Sfmta. Im also joined this afternoon by brian who is our Senior Engineer for traffic routing and for sfmtas single streets division, also our Communications Division director candy sue is also here available to answer questions that you might have. Wed just like to take a few moments and provide some sfmta context if we could. First of all, we want the committee to know that sfmta recognizes and takes extremely seriously the importance of Inter Agency Coordination to reduce construction impacts on our traveling public, and San Francisco communities. As it relates to our division, capital programs and construction we call cpmc deliver capital mta plan revolves around four basic categories of work. Shown on this slide, they include system Safety Security project, system expansion, state of good repair. Of thea category projects, the one that requires probably the most coordination and interface with our city Family Partners is probably state of good repair. These are projects like our major road replacement, projects on lrv cable car lines, or overhead contact wire replacements for trolley coaches and lrvs. This can be caused by sfmta upgrades, but they can also be caused by the result of work by other departments as well. As it relates to coordination, this process literally starts right at the beginning of any project that we do. Our process for project delivery includes Capital Improvement program planning, project initiation, country clubtion turrell engineering, detail design, and of course actual construction which includes contracting, construction management, and project close out. During cip planning, we set project scopes, estimates, target schedules as well as we establish all key project interfaces with other city departments and any third parties, for example, pg e. We also begin the development of our outreach plan for the [speaker not understood]. This work as we get and go through our process is further refined as we go through each phase of delivery. Im going to stop there just for a moment and ask brian and candice to have a word and well come back. Hello, im brian duso with sfmta traffic routing. Stainable streets division. So, my team, the traffic section, we work with dpw, muni, puc and port on the various projects developments, specifications detailing land requirements, how many lands will be affected at a given time for a particular construction by a particular project and question also work on restoring the striping after the work is completed. We also work to make sure that a lot of these projects are coordinated together, both with public and private construction projects, and our specifications in addition to land requirements focused on traffic requirements. We also take into account and make sure that Transit Needs are taken care of, make sure there is a safe travel to path for bicycles and safe for other travel pedestrians. Finally, last point on our section the holiday moratorium to make sure the holiday moratorium, excuse me, special events temporary street closures are also perfected during construction. A couple of questions. In terms of this is a question we get a lot, in terms of once road work is done, the repainting, and my understanding is that as soon as people say why its the most bizarre restriping. It is ultimately followed at some point by the permanent restriping, the painting, the stop lines, so forth. Can you just explain that process and how long it typically takes to get the permanent restriping down . Certainly. So, for most city projects, theyre going to. To provide temporary striping until the block is accepted. What they mean by that is dpw, in this case, would inspect the block to make sure that it was paved to city standards before it was accepted. At that point we can restore striping. So, we have increased our striping crews, number of crews that we had, we purchased additional equipment. All that came on board early last year so that we could keep up with a lot of the construction thats going on. A typical crew, which is five people, can probably stripe id say three blocks per week. Again, it depends on hyde the street s how many lanes we have, and how long the belongs are. These are alvare i cant believes. Thats typical. ~ it doesnt happen in linear fashion. Fulton street which was just repaved, they did all the lane striping first and then came back and did the caracas. Crosswalks. It was all completed ~. The lanes were down much more quickly before they came back and did the crosswalks, which takes much loppinger. One thing that dpw has done to help us out a lot is we used to accept larger segments and theyve broken them up into smaller segments, maybe a five block segment, now we can start striping that right away rather than waiting for the completion of the project. That has gone a long way to improving our ability to respond and get striping down more quickly. Okay. My other question, im not sure mr. De set oto if you would be the person to answer this. In terms of the followup paving where we want to make sure ~ that as repaving and other road work is happening, that mta can determine, we do want to do whether its build outs or other projects, i dont know how thats working. Related i know i had expressed some frustration to dpw a while back, and i think this has been addressed that were under aba transition plan, putting new curb ramps throughout the city, and that there are there were some intersections that were being done that are really problematic, pedestrian intersectionses that we wanted to build out for a while, and they were being intersections were being completely taken apart and back together with curb ramps without build out. Is there more coordination between dpw and mta, not that we want to build out every intersection, but to at least not potentially say we can have the resources and do this now and not have to tear up the intersection repeatedly, lets do that. Can you or someone comment on mtas participation in terms of the followup paving program . Let me see if someone here knows more. Supervisors, john thomas, project manager with public works. To the point of the followup paving, serum as youre aware within the bond program, we had a number of follow the