| Citizens Advisory Committee - April 28, 2010 |
CITIZENS ADVISORY COMMITTEEMeeting Notice Date: 6:00 p.m., Wednesday, April 28, 2010 Location: 100 Van Ness Avenue, 26th Floor Members: Jul Lynn Parsons (Chair), Peter Tannen (Vice Chair), Glenn Davis, Chris Jones, Brian Larkin, Fran Martin, Jacqualine Sachs, Robert Switzer, Wendy Tran, and Rosie West
6:00 1. Committee Meeting Call to Order 6:02 2. Adoption of Minutes of the March 24, 2010 Meeting - ACTION* attachment 6:05 3. Chair's Report - INFORMATION 6:10 4. Citizens Advisory Committee Appointment - INFORMATION The Plans and Programs Committee will consider recommending appointment of one member to the Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC) at its May 11 meeting. This vacancy resulted from the resignation of Michael Ma. Neither staff nor CAC members make recommendations regarding CAC appointments. CAC applications can be obtained at the Authority's website (www.sfcta.org) or by calling 415.522.4800. This is an information item. 6:15 Policy and Programming 4. Adopt a Motion of Support for the Allocation of $11,155,000 in Prop K Funds, with Conditions, to the Municipal Transportation Agency for Design and Construction of the Central Control and Communications Interim Facility, Subject to the Attached Fiscal Year Cash Flow Distribution Schedule - ACTION* attachment As one of the key features of its Central Control and Communications (C3) Program, the Municipal Transportation Agency (MTA) seeks to consolidate its real-time command and control functions in a single facility, adequately sized, with fully integrated and up-to-date systems. MTA management selected the Transbay Transit Center (TTC) as the preferred location for the new long-term Operations Control Center (OCC). However, due to funding and schedule issues, that project is in the early conceptual planning stages. Meanwhile, the MTA has an urgent need to improve its command and control facility and has set a near-term goal to equip a site at 1455 Market Street site as an interim primary OCC and retrofit the Lenox Avenue facility as a secondary site. The Market Street site is currently a data center and has all the infrastructure needed for the OCC, which allows it to be developed faster and at a lower cost than an OCC at TTC. The MTA has requested an $11,155,000 Prop K allocation to fund design and construction of an integrated OCC at the Market Street site. The MTA estimates the total cost of the project to be about $29.1 million with the balance of the funds coming from other federal, state, and local sources. The project is fully funded, but the MTA needs to be prepared with financing options in the event that up to $12.1 million in state Prop 1B funds are not available when needed to support the project cash flow. Coordination with the MTA's radio replacement project schedule is critical; the new radio system needs to be installed and tested at the new OCC in 2012 in order to meet Federal Communications Commission requirements. Thus, the schedule demands that the tenant improvements be complete by January 1, 2012, and move-in to occur over the following six-to-twelve months. For liability reasons, the landlord (Bank of America) requires its own designers and contractors to perform all Tenant Improvements. As a private entity, the landlord is not required to issue contracts consistent with federal contracting guidelines and therefore, federal funds cannot be used for expenditures related to its contracts. As a result, funds for the landlord-provided tenant improvements must come from local funding sources, such as Prop K. For these reasons, the MTA is requesting allocation of both design and construction funding in the same allocation request. We are seeking a motion of support for the allocation of $11,155,000 in Prop K funds, with conditions, to the MTA for design and construction of the C3 Interim Facility, subject to the attached Fiscal Year Cash Flow Distribution Schedule. 5. Adopt a Motion of Support for the Allocation of $500,000 in Prop K funds, with Conditions, to the Municipal Transportation Agency for the Environmental Phase of the Historical Streetcar Extension to Fort Mason, Subject to the Attached Fiscal Year Cash Flow Distribution Schedule- ACTION* attachment The Municipal Transportation Agency (MTA) has requested $500,000 in Prop K funds to complete the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for a proposed extension of its historical streetcar line from Fisherman's Wharf to two popular national parks - the San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park and the Golden Gate National Recreation Area's Fort Mason Center. The National Park Service (NPS) has led the EIS development process in coordination with the MTA and the Federal Transit Administration and will complete the Final EIS through a competitively bid contract. The NPS expects to release the Draft EIS for public review in January 2011, finish the Final EIS in August 2011, and complete the Record of Decision in September 2011. The estimated total project cost is $53.8 million. The environmental studies phase is fully funded with $1,456,735 in federal funds and $500,000 in Prop K funds that is the subject of the current request. The design and construction phases have no identified funding except for Prop K funds. Based on the project schedule, the maximum Prop K funds that could be available for design and construction is $3.37 million leaving a $48.5 million funding shortfall. In response to concerns raised by Commissioner Michela Alioto-Pier about the appropriateness of committing funding to the Fort Mason Extension in the absence of a viable financing plan for the project, the Plans and Programs Committee unanimously recommended approval of an amended 5-Year Prioritization Program (5YPP) that severs all items related to the Fort Mason Extension, for consideration at a future date. The Authority Board will consider approval of the 5YPP on April 27, the day before the April Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC) meeting. The subject allocation request may be pulled from the CAC agenda depending upon the outcome of the Board action. We are seeking a motion of support for the allocation of $500,000 in Prop K funds, with conditions, to the MTA for the environmental phase of the Historical Streetcar Extension to Fort Mason, subject to the attached Fiscal Year Cash Flow Distribution Schedule. 