Commissioner kim . Kim absent. Commissioner peskin. Chairman peskin present. Clerk commissioner ronen. Supervisor ronen present. Clerk commissioner tang . Vice chairman tang present. Clerk commissioner fewer . We have quorum. Chairman peskin thank you, mr. Clerk. Now we will hear from our citizens Advisory Committee. Mr. Larson. Good morning chair peskin, vis chair tang and members of the transportation authority. Vice chair tang and members of the transportation authority. I will be presenting the cac report today. Beginning with item eight, the cac recommends approval for the allocation of prop k fundses as presented. There was particular support expressed for the valencia street bikeway impolicemen taths plan request implementation plan. The bike lanes were last striped in 1999 and valencia street has become a major bike commuter route in the city. At the same time, development along this corridor has resulted in many more conflicts and hazards with Transportation Network company or tnc and food delivery drivers making quick stops and double parking in the bike lanes. The item did pass. Turning to item ten, the presentation on the 2017 facilitys framework. A question was raised if any of the older facilities to be altered or replaced had any historic cig any chance. They dont significance. It was also noted the facilities owned by the city and county seemed to kon trait on the eastern side of the city concentrate on the eastern side of the city. And whether it would hinder growth and development in the future of Transportation Networks locally. We also heard presentations about the core capacity transit study and compliment sector action strategy. Discussion concerned whether the impact of carbon admissions from tncs and the single rides they provide could be factored in. That was interest in resiliency efforts in networks affected by Sea Level RiseClimate Change and calling the effect of super storm sandy on the new york subway. Citizens Advisory Committee members would like representatives from uber, lift to share what guidelines are offered to drivers about where to pull over and stop. Instances where tnc double park when a curb side location or driveway is nearby, creating real traffic risks. That concludes my report. Thank you. Chairman peskin thank you, mr. Larson. Are there any questions for mr. Larson . Seeing none, is there any Public Comment on this comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Mr. Clerk, next item please. Clerk item three, chairs report. Chairman peskin thank you colleagues. In late october, i had the pleasure of well coming the self welcoming the self help coalition for the focus on the future conference. They have approved measures to Fund Transportation improvements. The theme was the power of partnerships, a fitting message given that it takes contributions from all levels of government to plan, funld and deliver fund and deliver transportation infrastructure. Since the mid1980s, california has been proving itself a leader in self help. Revenue sources make up 75 of transportation revenues in the bay area. At a time when the federal tax bill contemplates removing funding for commuter benefits, rolling back incentives for alternative fuels and cutting funds for affordable housing, we must continue to be a leader in self help here in san fran and the bay area. This means putting, preserving and protecting sbone funds by putting them to work. In fan francisco we San Francisco we will get congestion relief. Was must stand up to those calling for repeal of the funding package, a mix of reasonable and overdue gas and diesel thankses and veeblg reek taxes and vehicle ridge station fees. In registration fees. We will total and in turn their counties would act to place the measures on the june 2018 ballots. It will help tackle Traffic Congestion and traffic expansion symptoms of our growth. At the local level, we continue to work on a potential 2018 revenue measure through the Transportation Task force to boost transportation funding plans and provide local regional funds. As part of this work, i have asked our staff to initiate a Public Opinion survey to inform the Transportation Task force deliberations and recommendations later this year. As part of this effort, we are engaging our independent oversight consultant to look at the transportation authoritys project and payment systems, all of which recently received a clean audit, but as with everything, can benefit from occasional review and finetuning. Finally, i will close by noting our debt program is active again with our bond, which i signed 22 signatures on a whole bunch of papers to start the funds flowing just in time for the arrival of the new lrvs this friday. I will be away due to travel, but wanted to congratulate them on this milestone and thank the team for the successful financing to support delivery of these vehicles. With that i conclude my report and wish all of you and our staff a very happy thanksgiving next week. Is there any Public Comment on the chairs report . