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Bic i want to remind everything to you turn off Electronic Devices president mccarthy are commissioner mar. Commissioner lee. Commissioner mccray. Commissioner walker. Commissioner mccray is expected. We have a quorum and the next item is item 2 president announcements good morning. Thank you all for coming here per we have a few things id like to bring to notice. Well be taking a break around 5 to 10 for swearing in of commissioners and well be gone for half an hour and resume at the 10 30. We ...

Items a through e at president arce request. Thank you. Can we start with item a city clerk tock ikz reduction and environmental safety. Chris gooiger. Thank you. Im not going to give you a n if you is you is survey of what the Toxic Program does. I have been asked to talk about the program which is a long standing successful collaboration with puc and other departments. And with apologizes to the commission on environment who have heard this several times in the past years. Let me tell you what...

Is getting work on. In test terms of cost share Replacement Program where you can move to drop tolerant plants which doesnt need much irrigation. We have hit about six parks so far, i believe. Thats great. One last question, have you ever encourage the installation of smart Irrigation Systems which will spray a different amount of water depending on the humidity on the ground . Yes. Commissioner stevenson . You said we are not at the 10 percent goal. Where are we . The 10 percent goal is a curve...

Kilo hertz of the frequency. And it was too old to accommodate the frequency change and so replacement was the only option. And in addition to providing new communications the project will incorporate a myriad of systems and summarized of this that will enable muni to improve the operations across all modes of service and the system will also incorporate the Additional Base stations and included in the coverage throughout the city. Here we have the project budget. At 73 Million Dollars in 2010, ...

Move forward with the project and not have the dollars in place, it is a tool and so we do fund the projects by phase so that the people can get a sense of when the things will start and end and it is implements a lot of the plans that you hear us talk about and the pedestrian strategies and the bike strategy and the fleet plan and other plans and strategies that we have at the mta and we also do not want the funding and acceptability to be a barrier to the projects happening and reason that we ...

Up slightly but it looks like a big dip. Last year, we put 15 million in a capital reserve and were not doing that again. In 9016 were estimating an increase and eliminating all the operating fund balance so again, it looks like were dropping but were increasing our charges for Service Revenue in the following year. So that expenditures were increasing for work orders. The city has changed it credit card approach the new credit card platform the city would take care of the fees but their sending...

Scale and but we also have the shorter term that the mta is responsible for and something as small as a 15,000 bike rack project and so we have the extreme scales from the very small to the very large and the prior to 2012, we have done was a ten year Capitol Investment plan and that included everything that we planned on doing, meaning intentioned on doing and what the needs were and plus the funding that we thought would be available and what constantly showed people is that we had massive gap...

To 10 for swearing in of commissioners and well be gone for half an hour and resume at the 10 30. We hope to go into one the item is the crown terrace item. With that, president s announcements. Good morning were going to continue to work on dbi on the job site at twin peaks where it was a singlefamily home sliding down a slope about 50 feet fortunately the building was unoccupied and more on that later American People on the yawned. Congratulations to director tom huey and a thanks for the dbi ...

Capitol improvement wham that is restricted to the revenues. And so with that, the five year cip is a financially constrained, program of projects and so what we do and what we started last august is that we look at every Funding Source that we intend to getting within the five year period and we are honestly very conservative about those sources and so we typically think that we will get more than we project and we project a very conservative level because we dont want to assure someone that we...

A ten year Capitol Investment plan and that included everything that we planned on doing, meaning intentioned on doing and what the needs were and plus the funding that we thought would be available and what constantly showed people is that we had massive gaps that we could not close and so what we found was the members of the community had very little sense of what the mta would actually deliver and like with the funds that you have, what can i actually see be delivered on the streets of San Fr...