Good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority for today, tuesday, july 9th, 2019 mr. Clark, please call the role. [roll call] we have a quorum. Thank you. Colleagues, a couple of pieces of the house cleaning. One is that commissioner stefani his not with us today, so can we have a motion to excuse her . Made by commissioner mandelman, seconded by commissioner brown. We will take that by without objection. At 11 00 a. M. Were going to have to recess for a press conference on the steps of this building and we will reconvene when that press conference is done. With that, please call you next item. Item citizen advisory report. Good morning. Good morning commissioners. I am john larson, chair of the Citizens Advisory Committee and im here to report on the june 26th meeting of the,. Beginning with items five and six and the Fund Exchange, milliondollar Fund Exchange to effectuate that project, we recommended approval of the Fund Exchange and inquired about certain aspects of better Market Street. One continuing concern voiced is the current design of the ventilation grates and bicyclists getting their tires caught in them. Project staff noted that the proposed sidewalk level cycle track within the better Market Street project substantially removes that conflict, all the bicyclists making turns on the roadway still need to be vigilant even with any grade redesign. In response to a question related to techniques being used with regard to hidden or unknown utilities, project staff noted that with 70 station constructions for the metro, utilities were identified and moved, but areas behind the stations may still have abandoned lines. Selfreports to the c. A. C. That being mindful of the experience that we are using slots trenching and Ground Penetrating radar to identify early on what may need to be addressed beneath the surface and avoid the kind of delays that have plagued the van ness project. Turning to item seven on your identity, agenda, the c. A. C. Voted not to approve to moved to approve the request because of concern over the percentage that the project cost devoted to Construction Management. Staff noted that after further communication with bart project staff, owing to the station being open during construction, more active Construction Management was required then its than is usual, and any addition, the cost of the project bid overall had gone up, while the Construction Management portion had not, so the management percentage of the project overall had gone down. Although c. A. C. Members did that increased cost and said it was not the optimum way to bring the percentage down, at least it did not also affected proportionally , so this was the allocation request and this item was recommended for approval by the c. A. C. The c. A. C. Also adopted a motion of support for the planned the plan they goals and project list. Item 11 on your agenda. While there was general enthusiasm for many of the projects and visions laid out in the project list, c. A. C. Members reiterated the importance of equity at both local and regional levels and how services to communities of concern are addressed. T. A. Staff noted that San Francisco had made sure to include equity as one of its plan bay area goals and to be mindful of San Franciscos particular equity needs within the larger framework. Staff also noted, in response to question on how much path planned goals work reflected in current reality, that the plan evolves and focusing on highways and developments of outer regions of the bay area to be more attentive to Regional Transit and building density in currently developed areas. In Public Comment, the need for the plan to include regional Bus Solutions to replace commuter shuttles and ways to increase contributions in the private sector to fund these projects to support growth were voiced and acknowledged by the c. A. C. That completes my report. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any questions for mr. Larson . Seeing none, is there any Public Comment on this item . Seeing no Public Comment, Public Comment is closed. Mr. Clerk, please read the next item. Approve the minutes of the june 25th, 2019 meeting. This is an action item. Are there any members of the public would like to speak to the minutes . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Is there a motion to approve the june 25th minutes . Made by is that a disc gesticulation, commissioner ronen, or were you making a motion . Sorry. Is there a motion to approve the june 25th minutes, made by commissioner yee, seconded by commissioner mandelman. On that item, a roll call please [roll call] we have approval. Thank you. Next item, please. Item four, final approval on first appearance for the federal legislation update. I understand the state senate was up late last night. Yes, it was. I wasnt there for the session. I was birthed. I was preparing for it this morning. They were up late. There are a couple of bills that i want to address and then i will talk about state budget in relation to the state budget, the housing trailer bill. There has been a significant update on that. Finally, i have a couple small bills i want to bring to your attention and give you an update on where things stand. First off, staff is recommended in your packet a support on a. B. 277 that deals with the local Partnership Program that was embedded in s. B. One. There has been a controversy brewing between the state Transportation