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Next item, please. Clerk item four, executive directors report. This is an information item. Vice chairman tang thank you. Just wanted to echo the chairs comments about the federal bill and the importance really of all of our local efforts from protecting sbone to keeping our focus on 2018. Regarding the statewide picture, caltrans is releasing and inviting public input on the final bicycle plan for 2020. This is something that they have been working on for actually a bicycle and pedestrian plan. The goal the to double walking and triple biscycling trips by 2020 and they are ready to skusz their discuss their findings. And the closest one is west Oakland Youth Center in oakland. It will be happening tomorrow 5 008 00 p. M. In addition, at the state wide level, earlier actually in late october, director peskin and provided joint comments to the california dmv on their proposed drivers testing. We earlier commented in april and pleased many of our comments were incorporated. We further stressed the need for the importance of training for operators near pedestrian and cyclists reporting all collisions and disengagements. And ensuring twoway communication between remote operators and local law enforcement. And Data Collection of on board units before, during and after a crash is very critical as well. Turning to another state program that we implement locally. We are continuing to refine the program. I want to thank chair peskin, vice chair tang and commissioner sheehy for fine tuning and shaping the recommendations. We hope to bring that forward on december 5th and the hearing on School Transportation including the potential for Yellow School buses has been rescheduled to a future date. I think we had previously scheduled it for late november, but we will probably move that to earlier in the new year. Regarding vision zero, just wanted to thank all the departments mta and our staff, the whole task force on their workshop november 9th. They held a vision zero bold ideas workshop to really take a longer term view looking out beyond the traditional twoyear cycle to reach our goal in 2024. They expressed an interest in deepening Community Engagement around all aspects of vision zero. Some included taking another look at road pricing, major street redesign and bold ideas there. High visibility Community Engagement and curb management. Those are the four ideas that emerged from their bold ideas workshop. Next steps includes the staff will share the information on the workshop with Community Folks and also highlighted on the website and bring it back hopefully to the Vision Zero Committee as well. Turning to the local level, the canopies for the bart stations are have begun construction here in San Francisco. Palace street station construction has begun. They will also be starting on the civic center station at 7 and Market Street soon as well. These are the canopies that will shelter the escalators from the weather as well as other trash and things that gather at the escalators hindering their operation. They also have included in the project a digital display of the train arrival times, new security grills and new l. E. D. Lighting as well as cameras. The 230 million project is funded by bart as well as matching funds from the state, prop 1b and prop 1a. Our funds are also being put to work to improve elevators around town. We are happy to report work is nearing completion on the platform. The elevator safety and reliability upgrades project will provide upgrades to improve the safety and reliability of 12 elevators. Work will begin on the Church Street station soon and mta has planned for the work to stake place in staggered ways to ensure accessibility for those who need these at each station. Chair mentioned on friday we will be seeing the new lrvs rolling out. This was the larging single allocation of the prop k program the board took action on last year. I want to thank you all again for that. We are providing 131 million towards this program. The 934 Million Program which will expand by 24 lrvs and replace 151 of the brayda lrvs. We look forward to a Second Street opening. We whether report more on that next month and finally wanted to mention the van ness project is hitting a milestone by shifting the traffic to the center of the roadway allowing work to begin on the sides. But the traffic shifts are necessary to accommodate two utility work zones to replace major utilities including water, sewage and emergency. The mta is monitoring traffic in construction conditions along van ness avenue and is scheduled to provide a briefing at our december 5th meeting. With that, im happy to take any questions. Chairman peskin are there any questions for ms. Chang . Any Public Comment . Seeing no Public Comment, Public Comment is closed. Next item please. Clerk items five through seven comprise the Consent Agenda. Aye semisix was a item six is for final approval. Chairman peskin is there a motion to move the Consent Agenda . Made by commissioner sheehy. Is there a second . Seconded by commissioner kim. On that a roll call vote. Public comment has already happened right . Clerk on items five and seven . Chairman peskin is there any Public Comment on the Consent Agenda . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Roll call vote please. Clerk on the consent, commissioner cohen . Aye. Commissioner farrell . Absent. Commissioner fewer . Fewer aye. Commissioner kim . Kim aye. Commissioner peskin. Chairman peskin aye. Clerk commissioner ronen . Aye. Sphere sheehy . Aye. Tang aye. Commissioner yee . Yee, aye. The Consent Agenda is approved. Item eight, allocate 2,941,939 in sales tax fundses by request with conditions. Good morning commissioners. Im departmenty director. We have four requests and one request from the department of public works to present to you today. The first request is to upgrade the fire alarm systems at five of the muni facilities shown on the screen. The construction phase will be done by spring of 2019. Next request is for the district eight Neighborhood Transportation Improvement ProgramPlanning Project for the valencia street bikeway limb menation plan imme menation plan. This i implementation