Good morning today is february 10, 2015 welcome to the San Francisco Transportation Authority finance committee of the Transportation Authority im supervisor avalos and the clerk is steve item one roll call vote. Supervisor avalos supervisor campos supervisor cohen supervisor kim supervisor mar absent we have quorum. Great we have quorum on to the next item. Consent calendar items 2 to 3 those items are considered route and staff is to the required to present if anyone objects they can be removed. Colleagues questions or comments on item two to three arrest Public Comment for those two items Public Comment is on on the consent calendar and seeing no members of the public come forward well close Public Comment and have a roll call vote for our meeting minutes. Supervisor avalos. Oh, im sorry oh and supervisor avalos. Supervisor campos supervisor cohen supervisor kim supervisor mar absent consent calendar passes. Very good the items passes on to the next item and item 4 federal and state
Good afternoon, supervisors im a homeowner on washington street in student sophisticating San Francisco it is few things that defines san franciscans awhile raising how the ivory sale in its complexity i encounter san franciscans that are uniformly shocked and appalled and acting a total ban will not be easy royals the importance a San Francisco motivated by the experience of pulling streetcars uphill introduced our incongress cable cars that makes it is important to end the suffering and the nomination are social advocating the right to be regardless of race gender or species representatives of the cultural folks marched together protest the sale of irony it was the second largest in the world 0 stop this existence where we have cultural cooperates around the World Without that there is no hope i saw an asian woman give information to the youth i say an example that is positive thank you very much. Thank you very much. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors im pat hugh ive lived in
Not a lot of people want to bid this in terms of meeting the federal requirements we prepared the analysis because that project cost was something we wanted to see if we could lower and minimize the risk of construction and frankly, weve done just that we went to the analysis study that exclude the contractors as well as engineering experts they are recommendation to shift Hillcrest Road to the north and frankly push the roads into the hillside and build a tiered retaining wall this will approve the retrofitting and tida it will require additional jerry and an environmental analysis but the good news we over all project cost lore we see it 66 million and we believe that the Contracting Community will be very anxious more of the contracts to bid the job just the pictures here show whats in right the shifting to the north this is a Cross Section showing where in essence were going to build one bridge out of the 3 by shifting the roads into the hillside more retaining walls thirty to 50 f
Good afternoon, supervisors im a homeowner on washington street in student sophisticating San Francisco it is few things that defines san franciscans awhile raising how the ivory sale in its complexity i encounter san franciscans that are uniformly shocked and appalled and acting a total ban will not be easy royals the importance a San Francisco motivated by the experience of pulling streetcars uphill introduced our incongress cable cars that makes it is important to end the suffering and the nomination are social advocating the right to be regardless of race gender or species representatives of the cultural folks marched together protest the sale of irony it was the second largest in the world 0 stop this existence where we have cultural cooperates around the World Without that there is no hope i saw an asian woman give information to the youth i say an example that is positive thank you very much. Thank you very much. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors im pat hugh ive lived in
Customer service center. We need to establish this is in fact a senior so we can give them the right card and pass. And then the new clipper card will be sent to that customer in the mail with a litter stating this is their free pass and how to use that pass on a daily basis. For the rtc card for the riders with disabilities those with existing rtc cards the process will be similar to the senior cards. They will just complete an Application Online or by mail or through 311 and the rtc number is required listed on top of the rtc card. Most people are familiar with this card. Much like the senior card the pass will be loaded remotely and theyll receive notice via mail that the pass is now active. If the customer is new to the program and does not have an rtc card they lrp need to visit the mta discount id office which is just across the street from sfmta Customer Service center to apply for the rtc card. This can take between four and five weeks to get approved. Once the customer is appr