later. With existing neighborhoods, but have we done i think i know in each of these Development Agreements and plans there were infrastructure for transportation requirements that in some cases with Development Agreements that are have to be put into place and sometimes their money to put in the funds to up on those projects. With area plans like market and octavia good have we done a brief refresh to look at that considering doing oh that we have the transportation improvements were making today we know we have 50 of our pipeline is part of Major Development actually to come online for another 10 in some cases 20 years. How are we making sure we are facing everything . Looking at that Bigger Picture of with Community Plan like the short term focusing on the projects window need to deal with right now and also making sure the longterm were ready when we finally get the last 10,000 units in the shipyard or over in [inaudible] but i would say he and all that jill give the correct answer, but i would say is first of all for the large common projects the transportation improvements are phased based on the development. Soon the candlestick shipyard Hunters Point plan for example the Transportation Plan their triggers and targets where we need to work with the development to essentially build the transportation infrastructure as the development happens same the treasure i look at st. Lukes and with [inaudible] but i think youre getting a kind of the deeper question that is josh said, we done these individual plans but i dont think we really have taken a citywide view terms of what you are saying of overlaying that map, i think that spot on in terms of what we need to be doing and thats effectively what we started this longrange Transportation Planning process that were going to discuss on thursday because to be honest, from my standpoint will done in the past aside from the development by the government were neighborhood by neighborhood efforts, such as to the transit effectiveness project look at somewhat of the existing system that optimizes them a call for projects. Whos got an idea of something . And people throwing we should do a subway here we should do a project there. But it hasnt beenand those are analyzed in this lot of evaluation that goes into that but i havent seen in recent decades the weve done this citywide view. We looked at Current System we have much as many of their the transit providers in the bike network, road network and overlaid that with the existing demands on the system and projected for future growth to see where the stressors, if theyre not now, then a become upon students are planning for it. That, for me was why we started this longrange process because i dont that we are done that to the extent we needed to on the citywide regional basis thats what you be hearing about thursday. Just the beginnings of that. Its a tall task it a lot harder than doing it in a very focused weight i think its important because having been on a plane we were always approve the project because the transit waited developments. Which is what we want, but the flipside is the transportation infrastructure is taxed, no most of our developers in south of market were doing a lot with not to say that hello street were other neighborhoods are not important because theyre growing other way but why 50 of her development is happening in the south of market district yet the majority of our time is spent focusing on other areas. Im not saying those areas are not important but we havent quite lined up our graduate of fact were going to all these people in a place and not easy ways to get them around. It kind of spills into the commuter shuttles and all these other kind of stressors were seen on the system today because were not looking out. Look forward to being part of helping to great his larger vision because i think thats exactly whats been lacking and how where we are today i think the hard thing is thinking about what were talking about the caravel geary street is and just think about today but think about 2030 years where we need to be on the other side of things so we dont have to say, gosh, we should have anticipated that were good have development or whatever. And now we need infrastructure. I think thats kind of like what i think its intentional process we helpful to the community at large to see the vision for where things are going the more we can overlay window to violence are coming here or populations going there, how are we adjusting i think the better lens we have one more look at all these individual projects and how we move forward with them. If i could, i would just say director reiskin did give the right answer. The only thing i would add is that as youre alluding to the Planning Commission also struggles with the same kind of question. They spend notably a small amount of their time looking at the longterm big picture and mostly dealing with development project. So this board and that commission to take a step which i think only happens once in a generation so this is a great moment to seize. The one other thing at new hear more about this in the coming presentation on the southern bayfront, there was a little bit at eight ha ha moment how we might build the bridge between now with these new developments come in and memory have this big picture in place. That is kind of a three bucket approach to negotiate particularly negotiated transportation contribution to those Development Agreements. The one bucket meeting onsite or nearsighted that need improvements. Some of those same either neighborhoods as well as the site. A second bucket that goes with augmenting suite and doing other things with the system that we know we need now in the short term the third bucket and hobbies apportioned all the lies are subject to ever negotiation, but a third bucket to make sure these development circuitry bidding at least to the study work and the design work the upfront work whatever comes out of this big picture planning work we are doing. So here more about that thank you. Dir. Ramos i was just going to say that im deeply grateful for the opportunity to hear from you folks about this. I think im constantly surprised by how our best projections are always less than what we could have imagined and i think about what our system and the hardship it mustve been on folks in the past to have dug the tunnels we dug and laid on the rails that we did and what have you. I can imagine the world were San Francisco today without these things. I think that its important that we think about just not even within account of speculation, just looking at where weve been in the past and thinking about the kind of growth weve expense in the past and that what we can anticipate in the future to guide our decisions. I would hope that when we are talking to the community about any these changes that we been talking about lately, but its moody forward were any of the new projects, that we couch them in these terms so that folks understand to director brinkman point talk about accommodating the future and try to keep ourselves from buying ourselves in a place where our sister property on the point of real efficiency for anyone or have been use patterns are sprawling and not really sustainable not really having any real sort of conductivity and cohesion with the community that they hold, and i really want to stress and hope thative seen presentations in the password to my p2 slides carpet 23 sides talking about here is where we are in your is where we might grow in the future, but the slides and some of these charts that you presented today are really compelling and particularly, have exceeded projections that we had in the past. I would hope theres an effort afoot on the mtas behalf to make sure that we were talking about changing the color valve or the mission whatever it might be, that we are taking it within this, with this in mind where we are doing these things with this in mind. Thank you. Rector other members of the public who wish to speak spirit yes we have one member of the public who turned in a speaker card. [calling names] good afternoon director. Howard strasser. I think thats a family gettogether with planning. Then using transit of course must Work Together. Our member being concerned about the housing jobs balloted for the Previous Mission bay but to go back to some of the things that might be the use shouldve shown you on this. They should have shown you the growth in cars number of cars per family number of cars per household total number of cars in the city. To go back with director ramos said i was to that chart from 19 6920 of to start and what to we want that the idea for 2000 but that was a long time ago. If you look at the 2040 how many cars are we going to have we have in the past because you doing so many things to reduce the number of cars. Does it work its good to see that. The other thing that i would say is when the great things that planning did for us in the 60s, was putting parking limits on Office Building spirit well, our building offices whether on a parking limits and the providing one or two full parking places for thousand square feet. The limiting the court it was. 2 Parking Spaces per square foot in them sending you a paper shortly on that. Thats very important. Youll never win if theres corresponding to the circuit youre worried about course pouring in and correspondent. The other thing happening you look at these numbers. We have 62,000 new units in the pipeline , 80 some odd thousand new jobs that were not keeping up. The Housing Affordability thing and this is talking to planning, two. Housing affordability is core to get further out of hand. So, we both have to work you have to Work Together to make this happen and bring us the city we still want to live in. Think. Anyone else care to address the board . Tom gilbert e. Ive been there 27 years. The building has been there 27 on three months. They opened the couple months before i joined. The e, line the third line we that the baseball game. Weve got the paschal stadium and 650,000 ft. 2 of office space and we are going to have the giant plan, with 11,000 workers and 1500 apartments. We have a crunch over there. I would like to see the overlay. I dont think the 15 line can handle it. The t line can handle this anymore. We may need a completely different line going into that area because its easy to put this was the one that caught my attention. I dont know if you can get a closeup of that spirit all the red dots on the eastern neighborhood and ugly the eastern neighborhood plan that took seven years to finalize finalized in 2008. I think thats one is in tatters right now. But the dots, if you look at [inaudible] its it easy to build but we dont have the streets the avenue were the design for this good transit at all. And what kind of behind on it. I dont know if i much we can do. Thats what im saying. We have a juggernaut coming. Thank you think. An interest care to address the board on this . Come forward, please. Again this is directed toward the planning people. Giving a moment, please. I do wonder if theyre planning for with the end of road. There has to be a limit. Is not and was it does not go on forever. As previous gentleman pointed out, theres perhaps a limit on how you can transport these people. Is there a limit on water . Is a limit on other resources . Has the Planning Commission looked at how far you can go . Thank you. Next speaker, please. Nancyas long as youre thinking the way you are appreciate this on the overlay mastered 01 overlay of the Sea Level Rise. The maps ive seen scare the crap out of them. This is said. We have lot of important housing projects in the area thats going to be club club club have looked at our plans for a long time about bayviewHunters Point and its a golden opportunity to house and transfer people into a lovely beautiful area. But the point is, we have to get things right in terms of where the land is and where the water is going to be. I dont hear anything about new lines if there could be underwater. Lets make sure we understand that when youre going to propose in im going to pay for is can actually be something thats going to be there even with we have to do elevated things like that happen chicago. Thank you. Anyone else care to address the board seeing none, mdm. Clerk mix item mr. Gimenez presentation and discussion regarding the southern bayfront strategy. Thank you for the last presentation is to chairman just for the record no members of the public was to address you on that matter. Good afternoon chairman of nolan and members of the board. Carly pain from the sfmta. Please do introduce presentation on the southern bayfront and mike martin from, hes a project director at the office of economic and Workforce Development to kick off the presentation, which i think could not have been more vertically queued up by the previous conversation. I think would answer and raise probably even more questions. Good afternoon afternoon rectors. Mike Martin Office of economic and Workforce Development, e ms. Aims, and it is very opportune to be talking with you about this topic after the item we just heard about. The court is immune from the broad macro citywide historical and future view to one specific place where these challenges of growth are really being seen and hopefully being worked on i had of one theyre coming for you before developments. Im here on behalf of director development in my office can rich get to my colleague did my office generally leads negotiations with the project sponsors major Development Agreements which as you all know as they come before you boast in their ability have to do with getting the maximum Public Benefits out of each project in exchange for the entitlement they get to bills from their proposal in the city. Often time, these are very involved very challenging very complex transactions though i think what we are trying to do in the southern base context is look ahead in this number coming forward and how can we not only deal with all them coming through but hopefully use them to maximize the benefits back to the city by having a coordinated strategy. If i can get the slides, please . So, this slide is meant to give a little context. When people talk with the waterfront of San Francisco, theres a lot of different parts of the waterfront and of different futures. If you start in the far left of this diagram, the bottom left, you see ocean beach in the orangered color. We are to perceive as can change except by natural reasons the advancing sea level and how we safeguard that part of the city is camino ongoing conversation as well. As we move clockwise or on a while we get to the federal lands of the presidio and the Golden Gate National Recreation Area back parkland at marina green. All of these are protected by federal state and local law and we dont see a ton of development there were changes they are either. We move to the blue continuing clockwise and this is the classic San Francisco waterfront the people conjure in their heads. This is the port of San Francisco are largely piers northeastern waterfront where there may be changes but in many cases this is very buildout and obviously the huge changes is very closely watched and potentially controversial. But when we get to the bottom to the yellow, its basically the lan along