PLANS AND PROGRAMS COMMITTEE agenda packet
Meeting Notice
Date: 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Location: Room 263, City Hall
Commissioners: Commissioners Tang (Chair), Christensen (Vice Chair), Breed, Farrell, Yee and Wiener (Ex Officio)
Clerk: Steve Stamos
1. Roll Call
2. Citizens Advisory Committee Report – INFORMATION* attachment
3. Approve the Minutes of the May 12, 2015 Meeting – ACTION* attachment
4. Recommend Allocation of $74,083,386 in Prop K Funds, with Conditions, and Appropriation of $162,400 in Prop K funds, Subject to the Attached Fiscal Year Cash Flow Distribution Schedules – ACTION* attachment enclosure presentation
As summarized in Attachments 1 and 2, we are seeking approval of seventeen requests totaling $74,245,786 in Prop K sales tax funds. Three projects account for nearly 90% of the funds, including two San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) motor coach procurements. The first is $12.4 million for 26 60-ft articulated hybrid diesel replacement buses to be purchased from New Flyer of America, Inc. On June 5, the SFMTA submitted the second (urgent) request for $33,405,243 for procurement of 34 40-foot and 50 60-foot hybrid diesel motor coaches. This procurement will be done via a contract option to the New Flyer contract to procure 84 replacement vehicles and 14 expansion vehicles. Thirdly, we are requesting $12.3 million for allocation to Caltrans as the Prop K portion of a $276.4 million milestone payment due to the Public Private Partnership concessionaire upon substantial completion of the Presidio Parkway project, anticipated this September. There are two NTIP requests. One is for $150,000 for SFMTA and Transportation Authority staff to provide NTIP program support. The other is for $100,000 for concept development and evaluation of a new north-south multimodal pathway connecting San Bruno Avenue to the Alemany Farmer’s Market, and new bicycle lanes along Alemany Boulevard between Putnam Street and Bayshore Boulevard. This is the District 9 NTIP planning project. Other SFMTA projects include: additional funds for pre-environmental work for the proposed Southwest Subway (19th Avenue/M Ocean View); 5 traffic signal related projects, replacement or upgrade of safe-hit posts, green bike lanes and bike boxes; the Fiscal Year 2015/16 local-track Traffic Calming program; and an environmental impact report for the 6th Street Pedestrian Safety Improvement Project. San Francisco Public Works is requesting Prop K funds for repair of sidewalks damaged by city street trees and replacement, establishment, and maintenance of about 1,700 street trees. BART is requesting funds for design of replacement cross-passage doors in the Transbay Tube.
5. Recommend Adoption of the Potrero Hill Neighborhood Transportation Plan Final Report – ACTION* attachment enclosure presentation
The Potrero Hill Neighborhood Transportation Plan (NTP) is the result of a community-based planning effort in the southern Potrero Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, and was funded by a California Department of Transportation Environmental Justice Planning grant, a Metropolitan Transportation Commission Community Based Transportation Planning grant, and the Transportation Authority's Proposition K sales tax program. The technical team, led by the Transportation Authority, collaborated with community stakeholders to identify multimodal transportation priorities at the neighborhood scale, prioritizing near-term improvements to improve connectivity across the site and to the broader neighborhood, city, and region. The final recommendations focus on low-cost improvements that could be implemented before the site is redeveloped wholesale through the Rebuild Potrero project. Prioritized projects include pedestrian safety and transit stop enhancements, including transit bulbouts that would be built using non-infrastructure materials (i.e., construction that does not require regrading the street or moving sewer catchbasins). If successful, this innovative feature could be replicated throughout the city, bringing benefits to transit riders more quickly and cost effectively, particularly on streets that are not scheduled for near term repaving. The NTP includes complete funding plans for these enhancements, with allocations from all sources (including Lifeline Transportation Program funds from the Transportation Authority) anticipated by July 2015 and implementation anticipated by early 2016. The NTP also studied a potential shuttle route to improve access across the site and to connect residents with nearby amenities.
6. Recommend Approval of the Fiscal Year 2015/16 Transportation Fund for Clean Air Program of Projects – ACTION* attachment presentation
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 Transportation Authority annually develops the Program of Projects for the TFCA Program Manager funds. In February we issued the call for Fiscal Year 2015/2016 TFCA applications. We received six project applications by the April 30, 2015 deadline, requesting $1,490,986 in TFCA funds compared to $857,723 in available funds. We reviewed the projects for eligibility, then evaluated eligible projects following the Board-adopted local expenditure criteria which include project type (e.g., first priority to zero emission projects), cost effectiveness of emissions reduced, program diversity, project readiness, and other considerations (e.g., a sponsor’s track record for delivering prior TFCA projects). Based on this review, we are recommending awarding TFCA funds to the five projects shown in Attachment 3. We’ve recommended partial funding for one scalable project to allow us to fund five of the six projects. Two projects are recommended for slightly less funding than requested to comply with Air District cost-effectiveness requirements.
7. Bay Area Bike Share Update – INFORMATION presentation
At the June Plans and Programs Committee meeting, staff from the Metropolitan Transportation Commissioner (MTC) will present an information update about the regional bike share system. At its May 27, 2015 meeting, the MTC approved a contract with Motivate International, Inc. (Motivate) to deliver, implement, and operate a bike share system of at least 7,000 bikes and associated stations. The Motivate contract includes bike share expansion in the cities of Berkeley, Emeryville, Oakland, San Francisco and San Jose by 2017, including an increase in San Francisco from the current 328 to 4,500 bicycles. Motivate is required to place a minimum of 20 percent of its docks and bikes in communities of concern, and will work with cities on community engagement as part of the siting process. Since this expansion is privately funded, MTC has recommended that $4.5 million from the $19.1 million pilot program be reprogrammed to expand bike share to other emerging communities beyond those included in the Motivate proposal. This funding level would support, at a minimum, the acquisition of an additional 750 bikes, roughly the size of the current pilot.
8. Plan Bay Area 2040 and Call for Projects – INFORMATION* attachment
The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and the Association of Bay Area Governments have kicked off their update of Plan Bay Area, the regional transportation plan/sustainable communities strategy adopted in 2013. Plan Bay Area 2040 is a roadmap to help Bay Area cities and counties preserve the character of our diverse communities while adapting to the challenges of future population growth. It is a state-mandated, integrated long-range transportation, land-use and housing plan that will support a growing economy, provide more housing and transportation choices and reduce transportation-related pollution in the nine-county Bay Area. (See planbayarea.org for more details.) As the Congestion Management Agency for San Francisco, the Transportation Authority leads the City’s involvement in the effort and is charged with submitting San Francisco’s project priorities through a call for projects. Public agencies will submit projects for consideration and members of the public are encouraged to share their own ideas at www.sfcta.org/rtp by July 17, 2015. We will bring a proposed list of initial project priorities to the Plans and Programs Committee in September prior to submitting it to MTC. This list will be refined over the coming year as our initial funding target will be pared down to a fiscally constrained list as part of development of the preferred scenario for Plan Bay Area 2040.
9. Introduction of New Items – INFORMATION
During this segment of the meeting, Committee members may make comments on items not specifically listed above, or introduce or request items for future consideration.
10. Public Comment
11. Adjournment
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