6. Fiscal Year 2010/11 Prop K Annual Call for Projects - INFORMATION* attachment enclosure The intent of the annual call for Prop K projects is to bring as many of the programmatic and other individual capital project allocations to the Authority Board for approval in June. This allows project sponsors to incorporate the level of Prop K funding in their annual budget processes, and to put into place the staff and other resources necessary to deliver Prop K projects and programs. Project sponsors that can demonstrate need and project readiness can also receive allocations for individual projects and programs during the year. We are presenting nineteen applications received by April 2, requesting over $19.4 million in Prop K funds to the Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC) for information this month and for action in May. Attachment 1 summarizes the applications received, including leveraging compared to Expenditure Plan assumptions and project phases included in the current request. Attachment 2 provides a brief description of each project. Attachment 3 highlights issues of potential interest to the CAC and policy considerations that we are exploring as part of our on-going review of the allocation requests. We are seeking input and guidance from the CAC. This is an information item. 7. Adopt a Motion of Support to Approve the Fiscal Year 2010/2011 Transportation Fund for Clean Air Program of Projects - ACTION* attachment The Transportation Fund for Clean Air (TFCA) Program was established to fund the most effective transportation projects that achieve emission reductions from motor vehicles in accordance with the Bay Area Air Quality Management District's (Air District's) Clean Air Plan. Funds are generated from a $4 surcharge on the vehicle registration fee collected by the Department of Motor Vehicles. As the San Francisco TFCA County Program Manager, the Authority annually develops the program of projects for the TFCA Program Manager funds. On February 24, 2010, we issued the call for Fiscal Year (FY) 2010/2011 TFCA applications to San Francisco project sponsors. We received nine project applications by the April 2, 2010 deadline, requesting over $920,000 in TFCA funds compared to the $803,160 in available funds. We reviewed the projects for eligibility, then evaluated eligible projects following the Authority's local expenditure criteria which includes project type (e.g., first priority to zero emission projects such as bicycle facility improvements), cost effectiveness of emissions reduced, program diversity, project delivery (i.e., readiness), and other considerations (e.g., a sponsor's track record for delivering prior TFCA projects). Based on this review, we are recommending funding the nine projects shown in Attachment 3, including eight bicycle projects and one clean air vehicle project. We recommend funding all projects at the amount requested with the exception of the Municipal Transportation Agency's Market and Valencia Bicycle Improvements and Gap Closure Project and the Yellow Cab Cooperative's Clean Air Compressed Natural Gas Taxi Program. Reducing the recommended funding amounts of these projects allows us to recommend full funding for the other seven projects. We are seeking a motion of support to approve the FY 2010/11 TFCA Program of Projects. 8. Status Report on the Development of a Draft Expenditure Plan for the Imposition of an Additional Vehicle Registration Fee of Up to $10 in San Francisco Pursuant to the Requirements in SB 83 - INFORMATION* attachment In late October, the Governor signed into law SB 83 (Hancock), which authorizes congestion management agencies (CMAs) to impose an annual fee of up to $10 on motor vehicles registered within their respective counties. The funds would have to be used for programs and projects having a relationship to or benefiting the people paying the fee, and they would have to be consistent with the Regional Transportation Plan. In December 2009, the Authority approved Resolution 10-27, authorizing the Executive Director to initiate the development of an Expenditure Plan for a new vehicle registration fee consistent with the requirements of SB 83. Placing the measure on the November 2010 ballot would necessitate a tight timeline for developing and approving an Expenditure Plan and the required benefit-relationship finding. We recently received confirmation from the City Attorney's Office that the Authority Board can place the measure directly on the ballot, enabling us to push the potential date of adoption by the Authority Board from May to June (see Attachment 1). Since our March report to the CAC, we have held a second meeting of the CAC subcommittee, sought further input from the stakeholder advisory panel, and continued our coordination and information sharing efforts with other Bay Area CMAs that are also targeting the November 2010 election. At the April CAC meeting, we will review the results of a poll conducted in mid-March that showed 66% of likely San Francisco voters would support the measure, as well as describe the preliminary benefit-relationship analysis of the list of potential projects and programs which indicates that all the potential project and programs under consideration for inclusion in the Expenditure Plan could meet the benefit-relationship test per the SB 83 requirement. Attachment 4 shows the draft staff proposal for projects and programs to be included in the Expenditure Plan, having taken into account input from various stakeholders, the polling results, the benefit-relationship analysis, and our experience with administering the sales tax program. Interested parties may access current information and updates on the potential vehicle registration fee and the development of the Expenditure Plan, including opportunities for public input, on the Authority's web site at www.sfcta.org/sb83. We are