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 year in december of 2019, and as april mentioned, the fund swap for the project will help us keep this schedule for clearance which is key because immediately following the clearance, we will implement some early improvements along Market Street , namely the turn restrictions that restrict private vehicles from using market between stuart and van ness, as well as the munimobile only lanes extending them, and making them munimobile only. Our key date is advertising our first phase of construction in march of 2020. That is between fifth and eightt street. One of the things that we have done since the last quarterly update to the commission is we hosted two open houses at the act costume shop on Market Street. We had over 200 people sign in and we think well over 200 people attended. We first off announced the phase one a. Project, the construction project. We solicited or requested input from the public on our urban design features and we also presented a design alternative on Market Street between hayes and goss which creates even more improvements around centred on market and van ness but extending from hades all the way to goss. I mentioned the early ample mentation elements of the project. The turn restrictions as well as the munimobile only lanes. All of the red arrows on the slide represent new private vehicle term restrictions. That is above and beyond which was implement it four or five years ago. Another key aspect of the project that we are in is the bikeway separation. We are testing different materials, different geometries of delineator his two alternatives to truncated domes which will separate the sidewalk level bikeway from the pedestrian area. It must be detectable by foot for those who are blind or low vision. It must be our intent is not to have people cross the separation material but in the event that you that we do, we have to make sure the people in mobility devices can make it over seyfried safely. We are wrapping up that study this week. We will be having site visits an open houses to collect all of the necessary input and we are hoping it will be updated if the fund swap is approved. This also does not show the San FranciscoPublic UtilitiesCommission Contribution to the project. We are working with them right now to determine their share of the project and we will add that into our next update as well. We have talked about these before and our other potential Funding Sources, both federal and state, as well as regional and local Funding Sources that we are looking to to fund the full implementation of better Market Street between stuart and octavia. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner fewer . Thank you very much. My question just is about this funding and where is the second phase in line with the funding for better Market Street . Because i think we made a commitment to the second phase way before we made a commitment to better Market Street. So is this interfering with any of the funding that could be geared projected towards a second phase of the gary b. R. T. . Why are we starting two huge projects that funding one of them that was actually voted on even before i came into office . Thank you. Commissioner fewer, that is a great question. Both projects are of high priority to the city. For geary street, we do have 30 million in prop k. In this current fiveyear plan, and after m. T. A. Completes the design phase, the socalled conceptual engineering phase, we would be putting more money on that as well a seeking entry into the federal Transit Administration program for small starts. By agreement with m. T. A. In the region, the idea is to seek f. D. A. Core capacity, a different pot of somewhat related f. D. A. Funds for better Market Street. They are both priorities. This project, the initial phase of which that we are talking about right now is for the first three blocks of the entire corridor. It is slightly a bit ahead as far as the Design Effort and the smaller projects, but the gary pieces on the heels and i think it is very important that we take your direction to m. T. A. To ensure that design phase completes timely and we can seek the federal funds for phase two. Okay. So my question is, basically, that we are funding these two huge, big transportation projects within San Francisco, and the bart was actually voted on by this committee before we approve the better Market Street so my question is, i dont understand why we are not concentrating our funds into one huge transportation project that we are going to be having. Looks as though it is advancing way farther than even the second phase of the gary b. R. T. The first phase is under construction. So the first phase is better Market Street and this first three block state segment. And the second phase, which is another 300 milliondollar portion of the project, is on its way to seeking the federal funds. I would say that it is slightly ahead in that respect in that the first phase is under construction in the second phase is on its way to seeking the federal fund, but you are right. They are moving in tandem, the e. I. R. Is being cleared for better market, where is unk gary , we approved and adopted it several years ago. Theres a longer and more complicated Design Effort for the 2mile stretch of the outer phase two segment in the richmond, where as this three block segment is just a very small portion of the entire better Market Street corridor, which will take many years and probably just go on for several years, even beyond second phases of gary. I heard in the presentation that you are seeking federal funds for better Market Street. You are telling me that you are seeking funds for the bart second phase and then also better Market Street. I think my concern is just that we are starting these projects where we really dont have the funding, and i know that Market Street will have much more attention put on it because it is the center of our downtown area. However, i dont want the bart project to be put on a back burner and actually, i mean, when were talking about queueing up, being behind the queue of better Market Street. Better Market Street is something we just recently approved. The second phase of the b. R. T. Was approved when i wasnt even on this board yet, so i just think that when were talking about queueing it in priority, i dont want us to forget our commitment to the west side. Indeed. Thank you for the direction. Thank you. Duly noted. Commissioner haney . Thank you, chair peskin. Can you go to the first slide whe