Increasing rates of opioid overdoses and we would like to express our advocacy for this bill, particularly maam, you are totally welcome to do this, but this is not the San Francisco board of supervisors. This is the San Francisco county Transportation Authority and at 2 00 p. M. , we will be the San Francisco board of supervisors and ab362 is totally in that policy bodys world. But here, we deal with transportation issues. You are welcomed to continue talks, but i want to let you know, youre in the wrong venue. So we would like to express our advocacy in light of the issues that San Francisco faces with exposed needles and unsafe drug use often happening in public sites like muni and bart stations. We hope that the ta will work with other legislators to continue improving Public Safety should this be passed and for those who use public transportation. Thank you for your time and consideration. Thank you. Any other members who would like to speak . I would like to make a comment, as well. This is regarding embarcadaro station specifically. My concern is regarding item 6, i should have spoken earlier, but i do want to make a comment about that. Regarding the congestion in embarcadro, with operator changes in that station, delays can occur with, like, two to five minutes, making like a backup of four to five trains occasionally. So i was wondering there was another way change the information on how operators change regarding muni so they can change elsewhere, such as church in dubois where its service trains or farther out, for example, the end line, they could have change at ocean beach, instead. I was wondering if the community could take a look at that, perhaps propose a change in that regard so that congestion coulding fixed, at least in the shortterm. Thank you. Thank you for those comments and we will make sure that they are looked at by the appropriate body, which is the sfmta and seeing no other members for Public Comment, Public Comment is closed. And the ta is adjourned. Dont forget to vote. Shop and dine on the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do shopping and dining within the 49 square miles of San Francisco by supporting local Services Within neighborhood. We help San Francisco remain unique, successful and vibrant. Where will you shop and dine in the 49 . San francisco owes the charm to the unique character of the neighborhood comer hall district. Each corridor has its own personality. Our neighborhoods are the engine of the city. You are putting money and support back to the community you live in and you are helping Small Businesses grow. It is more environmentally friendly. Shopping local is very important. I have had relationships with my local growers for 30 years. By shopping here and supporting us locally, you are also supporting the growers of the flowers, they are fresh and they have a price point that is not imported. It is really good for everybody. Shopping locally is crucial. Without that support, Small Business cant survive, and if we lose Small Business, that diversity goes away, and, you know, it would be a shame to see that become a thing of the past. It is important to dine and shop locally. It allows us to maintain traditions. It makes the neighborhood. I think San Francisco should shop local as much as they can. The retail marketplace is changes. We are trying to have people on the floor who can talk to you and help you with products you are interested in buying, and help you with exploration to try things you have never had before. The fish business, you think it is a piece of fish and fisherman. There are a lot of people working in the fish business, between wholesalers and fishermen and bait and tackle. At the retail end, we about a lot of people and it is good for everybody. Shopping and dining locally is so important to the community because it brings a tighter fabric to the community and allows the Business Owners to thrive in the community. We see more Small Businesses going away. We need to shop locally to keep the Small Business alive in San Francisco. Shop and dine in the 49 is a cool initiative. You can see the banners in the streets around town. It is great. Anything that can showcase and legitimize Small Businesses is a wonderful thing. This is the october 15, 20199 item number one call to order. roll call . We have a quorum. Good morning, everyone. I would like to welcome everyone, especially those that are up this morning and watching remotely. Good morning. Thank you again for being with us, and also to my colleagues in the audience. Welcome. Next thing on the agenda, please. Number 2. General Public Comment. Are there any Public Comment . I see none. Next, please. Three Consent Agenda approving the minutes of the june 18, 2019 meeting. I move approval. So moved. Second. All in favor. Item 4. Ybi ramps project update. Hopefully you can hear me. Eric cordoba with the San FranciscoTransportation Authority. I will give you an update where we stand with improvements. I have a slide show and then we will get into questions. First a little context. The Transportation Authority led the ybi westbound ramps project. We opened in october 2016. That was approximately 100 million in total primarily funded with highway Bridge Program seismic retrofit funds as well as proposition 1b seismic funds. Something we are proud of in that regard. What we are starting to move towards is the south gate road realignment which i will get into more details as well as the west side bridges project. Very happy to, frankly, announce we have requested the Construction Funding phase for the