plan. There are a host of recommendations that will be explored including but not limited to protected bike lanes and parking and loading changes and potential enforcement needs. The work will kick off around the new year and will be completed in fall of 2018. One thing i will add is that since this is a ntip Planning Project, a final report will be presented to the board prior to adoption of the final report. And thats the case for all the ntip projects. Next request is for the wide bike program that sfmta will funds in the Spring Semester of this year. This funds twoweek classes at various different middle and high schools and for the first time at a handful of Elementary Schools, teaching kids how to bike and how to bike safely. The program was funded in the fall semester by a state grant to the department of Public Health and the work will continue next year as well. But the program will be funded in the spring through prop k. Next request is from the smfta to fund their portion of the bike to work day 2018. This is organized by the San Francisco bicycle coalition. This funds work that is leading up to and on the day of for all of the festivities that go along with that day. And it has traditionally we have seen increased bike cycling before and after bike to work day. And the last request is from the department of public works. This is for the construction phase of the standalone curb ramp improvements either for improving ramps that are not currently at the ada guidelines or to construct ramps where ramps currently dont exist. And folks can request a curb ramp by conducting 311. The work will be done in the spring of 2019. This is an annual funding request that we see from sf public works. With that, i can answer any various questions. Chairman peskin thank you ms. La fort. Commissioner ronen. Supervisor ronen no questions. I just wanted to thank commissioner sheehy for using his ntip funds. It is important. I dont think it is enough. The way mta envisioned this part of the mission, south van ness was to be the main corridor for cars. Mission was going to be the main corridor with red carpet for public transit. And valencia was to be the main corridor for bikes. But because of the proliferation of uber and lift cars, and because of valencias restaurant and bar culture, it has become one of the most dangerous places for bike riders in the city. I think we absolutely need protected bike lanes to make the vision that mta had about making this a true safe bike corridor real. But it is not going to happen fast enough for me, and im very, very worried about the safety of all bike riders in that corridor. I did send a letter last week to the ceos of uber and lift saying that they are the only ones right now that have the ability to urgently fix the situation by geofencing and preventing their drivers from stopping on valencia street. It wouldnt interrupt their business. They could easily just have their drivers pick up and drop off on all the side streets that feed into valencia street. So, i think this is a simple ask. Im going to be meeting with both Companies Going forward to put on more pressure. I wish as a local body that we had the ability to regulate these companies and force them to do what they should be doing to protect safety of pedestrians and bikers in San Francisco. Unfortunately, we still dont have that ability. So, they need to step up and do the right thing to protect the safety in this very, var dangerous very dangerous corridor. Im supportive and looking forward to the results of this study. Chairman peskin commissioner cohen. Supervisor cohen thank you. Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Hi. I wanted just to share a little bit of an experience that i had with the mta earlier this year. We had a situation in district ten where mta removed Parking Spaces largely due to giving poor notice to the removal of these parking places parks spots. And several meetings with the residences as well as mta staf, they reversed staff, they reversed their decision to remove the bike lane which takes up parking places. I want to make sure that we have that we are cultivating new cyclists and that we are creating safe spaces for walkers. I have a large number of seniors in the directed and i want to also cultivate a new kind of working understanding and knowledge and image of what and who bikes in San Francisco. Bike education is absolutely critical to me and for my perspective, i think it helps inform the next generation and build a stronger connection. So, really, my question is, do you have a list of the schools that will be receiving the bike safety dollars . Could you share that with us publicly . Thank you. Yes. The list of schools that are being considered or actually, they will receive the bicycle education in 201718. Im not sure if that includes the Spring Semester or if it is the entire year. The high schools the materials are shown in your enclosure to the prop k item and related to the use Bicycle Safety education classes allocation request materials. The high schools are ida b. Wells, washington and wallenberg. Willie brown, c. Carmichael, everett and marina and Elementary Schools are to be determined. Supervisor cohen i encourage you to do more work on the schools. I only heard the willie brown middle school. We have three high schools in the district. Maybe you can reconsider. Thank you. Chairman peskin commissioner fewer. Supervisor fewer thank you, chair. I wanted to say thanks for the attention to cornwall street which continues to be a dangerous intersection. This is probably in mtas wheel house, but that is an intersection i think on co