the bayfront south of china basin, we see a part of the city where thats part of it is industrial past but definitely ticketed for a lot of growth in the near term and we saw that in the last item as well in the overlay maps. This part of the city ultimately what we are trying to do is think about it cohesively. To think about it this is the place where theres some consensus that growth can happen if managed correctly, we want to think about what is going to mean not only for the people coming here in the jobs coming here but for the people that already live here. Its hard to see because the close captioning but right now in this yellow shaded areas and 36,000 people already living nearby already 22,000 people working nearby. So the idea that we want to get across today is how can we channel this incoming investment to address not only the growth but also the people that are already there interactive hopefully lifted up by the growth. So, this map shows a series of master plan projects that are either in the pipeline were already approved along this waterfront. Moving from the top of this map in the mission rock project a giant plot eight. The Warriors Arena recently approve the pure pier pier 70 [inaudible] energy site. The bluish square denotes the active Industrial Area of pier 80, 84 and 96. Those will continue be Industrial Areas. We know those uses and jobs are needed in the cities of those areas wont be touched. But as we continue south, we see the pg e the former Hunters Point site india basin project the Shipyard Candlestick project south of there an executive part, as you round out the map and the southbound towards the city line. So, altogether, all of these projects represent 20,000 new households. Our goal for the waterfront this entire southern bayfront is to make sure 33 of those are affordable to belowmarket rates, which would be about 660067 a new affordable households with a neighbor Preference Program of 40 going to people in the local area or super supervisors district. That significant portion about 300023000 new affordable Units Available for people here already. We think thats a critical part of this plan and put those pieces together. In addition, theres an additional 520 acres of open space either in process were being put in place shipyard or planning and about once. Obviously, thats a huge proportion i think its happening in Golden Gate Park and basically, the major amount of new open space coming into the city in the nearterm. I want tothis slide zooms in the projects not yet been approved. So, that basically means the mission rock project among pier 70 energy site pg e and india basin. All these are coming forward over the next couple of years. All at different points in the process. Summer and ceqa some are getting it. But ultimately, when we saw this map combined with the , which is a timeline, i think our office realize that. As these projects come together, and one 2016 up your we generally think 272018 will see probably all five those projects come forward for approvals. We want to get ahead of the conversation about what we need is projects to do in a Public Benefit basis. So we initiated internal city agency means with a variety of agencies on number of which you seem to hear between your agency Planning Department landowner agency like performer rita Bauman Agency as well as port of San Francisco. Rec and park department. So all of these agencies have been meeting regularly to start thinking about what it is work on to create the framework for all these negotiations so we can ask for things and negotiate for things with all these developers in a way that creates a larger vision in a way that often time you see in a plan from the Planning Department but because each of these are individual negotiation that in it that together in different way. I guess what i would say is today you see the star at the bottom. Today is part of our first sort of public effort to get out in front of boards and commissions work yourself during these items as well as community the areas around these projects to solicit your ideas and feedback about how you are doing this so that we can get ahead of these negotiations and present something thats hopefully well thought through and clear and ready for fine tuning consider major changes because we have not seen a very critical need. So, this slide is a little busy but i think its meant to show the tactics we are trying to use to improve the situation were improve the agreements were able to strike. The top row of circles are the key tools that we have entered a bauman agreement to bring resources to these Public Benefits. Development agreements can take impact fees are already required could also negotiate additional conjugations from developers and target things we know will need additional funding for the kind of impact that are common with the government are yet not being addressed other medication under ceqa. In addition, theres other Public Finance tools the we are definitely deploying at the port of San Francisco and mission rock and pier 70 that we think and more efficiently deliver Capital Improvements and therefore try to grow the pie what each of these projects can do. These are now those special taxes which a voluntary tax that a landowner levies upon itself or herself that goes towards public facilities such as parks, streets open space transit facilities, etc. In addition, theres also whats called infrastructure financing district tax increment which is the successor to the Redevelopment Agency tax increment which is basically saying the growth in taxes from the beginning of the development and its growth can be put back into that development or back into things that improve the infrastructure around that department. The board of supervisors adopted a policy that the increment thats been made available for the port projects will go back into that port projects and once those poor projects with intersection for those projects paid off the boards policy says that money would then go to improve the cities see what could again think about the Sea Level Rise consideration those mentioned earlier. Similarly, the special taxes if they landowner chet chooses to levy a fund to him or herself same dynamic applies to it once those are paid with the initial infrastructures. October 3040 years, the taxing authority would want to keep out their great undue source again, to pay for Sea Level Rise adaptation. So what were saying each of these components as a marketing measure is quick to raise itself and going to throw money to protect whats around him to great the network we need to protect ourselves from rising sea levels. Then, lastly, when arrived to the subject matter areas were looking. Honestly the big one is transportation and probably pains go talk more detail about apple were looking about open space job growth and opportunities for Small Businesses, economic and Workforce Development Sea Level Rise protection i just talked about Affordable Housing. Committee facilities, were looking with help with the Planning Department, what is the need for things Like Committee facilities, like the police stations grocery stores, to make sure the Service Levels we will see in this city is the thing that the rest of the circuit sustainability obviously key and eight era of rising sea level and Climate Change to make sure these developers as cuttingedge as possible using as little water as possible using as much on Potable Water for nonreportable use as possible. Then equity and diversity trying to figure out ways to interact with the Southeast Community of the city which has obviously seen underinvestment in past decades but we like to get together as part of this new growth again to lift all with bold part of the city has a gross and accommodate the people coming here. Now all enough to ms. Payne take you mr. Martin. Thank you. Carly ping mta. As we look at the transportation component of the forthcoming negotiations in this overall approach, can you put this slide back up . Thanks. We first want to look at what do we already have slated in this area either fully planned and funded work in the works . So, in the nearterm but interesting and exciting is theres a lot of longterm eight projects that are very close to being delivered. The transbay terminal. The central subway the associated key third line increasing frequency, the bluegreen light improvements at the place facility which will result in overall system improvements and performance and reliability. Then, we also have a host of more localized improvements that are really aimed to increase accessibility for my safety and overall system improvements and these are bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure expansion of bike share throughout this area. Intersection improvements and other treatment. Between the first slide and the second side curmudgeon show you, not all of those projects are as of mta projects but to give a sense of what our agencys investment already is in this nearterm within this southern southern bayfront area commander Capital Improvement program between now and 2021, the over 1. 4 billion invested this air. So, as you know, projects in our cip are projects where there is funding identified. So these are real projects with real plans and delivery program. Now, looking up to the midterm, we have additional projects. There that are on the horizon such as caltrain extension, the 16th st. , terry lamb. Geneva hardy prt and others that we are hard at work on and it will continue to increase access and mobility in this area. Beyond that, there are additional efforts that were putting with regional agencies on to bring even more options, whether its core capacity improvements were second title for part were other projects. So, as we think about the negotiation wednesday by think of you things are important to point out. Each one of these projects that transportation obligations. Our goal is to have these projects collaborate with each other and through their obligations and the commitment, so that we are seeing a greater contribution and greater benefit than if we approach these projects on an individual basis. The kinds of obligations ill be seeing and the kinds of benefits will be seen are kind of in three categories. First, the localized infrastructure. By that, i really mean things like ensuring that this consistent and contiguous bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure across neighboring sites like pier 70 and an rg and other safety improvements throughout the area. The second is investment in our Transit System over all those kinds of things could be purchasing rail vehicles or contributions to our maintenance facilities there really help this area but also help the system overall. The third area is really looking at how these projects fit into those longerterm big moves changes and contributions for improvements in our system like the core capacity project. Of course, we will also be asking the projects to really think about how they managehow they shape trips to dissertation demand management. As mike said, all of these projects, once they are actual specific proposals, will be coming forward to the sport. So, weve presented today is our early approach to addressing them and looking at them as a whole. So, with that were happy to take questions from for me or my colleague thank you. Very thoughtful present ticket vendors of the board, questions or comments . Just a few comments thank you ms. Payne and mr. Mond good presentation. I am pleased to see all the components especially sort of the economic and workforce and the equality and equity components because i can only imagine how nervous people get when we talked about the development of that area. What kind of contains what some of our still more affordable neighborhoods in that area. So i am pleased to see that. Looking at the mapi cant switch pages very quickly on this one. This much housing going on that area. I see were going to the tthird took greater frequency as you said ramping up as the moment comes along. You did mention the bike and pedestrian improvement should i just want to touch on that again because i think its so important that we recognize that people can and will walk pretty fair distance to get a one seat ride to their destination. I want to make sure that we really focus on making those walking and biking corridor but only as space is possible but as present as husband there are walks were willing to do because theyre lovely in the box are pretty sure dinner trees and Pretty Things to look at there are whats that are equal distance we just want to because its a long 8 unpleasant st. Or across a nasty street that doesnt feel safe. I just wonder bring that up and remind us all, even though sort of belfast prt or new bus line were tthird minority on everyones back door, the contrary to what we are from some are young to me or shuttle users and people are willing to walk a fair distance to get to the efficient transportation that could take them to their destination. Other than that i think a great presentation and it was perfectly appropriate right up to the landuse one in front of it. So thank you director ramos i would love to hear if theres been any movement at all around addressing some of the concerns the speaker earlier mentioned about not wanting to pay for the deaf improvements that might be required to prevent Sea Level Rise or any of that. Im speaking expressly of the financial districts were anything to that effect. If we could hear a little bit more about what efforts are underway now for my if any to get that done if we might be helpful at all in helping to facilitate that, the creation of those districts . Thank you very much for the question. So, right now, in the term sheets for the two port projects, these two districts are definitely going to be [inaudible] because of how much concern has heightened over Sea Level Rise, we see this as something thats a must for all these bayfront of elements. Were so, i would say the mello roos special taxes the tax and command keys because that one is my type in how much we need to come from the general fund for daytoday service to address the growth as well. But the new money the new taxes, this was something ashley pioneered at Treasure Island which is super impacted by Sea Level Rise. They were saying were going to have these taxes quoted on upfront actually pay off building outlets keep letting him and by the cost of living here. By doing so, i think what we been able to do is really expand the conversation along undetected right now, if we did nothing know Sea Level Rise the sea level the big level is rising over some uncontaminated legend now youve got lands are being cleaned up. Bands elevated for the safety of people that live there and hopefully money being thrown off to devise adaptation strategies for areas that are not currently funded. The port is going through i believe 8 million of planning money over the next two years to address the seawall in the embarcadero. For both seismic and Sea Level Rise adaptation strategies and i think the dollars that the port gets personal from its own development as was hopefully eventually from the infrastructure financing district to be a down payment on what is going to be a thing to 5 billion project. Suddenly not anything that sort