PLANS AND PROGRAMS COMMITTEE
Meeting Notice
Date: 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Location: Room 263, City Hall
Commissioners: Commissioners Mar (Chair), Kim (Vice Chair), Breed, Campos, Yee and Avalos (Ex Officio)
Clerk: Steve Stamos
1. Roll Call
2. Citizens Advisory Committee Report – INFORMATION* attachment
Consent Calendar
3. Approve the Minutes of the October 7, 2014 Meeting – ACTION* attachment
4. Recommend Allocation of $6,795,385 in Prop K Funds, with Conditions, for Eleven Requests, Subject to the Attached Fiscal Year Cash Flow Distribution Schedules and Amendment of the Relevant 5-Year Prioritization Programs – ACTION* attachment enclosure
As summarized in Attachments 1 and 2, we have eleven requests totaling $6,795,385 in Prop K funds to present to the Plans and Programs Committee for approval. Attachment 3 summarizes our recommendations. The Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board (PCJPB or Caltrain) has requested $3.8 million for San Francisco’s Fiscal Year 2014/15 member contribution for six state-of-good-repair projects, including construction of the Quint Street Bridge Replacement. Caltrain has also requested funds for unanticipated construction management costs for bicycle parking facility improvements that will increase storage capacity at the 4th and King station ($20,000). The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) has requested Prop K funds to expand its participation in the Geneva-Harney Bus Rapid Transit Feasibility Study and for follow-on pre-environmental work ($200,000). SFMTA has also asked for planning and conceptual design funds for the John Yehall Chin Safe Routes to School project ($40,433), a project that supports Vision Zero and has received a state Active Transportation Planning grant for design. Finally, the Bay Area Rapid Transit District has requested $2,030,000 to fully fund construction of the Balboa Park Station Eastside Connections project (which received Lifeline Transportation Program funds from the Transportation Authority) and San Francisco Public Works has requested $701,886 to construct Chinatown Broadway Phase IV (a OneBayArea Grant project that will complete streetscape improvements between Columbus Avenue and the Broadway Tunnel). We are seeking a recommendation to allocate $6,795,385 in Prop K funds, with conditions, for eleven requests, subject to the attached Fiscal Year Cash Flow Distribution Schedules and amendment of the relevant 5-Year Prioritization Programs.
End of Consent Calendar
5. San Francisco Transportation Plan and Plan Bay Area Updates – INFORMATION* attachment
The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) have kicked off the process to update Plan Bay Area, the region’s first combined Regional Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy (RTP/SCS) adopted in mid-2013. The regional agencies intend to engage in a focused update that builds off the framework and policies established in Plan Bay Area. While MTC and ABAG will not approve the update until 2017, MTC will issue a call for projects in mid-2015 and most of the policy and project prioritization decisions will be negotiated by mid-2016. To position San Francisco’s desired policies objectives and project priorities for inclusion in the next RTP/SCS, over the next year we will be preparing an update to our own San Francisco Transportation Plan (SFTP). We plan to take a similar approach to MTC in that the SFTP update would be very focused, building off the existing goals, policies, and investment framework. We are pleased to report that many of the key recommendations from the SFTP are already underway such as the San Francisco Bay Area Core Capacity Transit Study, Freeway Corridor Management Strategy and Neighborhood Transportation Improvement Program. The SFTP update will incorporate the findings from these efforts and others. Coordinated quadrennial updates of the RT¬P/SCS and the SFTP are consistent with the intent of MTC’s recently adopted countywide transportation plan guidelines and are one of our core functions as Congestion Management Agency. We will provide a brief overview of the updates at the Committee meeting and plan to return in the coming months with more detailed presentations, including an outreach strategy and how we are coordinating with the many local and regional partners on these efforts. This is an information item.
6. BART Vision Update – INFORMATION* attachment
BART’s Vision Study is a high-level analysis that will be used to inform discussions on BART priorities for future investments in state of good repair, capacity and expansion. The study purpose focuses on how BART can support the region’s vision (e.g. as articulated in PlanBayArea) and as such, seeks to engage regional stakeholders and to advise the BART Board. BART staff has been working on the BART vision study over the past year and a half, focusing in particular on whittling down a large pool of potential candidate expansion project concepts to a smaller list of projects that may be recommended for further study. At the November Plans and Programs Committee meeting, Ellen Smith, Acting Manager for Strategic and Policy Planning at BART, will provide an update on the BART Vision process. The study findings are scheduled to be presented to the BART Board in December. Some of those finding will likely feed into the San Francisco Bay Area Core Capacity Transit Study which is being led by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission in partnership with BART, AC Transit, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, and the Transportation Authority. The Core Capacity Study will look at two key corridors – the Transbay and Muni Metro Corridors – and will evaluate short, medium and long-term transit investments and strategies to address existing and forecast capacity constraints serving San Francisco’s core. The BART Vision and Core Capacity studies are two of the key transit capacity studies that will feed into the 2017 update of the San Francisco Transportation Plan and PlanBayArea (see prior agenda item). This is an information item.
7. Major Capital Projects Update – Islais Creek Maintenance Facility – INFORMATION* attachment
The Islais Creek Maintenance Facility represents the first new San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) rubber-tire vehicle maintenance facility in the last 60 years. The project includes a fuel-and-wash building, a 65,000-square-foot motor coach maintenance and operations building, administration building, bus storage, and land acquisition. The facility will service 40- and 60-foot-long motor coaches. The facility will also be able to provide maintenance for the Van Ness Avenue Bus Rapid Transit fleet. The current budget is $126.8 million making it one of the largest SFMTA facility projects that is receiving Prop K local transportation sales tax funds. Phase I of the project, which included sitework, bus storage, the fuel-and-wash building and the administration building, was completed in early 2013 and is now operational. Redesign work on Phase II, the maintenance building, was completed in September under an agreement with San Francisco Public Works for design and development of the contract documents. SFMTA advertised for bids for Phase II on October 10, 2014, with bids due on December 1, 2014. Substantial completion is scheduled for January 2017. This is an information item.
8. Introduction of New Items – INFORMATION
9. Public Comment
10. Adjournment
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