Commission who administer the program and a number of local agencies around the state over the approach in the bill, or the approach in the program, and this legislation is intended to rectify what the legislature thought they had enacted. Recently it was amended to have an acceptable proportion of 85 for a formula to recipient counties around the state, 15 for a competitive pot, mainly for small, rural, and those entities that have a developer fee that is uniform throughout the county. That 8515 split was found to be acceptable by the majority of the county coalition. They testified in support yesterday in the Assembly Transportation committee to build it and it is moving forward. In addition, i meant to mention that the staff has recommended moving from a wash of a support now that the formula is found to be acceptable. Secondarily, a. B. 1605 is the bill that deals with the crooked streets reservation program. That bill is in the Transportation Committee this afternoon. I will be racing staff back to the committee to be there to help make sure that that bill moves. It looks to be in very good shape so we expect that bill to move on. In addition, with regard to the state budget, overall the transportation budget was very, very boring, both houses simply were adopted with what the governor proposed in the number of different categories. There was very little in conference committee. But it i will just point out that with respect to. Chairman brinkman , resources, 2 billion was provided for state and local road maintenance, so that was maintained. Caltrain was fully funded, and most significantly, even though it is not a huge amount of money , he was 85 million, was devoted to project initiation documents for the coming years. It is the first step in getting a project off of a long lead time planning list into motion and will potentially be deliverable in the next five to six years. The housing component was dealt with in a side bill, a. B. 110, or 101, im sorry. It largely provides general Fund Resources for housing and homelessness. It provides funding for incentives for cities and counties to develop pro housing policies, and interestingly enough, as you may recall dating back to the last session and continues this session, there had been a desire to some members of the legislature and later by Governor Newsom to try to tie. Chairman brinkman to tie s. B. One. The final bill allows an increasingly regular rigourous series of penalties to be imposed and sought by the attorney general and cities that are not compliant with the housing element. And the ultimate penalty would be the ability, if they not able to pay the penalties, that the state would have the authority to intercept these funds. However, it would not apply to any state and local funds for which there is constitutional protections such as s. B. 1. That is off the table for now. Finally, two bills to update you on. A. B. 1487, which is mr. Chus Housing Finance bill for the bay area. It is a watch in your table. It was recently amended to exclude from the list of eligible taxes the sales tax option for funding the program. That is out of the bill at this point in time. I think that is how the bill will move forward. They have set the authorization for a november 2020 election date, so what ever combination of taxes are agreed upon by the group that they all have the authority to go forward to the ballot. Finally, a. B. 1142, which is a bill that would add t. N. C. Trip data to Sustainable Community strategy elements of the various counties in this the state, we still are pressing for, in coordination with m. T. C. And m. T. A. , to have the author include local agencies as recipients of the data so we can synthesize how that would influence our Sustainable Community strategy. With that, i bring my presentation to a close and im happy to answer questions if i can. Thank you. Thank you for your work. Are there any questions or comments from commissioners . Is there any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Go race to sacramento. Is there a motion to move our support for senate bill 277 . Motion made by commissioner mandelman, and seconded. Do we have a different house . Were you here same house, same call. The resolution is adopted. Mr. Clerk, please read items five and six together. Item five is major Capital Project update, better Market Street, information item. Item six, approval find exchange of a proximally 3. 3 million in one bay Area Grant Fund from the elementary safe routes to School Project with an equivalent amount of prop k. Funds from the better Market Street project, and allocated a proximally 3. 8 million in prop k. Funds including the Exchange Funds with conditions to the project. This is an action item. The beginning of a banner day for district three. Miss smith, the floor is yours. Good morning. April smith, transportation planner at the Transportation Authority here to present this item today. For background, the project was approved by the board with 3. 41 million bay area grant from the metropolitan Transportation Commission. Also, during the 2019 prop k. Five your Prioritization Program update, the Board Program 436,000 and local match to the funds which will be funding the construction phase. Federal funds federal funds come with requirements including strict Fund Requirements established by m. P. C. , with the intent of encouraging kindly project delivery and avoiding federal funds, a loss of federal funds to the region. We are proposing an exchange of 3. 