of us of the problem in april, but its one of those things that think were not cobbled together sources like this to address the magnitude of the problem of the city surrounded on three sides by water. Can i ask is so much fun in the might get generated from any those mechanisms might any of that funding bill towards some of the transportation infrastructure thats talked about as well in addition to the Climate Change mitigation . Yes. I think we very much want to do that. I think of three buckets mentioned, we would love to see those tools in the nearterm First Finance whats needed now in terms of those better connections to the local networks to the extent they can 12 to help with the extension if thats possible. Im not really sure that works with the taxes, but may work with other funds, not of these developments. I think what we are doing now is try to sort of cats a wide night over what useful and try to match up the sources with things that can pay for each one and come up with a more knitted together picture based on the slide that ms. Payne showed late in the presentation i would hope that as those conversations mature in progress that this board in this agency would remain supportive in whatever way possible. I cant stress enough how important i feel all that work is now critical it is the start thinking out and have this in place of that even people coming into the area to not yet quite familiar with it have some certainty as to what to expect as would be the cost of operation and development in this ad. So i plot your efforts and deeply grateful for all of your hard work and looking forward to being a supportive as possible that we can be. Thank you. Director 10 i have a question along the same lines. Ive just been wondering youre working without portthe ayes have it. Lets make these accessible. But i mean thats a key connection special in the warrior state of this and theyll be greatly zero connection for a lot of folks to come in on. Some wondering if a conversation with our along those lines as well as with the port and other regional Transportation Providers from the waterside because i know there used to and [inaudible] and back to see the 16 street but mentioned that id also be interested in seeing other places where we can support in terms of Water Taxi Service making sure that service is accessible. Things like that i wondered with those conversations are sounding like . You cast a wide net in a question and i think its great because we realize that although muni does an mta does a huge amount of moving people around the slot other potential resources we can grab. Coltrane and 22nd st. Station something talk a lot about special in the neighborhood is best with peers 70 going and how those interact. I think out of electrification in general coffee moosewood because the increase in frequency there can provide another northsouth spine in this area. Then water transport, i mean it something thats on the tip of everyones tongue because in so doable but i think this can help grow that Critical Mass for Something Like a scheduled Water Taxi Service that takes you around the waterfront because right now it sort of a demand a system that doesnt quite have the confidence level i can say, well, if everything is gridlocked on when i can go by water. I received the transbay connection with the 16th st. Ferry terminal is something that would be very intriguing and is moving forward although those are challenging to get done. I think one of the things that mission rockets talked about the giants actually operate a very Ferry Landing for the ballpark. Could we make that a more yearround thing not just for special bands. The development there to help another pressure release these are definitely conversations bid you appreciate the leadership of your agency get into those conversations. But were always the gun on one of come back with that is part of the picture were drawn. Director borden thank you for the presentation made theres a real lack of improvement in the waterfront in terms of actual infrastructure. We have the tline and we have a few things going on, but we still are really lacking in true infrastructure given the amount of housing and density with peers 70 and the shipyard and whole area. I look forward to further conversations about additional things we can be doing with area because the look at the map it really is lacking when you get to the southern bright bayfront. So i mean i look forward to working on that and figure out some the solutions are so we can already see come i think the challenges there will be if we dont address that. Thank you. Members of the public no member of the public return and speaker card on this matter but it looks like there is some interest rolling forward. After this will take a short break. Just just a few little comments. Voluntary tax. Lets paid dollars for a tax. I think its going to slide to quickly. 30 years after the transportation bonds are paid for we can use that money for the seewald. Bart is four years old and they are in meeting the more money. I dont see the transportation bond after they expire. We will need new transportation bonds. Theres always been a be in expense. The central underground, amen. Lets keep our fingers crossed. The dollars from homes, dollars for developers, dollars for four for housing, is the tail wagging the dog was that dog wagging the tail by developers saying the big dollars, the big profits that they can grab it right now theyre in a hurry to grab it because we dont want another recession because that takes everything. Downtown, we have got five muni lines. We have express buses galore. Thats the downtown area. How is that going to compare to what work you put out in this new wetlands . Basically, thats what a lot of it is. The two 5 billion bill just for the Embarcadero Seewald is expensive but thats a small little section. The cost of defending these developments from the sea rise, it was in this room, 9. 5 foot search. Thats what we need to protect. Thats probably conservative the way things are going. You guys in planning this should be interesting thank you. The board will take a short recess at this ladies and gentlemen were back in session now item 13, [reading code] good afternoon Board Members staff and members of the public. My name isproject manager with capital programs construction at mta. Im here before you today provide with an update on the geary bus Rapid Transit project. Before coming back to for full board action. Before we start, i want to make a point that in the venice corridor project this prt project developed into more of a corridor project than just transit Improvement Project. We will get into details in later slides. Geary bus gary geary boulevard is one heavily used transit corridor in San Francisco. Its over 50,000 people date the judys too many neighborhoods and dozens of other attractions and institutions. That adversity the people and places along the corridor require more than just pete period and express bus service with over 60 , again but me reiterate 6 of riders boarding during offpeak riders geary needs a 24hour sevenday week prt solution illuminates transit conflicts, traffic on key segments and makes the street safer everyone. Data shows that pedestrian was a time more likely to get into a vehicle versus pedestrian conflict on geary compared to others some comparable city states. As you may know bus traffic transit is globally recognized and costeffective solution to address increasing Transportation Demand and i collision rate long San Francisco busiest bus corridor. The city decide to pursue prt back in 2003 as part of the proper or k extended japan because of its low cost and comparison to rail. Highimpact, and fasttrack implementation. Roughly, prt is a third of the price tag of rail. The proposed speed geary budget would benefit not only transit riders but people walking, driving and the community at large transit features like bus only lanes were expected to improve transit reliability by over 20 and offer a 10to the midtime savings for both the rapid and local in each direction. Traffic conditions would improve to driver habits and riding the bus because we much more efficient and more reliable and other features like Traffic Signals being synchronized and protected go as high injury corridor geary also getting the full fleet of Pedestrian Safety implements to reduce the number of collisions and traffic along segments with her is frequent speeding. All transit traffic and safety features would be corrugated with infrastructure upgrade repairs to roadways and utilities to minimize future construction impacts and reduce costs. Environmental document is that potential impacts and first on the list is no build which served as the baseline to measure the potential benefits or impacts of the project under four different prt scenarios. The no build alternative includes improvements in movement as part of the munich and for program such as the red transit lane in the downtown area and also the tensile signal priority short for tsp along the corridor. Alternative two, which the side prt west lesson cost because it does not require reconfiguring the street however, to accommodate more buses and stops parking would be eliminated or removed and be more opportunities for the bus to get delayed in traffic because of right turn conflict vehicles violating the rules. Alternative three offers the most transit benefit to protect the Center Running busway. Completely eliminating traffic conflicts. However, it would require reconfiguring the fillmore tunnels and underpasses to it, theyd station and bus only lanes and also eliminate the majority of left turns along the corridor. It would allow passing lanes to allow continuous local and Rapid Service but again a significant amount of off Street Parking would be removed those old one of the main concern weve heard over and over from Community Members is try to preserve parking is much as possible. Moving on from alternative threec is the same old tired of the rate without the passing lanes. And consolidated rapid and local service between golf and 27 street. Consolidated service prisons more parking [inaudible] in the manager number of stops in closer space [inaudible] that brings us to the last alternative, which is the sra short for staff recommend altered hybrid option. Which is the best of alternatives two and three and this would staff recommends. Was chosen because it address Community Needs and concerns and reduce cost by preserving masonic and fillmore underpasses for the tunnels and allows operating prt and five running lanes east. One of the main concerns with the design of the project was parking availability as i mentioned early. Consolidated Service Option Center Running bart enrichment preserves parking and maximizes transit benefits on the commercial corridor condenses segment of gary boulevard. I usually move [inaudible] there you go. These two images represent how prt would look along the center and the side burning segments of the corridor. As you can see, the top rendering shows side running at geary and fillmore. Then you have the beautiful side running portion at gary and 17th with a dual median and this area will talk about a little bit later but were actually increasing 13 of green infrastructure. Increasing it by 13 . Again, new platforms for safety enhancements, tvs. A lot of improvements. Leading up to the entire mental document the team solicited comments and encourage people to give feedback on the project. Over 200 people attended the Public Comments meeting is a marys cathedral in over 300 comments wer since the releae we posted over 50 means and again over 50 meetings since november of 2015. We have done extensive engagement of the public and the numbers show it. But 50 min. With stakeholder groups around the question that even meetings were held to address specific concerns project proposals. In three of the specific cases, we developed working groups to try and identify new Design Solutions addressing common pics concern. Several changes were made to the projects for the better result of the working poop meetings. In addition, the right photo or, it has a picture of a Virtual Reality kiosk, which aims to paint a better picture of what prt would look like at webster street and 17th st. This machine residents, merchants, interested parties could go and look at it and streamed down that segment of the roadway they could easily see what type of improvements slated to come down that area with implementation of the geary prt. Over 6000 read the kiosk the overwhelming majority of individuals for the project. We had a mild survey and majority of the feedback was in favor of the project. Ongoing outreach as we approach for action includes engagement techniques that aim to include a broader audience which is being used for van ness Improvement Project and mailers, and just to make sure that we get to everyone will actually incrementing the doortodoor ambassador throughout the corridor measure no one is left out. Throughout the outreach process, the summarizes of the general feedback budgeting hazard. To address these concerns over changes made including consolidated Service Enrichment of local stopping at spurs. Successful in retaining the bridge. Additional safety womans and carefully placed bus stops near schools and Senior Centers. This photo or map represents geary prt proposals that existing transit only lanes between poland and golf street. The bus would operate on the side of the street between downtown or Market Street got to palm avenue. In the ctr. , street that [inaudible] and 20 fifth avenue. As you can see, the transition points are circled in both of these locations there will be a queue jump which allow the bus safely pass through the intersection ahead of other vehicles given at start like a safe start. So going in and out of the center run to side running to be fully sick because though get the first opportunity were good priority. Several local stops would be eliminated in the richmond to allow the bus to operate in the middle of the street without passing lanes. The bus would stop at all of the same stops along the segments. Careful consideration Senior Centers and Health Institutions determine the proper location of the bart stops along the consolidated service area. To existing rapid stops when i existed mentioned at spurs and the other laguna on local only stops it is there low ridership, location and new transit point to other bus routes. I say that is being proposed because the community has requested we further evaluate laguna and we are in the process to look at the capital and Service Impacts to see that even a feasible request. Again, this is in an effort to continue engagement in refining the project as we go forward. The total time savings roundtrip for the project is 30 min. Thats 30 additional minutes of transit rider to spend with their loved ones Family Friends they might even say a work and work 30 min. Late. In addition, debbie significant less budging and gaps in service. But 20 making it easier to get to the destination on time and by bus. Just last friday, we conducted a tour for supervisor ease office and brother tour was consistently windows budging. We noticed overcrowded buses actually we got on the buses to show other humans withstanding