Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20171211

SFGTV Government Access Programming December 11, 2017

We have a quorum. Chair peskin after we hear from the cac and pass the Consent Agenda i would like to take item 13, the report for the vanness bus Rapid Transit out of order to accommodate the schedule of mr. Ris ken who is here with us this morning. If you could call the next item. Clerk information item number two. Chair peskin mr. Larson. Good morning. I am john larson representing district 7. I will present the cac report today. Item 67 on the again item 7up date on the San Francisco Management Study brought concerns about the use of the hov lanes. They questioned the issuians of the clean air stickers on the use of the lanes giving increasing popularity of the vehicles in the bay area. There was concern that private shuttle buses would reduce the lanes effectiveness. This concern was more voiced during the Public Comment when private commuters buses were held up for the transportation not open to everyone. Starting with number 8. The cac recommended approval for the prop operation of the prop k funds. Item 9 approval of the local programming, Partnership Program or lpp Formula Program funds for street resurfacing and exchange of lpp funds with prop k funds for the managed lanes. Expressing the appreciation the funds could be used right away for street improvements. Item 11, the 2017 San Francisco Management Program raised questions about reporting the findings given the measures of the transit and auto speeds that had not improved. It was to break it down to show the improvements ordeggations on the individual routes. The concern that the Transportation Network companies on congestion was not adequately captured. The cac felt there should be more emphasis on development of subway and bus Rapid Transit. Tieing other studies together in a more holistic plan as opposed to the separate plans addressing more narrow issues. Represents from the west side expressed desire to address not the most congested core but transit need this is the rest of the city feeding into the core. The cac approved the item with the statement urging the Transportation Authority to accelerate planning for rightsofway investment such as subways and bus Rapid Transit with special consideration for the west side of the city. That concludes my report. Thank you. Chair peskin any questions for the cac . Is there any Public Comment on item number two . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. Thank you for your work and your report, mr. Clerk, please read the Consent Agenda. Clerk four and five were approved at the november 14th Board Meeting are considered for final approval. Remaining are routine. Staff will present if desired. If a member objects they will be removed and considered separately. Chair peskin any Public Comments on the minutes for november 14th . Seeing none it is closed. Movement to move the Consent Agenda . Roll call please. roll call chair peskin those items are finally approved. Colleagues if there is no objection as i previously mentioned, i would like to call item 13 out of order. Seeing no objection, mr. Clerk could you please call item 13. Clerk Progress Report for the vanness bus Rapid Transit an information item. Thank you for joining us and your staff miss mccarthy for being here. Good morning. Ed riskin director of transportation. Thank you for the schedule just meant. I want to come to give you an update on the vanness project. When it was here last, a month or so ago, there were a number of concerns raised by commissioner also. I want to try to address those concerns. I am joined by our project manager as well as other agency staff who are working together on this project. In terms of the project, i know you all know people call it vanness brt. It is much more comprehensive. It is a complete streets project with significant safety and state of good repair elements as well as the core bus Rapid Transit that we are all excited about and as you have asked us to do when we do these major projects, we are getting the complete scope done to minimize disruption and not come back later to tear up the streets again. It is a very exciting project for a very important street in our city, and it is one because of the complexity and size of the street and duration that we are doing in phases. We initially came in and removed most of the median for the length of the project. We are now in the phase of where we have shipped the traffic on to where the median used to be so we are working in blue areas in the slide, the utility work. This is the big phase of the project. In the end we will see surface improvements. The biggest chunk of time is utility work happening underground. Once that work is done, we will be able to shift traffic back to the sides, build the brt lanes in the center, then finally add the power that will power the electric buses. That gives us a big picture overview of the schedule. This is where we are currently versus what the baseline schedule is, and you will note, as i think saw last time projected for mid 2020 revenue start day, which is about nine months later than our current baseline schedule, apthat is based on the issues you heard previously and something that i think you heard previously we are working with the contractor and city agencies to recover. We now have received a Recovery Plan from the contract tour contractor Walsh Construction with different elements in terms of recovering the schedule. What it provides for is up to about four months of recovery of the nine months we are behind to get us half of the way back. There are things, options that we have already accepted. There are others we are reviewing. There are also other options we are exploring in terms of trying to accelerate the schedule so that we can move it back into as close to if not