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2:00 ‑ REGULAR MEETING ORDER OF BUSINESS 1. Call to Order Chairman McCray called the meeting to order at 2:11 p.m. 2. Roll Call Present:
Absent: Peter Mezey – with notification 3. Announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices during the meeting. Chairman McCray announced that the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound-producing electronic devices are prohibited at the meeting. He advised that any person responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar sound-producing electronic devices might be removed from the meeting. He also advised that cell phones that are set on “vibrate” cause microphone interference and requested that they be placed in the “off” position. 4. Approval of Minutes On motion to approve the minutes of the August 21, 2007 Regular Meeting: unanimously approved (Mezey-absent.) The MTA Board of Directors postponed convening in closed session until after the Board called Item 15, Approval of the Transit Shelter Contract, on the Regular Agenda. 5. Discussion and vote pursuant to Administrative Code Section 67.10(d) as to whether to conduct a closed session and invoke the attorney‑client privilege. On motion to invoke the attorney-client privilege: unanimously approved (Mezey-absent.) RECESS REGULAR MEETING AND CONVENE CLOSED SESSION CLOSED SESSION 6. Call to Order Chairman McCray called the closed session to order at 4:26 p.m. 7. Roll Call Present:
Absent: Peter Mezey – with notification Also present:
8. Pursuant to Government Code Sections 54956.9, and Administrative Code Section 67.8 (a) (3) the Municipal Transportation Agency Board will meet in closed session to discuss attorney‑client matters in the following case: CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL Anticipated Litigation: __X___ As defendant _____ As plaintiff (1 case) ADJOURN CLOSED SESSION AND RECONVENE OPEN SESSION - The closed session was adjourned at 5:22 p.m. 9. Communications (9.1) Announcement of Closed Session. Chairman McCray announced that the Board met in closed session to discuss anticipated litigation with the city as defendant. The Board took no action. (9.2) Motion to disclose or not disclose the information discussed in closed session. On motion to not disclose the information discussed: unanimously approved (Mezey-absent.) 10. Introduction of New or Unfinished Business by Board Members Chairman McCray stated that Vice Chairman Nolan had notified him that he would be stepping down from the Governance Committee. Chairman McCray stated that Director Beach has agreed to serve on the Governance Committee. 11. Executive Director’s Report (For discussion only) -Ongoing Activities Exec. Director/CEO Ford reported on the SFMTA’s efforts surrounding the Labor Day closing of the Bay Bridge. Bond Yee, Director, Parking and Traffic, presented the 2006 Collision Report. Director Shahum requested that staff look at how to include the installation of additional red-light cameras in next year’s budget. 12. Citizen’s Advisory Council Report None. 13. Public Comment Herbert Weiner stated that it’s a fact that if you’re not on the bus, you’re under the wheels. You can be run over by bus or by bicycle. Bikes don’t honor lights. Mr. Weiner read a statement from the “Metropolitan Bicycle Association” regarding the interaction of bikes, cars and pedestrians from the point of view of a cyclist. Roger Bazeley commended the MTA for hosting the APTA intermodal workshop. Mr. Bazeley also recommended pedestrian safety improvements for the cable car turnarounds and along Third Street. He noted that there is a need for funding and maintenance for school cross-walks along highly traveled transit corridors. Norm Rolfe stated that money should be taken away from some undesirable projects such as the Doyle Drive project. If you rebuild the Doyle Drive approach “as is” and without the additional lane there will be enough money to rebuild it. Mr. Rolfe suggested a congestion management charge that would be collected at the Golden Gate toll booth. That money should be split between Muni and Golden Gate. THE FOLLOWING MATTERS BEFORE THE MUNICIPAL TRANSPORTATION AGENCY BOARD OR PARKING AUTHORITY ARE RECOMMENDED FOR ACTION AS STATED BY THE MTA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/CEO, PARKING AUTHORITY DIRECTOR, OR CITY ATTORNEY WHERE APPLICABLE. EXPLANATORY DOCUMENTS FOR ALL CALENDAR ITEMS ARE AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW AT 1 SOUTH VAN NESS AVE. 7th FLOOR. CONSENT CALENDAR 14. All matters listed hereunder constitute a Consent Calendar, are considered to be routine by the Municipal Transportation Agency Board or Parking Authority Commission, and will be acted upon by a single vote. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the Board/Commission or the public so requests, in which event the matter shall be removed from the Consent Calendar and considered as a separate item. (14.1) Requesting the Controller to allot funds and to draw warrants against such funds available or will be available in payment of the following claim against the MTA: A. Casmalia Resources Hazardous Waste Disposal Site vs. SFMTA, California Admin. Order on Consent, filed on 5/31/07 for $7,609.05 B. Isaak Radomysiskiy vs. CCSF, Superior Ct. #462892 filed on 4/30/07 for $12,000 C. Susan Kojima vs. CCSF, Superior Ct. #443715 filed on 8/4/05 for $15,000 RESOLUTION 07-140 (14.2) Approving the following traffic modifications: A. ESTABLISH - TOW-AWAY, NO PARKING, MIDNIGHT TO 10 A.M., MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY - 15th Street, north side, between Florida and Bryant Streets. B. ESTABLISH - AREA 2, 2-HOUR PARKING TIME LIMIT, 9 AM TO 6 PM, MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY - Townsend Street, south side, between 7th and 8th Streets. C. RESCIND - PARKING METERS, AREA NO. 3, (2-HOUR PARKING TIME LIMIT, 9 AM TO 6 PM, MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY) - Masonic Avenue, east side, north of Turk Street. D. RESCIND - MUNI BUS ZONE - Post Street, south side, from Gough Street to 105 feet westerly. E. ESTABLISH - MUNI BUS ZONES - Post Street, south side, from Gough Street to 95 feet easterly and Geary Boulevard, north side, from 84 feet to 104 feet west of 9th Avenue. (Explanatory documents include a staff report and resolution.) (Bond Yee) RESOLUTION 07-141 (14.3) Authorizing the Executive Director/CEO to accept and expend $1,805,760 in Section 5309 Bus and Bus Facilities capital assistance for design and construction of the Islais Creek Bus Maintenance Facility and the purchase of AVL equipment. (Explanatory documents include a staff report, and resolution.) (Sonali Bose) RESOLUTION 07-142 (14.4) Authorizing the Executive Director/CEO to accept and expend $1,438,590 of Caltrans’ federal Safe Routes to School program funding for implementation of school area traffic calming projects in the vicinity of Jefferson Elementary School and in the vicinity of various Chinatown elementary schools. (Explanatory documents include a staff report, resolution and award letter.) (Sonali Bose) RESOLUTION 07-143 (14.5) Authorizing the Executive Director/CEO to accept and expend $180,000 of RM-2 funds to engage in tasks necessary to complete the rollout of TransLink®, as well as coordinate and assist in the procurement of ticket vending machine and fare gate procurements. (Explanatory documents include a staff report, resolution, initial project report and opinion of counsel.) (Sonali Bose) RESOLUTION 07-144 (14.6) Authorizing the Executive Director/CEO to approve a bid call for Department of Public Works Contract No. 1387J: Contract 58 New Traffic Signals to solicit bids from contractors qualified to install new traffic signals at the 6 intersections throughout San Francisco. (Explanatory documents include a staff report, resolution and financial plan.) (Bond Yee) RESOLUTION 07-145 (14.7) Authorizing the Executive Director/CEO to approve a bid call for Department of Public Works Contract No. 0985J: Contract 32 Traffic Signal Modification to solicit bids from contractors qualified to upgrade existing traffic signals at 22 intersections throughout San Francisco. (Explanatory documents include a staff report, resolution and financial plan.) (Bond Yee) RESOLUTION 07-146 (14.8) Authorizing the Purchaser to utilize the competitive procurement of San Mateo County Transit District to purchase six paratransit vans from El Dorado Bus Sales Inc/Creative Bus Sales, for an amount not to exceed $560,000. (Explanatory documents include a staff report, resolution, financial plan and waiver and release form.) (Carter Rohan) RESOLUTION 07-147 (14.9) Authorizing the Executive Director/CEO to execute the agreement with Booz Allen Hamilton to conduct the Regional Zonal Integrated Fare Study on behalf of the TransLink® Consortium for a contract term from September 10, 2007 to August 29, 2008 for an amount not to exceed $425,968. (Explanatory documents include a staff report, resolution and contract.) (Sonali Bose) RESOLUTION 07-148 No public comment. On motion to approve the Consent Calendar: ADOPTED: AYES – Beach, Black, Din, McCray, Nolan and Shahum ABSENT – Mezey REGULAR CALENDAR 15. Authorizing the Executive Director/CEO to execute a new Transit Shelter Advertising Agreement with Clear Channel to provide design, installation, and maintenance and repair of 1,100 to 1,500 transit shelters and up to 150 kiosks plus required payments to SFMTA for a 15-year term with an option for an additional five years. (Explanatory documents include a staff report, resolution and contract.) (Sonali Bose) Sonali Bose, Chief Financial Officer, presented the staff report. Tom Donahue, Senior Associate, Booz Allen & Hamilton presented a review of the Transit Shelter Contract and compared it to advertising contracts at other peer agencies. PUBLIC COMMENT: Rob Black, SF Chamber of Commerce, stated that for 20 years San Francisco has received benefits from a transit shelter contract and many public/private programs are supported by revenue received from the contract. Neighborhood commercial districts have been asking for more news racks which this contract will help fund. Prop G banned new billboards but it didn’t ban these types of ads. Ads in the public right of way were specifically exempted. Muni bus ads and street furniture ads remain legal. Mr. Black urged the Board to approve the contract. Irwin Lum, President, TWU-250A, expressed support for the contract. Mr. Lum noted that the SFMTA has lost $18 million of Prop 42 Spillover funds and this contract will help to