capacity and we were right next to each other with no wiggle room were moving. So it was a great opportunity for supervisor he stop this [inaudible] throughout the day as needed so bad. While in addition traffic condition with the drivers chose to take transit and to improve transit im sorry signalized traffic lights. The city influence in almost every intersection collision rates would drop and pedestrian exterior is what improve. The geary corridor become more pleasant for people walking with pedestrian scale lighting and as i mentioned earlier, 13 increased green infrastructure. Other foods like repaving and new utilities the package and with a project minimizing future construction impacts. Just the initial sewer survey indicates that we have Sewer Network pipes that almost 1 139 years old along that segment. As you guys can tell, its time to replace them. Hopefully with this project once it gets approved will definitely part of it. To achieve division for prt and safer streets rise in some cases mobile parking gate of the project team is than a great job because of keeping our numbers high and hearing the public as far as parking and their concerns of loss of parking. Overall, 97 apartheid would be retained. The majority of the parking loss occurring would actually occur along segments with off street options on Street Parking options. To maintain the bus only lane through the tunnel areas are questionable of steiner bridge. This location has surface crossing to be enhanced as part of the project and we have data to show that 80 of the current pedestrians at that intersection are a cross the Service Level crossing. Just like we were successful at what a lot of time and a highlevel effort by staff, to a valuate webster bridge to see whether we can retain and design around a commode with the same process into steiner bridge. Unfortunately, given where the structure of peers are for the bridge for the outbound direction was no way we could actually design and not take will say from hamilton Recreational Park facility and thats on a desired path forward. The geary project has adopted a phased approach to deliver city permits assumes possible prior to the Center Running portion in the Richmond District. The basic session about Jesse Minogue allows design implementation of the two phases to have it concurrently supporting a Timely Delivery in getting improvements to the public as soon as possible. Based to detail would design will be ongoing for the implementation of phase 1 and would occur actually in three sub phases. The first of phase that includes doctors the striping the street with bus only lanes between market and defending division ii lane narrowing between golf and cross to get the second sub phase will include signal phrase upgrades and followed by the last and third phase which includes several improvements to the sewer, water, roadway infrastructures was transit and pedestrian. [inaudible] yet to be determined as we talked about these two would require more extensive construction and utility replacement is requires reconfiguring the roadway to accommodate to Landscape Center medians and getting the Center Running us aligned. At first glance the cost of the project may seem a bit high. But we have to remind ourselves these are quarter wide improvements that will last decades. Not only make by service more efficient at making utilities people use everyday more liable in the street safer for everyone and not just transit improvements. The final environmental document is already in review and we are on schedule to release the documents to the public in september with a response to comments. All the release of the final document sfmta board is scheduled to take action on early october and the sfmta board soon thereafter get the design for phase 1 is ongoing and the project team is finally legislating phase 1 improvements the same day as bringing the document in front of you. For approval. We hope e this important transit and safety project forward as quickly as possible pending project review. With that i think of your time and patience. Be happy to take any questions you might have. Thank you very much. We are members of the public who wish to speak to this yes. We do first world to that [calling names]will do that gene identifies the premises sure thank you for your consideration my previous requested is greatly appreciated. I can tell you make things are wrong with this but at the remainder 1 min. And 50 seconds. To facilitate that i did submit to ms. Boomer a copy of the letter i wrote to the sf cta who is the principal in the draft eir. Some of the comments that i dont have time to make are included in that document. Let me say, first of all men enthusiastic muni rider and i support improving transit. Ive also been following this project for years. For some reason my first impulses wait a minute give what impact is the gap on geary and neighborhood i live which is near 25th and geary. Got a better chance to look at it for many years, very concerned about that. You just heard what the tradeoffs are for this. Then i think you were given the whole story. If you look at the cost and benefits, i hope you get a slightly different impression based on what i am saying. Downside are its going to cost over 200 million and by the way, im focusing almost exclusively on the center lane segment. Which is between 27th ave. And home which is a block after. That portion of the project alone will cost somewhere between 1502 and her Million Dollars. Its going to have a Significant Impact during the construction and Small Businesses in the neighborhood. That hasnt been an Economic Impact study on that would support in order to determine the extent of that. The amount of time its going to be saved in return for this increasing money impact on the businesses, removal of 200 trees and diversion of traffic to acquire decisive as well as impact on the geary boulevard itself, in that particular strip will be at best, 2 min. In a might even be 15 seconds thank you. Next speaker, please. [calling names] thank. Bob szell. A member of the Planning Association for the richmond. The Planning Association for the regiment has taken the position with the sector the gary geary prt that when easily done first is divided do all those things except have a red lane that is 24hour bus lane on a street that doesnt need that. More than that, when they put in a red lane going to ways that going to strip out the center. The center is populated by mature trees. Those trees were put in place by mayor christopher, back in 1959 as a major speed for station after. With a doing is they provide a quality of life for People Living the richmond get its enormous. Its very very important to them. Now we been told that they can plant new trees. Thats fine but saplings so just come up immediately into a mature tree. There isnt impacted by resources there that serious. Theres an impact upon the quality of life. And we believe therell be an impact on the businesses that are there. Theres a lot of Small Businesses that employ a lot of people but they are not necessarily robust. The gary is a corridor that is a shot corridor. The restaurant corridor is an auto corridor but if you take away the time that could be taken away when theyre putting the construction of we think this can be real damage. Now, there are a lot of things that have been said that are not exactly accurate. We dealt with cta and mta representatives for a matter of 20 hours and you, sitting here, i think need to have those 20 hours per week that you give them to you. We would like to tell you what went on in those 20 hours will we actually did. Let me interrupt you can you summarize that fairly briefly spewing the commission got a little time to answer that question. Yes, thank. Yes, thank you can i go november 5 it was a first public hearing about the plan. It was at the st. Marys cathedral and it was a Public Comment meeting. But nobody was allowed to make any Public Comment. The but he was allowed to ask a question. That unfortunately, has been away this is been handled by pr. These statements, which you see in the slides that were just before you are often inaccurate. They are just not accurate. For instance, when we asked to find out how many people were actually commuters, all we could find out was how many people got on in certain places but of course there is in a system now and probably should not be a system for they get off so we dont know how many people have the long run. Weve done our own surveys and were all writers of muni and we see no reason for the statement that says buses are slow and reliable. They are not on speaking. The gary geary 38 ought. The geary 38 bay x are very fast. People are very very pleased by what they see. Theres no reason for mta to be denigrating its own service. So, there are many many more things to talk about about that and what i want to propose was that we have a meeting at which we have an opportunity to set forth what we think is important before you are forced into position we have two approve this. I mean you dont have the time. You have the time to investigate even though youre the duty of care to worry about this you dont have the time. We put the time into and within seven opportunity to come up for you with that thank you. Suggestions the board will consider. So the meeting with the richmond association. Thank you. Next speaker, please. [calling names] i represent the holy virgin cathedral, which is on 26th ave. Between 76 and 27th ave. On geary. Our membership is about 1200 people. We have Senior Housing facilities at their. We have two schools there. We believe this disposal is very dangerous to the seniors and to the students, and we very much are opposed to the proposal. Its been said by the project manager that weve met and they heard our concerns and came back with incorporated our concerns into what the proposal is now. I can say that is not true. Nothing that we said, expressing our concerns, was incorporated into the proposal as it sits now. I think this is a dangerous costly unnecessary and i do believe that the board nor the staff realize the intensity of opposition to this project. On the merchants, from the residence, the mother people visiting the area to this plan. I sincerely hope that if you talk about 200 million i think is much better ways to use it them to create something that will be a real detriment to the Living Conditions out there. Thank you thank you. Next speaker, please. [calling names] good afternoon. Im a parishioner holywhich is located between 2627th ave. As previously mentioned we have a lot of concerns but this project Going Forward. The school of course as mentioned theres two schools operating out of that church and right now the parking they have no parking at the Carbon Services like a buffer to protect the kids in case they run out, if the bustling is put against the curb that buffer is gone. So that opens a lot of possible incidents with a kick and run out on the street and get hit by a bus. The second concern is loss of parking. That area, especially on weekends its almost as right difficult to find parking. One time i circled literally for 40 min. Before i found a parking spot was probably was about seven blocks away. With all this loss of parking stock to get better its going to get worse. We asked mta to look for options that the locate additional parking in a believe they look into that but at this point, we have no valid reasonable solution to provide additional parking thats needed. A lot of our parishioners come from other locations. East bay, south bay and so on. Taking Public Transportation in a lot of cases is not an option so theyre forced to drive. With this situation a parking were going to lose a lot of parishioners which we already have due to other reasons but with this implementation this project were going to lose a lot more. Thank you thank you. Next speaker, please. [calling names] eileenzero in solitaire with the geary residence and merchant. Public comment residents and merchants concerns were characterized as coldunquote complaints. We this characterization is condescending dismissive and patronizing. Im hoping the board does not share this perspective for the propose caravelle project mta has stated they did not do an Economic Impact study. The mta could also not do a costbenefit analysis. This is also true of the proposed geary prt price. The following is an exit from the gary residence and merchant statement and i will quote this prt project seems to just justification other than transit improvement. Indeed, the budget shows it would take pay for major Infrastructure Improvements. Its not clear how many of those investments will be of the tubes by the city where developers make use of them. It is obvious the developers will begetting a freebie here under the guise of Infrastructure Improvements are required when did you the street for the prt. What assures assurances do we have the cost incurred would be anything less than a subsidy for those who will come along and build more units along and near the corridor . Is this the hidden subsidies. They should be discussed openly but its not been raised by muni itself. Theres been a strong policy framework density in the richmond. People are suspicious given serving a little time for these small minority of writers will commute to downtown does not justify spending 300 million or more. Theyre curious about the fact that down to money seems to be behind this project. Thank you. Next speaker, please. [calling names] good afternoon commissioners. Mary eliza. This board has not been a very good job of listening to the public if we believe the were saying here today and heard otherwise. Youre not responding to the needs of the public. When not sure what youre responding to but its not the needs of the drivers, the riders, would the general public. Neighborhood groups and merchants are meeting tonight in two separate meetings to discuss alternative to this geary project. In case you did not know. Merchants from castro to polk street and mission are losing business many are closing due to bad traffic and parking problems and the caravelle and geary merchants do not want to become part of that group. Of lost business. The merchants will not support a sales tax increase that will further reduce their profits and im really not sure the citizens of the city are ready to support that either. We just kind of wondering which of your many projects youre willing to give up if you have to. You dont get that sales tax increase. Thank you thank you. And you must to address the board seeing none, at the pleasure of the board . There are people. You want to stand up and speak . Good afternoon jim and is david hurston, longtime richmond resident living in San Francisco since 1960. Controversy is no stranger to projects in San Francisco. But as a longterm residence am very alarmed that the amount of controversy, the mta projects are generating. When i get to a Public Meeting in people are screaming at each other and yelling at each other, beyond the scope of the project, this tells me that people are not being heard. If i had to characterize this project, it would be a steamroller thats copying her. Not being heard by the residence and they are really the feeling for my perception is, its all about the sales