south gate road realignment project. If you recall, it is a 51 million project in its entirety. It is primarily funded with highway bridge and state funds and bata funds. We are anticipating issuing Construction Contracts for advertisement in the missouri option november timeframe and starting construction next year. The eastbound offramp is closed for 15 years now. This reestablishes the eastbound ramp in the configuration on the screen. If you are coming from San Francisco to oakland, you will exit right and go underneath and have a grade separation with south gate road coming from the left side of your screen. Then you will go under the actual ramp and tie in underneath the bay bridge to the north gate road intersection. It is tight right there. Stay tuned for more updates in that regard. The other thing important to recognize is traffic coming from Treasure Island and ybi. Basically, it will exit the island via this system. You will come uphill crest to south gate road to ybi or to get to the newest bound onramp. Also, the existing onramp is still in operation there. We will also have a bicycle pedestrian path that will take a 180degree turn and go under the ramp structures and tie in with the bike path. A lot going on there in terms of movement. We feel very good where we stand in terms of ready for construction. The other project that we are currently moving forward with, as you have heard before, the west side bridges project. It is approximately 83 million project in total cost. Funded primarily with federal highway Bridge Program and state proposition 1b with local match from tida. We went through the alternative deathivery delivery method approved by the state. We have chosen a contractor already. They are working with us in the final design. We are 60 complete. That contractor is golden state bridge. They built the westbound on and offramps we opened in 2016. Stay tuned for more information. We have to sequence the projects. There is only limited access to and from the San Francisco oakland bay bridge. The sequence is to complete south gate then latter or early spring 2021 start west side bridges project, which will take a significant amount of time. It is a major project. We are realigning the roadway building major retaining wall structures and reconstructing new bridge structures along that entire western side of the island. Now, i want to talk about something we are excited about. We went ahead with some proposition k funds, approximately 250,000 of prop k funds. We started the bicycle and pedestrian path study to look at the connection among the island which a vision of a friendly project to allow bicycles from the east bay to the island and to the future Ferry Terminal that is under construction right now by the developer for the island. We are looking at key pinch points along the island to make sure we look at what the developer is building what cal tran build and pier e2. We are excited what we are doing and anticipate coming back with Concept Development later this year if not early next year. I know that bob has briefed you before, what they called pier e2. I want to show you the renderings. That is set to open late october and i think everyone is excited how we can create in essence a Friendly Area for bicycles and pedestrians. What i want to note is the historic torepedo building as part of the south gate road the Environmental Mitigation is to start rehabilitation of that building, to put on new roof and windows. We are excited to be able to assist the authority here in that regard because we know that is a building you are going to use in the future. Just also want to show the artist rendering you have seen before. We are continuing discussions with the Toll Authority and caltrans, in particular as related to the bicycle pedestrian efforts. I couldnt leave without talking about, i know what is forefront on everybodys mind where do we stand for the Pricing Program . We are right now preparing to finalizing our financial demand analysis. We are also going ahead now and looking at engaging the public, frankly, as early as tomorrow, particularly from a Business Outreach side. We will want to work with you, your board and our board in terms of developing the recommendations we want to move forth with later this year and early to 2020. As i indicated, we have engaged the Business Community as part of what we did before, we really understand the concerns related to the potential financial impacts to residents. We are talking to businesses. We want a complete comprehensive package in terms of affordabilities. We are developing cocreation workshops. We have a meeting tomorrow in the daytime and on thursday, the 24th, in the evening. Everything is pointing towards a launch day of congestion pricing and enhanced trans i transit se. That is with completion of the south gate road project. With the infrastructure we need and to get everything lined up in terms of transit service, that is what we are targeting. That completes my presentation. I am available for questions. Thank you for this presentation. I know the commissioners have a lot of questions for you. Next time please lets have a breakdown of some of the Funding Sources. I know you identify the state, the actual amount would be great, you know, for future analysis to see how we are getting out. That would be great. Then for the San Franciscobound pedestrian, you mentioned you are engaging with the m. T. C. So for this particular project, the m. T. C. Will be there will be other Funding Sources or just california . It is one of the entities to obtain