continue to generate revenue that has been lost. It’s important to keep fares low to serve passengers. Shelters without ads will be prone to graffiti. Mr. Lum added that Clear Channel needs to pay minimum wages to people who construct and clean the shelters. Marcie Keever, San Francisco Beautiful, stated that they are concerned about the contract provision that allows for 111 new kiosks and 250 new bus shelters. Advertising will spread to commercial and residential districts that are already cluttered with ads. Neighborhoods will have to fight them on case by case basis. Ms. Keever expressed concern about experimental ads, which will increase blight. Ms. Keever noted that 72% of the voters said no to billboards and urged the Board to reject the portion of the contract that relates to new billboards. Gil Castle, San Francisco Beautiful, stated that SF Beautiful was opposed to the contract. Voters don’t want new billboards and the proposed contract would create close to 400 new mini billboards. Millions of dollars in revenue is attractive but the actual revenue from this contract is small amount as compared to total revenues for the City and County of San Francisco. Mr. Castle asked if we were selling ourselves short for a penny or two on the dollar. Mr. Castle urged the Board to table the contract until after the election to see what the voters have to say about the proposition on the November ballot. He requested that the RFP be reissued to confine it to existing shelters. Bill Hooper, President, Clear Channel Outdoor, stated that Clear Channel is excited about the opportunity to work with SFMTA. The contract is the most lucrative contract in the business. Mr. Hooper noted that once the shelter design is approved and manufactured they will replace approximately 20% per year. Paris and London have far more ads than in San Francisco and those cities aren’t over-commercialized. He added that the money is not a drop in the bucket but is a guarantee of over $300 million over the course of 20 years. Clear Channel is committed to delivering a program worthy of San Francisco The Board recessed the regular meeting and convened the closed session. Director Shahum moved that the resolution be amended to include language that urges the Board of Supervisors to include change to the existing minimum wage ordinance into the final contract. The motion was seconded. On the motion to amend the resolution to urge the Board of Supervisors to include any change to the existing minimum wage ordinance into the final contract: AYES – Black, Nolan and Shahum NAYES - Din, Beach and McCray
ABSENT – Mezey The amendment failed adoption. RESOLUTION 07-149 On motion to approve the contract: ADOPTED: AYES – Beach, Black, Din, McCray, Nolan and Shahum ABSENT – Mezey Director Black left the meeting. 16. Presentation and Discussion of the Human Services Agency’s Lifeline Fast Pass Program. (Explanatory documents include a staff report.) (Sonali Bose) John Murray, Senior Planning Analyst, Human Services Agency presented the Lifeline Fast Pass Program. PUBLIC COMMENT: Director Shahum requested that Mr. Hogarth present the results of their promotion efforts to the Board in six months. 17. Presentation and Discussion of FY07 Year End Service Standards Report. (Explanatory documents include a staff report.) (Jenniffer Hamilton) This item was continued to the meeting of September 18. 18. Approving an increase of $2,104,291 to the Parking Authority FY08 budget to support the Parking Authority interim management plan and hire additional staff. (Explanatory documents include a staff report, staffing plan and resolution.) (Sonali Bose) Board Secretary Boomer stated that the resolution listed an increase in the amount of $1,977,177 which is the correct amount. Sonali Bose, Chief Financial Officer, presented the staff report. The Board expressed concern about hiring internal staff until they had made a final decision about the governance structure. The Board unanimously agreed to amend the resolution to remove reference to the hiring of the five additional staff and to approve the remaining budget items as proposed. Board Secretary Boomer stated that staff would revise the figures in the resolution to reflect the amendment. No public comment. RESOLUTION 07-150 On motion to approve as amended to remove funds associated with the hiring of the five additional staff and approve the remaining budget items as proposed: ADOPTED: AYES – Beach, Din, McCray, Nolan and Shahum ABSENT – Black and Mezey ADJOURN - The meeting was adjourned at 6:15 p.m. A tape of the meeting is on file in the office of the Secretary to the Municipal Transportation Agency Board of Directors. Roberta Boomer The Ethics Commission of the City and County of San Francisco has asked us to remind individuals and entities that influence or attempt to influence local legislative or administrative action may be required by the San Francisco Lobbyist Ordinance [S.F. Campaign and Governmental Conduct Code section 2.100 et seq.] to register and report lobbying activity. For more information about the Lobbyist Ordinance, please contact the Ethics Commission at 415-581-2300; fax: 415-581-2317; 30 Van Ness Ave., Suite 3900, SF, CA 94102-6027 or the web site: sfgov.org/ethics.
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