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Good morning today is december 17th 2013 welcome to the San Francisco Transportation Authority my name is john avalos the chair of the authority and todays Authority Meeting is broadcast to us by jessie lar larson thank you for your work. Madam clerk will you please call the roll. Campos absent. Chiu absent. Mr. Farrell farrell present. Commissioner kim. Tang present. Commissioner wiener. Wiener present. We have quorum. . M. Any comments or questions on the minutes . Okay we can do comment on it...

These projects . We just cant fit them all. We looking comprehensively in prop a where we have slab resurfacing and dolores. It was one of the categories that had a financing because we advanced money to the department of public works. Were expecting to see the financing cost go down. Were happy to bring that back to you in january and february at the latest. What that means is that of course we need to look at the program and this money complimenting each other. We also need to look at prop k, ...

Concentrate on reaching that kind of a goal i think we can make Pedestrian Safety really an outstanding feature of life in San Francisco. Thank you. Okay, thank you so much for being here again today and also we really appreciate your patience, mr. Bloomberg, i know you have been very active in the d6 Pedestrian Safety committee and you have also been attending psac meetings. inaudible wrote a letter in support of your candidacy today. I am representing walk sf its certainly a huge priority of o...

Characterize it to yourselves. But in fact, you and the mta have not answered the questions asked for years, how is this better, for people who are vulnerable, whether it is a person with a baby in a stroller, and a toddler, and having to cross an extra couple of intersections whether it is a senior or a person with a disability. We are not hearing any answers, there is an avoidance. The fact that this is meant for engineering design, was used last week and saying that figuratively some of these...

And perhaps call on some of you to go to washington and discuss the opportunities, and with the legislators next spring, and regionally, with the reissue of wean and her campos, and to the adoption last year as was mentioned by the chair and commissioner weiner there has been a strong proposal at the mtc to commit of a significant portion of cap and trade expected revenues to the large three largest transit operators and muni bart and transit and we are grateful for the leadership and for the, y...

Transportation for a more or a safer reliable and more affordable system for all. My report is on your desk and it does highlight several exciting opportunities to discuss transportation revenue and investments and at the federal, state and local levels. I want to start with the federal conversation. It is coming due for reauthorization in october of next year, conversations are already happening there is one talking about the gas tax at the federal level and trying to address the revenue questi...

Mr. President , you have a quorum. President chiu thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, could you please join us in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the United States of america to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. President chiu colleagues, we have october 16, 2012 Board Meeting minutes. Could i have a motion to approve. Motion by supervisor campos, suggested by supervisor chu. Those are approved. Madam clerk, are th...

And muni and ac transit and the change since that time has been a proposal to change the core capacity formulas to savor some of the smaller operators proposes 30 percent to the big 3 and seventy percent to the other operators. The Regional Transit ridership is about eighty percent carried by the big 3 operators and the balance carried by the other operators so that will continue and hope there will be more time to make that formula more equitable across the region. So were monitoring the transp...

We see Going Forward that theres not going to be much change at all, you know, at least for us as a service. Can i ask a quick followon to that one about what at least superficially may seem to be a bit of a contradiction. If the marine corps remains focused primarily on the pacific, but i think at present most people would conceive of most crises not initiating in the pacific. Certainly, there are other places in the world that seem more likely to erupt and require rapid crisis response. So is ...

We will be working with the t. A. Staff and especially with the other agencies applied for obag funds in order to make sure were meeting all of those needs. Thanks. Thank you. Right now were over subscribed. What we will actually heard a lot of concerns that youve spoken about today. We are going to look at each the projects. Get better refined cost estimates. Look to see if there are other sources to still keep us on schedule that deliver the projects that we committed. And move forward on this...