funding not only from the improvements for south gate but for the bicycle pedestrian path is a great project to compete and we have positive support for the Bicycle Coalition as well as working with us with the treasurTreasure Island pricing. That is one of the Funding Sources. We are going to come back with a more comprehensive list of potential Funding Sources as we move forward later this year. There is always so much information. You know it so well, i feel like you are sharing a lot that i dont know but i appreciate the status of everything. I think my questions are i just want to better understand where you are with everything. Maybe let me start with the ybi west side bridge. I think i heard you say you selected a contractor, meaning you are in the design and ready to Start Construction . We are at 60 design completion. This is a new delivery method the city has utilized on different projects. The benefit we see is to bring the contractor in during the final design stage so that we can properly cost out the various elements of the program as well as the risk. There are risks associated with working on the hillside above the bay there. We selected a contractor. We had six proposals. We went be with the best value and chose golden state bridge. I assume this means when the seismic work is done the road has to be closed . Yes, very astute. Frankly the plan is to go ahead to have mccalla road open to two way traffic and south gate interchange open so that that becomes the full interchange to go to oakland or San Francisco. Then we would close off the western side to construct the newest side bridges there. That is the plan right now in terms of how we handle traffic control. We can come back with more details as we move forward next year in terms of giving you more detail and making sure everyone is aware of the Traffic Management plan. I think the question i am most interested in asking on behalf of the future occupants of ydi because if i remember correctly they are moving in 2021. Mid 2021. Obviously there would be residents there. I think what they would most want to know is how they are going to get on and off from their side of the island. It sounds like you thought this through. Please make that clear. Hearing you talk about it, i am not completely clear on it but it sounds like you have a plan. Yes, we do. This might be a question for director beck, but the historic torepedo building h he torepo building . It is part of the historic officers quarters district. There is a master option over that building as well as the buildings a little bit to the east of that. It is not clear at this point what the best Retail Program for the historic officers quarters is, there have been a number of things discussed over the years. For the torpedo building itself, though, we are thinking more kevin could potentially speak to this within tida we have had a number of parties expressing interesting in a restaurant type of venue there coupled with the new pier it seems like a natural combination of indoor and outdoor space. I might have missed this. Is that already master leased to ticd . They have a master lease option over the historic officers quarters. The means the terms of the lease are not negotiated and we can potentially still guide the usage of that building . Yes. What is the timeline of us considering the option for that, do you think . They have a 10 year option on that district. We are in all likelihood talking first interest interim activation or use. That would be great if we are opening that pier, basically, soon, right . Is that what it is saying late october 2019, is that correct . Yes, access will continue to be difficult through the roadway work on the island. Also, caltrans is opening the pier, but there is an area immediately adjacent that caltrans will have to come back to do further environmental remediation, particularly with lead in the soil because it was beneath the foot present of the old bay bridge. Even the pier is complete there will be construction in the area, particularly the area where the environmental work needs completed. We would develop some parking in the future. Interesting. Thank you. Then my favorite topic the bike potential bike connection to the mainland. Can you talk a little more about the status of that conversation if we have done any costing exercise, the more real numbers. What we are doing is developing concepts and looking for missing links. There are different conditions this board as part of the approval the developer is constructing on the island. We are looking at the areas that are no mans land. What can we do to better improve bicycle and Pedestrian Access . We just started costing in that regard, and, frankly, we are prepared to come back to this board to have more discussion in terms of concepts so we are preparing for that later this year. Depending on the holiday season, no later than early 2020. Okay. That is wonderful to hear that they havent be given up on this idea. There is a lot of positive energy that we can work with partners. This is a lime at friendly project. The fact the development is building a new Ferry Terminal, there is a lot to be had. How can we come up with a funding package to help complete the system here in that regard. I think many of us on the board have voiced this in the past. I personally feel strongly in providing a bike connection from the island to the mainland. I think citywide and even nationally there has been a big uptake in bicycle usage and changing to the bicycle mode because the roadways are constrained and we are trying to discourag