job. The Virtual Reality kiosk is a good example that. He was stated in their presentation that we have spent hours with them. Im part of the geary Merchants Group. Basically, in those hours they put their powerpoint presentation. We prepared our points and there was never any dialogue. I think thats whats missing on this project is a positive dialogue and scope of the project forward but not and in a lawsuit, not end up in a ballot initiative, not end up with people screaming kid i think its possible to move the city forward without hurting Small Businesses. Without hurting the 20 of the people in the Richmond District that are Senior Citizens and over 65. So you do the math over 70,000 people how many that is good i just think theres another way is not necessary to rush this project as an emergency. This guy is fun. I urge everyone to take a closer look, sit down, work honestly and hear what the people have to say in a honest fashion and also [inaudible] because other people of submitted points and its like talking to a black hole. So when somebody request something say yes or so note thank you. Next speaker, please. We been trying weve been asking the mta and cta for years and i have to certificate to prove it more than 10 years Economic Impact study it lets do a study. We been rebuffed by the mta and the cta. When i testified in front of them and i mentioned parking, i was given the answer of if im really so concerned about parking maybe i should consider moving to a Shopping Mall theres plenty of parking over there. I think that you really have to locate into this matter. We have light rail on geary boulevard from micah 3050 and by taking it down we have more certificates from every branch of government giving us the foresight to remove it and to create a boulevard, a commercial corridor, and now you want to take that away and kill it. Not telling you the truth. They cannot tell you with the prt there was a gas line over there. Thats not in the plan but there is a gas line there. If they say they dont want you to know it scored to take 56 months per block the construction of the prt. But where talking about the block is not just one block because you got that right block and a half and a block can have. How can we go to survive . People on a mission or going out of business. People on federal are trying to ongoing business. We cannot let you do that to us. And we ask you to be compassionate and be sensitive to it you can. We are not against improving transportation on geary boulevard but dont put us out of business. Thank you so much for your consideration thank you. Anyone else care to address the board . I have a lot of compassion for this argument because the special because of the money being spent for this project. On van ness i dont know how much i one is costing but that one could simply been solved by having a shuttle bus running between aquatic park and the mission and were frequently to take up the problem being that there was not enough frequency of buses. Without spending the millions of dollars that we spent in the disruption involved. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Sylvia johnson. I say i know that exactly the problem is is that [inaudible] needs to be on it is a kind of old way of doing work a lot better and the efficiency thats been going on i have [inaudible] causing the rails. Im telling you this is not [inaudible] putting people out of business and talking about other things that [inaudible]. I mean, its really [inaudible] thats not going to work [inaudible] we have problems in the [inaudible] and take care of [inaudible]. Our main problem [inaudible] i am tired of this, you know, [inaudible] because some politics is better [inaudible] and trying to run [inaudible] this is where the issue is in the police department. Im going to make sure housing and equipment [inaudible] because a lot of [inaudible] it will be [inaudible] thank you. Next speaker, please. Just, come on up. Hello. If i understood correctly, i was very heartened to hear you said you would meet were overhearing with the richmond people . Did i understand that correctly . Bestows what you want, the people are terrible the merchants and resident roots that similar problems with sfmta. That had meetings with us but it is not been well advertised in the community. When we finally managed the leaflet the community ourselves to tell them what actually was happened because as of the third and final meeting, where the staff was announcing what changes they have made based on Community Input there were hundreds of people who didnt have any idea the stops were being removed. According hours were being booked because the sunset when upset come to an open house on the old sourdough. The make the capital more efficient and safer this about geary prt we have something similar but i want to know the next time we come to officially be presenting their proposal to you for final approval. Or hopefully you would adopt a terrible plan that would just do it as a trial permitted i was wondering if youd also be willing to meet with the caravelle Merchants Group and residents groups before you get to that point so we can avoid the problem that happen elsewhere where its implemented in most people still dont know what about it because its such anger and dissension in the community. Thanks. Next speaker, please. Anyone else was to speak to the board . Seeing none, members of the board i know mr. Chairman from our agenda this is a presentation on. We have no action on this item. Ive no followup questions but i would think mr. For the presentation and for keeping this board up to date on the progress. Im gary prt anybody else on the board . Director ramos i just want to state up into a part of this process. Actually this is in my second term as a board member here the reason why i was actually appointed to the sports because i was serving on the Citizen Advisory Committee for thegeary prt and i was five years ago and we were hoping that would project wouldve vastly been implemented by now. So theres no rush here. This is long past due i think. There are 50,000 riders on that line every day that i feel, by not doing anything are ignoring the fact that that line were having a hard time getting anybody upon the line anymore. I mean those buses are so crowded now that if youre a person with the ability issues or have any kind of itif you can play twister, and having a hard time getting on a bus and i know because i ride it. I so know that is an auto oriented corridor. A lot of business were set up their to be auto oriented. As such, we should be as sensitive as possible to doing whatever we can to protect and preserve the Small Businesses that are doing business there and we cherish. So, im hoping that Going Forward that we are not necessarily we that we as a city, we as a part of the minutes of howdy are working with the Economic Development agency to make sure putting in place whatever measures we need to make sure the Small Businesses are taken care of in a way that would help transition to what really should be started off as, in transit corridor. I wont say more because is a long meeting but looking forward to having these conversations Going Forward but i certainly am very concerned about making sure the businesses stay afloat both in preparation for the construction during construction, and after construction. In the same way women able to do with essential subway i think weve done phenomenal job working with the businesses and making sure that they stay afloat in that capacity. So i look forward to the conversation. The whole goal is to make it easier for people to access your business, not to make it more difficult. So, i know this project has been under i was the vice chair of the bank may for prop k and 23 in geary prt was in that consideration back then. We been having this conversation for very long time. I think whats hard for us is that it doesnt seem like we have been able to come together the community and mta, to adequately feel comfortable with the project did i know that was a mention of 20 hours, 20 meetings were 20 hours of meetings that might be helpful if there were a list of the top five things were the 10 things that were the pain points of the community that we could address because i think its going to be the easiest way for us to tackle those things. We have a very clear list of suggestions that these of things would make it better. Ive always believe is important to be proactive and resolutions rather than point out the problems which we all can easily do on a number of things but i think we have a lot of great minds and Community Leaders in the Community Across from us as wells people at mta working hard on figuring out how do we also talked about earlier plan for our future. Our population is growing and even growing in the Richmond District as well. I think i saw housing prices are gone up in the Richmond District because of greater demand. No People Living out. We know the system is stressed and we do we cant transport many more people on that system today. So we have to come up with a solution. So, i look forward to working with all of you. I know weve been all been working together and ill begin figure out how we can better communicate with each other and hear each other so that everybody feels like we are doing whats in the best interest of the city and in the community overall. Director borden i think thats extremely well stated argument the positive positive suggestion the top 45 things that are problems as opposed to having 24 hours of meetings. Similar group c or c those before we put four. I definitely support that again this is not an action item. I want to thank our staff for the presentation all the public for being a. Letto the next item item 14 [reading code]. How many . Maybe we can ask the public to give recommendations. When we call on members of the public who want to speak on the shuttle bus issue and in the board will talk about it. [calling names] good afternoon mr. Thomason hi my name is david thomas. Almond with in building manager at 7001 bush st. Me on behalf of our tenants especially tenants who now have the doing windows that face the new shuttle stop those put in a couple of weeks ago. I missed into something of a pilot which is why we are here. I justi would like to point out that when these buses pull in as a Diesel Engine in the back of them. Those megadoesnt that Diesel Engine sits about 15 feet for the bedrooms of some of the tenants in our building and theyre being very negatively impacted could i like you all to consider what it would like to 150 people, 200 people directly outside your bedroom window and have idling Diesel Engines 15 feet from your bed. This is what our tenants are going to especially on the first and second floor where those buseswith this new shuttle stop has been put in. I know are small number of tenants and i can hear from a lot of people benefit from this program. Im not inkyshuttle in any way but this new stop is literally forcing our tenants out of their beds start at 5 40 am every morning. So i ask you to reconsider we are in the neighborhood you would like to put these shuttles. The places that are not that close to where people sleep so thank you for your time. Next speaker, please. [calling names] good afternoon. Hello members of the board. I want to speak first of all, i want to support the shuttle okay shannon at bush. As either standard, you can correct me if im wrong, this is a temporary stop to replace one that used to be at then asked neither california were segments oh while the banas bus Rapid Transit is been constructed. Im not too familiar with that neighborhood and thats on my stockholder am glad the board is working to identify your placement stop while the brd is under construction and accommodate those who get on in that area. I think some of us have had complaints over how stop changes have been made in the past where stocks were moved without there being a proper replacement provided good im glad thats not happening in the case of cost and bush but one place where that is still the cases near the former stop at 18th and church three. We dont have an option for those buses living in the neighborhood. I live at 20th and guerrero. Theres no stop within a halfmile. Its almost 3 4 of a mile to the nearest one at 26 to 25th and valencia. In the evening dropoff. So, speaking to item 14c grade asap at cesar chavez and bartlett, i think this is i think its reasonable to create a stopped there and i think that it would be reasonable to relocate the 25th and valencia stop there if that stopped like everybody go to the stock were well served by that stop. However thats currently serving overflow traffic from people who would prefer a stop your 19 and dolores. So, i would ask you not to move the 25th and valencia stop until an alternative internet even divorce can be established. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. [calling names] good afternoon grew sparsely. I lifted the corner bush and cost. 1701 bush for 21 years. I am in favor of the shuttle buses. Im not thrilled about the buses idling 15 feet i measured it from our windows. For my bedroom window. The diesel tossed is not a lot of fun. They start at 5 40 am which is a little earlier than i used to wake up. Weve always slept with the windows open because its great weather in San Francisco. We dont do that anymore. The biggest were some of the safety problems are that there is a street trees next to the parking where identified for the buses. But they dont pull in there because they cant. The trees are not tall enough to go over the top of the buses. And theyre not able totheyre not able to park in a parking zone which actually takes out a lane of driving rain, two. On golf. Also, it has a problem with people turning from bush onto golf because theyre actually out in the driving lane. [inaudible] i think a solution like would suggest it be to move it to go off and geary. Next of the catholic church, there, there are no apartments or buildings next. Theres actually a lot of room. Theres not that many people dr. Overnight either. Theres no cheese in the way. Its also no further from the van ness than your geary and bush is. Theres no [inaudible] i think i would be a Good Alternative thank you, sir. Next speaker [calling names] are any of those folks are . Hello again hello, again. Thanks for the opportunity to speak about the good im another person that currently rides the shuttle from the 25th and valencia stop. My understanding is the cesar chavez location will potentially be a replacement for that stop. So i really appreciate again that there is replacement and not just removal. As a huge impact on my quality of life being able to take the shuttle from our location. I have seen i want to echo what scott said. Ive seen a larger influx of riders since the stop was a limited your church and 18. So, its going to add to blocks to my commute. Im okay with that. I think have stronger affect on people who already becoming further because there stop was moved. So, i just applied you sort of making a replacement and ask that it be consideration for adding a stop closer to the dolores park neighborhood. Thank you. Next speaker, please. [calling names] last person whos turning a speaker card. Hi. My name is mark hurwitz. I live again