back at the original baseline december 2019 revenue start date. To remind you the main reasons that we got offtrack at this point in the project. One, last years storms. We lost a lot of time up front in terms of rain delay days, and then, second, procurement for utilities, which is the work starting now. As i mentioned, the longest part of the schedule was very challenging due to the costs that we got for the utility packages relative to the amount we budgeted and agreed upon with the contractor. It took a lot more time than provided for to get the utility contractor on board. They are now on period and the work has started. So as i said, they are on board. That contract was signed. We have created these two construction zones. You will notice between the last meeting and this one in november we did a couple of lane shifts. In the southbound direction from suster down sutter to north of city hall now traffic is in the center lane. On the sides of the streets we can begin utility work and in the northbound direction from Jackson North we shifted traffic to where the median used to be to work on the utilities there. Those traffic changes happened and the utility work is underway, which is an important milestone for the project. One other issue that may have been mentioned at the last meeting, generally holiday moratorium is in effect from thanksgiving to new years on streets with commercial businesses. There is a process through with the unanimous support they can waive that moratorium. We are successful with waivers for most of the project limits to allow the work to continue during the holidays. That will be helpful to our schedule as well. Right now, we are just starting that utility work. There is Monitoring Systems that we have to put in place for the awff. We are doing some potholing to confirm utility locations. We have found utilities that did not come from our initial notices of inintent from our underground service alerts, from the drawings from the utilities. There are steps to try to understand what is underground and where, and despite that we do and will on occasion identify things that we didnt expect to be there, but we continue to work with the utilities to address those issues adjust the design or move utilities so we can get underway. That work is happening now. Really, the main bulk of the work that we are starting is the utility work. Currently there is a sewer down the center. This puts new sewers, one in each direction north and southbound. That work is starting as is the replacement of the water maybe and parts of the awff system. Three different utilities work is what we are starting now. We continue a very robust outreach process which is really serving as the model for construction outreach for the rest of our rightofway projects in the city. This slide gives you some of the highlights of that. We are working to communicate well and early and frequently and at the risk of over communicating so folks know the impact to get in put from the Business Advisory committee about Different Things such as the acceleration options to make sure we are doing this in a way to work for the businesses and residents, in particular, who live and work along van ness avenue as well as other institutions. That is it in a nutshell that we are on a good track now with the utility contracts underway. We will continue to look for ways beyond the four months we have been presented to bring the schedule back as close to if not at the end of 2019 for Revenue Service date and we will be happy to provide updates as frequently as the commission would like. I would be happy to answer any questions. Chair peskin thank you. We appreciate you taking this seriously. Many of us, particularly those in the districts on the vanness corridor have heard from our constituents. We appreciate you are getting this back on schedule. We have had a robust conversation about this before as has the cac. We have some questions or comments from commissioners. Thank you for the presentation, it was very clear. I appreciate that giving that level of thought. It was a little confusing last time. I think this time we have more clear information. One of the things i want you to spend time giving us more detail on was you said you did the time recovery. That was pretty clear. We did the Holiday Schedule except for the one block. That will buy you time. The one we had a lot of questions about was the contractor and pricing in on the pc and sewer lines. Can you speak a little more about that. I know that was a big concern in terms how much above the bid and what that process was and how you ended upcoming to resolution. If you can speak more in detail on that. Certainly. This is, as i think you heard last time, a guaranteed maximum price contract, and in establishing that guaranteed maximum price we established the costs that we were agreeing to upfront for the different elements of work. For the utilities work, we agreed upon a price of 18 million based on estimates we had done, the contractor had done and independent thirdparty estimates. That triangulation gave us confidence that was a reasonable number. The first bids came in double that. 39 million give or take. That was something that the contractor wasnt comfortable with, that we and the puc were not comfortable with so from that point forward we worked with the contractor to repack age age and repackage and rebid. They ended up being able to get a price of about 29 million. Significantly more than what we all thought it would be at 18 million but significantly less than what we originally got. That process to rebid and negotiate with really one responsive party is what took the time and accounted for a lot of delays. The fact is that contractually speaking, the 18 million is what they agreed to and they signed on to when they enter interested the contract. Understandably the