paving projects, about 54 of them which were incorporated and utilized a portion, about 7 million of the 50 million available for streetscape improvements throughout the city. In addition, theres been some funding found by the board for various location build outs as they are determined. The process has been spearheaded both by the mta and public works to identify key locations where build out are necessary or best improvements in those locations. Of course, were looking at the walk first element. Do you think as the process improved my understanding was early objectedv when the Road Resurfacing Program was moving forward that dpw was sort of moving faster than mta and that was one of the challenges that there were times when ctw, to its credit, was wanting to really get the resurfacing moving and done and mta wasnt necessarily ready to say, yes, we want to do build out there, thats fine, do it. No, this intersection is fine. How is that kind of coordination going these days . Well, i think the Building Program had a leg up because we had identified five years worth of building projects and we hadnt identified quite that much on the followup paving concept because we didnt know whether funding would be available until the bond was indeed passed. I think that time, as i mentioned weve done a prioritization process both within mta and dpw. The process now of coordinating those two efforts to identify those those intersections where the build outs would be the best solution. And, so, and thats of course looking at what we are going to pave over the next several years and then prioritizing them based on first information and other public and institutional knowledge, i guess, that we have. And in terms of coordinating and potentially taking advantage of the opportunity when curb ramps are going in, or Even Development is happening, the one example that i know we had a lot of conversation with dpw about was the sanchez and market and 15th intersection, curb ramps were all put in and we wanted to build out that intersection for a while, and it was sort of a lost opportunity. Thats was i think sort of the spark that i believe has caused greater coordination. Correct. To occur, and also development of that intersection. So, were going to see some developer funded build outs as well. Is that coordination improved . I think it has, certainly. That was i think the what started the process or kick started the process again for us to do a better job of coordinating those efforts. Okay, great, thank you. Sure. Supervisor cohen. Thank you. Im not quite sure which department i should direct my question to, but this is a real life scenario. I received an email from a constituent who had some work being done on their street and this person works from home. And i guess during some kind of a dig the digging in the ground, and there was a disruption in his internet service. And im just wondering, i dont know if this is the department or maybe they contract with a sub in any case. What is the recourse that a constituent can go and kind of rectify the situation or at least make a complaint . He spoke to the foreman on the project and the foreman was eating a sandwich and nonchalant and shrugged it off. I dont know if thats dpw or mta. It happened in potrero hill. Hi. Lynn fong, department of public works. So, the constituent had a cut in his internet line is that correct. Normally what happens is what we ask the constituent to do is call 311. And 311 would direct him to the Internet Provider or service provider. A call would be made to them. They can do it that i way or they can call the Internet Provider themselves. Did you say the sub must have hit transformer, some kind of power source and he works at home, and, so, he was greatly inconvenienced. And as a result, he went out to find out what was going on because he knew this was construction on the street. And he was blaming the city, but yet im trying to explain to him it sounds like it was a subcontractor that is not necessarily the city, but the city might have contracted with the subcontractor. And, so, hes asked me to find out what is the recourse what does he do to make if its a city contract, there are projectspecific web pages he he could go to like, for instance, if there is a project on 9th street, its called the 9th street paving project. Theyre project specific. Projects can he go to, there is a contact there. It wont be a foreman who he spoke to. It would be an actual Public Outreach person. Or if its a smaller job, again, if he he called 311, dpw could take a look at exactly what the permit is, who the permittee is responsible for that excavation and those are the channels of trying to identify exactly what the issue is. Thank you. On that topic, in terms of contractor accountability, i know this is a challenging subject not just with these departments but rec and park and others. When you have a contractor that just performs poorly and maybe even poorly on multiple contracts, when the next contract comes up and there is a bidding process and under the law we go with the low bid, does past poor performance play any role whatsoever in determining the scoring of the bids . I dont know. I cant speak to that for the scoring of the bids. Maybe ramon actually, i think the answer is no, from what i understand. And i know the underlying Public Policy is, in city contracting, you want to the goal has been to make it as objective as possible in terms of the scoring and not to inject subjective measures like, we like their performance, we didnt like their performance. So, in order to avoid political favoritism and so forth, and i understand that goal. But it is very frustrating. I think weve seen it with the parks, park projects as well where you have a contractor that has performed poorly, hasnt met deadlines, hasnt done quality work consistently and then the next project comes up and theyre the low bidder and they get the project. I know its frustrating to the departments as well. Yes. But i do want to point out that if the contractor is not adhering to the contract requirements, we are working together collaboratively with other parts of dpw where if he does he can be issued a notice of violation, a