on farrow street 23. The stop that valencia 25th is one i use. I think that moving itself to make the school saver is good but actually having more stops will actually improve the pocket when the big problems is about congestion but i think overall the reduction of number of sauces increase congestion at various places around the city. See more stops would give the people the opportunity the fewer shuttles acting individual stocks and reduce congestion people say around that sort of thing. So assuming charge the urgency of replacing the other stops in front instead of delete one at one. Its only not reducing the number is very good. Josie on our topless communication. There was agenda for this meeting said it indicated we would be removing the stop but in fact, there was no communication posted around the location and the agenda for the meetings for this previously discussed adding the stop at cesar chavez and bartlett did not discuss any possibility of removing the stop at valencia and 2050 or so i think thats something that perhaps we can do better communication with people who are the writers and affected by this members of the board spewing i do feel the matter where we put a stop or move the stop on were running into problems. I dont pretend to be an expert in any of these locations but maybe the way forward to today always is to approve these people should be willing to walk a little bit further for once you ride to the destination, but i think theres a limit about people are willing to work. The one with the bus idling outside of peoples bedrooms, i absolutely feel you on that. Theres nothing worse that diesel smell right outside your house so maybe on about one it looks like heres a big we are located at good releases in a fantastic step out to look for an option that wont be outside which may not exist. Provide just a quick overview of the key points you need to snow. This is largely the material you have been seeing all the along and the good work of moe neek and her staff have. Terrific. Thank you. Thank you. I want to ask quickly roberta presentation on the [pause]. Unless you brought it . Did you bring it . So sorry about that. Okay. So well just do a quick summary of the points that were going to make today. So good afternoon im moe neek webster with sfmta finance division. And what were bringing before you for adoption today is the. Capital improvement program. The program is a rolling 5year road map. To advance the strategic goals of our agency all while keeping all while being focused, efficient, and effective with the money and resources we have to us. Some of this information will be available to you. Capital budget but whats different today is were presenting the overall comprehensive 5year program, which we bring to you for approval every two years. In your materials for today is a 200page document that describes in detail over 250 projects and all their Funding Sources. And there are many many people who are involved in the development of this program. And its led by the Capital Financial planning and analysis team. And im going to turn it over quickly to arial as par tiew santo who is the leader of that team. Thank you. Good afternoon. Thank you. And thank you monique. And thank you for your patience as we deal it reminds me back in the day when we had the [indecipherable] in the classroom. So as monique mentioned, you already seen a portion of this presentation as we presented the budget. So im going to move through it quickly. First two years of that are the Capital Budget that came to you folks in april. And as you remember, what we think as cip is, its really the implementation tool for all of the strategies and plans that the city has and the region and the mta. So we apply the financial constraints to our capital plan to come up with what set of projects were going to deliver with the revenue we expect to see over the next five years. Some of the main goals that were pushing for through this plan are vision zero, transit first and state repair. Were very focused on safety and were also looking at investing in areas of concern. So building on that, one of the things that were very proud of is that weve been able to include recommendations from the muni equity strategy in the. So as you recall our 2year budget is implementing all the recommended Capital Project that came out of that strategic effort. So were really happy to be able to see that reflected in here. We also want to talk a bit about how weve taken into account the potential ballot measures this year. So as youre aware, there was a major effort through the Mayors Office transportation 2030. Citywide. So several recommendations came out of that, one of which is the gee owe nn bond passed in dwiewrn. Potential sales tax measure. Were looking at putting on the ballot this year. So we have assumed assumptions related to that ballot measure in our cip. We put 45 to 65 Million Dollars per year starting in fiscal year 18 moving forward. Does a bit of involving process getting more information about what that measure would actually look like. Weve weighed out the details here based on the latest information. So they based on where were seeing the proposed Charter Amendment now, it looks like there would actually be somebody available. Stwent Million Dollars for transportation and then 100 million for every year after that. Those dollars are split within various categories in the sales tax measure ranging from muni service, investment in suite facilities, infrastructure, investment in regional projects, investment in vision zero and a portion for street resurfacing. All of those various surfaces combined, yo look at our 5year picture youve seen a slide like this before, but were happy to show that our 5year program right now is 1721 is in fact large rch the previous 5year program from 15 to 19. And on top of that if you were to look at the course [indecipherable] and exclude the central subway major project were actually increasing our investment by over 20 . For later for your perusal, you can look at this very detailed chart which breaks out our expected funding and expenditures by Program Level across the five years. So youll see again those two years Capital Budget and they add up to 3. 4 billion over the five years. And we do want to call out that for the first time were going to be actually investing a portion of our fund balance in Capital Projects, as you approved theres over 75 Million Dollars in those first two years being focused on priority projects coming out of our fund balance reserve. The next few slides call out some of the key projects in the Different Program areas. Again, these are fairly similar to the slides you saw with the Capital Budget. So im not going to spend time on them individually. If you have any questions, were happy to speak in more detail. I think we will move on to the last slide, which shows that this developing the cip has been almost a year long effort for my team. Theres a lot involved in terms of vetting it internally and externally. And so, we want to highlight that we did significant outreach, spoke with many different stakeholder groups, spoke with you several times. Additionally, the individual projects that are represented in this program also have their own outreach strategies. And with the hopeful adoption of the cip today, that outreach doesnt end. Were still planning to do some additional poatadoption outreach and add this is really a living document. You have the beautiful pdf look to look at now, but as of tomorrow its probably obsolete. Were always updating it and keeping it so it reflects our most recent budget and is priority. As those change, well continue our efforts to keep the community informed. Thank you. Thank you for the presentation. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. [indecipherable]. Yes, you have one member of the public. Lets hear from one member of the public. We have turned in the speaker card on this matter. Get the screen back . Its been a long afternoon for all of us. Car man historic. Im very pleased to be with you here today. I will just take a short amount of time, because it is approaching the cocktail hour, right . Im here as a private citizen, a resident, long time interest in transportation. And a lot of experience in planning and financing projects at the federal level, at the regional level, and here locally. More importantly as the former one of the former, several executive directors weve had at the Transportation Authority. What i wanted to talk to you about today is the fort mason extension. You heard at the beginning of today several people testify about the need for that project and how important it is not just to a bunch of people who are streetcar enthusiasts, let me assure you, okay . But to people who care about mobility and access in the city and about opportunities. And this project is definitely an opportunity. It is, i think, one that meets the policy criteria that are outlined in the staff memo. And i dont know why it is not specifically included in the capital program. Because funds have been identified and a public planning process, however different it may have been from the way muni goes about business because of the coordination and collaboration necessary for the National Parks service, we are at a point where we need to begin preliminary engineering of this project. And the window for the validity of the eis is a limited window. The funding has been identified, not committed, but identified, and so, i would encourage you to, as you go forward with adoption to look at ways to include this project. Time is of the essence. Thank you so much for the time for your time. Members of the board, closure . [indecipherable] . Sief as part of the cip one of muni forts goals is service improvements. And again i want to improve. Reduction in service and not an improvement. But another goal under the cip is the 5year layout of implementing the Rapid Network serving nearly 70 of all riders to promote to provide more frequent and reliable service. We have asked that rapid buses be put on the [indecipherable] corridor so people who are commuting during busy rush hours can use Rapid Service and without eliminating the bus stop that so many other people need. So that would be a winwin situation for sour community make it, put on some rapid buses and let us keep our bus stops. And i have lived here in San Francisco for over 38 years. And i was always proud of the fact San Francisco has had a reputation for taking care of its elderly and disabled residents. And part of that is we have bus stops at least in my Community Every two blocks. Now i understand mtas goals spacing bus stops up to 1500 feet. That just doesnt work for our community. And for a lot of San Francisco where we have so many elderly residents. And even though a lot of younger people are moving into the city, we still have a very large aging population and longterm planning, in 30 years a lot of those young people are going to be aging. And i want to tell you briefly about mary. She uses the alter ra shes 100 years old. It takes her 10 minutes to walk to her stop. Because that stop is there, it gives her the freedom, independence, and dignity to be able to get around San Francisco independently. We convinced mta not to take away the stop. But there are people like mary all over the tar raville community who need their stops. Thank you. Address the board on this one . Seeing none, [indecipherable]. I will be happy to make a motion to approve. By i want to ask since this is a living document, do we have the ability to add things in such as the fort mason extension. Yes. So this is a living document. What per Charter Amendment you approve the Capital Budget every two years. And within that we have authority up to 5 of the total budget to make changes. So we could add other projects into it without requiring additional approval. And what would sort of the process for that be . Because i dont want it to be that, you know, we mandate what goes in there and in this onetime fell thing. I think it would be good to look at that project. Because i think including that in our cip would help that project move along. It sounds like theres some pretty good support for that. I want to note it is included in the cip. We have almost. Prop k Sales Tax Program to that project in the cip right now for preliminary phases. We dont have a funding plan for the full project. And baz the cip is a fiscally constrained. We can only add things in we have funding identified for. We can Fund Projects phase by phase and in this case have the preliminary work funded now and continue to look for solution for future phases. And i would just add, if i may, that absence of funding beyond what weve have is reasonably able to commit such as the prop k funding, would not at all preclude us from seeking additional funding to advance project which is our intent and i heard from the board chair his direction as well. For example, the federal whrand access to Parks Program that one of the earlier speakers mentioned we anticipate notice of Funding Availability in early 2017 is what we understand. Well certainly be aggressively pursuing that for this project. So i wouldnt want folks to be kurnd because we just want been able to identify funds for the project its not guilty something well try to advance. But we just need to find the Funding Source for this. Well be pursuing that as soon as that notice comes out. Thank you. Thats excellent then. I have no questions. Thank you both for not only the presentation but for sticking it out for the length of the meeting. I have a question did you say this was built on the assumption also the additional sales tax were seeking in the fall or all just based on the baseline right now . So we have included assumption from the sales tax in the cip yes. And in the Capital Budget that we approved. That same slide is what weve shown you. So where we are assuming that. So what happens . God forbid obviously theres things going on before it and separately we have to get this before the public. What is our default or back position if that doesnt come through for some reason . Well, but primarily we wont be able to advance some projects in those category that is we showed on the slide that we are hoping to advance. So on the order of i dont know 12 million a year vision zero funding. Theres similar amounts for transit state good repair funding. That much less wed be able to do if we dont have another Funding Source to come in behind it unfortunately. What would we deprioritize if unfortunately didnt work out for us. Essentially in every category we have prior toization criteria were using. We go as far down the list of priorities as we can given the funding we anticipate. So if theres less funding, we would just have to dial back up categories say vision zero or muni state repair or some of the other muni forward implementation that we are anticipating potential sales tax revenue to help augment. Thank you. Motion to second. All say aye. Thank you very much. Item 16. Amendment 3 contract with al ston. Inventory services to extend contract additional two years for additional amount of 41 million. Total contract not to exceed 80 million 698,000. Mr. Chairman theres no members of public who wish to address you on this matter. Good afternoon. Good