fact we know that 29 million is how it came in creates a pretty big hole for them, 11 million gap they are seeking to close. They dont have a legal resource to close that, but we want to make sure they are fairly compensated for the cost of the project. They have submitted a claim for the 11 million and that is something that we will process accordingly. How does that workout . You also when we met recently a Construction Management style you are instituting on this project. Can you speak a little bit about that . Through the chair the delivery mechanism that we selected for this project within consultation with public works is general contractor model. It is different where we do the design in house, we put it out to let folks bid on the package and hand the project over to them. Under cfgc you bring in the contractor before the design is 100 complete to advise on construct ability to give feedback. The way we did this is maximum price. We agree on the price and they take packages such as utilities and bit that out bid that out and subsequently bid out the tree and landscape package and paving and electrical package. It is a different way of project delivery. It is the way they deliver the larger building projects. This is the first significant horizontal project using cmgc. It took a lot of Lessons Learned and input on managing a contract in this way that is the contract mechanism we are using, and we will process claims whether related to the sewers or any others we receive and that are par for the course on a large construction project as per the ad min code. How do we resolve the 11 million shortfall . They want to be compensated. They put in the claim. The taxpayers were sold a package at 18 million now it is 29 million. How do we resolve that . I dont want to get into this in public forum. There are mechanisms in the contract for reviewing and possessing the claims. We will review and process this like we will any other. We recognize the actual cost of you willtility work is 29 million not the 18 million we thought. On our side we have the guaranteed maximum price we all agreed to. Thank you, mr. Chair. Commissioner breed. I noticed on van ness avenue there is a lot of change and confusion about which way people are to go when driving up and down the street. I was wondering if you had any plans to add parking control officers to those most challenged intersections during commute hours . Through the chair, we are monitoring the traffic flow carefully that we didden game significantly with our open traffic engineers as well as caltrans in identifying and approving the road configurations and communication plan, signs for them. As needs if we need resources such a pco or Police Officer at any particular location that is something we will moptor and put monitor and put in place. I am not aware of plans to do so. If there are areas that you see are concerning we would welcome that feedback. Would you explain how you monitor and make decisions around those kinds of issues for this particular project . The decisions around those issues we have a group of folks within our Traffic Engineering group that focus exclusively on these changes that relate to construction. They will analyze what the contractor is proposing. They informed development of the specs and they review the Traffic Management plans the contractors submit. There is a lot of it involved because we need to make sure the road will be able to function safely for the folks using it. That is the process through which we establish the kind of changes you are seeing on the streets. In terms of monitoring, we have staff, inspectors and Construction Management staff out there. We monitor feedback that we are getting from the public. I covered some of the outreach we are doing. We use those kinds of mechanisms, 311 calls to make sure the traffic plans are more or less working as intended and there arent any unintended consequences or challenges. Chair peskin any other commissioners with any questions or comments . Seeing none. Any Public Comment on item 13 . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. Mr. Chris ken, ris ken, thank you. We will continue to monitor this and i would like to continue this to the call of the chair and we will be in touch as hopefully this thing gets back on schedule. All right. Is there a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair . Without objection can we return to our regular calendar . Clerk appointment of two members to the citizens Advisory Committee. Chair peskin mr. Pick ford. There is an 11 member Advisory Committee with two year term. Neither of the staff or cic make recommendations on pointments. To qualify for appointment applicants must be San Francisco residents and appear before the board once. There is a list of 44 applicants for the two vacant positions. They are the result of the term expiration of becky hogue and family obligations. Miss hogue is seeking reappoint meant. I hope we have other people to speak to the interest. I will take questions. Chair peskin mr. Questions for mr. Pick ford . If miss hogue is here i was going to let her speak first. Chair chair i dont see her. Chair peskin she has been before the body before. She is not required to testify to be reappointed. I will save my comments until after Public Comment. Chair peskin perspective applicants to testify before the commission . Please come forward. Applicants have two minutes. Good morning. Thank you for having me. I am kian. I am seeking to fill the vacancy to number 9. I was born on california street. As an adult i have lived in this great city for the last 15 years. I lived in the marina and west portal and called the Central Mission my home where i live with my wife. My transportation footprint consists of riding the kl and m trains. With the major

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