fine, and a Penalty Associated with it. And in order to obtain all excavation projects need to get permitted through the department. If he he has outstanding novs on hand, hes not allowed to take on a subsequent permit until those novs and issues related to it are rectified. And to be clear, there are also contractor who do terrific work. Im not suggesting theyre all bad, but you want to make sure, you know, ideally you want the good contractors to be getting as much of the work as possible because there are some contractors who are terrific in terms of they meet deadlines, they do quality work, and theyre the ones we want to should be rewarding. For sure. Thank you. Okay. So, is mta done with their portion of the presentation . Okay, thank you very much. Okay. So, [speaker not understood] gone through almost the entire powerpoint. Why dont we go over to the typical timeline. So, for any project in the rightofway, coordination is accomplished through the concerted effort of stakeholders, as you know. But with so many factors and variables inevitably unintended delays or construction disruptions can occur. So, for example, puc mighting posting a new sewer line in the street and the contractor, resident, engineer may discover that the water line might also be in need of repair. Or a business might need a new electric gas or Water Service that can affect the time it takes to complete the work along a particular block. So, also coordination doesnt necessarily mean utilities do their work back to back one day after the next. It may mean several weeks or months between excavations so that all utilities can be properly placed before the street is finally repaved. And when multiple projects by different entities are taking place in the same location, streets are temporarily paved until the next utility project takes place. Once all projects are completed, then the Street Service can be potentially restored and resurfaced. So, the benefit of coordinating work include shorter overall construction periods and i just want to emphasize that although it may feel long to residents now, it does help to ensure that the work remains intact with no further disruptions for as long as possible. And also, too, minimizing parking loss is a benefit of coordination. Decreased noise, dust, and vibration, reduce traffic detours and disruptions. Coordination is in the best interest of all utilities since they incur cost savings by not having to pay for final paving work with they conduct their street excavations together. Also, after carefully planning and permitting a project, the city must also take into account the following measures in order to assure coordination is effective. These measures include potential traffic rerouting, coordinating projects with special city events such as data breakers, the [speaker not understood], americas cup and other street planned fairs events. Parking restrictions impact the city transit routes, inclement weather, and available funding. Finally, when all excavation has been completed, dpw can finally come in and pave a street. Dpw initially assess whether a street will be paved based on the surface condition. Condition of the street is measured by the paving condition index also known as the pci score. A score of 70 is a minimal minimally accepted Good Condition score. And as you can see, the paving scores have been increasing yearly. In 2013 we reached an average score of the entire dpw paved streets of 66, and the citys goal is to have an average score of 70 by year 2021. And the department is on track with the current funding that is in place. I want to commend dpw for now two years in a row of increased average Pavement Condition scoring. Even though its one step at a time, when you look at the continual slide that we had from i think the mid 80s until a few years ago to down, down, down, down, that we finally have bottomed out and are moving back up again, its really tremendous. I just want to go back to something you mentioned. In terms of dpws decision about whether entire road has to be resurfaced or not umhm. And i know ms. Gored on and i have talked about this quite a bit in some specific contexts where you have road work that gets done ~ and the road did youant get completely resurfaced. Maybe one half of the road is resurfaced and the other half is significantly in worse shape, or you have the one big stripe down the middle of the road that gets resurfaced and you end up that can cause some frustration. Hey, you just did all this work and my road was disrupted and now we had part of it resurfaced but the other isnt. It looks terrible and its uneven. What is how does the department decide when to do that resurfacing . I would personally encourage department to be more liberal in saying were going to resurface the whole block. Thats definitely the case that dpw would like to resurface the whole block. Every two years or so, we do do a citywide analysis of the Pavement Conditions and based on that there is a plan to pave those mile. Like for instance, the 2013, were going to pave 50 miles. But there is over 900 miles of city streets that need to evaluate. There is also a weighted measure, about how which streets will be most successfully repaved. What would be the most successful in terms of which streets should be repaved and thats where the condition score comes in depending on how a street has been scored. And it could be scored prior to all the excavation work. So, after all the excavation work is done, you can always call dpw and say, hey, can you come out and take a look . Maybe it would then warrant dpw to say, hey, no, it actually does need a resurfacing job. Whereas before all the excavation work occurred, might have had a better score. Certainly fee free to call contact dpw. I definitely feel free to call. [laughter] im not shy about doing that. We would encourage that. It was zero block of hartford street that was a particular irritant, some of my constituents said it was half resurfaced, half in terrible shaped. Okay. If we go on, in addition to the paving scoring [speaker not understood], dpw other factors to assess whether a block will be paved. So, the selection dreier i dont know includes identifying con