evening, its a pleasure to be the first one on the second shift to make the presentation [laughter] i will in fact you i could speak for hours on this topic and im sure youd appreciate that. But let me make a couple of points that well share with you in the highlight. First of all, i wanted to come to celebrate with you for what has been a tremendous success. Success in three ways. When you approved on this initiative some three years ago, what the results have been have been improvements in the service in the reliability, in the availability of the rail service. When you take the lrvs today, when you ride the rail service, l, ms always have 2car trains. Because weve been able to stabilize the availability. A key factor has been this Major Management initiative, which also leads to a second benefit that weve realized from this process. When this was introduced to you three years ago by brain child of our finance and materials management people, what they did was introduce a blended concept or a hybrid concept for management that would allow us to both take control of the way we manage the inventory. Thats very important when you think about the range of cars, the type of equipment youve heard a lot today about different types of modes in cars. So no. 1, weve got a strong contract. No. 2, weve bfn able to as the charts indicate, weve been able to reduce the stockouts, reduce the value of inventory. Weve saved real money. Thats the second. So from a business standpoint, its the second measure of success. The service, the business practices, and the efficiency. Third standpoint weve really drawn a new paradigm for the business model. And by that what weve done is develop an ongoing dialogue with our existing work force and Civil Service to preserve the jobs, to preserve the system. Build on that by introducing best practices from the private sector. Using a firm al ston nn with experienced car builder, experienced car manufacturer who understands our system, understands the industry, has access and contracts to parts. What thats been able to do is allow us to improve our planning, make sure that were focused on the critical parts 50 critical parts. Things for brakes, things for doors, things for propulsion system that youve heard us talk about. So with that, what weve seen over the last three years is really a spectacular success in terms of the performance. And what we ask of you today albeit very briefly and again, im very happy to expand on this is to continue your support, to extend this contract for two years and to put additional money in the contract to allow us to do this. So that is the 30second summation. Im happy to take additional questions, or im happy to go back and walk you through the 21 slides that i have prepared. [laughter] thank you for the presentation. Thank you very much. Members of the public here to speak on mr. Hailys presentation . Are you speaking on this one . [indecipherable] anything else, right . Managed inventory. Well, im [indecipherable] johnson. And i think this goes to a deeper subject, you know, because on a lot of issues why things havent been done is because theyve been playing games. I think we should do something about this, because the issue that they did before that was another game. [indecipherable] in here and they set me up for a [indecipherable]. Took it out and then some stupid things. And i think this is, you know, because i had when i got out [indecipherable] and i went straight to washington, d. C. And what happened when i was there is that, again members were absent. And when they come after me, they couldnt handle it. They all went crazy. And they couldnt believe it. They put ne in prison for it. And this is where im talking about the supervisor is real serious [indecipherable]. Because this is already happened before on me [indecipherable]. I think this is a big issue. You know, we need to keep this war going [indecipherable]. Make no sense now of these issues. Because what were having [indecipherable] new ideas, new success. During process and business. [indecipherable] we need to make room for it and you know get this issue. Thank you. Anyone else want to address this board on this subject . Seeing none, motion . Motion to [indecipherable]. All those in favor say aye. Thank you very much. Whether to conduct a closed session. Motion to move to closed session. Is there a second . All those in favor say aye. Thank you mr. Chairman. Put the roll into closed session. Good morning everybody and welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors budget and finance committee. Special meeting for monday, july 18th, 2016. My name is mark farrell, and i will be chairing this committee and joined by committee vicechair, supervisor tang and supervisors wiener and supervisor [pefpbg ]in and thank our clerk and leo from sfgtv for covering the meeting. Any announcement s. Please science all cell phones and Electronic Devices and completed speaker cards and copies of documents to be completed as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Thank you thank you, madam can clerk, call item 1. Ordinance amending the business and tax regulations code toix possess a transaction and use tax at rate of onehalf of 1 for 25 years to impose the San Francisco county Transportation Authority and administered by the state board of equalization. Thank you, madam clerk. So colleagues, sponsored by supervisor wiener and turn it over to him. Thank you very much, mr. Chair this. Measure which is twothirds dedicated halfcent sales tax for transportation is a essentially a backup measure. We have been working for months to move forward a general sales tax threequarters of a cent and accompanying Charter Amendment allocating funds twothirds to transportation needs, onethird to permanent exit from homelessness into housing. This backup is pending as well and ultimately its my hope and desire that well move the Charter Amendment and the threequarters cent sales tax on to the ballot, and that this measure will become moot. But we have kept it alive, simply as a backup. And so, after Public Comment, i will make a motion orly i will request that the committee move it out of committee. Thank you, supervisor wiener. Colleagues my questions or comments . Okay, well open up to Public Comment. Anybody wishing to comment on this item . Eileen district 4 resident in opposition. In general sales tax increases disproportionately affect low and fixed income people. Specifically there are a number of inconsistencies with this ordinance. First the title of the ordinance reads half sent sales tax increase, but its onehalf of 1 brs, which is is correct. And as supervisor wiener said there are two different sales tax proposals under consideration. You have both supervisor wiener has a name as sponsor of both and both on the full board tomorrow. Items 39 and 74. However, only one has the mayor as the sponsor, and as supervisor farrell has stated only one will be moving forward. And so that begs the question, who is on first . And if for any chance both do move Forward Together i would urge an amendment that both sales tax measures are listed together on the ballot. This would be for the sake of consistency and full disclosure. Thank you. Any other members of the public wish to comment on the item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Supervisor wiener any other comments . That is it. I understand from the hearing last week, that the committee had indicated that this would be agendized as a Committee Report so it would move out for tomorrow. So i would request an appropriate motion by the committee. Okay. So colleagues, we have, i think, the Committee Report. More it with or without recommendation . I will make a recommendation to send out as a Committee Report without recommendation. Okay. Motion by supervisor tang. Seconded by supervisor yee. We can take that without objection. [ gavel ]. Administrate clerk, call item s2 and 3 together, please. Item 2, resolution determining and declaring that the Public Interest and necessity demand the acquisition, improvement and rehabilitation and conversion of at[reufbgs ] multiunit residential buildings to permanent Affordable Housing and performing needed seismic, fire, health and safety upgrades and other major rehabilitation in an amount nottoexceed 350 million. Item no. 3 ordinance calling and providing for a special election to be held in the city on november 8, 2016 for the purpose of submitting to San Francisco voters a proposition to amend proposition a. Okay. Thank you very much. These items were sponsored by supervisor peskin. So i will turn the mic to him. Thank you, chair farrell and thank you for accommodating the amendment that i offered in conjunction with the Mayors Office last week, which necessitated this hearing today, subject to Public Comment. I would like for the committee to forward the matters to the full board for their consideration to put forth on the ballot. Okay. Thank you. Colleagues, any questions or comments . Okay. Well open up to Public Comment. Anyone wishing to comment on these items . Eileen district 4 resident. I would urge the committee to move this forward with recommendation. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else wishing to publicly comment on these items . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [ gavel ] i would like to make a motion to second forth the items with recommendations for Committee Reports. Motion by supervisor tang. Seconded by supervisor yee. We can take those without objection. Madame clerk, any other business in front of us today . No, mr. Chair. Thank you, everybody, we are adjourn ed [ gavel ] okay welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors budget finance subcommittee for wednesday, july 20, 2016, my name is mark farrell ill be chairing the committee and joined by supervisor yee and by the supervisor tang. Thank you clerk linda wong and mark as Nona Melkonian from sfgovtv for covering the meeting madam clerk, any announcements . Yes. Yes. Board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you, madam clerk we were here quite late madam clerk call number one. The approval for the calendar year 2017 to remove the rates from ohio and colleagues this is something i sponsored on the health board and the representative i want to welcome the amazing director katherine dodd. Thank you. Good morning members of the board brown today a administrative code for the Health Service and calendars year 2017 this the stacey a Monthly Contribution the charter requires the employer contribute towards the Health Premiums for the 10 couldnt average based on the 10 months populous counties they use the average amount to the retiree rates asia to a couple of unions not adopted the percentage contribution this years 10 county average increases 4. 4 percent and all Health Service insurance have increased substantially this only which of the first cost driver the cost of the inhibitions and outofpocket cost driven by large hospital consolidation this is the rapidly cost increase for the drugs to treat cancer and cure hispanics c and other anti viral drugs and others anti you mean minute drugs although we have many drugs as generic for several years the mustards are increasing the costs of generics to get a profit late cost driver that the services is hss members the utilization will considers unfortunately, our membership depresses chronic illness our wellbeing program is so important Health Services is in compliance with the characters passes in 2010, the Health Service board approved a Second Opinion for all members estimate 44 percent of medical diagnosed are incorrect and financial and human costs the hss manage care of plans have less Second Opinions and now Renowned Experts and a with expertise in certain areas all hss members will be able to call or email the doctors and release their records to get a Second Opinion this has adam 1 to the cost and within the trust by 0. 95 to pay for communication casts and wellbeing per the charter this is calculated into the Health Premium and the rates are decreased with the rate agreements guaranteed through 2019 you may recall that Kaiser Permanente decreased if 2017 and held them flat the katrero park increases 4. 7 increase and added a cop structure to match blue shield neither of the plans changes the premium costs it is important to note it hiv drugs are excluded in the drug charge adding best doctors for the fund and the Kaiser Permanente increases for the actives amount to 5 percentage the Kaiser Permanente medicaid advantage increases 8 percent for the Sustainability Fund with the premium increase for medicare is 8. 76 percent the blue shield for active uses and others retirees are 3. 79 percent weve funded blue shield the employer takes the risk up to a certain dollar amount we pay the pharmacy and the other costs we continue to work with blue shield with significant success to keep the costs down adding the best doctors and sustainability fee bring the blue shield to 4. 682 percentage with the retiree there over 16 percent working with blue shield and the proposed lowered to 10. 2 the actuary recommended to accept the proposal and expand the ppo that was offered the first time and the medicare decreasing the rate increase by 11 percent our selffunded ppo administrative code by the a. K. A. Would have increased by 48 plus percentage for actives and early retirees and the Health Service board used the Rate Stabilization to reduce those from 12 mrs. Percentage the ppo ac was calculated at the 29 percentage with the actuary voted to the new city plan ppo rather than continuing the selffunding this as fundamental change not a benefit change the reduction this reduces the ppo increased to 14 percent the overall increase for 2017 would have cost 14 plus 9 million by adapting the ppo instructions only to 2 want 5 percent at the 5. 3 those amount to a Million Dollars our active selfdelta ppo increased by. 8 were reduced by 6 percent for 2016 over 2017 and are the same for 2017 the Pacific Delta plan for the retirees that adam an Additional Service lifelong disability andtions for the actives is florida inchanged in 2019 beginning in smoking on the status of insured and this again decrease the premium by an average of 7. 1 percent overall a total increase for the benefits is overall the total average compares favorably with the 9 percent i realize i may have received concerns from the medical retirees i want to assure you the plan will payal plans through by physician that accepts medicare and we believe the concerns are unwaeshtd the new ppo has a broader plan than the old city plan it has additional benefits and the lower premiums through Kaiser Permanente and low copay we hope to dispel the confusion what is covered along with our Kaiser Permanente there will be 20 members of the committee to help to educate and 5 town hall members that cant attend because of timing or that distance during and before enrollment i also know that representatives from Kaiser Permanente and blue shield and United Health care are here i urge your approval thank you director dodds. Supervisor yee. Good morning, ms. Dodd i have a related question i noticed that your reserves for the trust fund has been dwindled quite a bit from 11 millions to 3 million or so im wondering are there any plans to replenish to grow that back up are we in any danger you know of a shortage. Weve spent the reserve amount over the last two years to buy down the early retiree active and rates to make them comprehensive with blue shield and capillary this year the board went through two rate deliberations what to buy down our policy is to set aside 1 3rd of any excess not excel by premiums over expenditures and to amortize any decreases over 3 years that amount would so been 3. 