seeking input and guidance from the CAC. This is an information item. 7:20 Capital Projects 9. Adopt a Motion of Support for the Appropriation of $1,504,008 in Prop K Funds, With Conditions, for Construction Support for the Presidio Parkway Project, Subject to the Attached Fiscal Year Cash Flow Distribution Schedule, with a Commitment to Appropriate $25,665,487 in Fiscal Year 2010/11 Prop K Funds and $5,397,165 in Fiscal Year 2011/12 Prop K Funds, Subject to Approval of the Authority's Annual Budget, and Increasing the Amount of the Authority's Professional Services Contract with Arup/PB Joint Venture by $34,860,913 to a Total Amount Not to Exceed $69,497,915 for Construction Support for the Project - ACTION* attachment The Authority has been leading the effort since 1994, in close cooperation with Caltrans, to replace the existing Doyle Drive structure. In September 2006, after years of public input, the Authority and its partner agencies selected the Presidio Parkway design as the preferred design alternative, and in December 2008, the Authority Board approved the project's final environmental document. The construction phase, which is organized into two phases with eight construction contracts, began in August 2009. Phase I consists of contracts 1 through 4 for environmental mitigation, utility relocation, and the construction of portions of the permanent new parkway, one of four short tunnels under the Presidio, and a detour. Phase II includes construction contracts 5 through 8 to complete the last three tunnels and bridge structures as well as final landscaping. At its May 19 meeting, the California Transportation Commission (CTC) will consider whether to allow Phase II to proceed as a public-private partnership (PPP). The subject request will fund construction support activities through Fiscal Year 2011/12, including Authority staff construction management and support activities and extension of four professional services contracts, as described in Attachment 1. Our request includes appropriation of $1,504,008 and a commitment to appropriate $25,665,487 in Fiscal Year 2010/11 and $5,297,165 in Fiscal Year 2011/12, subject to Board approval of the Authority's annual budget. The future year commitments are necessary to ensure the Authority has sufficient funds in place to award the proposed multi-year contract amendments. We had expected to fund the proposed scope of work with $15,531,326 in State Local Partnership Program (SLPP) funds and $17,035,334 in Prop K funds, but are instead requesting the full $32,566,660 in Prop K funds because the SLPP funds are currently unavailable due to the state budget crisis. We are recommending a special condition that upon receipt of the programmed SLPP funds, expected in the next year or two, we would de-obligate an equivalent amount of Prop K funds, which would eventually allow us to meet the original anticipated SLPP and Prop K funding levels. Our appropriation request would require amendment of the 2009 Prop K Strategic Plan to reprogram $1,504,008 in recently de-obligated funds from the planning and environmental studies phases and shift a total of $11,397,165 in Fiscal Year 2010/11 and 2011/12 Prop K funds from the project's right-of-way phase to the construction phase, which is currently in more urgent need of the funds. The subject request would also amend our professional services contract with Arup/ PB Joint Venture for project management and administration services, construction engineering, outreach, monitoring, and financial and technical support services through the remainder of Phase I and Phase II construction. As shown in Attachment 2, the contract amendment would increase the existing contract by $34,860,913 to an amount not to exceed $69,497,915. We are seeking a motion of support for the appropriation of $1,504,008 in Prop K funds, with conditions, for construction support for the Presidio Parkway Project, subject to the attached Fiscal Year Cash Flow Distribution Schedule, with a commitment to appropriate $25,665,487 in Fiscal Year 2010/11 Prop K funds and $5,397,165 in Fiscal Year 2011/12 Prop K funds, subject to approval of the Authority's annual budget, and increasing the amount of the Authority's professional services contract with Arup/PB Joint Venture by $34,860,913 to a total amount not to exceed $69,497,915 for construction support for the project. 7:35 Finance and Administration 10. Preliminary Fiscal Year 2010/11 Annual Budget and Work Program - INFORMATION* attachment Pursuant to State statutes (PUC Code Sections 131000 et seq.) and the Authority's Fiscal Policy, the Authority Board must adopt an annual budget for the following fiscal year by June 30. The preliminary Fiscal Year (FY) 2010/11 Annual Budget includes projections of sales tax revenues, federal state and local grants, and investment income for the fiscal period, as well as projections of operating and administrative costs, capital expenditures, and associated financing costs. The preliminary FY 2010/11 Annual Budget also includes a description of the Authority's proposed Work Program for the coming fiscal year. Total revenues are projected to be $132.3 million, including $71.0 million in sales tax revenues. Total expenditures are projected to be $187.2 million. Capital expenditures are projected to be $170.8 million or about 91.2% of total expenditures. The budgeted other financing sources and uses includes a bond issue of $340 million, which would be used to fund Prop K capital projects and to redeem outstanding commercial paper debt. The final proposed FY 2010/11 Annual Budget and Work Program will be presented to the Citizens Advisory Committee in May and the Finance Committee and Authority Board in June. A public hearing will precede consideration of the FY 2010/11 Annual Budget and Work Program at the Authority's June meeting. We are seeking comments from the Citizens Advisory Committee on the preliminary FY 2010/11 Annual Budget and Work Program. This is an information item. 7:50 11. Public Comment 8:00 12. Adjournment * Materials Attached Next Regular Meeting: May 26, 2010
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