366 million in funds from the project with an equivalent amount of prop k. Funds from the better Market Street project, which i will describe in the next few slides. The project is at 95 design and public works will be ready to advertise the construction project in september. The project has seen a 12 month delay due to a prolonged process in obtaining the rightofway certification from caltrain which is a requirement for federal highways. Public works missed the obligation deadline for the funds, which put the funds at risk of being lost to the project. The benefits of the Fund Exchange would be that it would federalize the project, avoiding federal further delays, and would enable the project to complete design and meet the construction schedules. As you will hear in the next presentation, the better Market Street project is in the environmental phase with his final certification anticipated in december. The federal build grant triggered this from caltrain to the federal Transit Administration. Adding these funds which are administered by the federal Highway Administration to the project would enable public works to obtain caltrans. [indiscernible] public works is requesting a concurrent allocation of 3. 8 million which includes the 3. 366 million in prop k. Exchange funds and 436 million from the prop k. Funds program to the local match. The recommended allocation is conditional upon the board and Commission Approvals. We anticipate that the commission will consider the item in september. The project will improve thinking and taking transit to school. It will be open for use in december of 2020. Christina will give an update on the better Market Street project thank you. Any questions for mr. Smith relative to the Fund Exchange . If not commissioner yee . Just a quick question around the project. Go ahead. So construction looks like it will take place in 2019, october of this year. Yes, i will bring marcia forward, the project manager up to answer these questions. Hello. Im with the San Francisco public works. Were hoping to break ground in september. We are allowing a year and a half or construction and so it should be open in december of 2020. Okay. My question is, because this is heavily used by students around the neighborhood to go to school and around that corridor, what kind of precautions, i guess or extra traffic monitors what is your plans to deal with more confusion and for the kids to get across the streets safely . It is primarily traffic calming. We have a bulb out at the intersections, and essentially that shortages shortens the traffic crossings for people. We are also looking at we have m. T. A. On board and we look at the intersection as a whole to make sure that as we create the bulb out remove the pedestrian signals and, you know , other, you know, items that work for the entire intersection. I think what commissioner yee is asking, is what steps are you taking during construction to ensure ingress and egress in the safest manner. Is it with traffic monitors, are there going to be crossing guards to take kids across the street . What we do is we work with m. T. A. And we have a complete traffic routing package. What that package does is it works with the entire project and it figures lane closures, how to do everything. It also could have policeman on the corners and, you know, whatever is needed to always provide access. The whole goal would be to always provide access and safety for pedestrians. Can you be a little bit more direct . Are they going to be additional monitors out there making sure that kids are crossing safely during construction . What i can do for more information is give you the traffic routing package that would literally lift all the items. What we are looking at and what we would be doing. I would be happy to see that. I live around the corner. Okay. , good. Thank you. Okay. All right. How about an update on better Market Street . Good morning, commissioners. And i will speak first. Thank you. I am the Deputy Director for policy and programming with the Transportation Authority. Im happy to provide that information on the traffic mitigation and ensuring safe crossings for the children or accessing school, especially because of construction will be underway during the school year. I also did want to highlight that we cannot start spending the prop k. Funds on this project until m. T. C. Approves the Fund Exchange. That is slated for the commission in september. It might not be until october that the project i was under the understanding it was going out for bid, but if it is going to actually be breaking brought breaking ground with construction prep work in october we will also get you a more refined schedule on what that looks like based on the Commission Approval date. Thank you. Better market. Good morning, commissioners. Im with San Francisco public works and the better market state project manager. I just have a few slides to give you a quick update on the project. A quick reminder of what the crosssection looks like. Our project schedule, currently we are in environmental clearance. We are on the calendar for the Planning Commission on october 10th for a final certification of our Environmental Impact report. Following that, we will have our project approval by the director of public works, as well as the m. T. A. Board. Our schedule is to have clearance by the end of this