679 millions the rate increased 48 percent plus to further decrease those costs and i dont believe that we are in we still have whats the balances pamela . Whatever 11 millions plus 3. 79 is. So theres 3. 79 that should be adequate nonetheless we have a tremendous number of sick people and if it isnt we will amortize any loss over 3 years but increase the premiums obviously. Im curious whats the average autumn that youve had in theyre for the last 10 years. I think. I dont have that stabilization we implemented this policy of amortizing both Blue Cross Blue Shield and the delta dental and the city plan we implemented it i think 6 years ago but we could go back and get that information to you there was a period because the premiums went up so high a lot of people left and left us with a surplus in stabilization we spent down the surplus last year. I have one other question regarding the Long Term Disability insurance i noticed a decrease of 7. 1 percent over and over Something Like that which is curious to me. The decrease was based on our agreeing to give a percentage to the Insurance Company with a low amount of smokers so they decreased our amount and luckily only 2. 7 percent of our employees are smokers the National Average is 22 percent. Im happy to see the decrease. Thank you. Okay. Thank you colleagues, any further questions okay mr. Rose, can we go to your report. For number one. Yes. On page 7 shown in table one of the total estimated city and member costs for delta plans and Long Term Disability and Life Insurance is 63 Million Dollars plus in 2017 which is a 4. 79 increase in the 2016 the fidelity estimated cost for the health and dental plan as well as the Long Term Disability and Life Insurance for the city itself in 2017 is 581 million approximately 24. 3 or an increase in the 4 hundred Million People in 2016 we recommend that you approve that ordinance. Thank you mr. Rose any questions for the budget analyst anyone wish to comment commissioner or hss fellow commissioner ms. Breslin a hero and want to recognize here if there are any other commissioners, i apologize but anyone want to comment youll have 2 minutes and additional people want to speak please line up against the wall with 2 minutes to speak. Good morning my name is Karen Breslin im a member of the benefits and on the Health Service board they voted 4 to 2 to remove the existing city plan and blue shield for the eligible retirees theyll be put into the new plan a special meeting held at a different times and place teleconference rushed through with little notice to our members and the board member i was kept in the dark until 3 days before this roams removes a choice for the city plan employees that is a selffunded plan and all assets and liabilities blink to the city or trust the plan is a United Health care plan and calling this the new city plan a misleading and will confuse the members when the medicaid retirees are removed the only members remaining will be actives and early retirees theyre the highest cost and there will be little subsidy left for the next year there are under 2000 members there has been no explanation how this plan will be sustainable the only plan the retirees have available to move out of area it only covers methodology retirees no explanation of how medicare of employees living outside of the u. S. Are covered they cover the medicare retirees seeing local dollars it is a good choice as last year but not a mandated. One more statement. Sure. Sure. To the rushed many questions have been met unanswered this causes a lot of confusion and distrust and will you put a lot of staff at extra work thank you. Thank you, commissioner. Next speaker, please. My name is july 4th kit are retired City Employee and a resident of district 7 i have here letters from the protect our benefits president larry on his views and oath copies for everyone. I just want to say i have for many, many years been in city plan one and want to continue in that plan the city plan is important to keep because not all decreases take medicare the highly skilled decreases treating a serious disease didnt take medicare the differences of quality of services the city plan allows access to all decreases and freedom of choice that is the plan you want to do away with it is a selfplan administrative code by the United Health care that provides a visit to all an actual decrease for a Second Opinion not the case in what is proposed in the change thank you thank you for your time. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Chief Financial Officer ive been asked by director dodd to read into the record a letter that she received from greg the commission on the Health Service board dear kablth republican thank you for your offer to remain on the finance committee for the fully funded medicare ppo plan that replaces the blue shield 65 plus plan and the selfinsured plan for retirees as a commissioner and former chief Financial Officer for the department of health and former acting chief Financial Officer for the Health Service i studied the issues thoroughly and took time from meeting with our actuary before voting i remain convinced the plan will have broader geographic come over and a lower cost than the plan that replaces i understand the concerns of retired members that worry about access to theory physicians and hospital i too am a medicare eligible retiree and will be losing my blue shield conform i was concerned about losing any says, however, im satisfied this will not be an issue u h c has data indicating 94 percent of physicians already participating in this plan and those physicians current provide 95 percent plus of the services in addition no changes in the covered Services Member cops are lower and an importantly the total monthly cost is lower than the blue shield 65 plus plan city plan and even the Kaiser Permanente Medicare Advantage plan plus i have plus a fully insured plan no risk of under funding that will require the retention reserves for a selffunded plan adoption of this plan was 4. 5 percent increase in costs to the overall medicare population versus and 13 plus there from the continuation of the preexisting plan in terms of Cost Containment it reduces the liability for forced employment retirement i urge the budget and finance to support this plan seller greg health system. Okay. Next speaker, please. Herbert wiener first, i want to announce i hold shares in United Health 98 of them. My concern is about the City Health Plan for one thing it is a very Good Health Plan the enar very of the rest of the country a comprehensive plan the people who are members are satisfied with that now, one concern i have is that okay. Youre going to eliminate this plan for retirees eventually and eliminate for actives and retirees 65 years of age this is a road to that the other concern is okay. You will have we have two new plans now as retirees either Kaiser Permanente and the United Health plan some people swear by Kaiser Permanente and not everyone is happy with the plan and the only choice you have is United Health the ppo, now the rates are very low for the ppo for United Health however, there is nothing to stop them from jacking up the rates and the only alternative is Kaiser Permanente now suppose that Kaiser Permanente and United Health jack i am the prices like the other ribbon barons in 1998 the rates went up for the City Health Plan skyhigh and people fled as a result of that if the rates go skyhigh where will people go maybe San Francisco General Hospital i dont know. But this is really a disaster in my opinion that was rushed through i think the message was pleased you have to approve this and make the wrong decision quickly this is the wrongs way to do business and i think we should protest is this should be perpetual this is on outrage thank you okay. Thank you very much anyone wish to comment. Okay seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Colleagues if any questions or comments. Otherwise lets entertain a motion. Through the chair i mean i appreciated ms. Defendants deposition explanation not only in committee but the information im comfortable with moving forward i have to hear from the members of the public or the Health Commission ill move to send to the full board with positive recommendation. Motion by supervisor tang and a seconded by supervisor yee and without objection madam clerk call items two and three together. The resolution for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency on behalf of the city to execute a Grant Application all the time and recommended documents from the state of california housing and Sustainable Community program as as joint applicant with the the mercy housing and item 3 a resolution for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency on behalf of the city to execute a Grant Application a grant all the time and related documents under the state of california Affordable Housing and Sustainable Community programs as joint applicant with the tenderloin neighborhood for the project on eddy street. Thank you very much welcome back. Thank you chair farrell and supervisors Sophie Hayward from the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development the two resolutions before you are each associated with an application for cap trade funds for the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Program we call it go a6 for short each the projects contain Affordable Housing with a transit oriented improvement to make to competitive and to achieve the maximum must be of points those two projects on fell and eddy have requested that the city the sfmta sign on as as joint applicant those resolutions before you authorize the sfmta to officially sign as planners for the cap trade fund the two resolutions were originally heard at the land use committee, however, after the hearing the state released on application which provided specific language that must be included in its final resolutions indicating the Transit Agency has the authority to sign on as a joint applicant those resolutions have been amended and i have distributed the amended versions essentially oh, and based on the changes their referred to the Budget Committee the two resolutions function as a apply forceps and expend grant approval if the applications are successful we complete the projects were happy to make the candidates because the nature of the program the Cap Trade Program requires the successful applications seriously sooeshld be shovel ready entitled projects ready to go the emotion the cap trade serve as a substitute so for other city funds and allow us to stretch our dollars further first on 55 fell street is as long as as parcel o a 100 percent accountable new construction approximately, six thousand square feet of retail commercial and Community Space the project didnt contain in any offStreet Parking but bike that concludes my remarks but have freeway parcel organization was kur7b8 vacate and low remain under city ownership and turn it into mercy housing for the travel the sfmta the Grant Application consists of 7 bulb outs and assessable signal upgrades along la go down and oak and other mediums along octavia boulevard the total application is over 16 million approximately 1 million of those will be a loan to mercy housing for successful and just over one millions a grant to the city for the transit related improvements and then the second projects is on eddy street and that project sponsor for the housing consultant is tenderloin and the total application in that project is for 5 millions and 4 million plus is a loan to the tndc and approximately 16 thousand a grant to the city for transit related improvements the assembly apartment built in the 19234 in need of a sustainable rehabilitation and the financing for the project of which the cap trade funds are critical will insure that the property will maintain the affordability with the conditions and integrity for the long term the sfmta transit component to that project will economist of converting the painted safety zones on the corners no more the yosemite apartment to the concrete bulb outs that concludes my presentation. There are representatives from the sfmta here as well to answer any questions. Thank you ms. Hayward supervisor yee. Thank you for your presentation ms. Hayward can you explain the fact that were applying for a grant and if we receive the grant that a big chunk the grant will be a loan. I mean didnt mean we actually dont have a grant just a loan. I can try to explain its been a confusing process through the state and the nature of the Program Requires we that the Affordable Housing partner with the transit oriented improvement is actually comes in two separate parts by far the largest part is very long term loan to the housing developer for the Affordable Housing the try grant part is to the sfmta to support their transit work so the vast majority of work b will go to the nonprofit developer and the only true grant part is to the sfmta. Is there any advantage of these organizations to take the loan is if later than usual i mean. The i understand the loan is a loan that will be paid back but a very, very long term loan that functions as as grant at the end of the term theyll refinance it and do it again. So it saves the city money we dont have to provide the gap funding for that. Okay i dont completely understand why were doing this but well far brief to use the state than the local funds. Oh, okay. Theres the answer. Thank you ms. Hayward all right. Colleagues, any further questions open up for Public Comment anyone wish to comment on item number two or three seeing none, Public Comment is closed. So colleagues would like to accept the amendments and move forward so moved. Motion by supervisor tang and seconded by supervisor yee without objection and madam clerk item 4 auto item 4 a resolution approving the agreement with s p x not to exceed thirty force an initial term for a installation for post 5 years xhoens for the extension for a total term not to exceed 16 years. Okay. Thank you mta to speak in the presentation is that up on the sfgovtv can we do the power point . There we go. Great, thank you. Good morning chair farrell and members of Budget Committee ami i work for the sfmta and the project manager. Im here today to present the terms of our fare box contract that was a approved by the sfmta board of directors on june 2, 81, id like to go over some backward and rational currently all the muni vehicles residential design fare box that date back to 1991 and theyre reaching the end of their useful life their refurnished but not upgraded and the fare box manufacturer cubic no longer supports those fare boxs for altogether there are also insufficient fare box sees and they dont so some of the overall benefits of the in any fare box is the reliability and accounting and tracking for revenues and ridership the