Transpo Working Group people, We should take up Chris Daly's proposed amendment to the admin code regulating the appointment of members to the Transbay Joint Powers Authority. We should understand it since the SFGP is going to be asked to take a stand on it. Sue Below is the text of Supervisor Daly's proposed legislation to change the selection of the City's three representatives to the TJPA Board. Under this legislation, the three city appointees would be the Mayor, the Supervisor who sits on MTC, and the Supervisor in whose district the terminal is located. No alternates would be allowed. We need every organization to support this important initiative, which will be on the June ballot. Please have your organization vote to support the initiative and place a ballot argument in the SF ballot book. The deadline for submitting paid ballot arguments is March 22 at 12 NOON at the Elections Dept at City Hall. Organizations should make their arguments clear and direct: The simple message is that this is a vital project to the City, and the City's representatives must be elected officials to ensure accountability. The other member agencies have placed elected officials on the TJPA Board, SF should do likewise. The Mayor should sit on this Board, just as the Mayor of LA sits on the MTA (Metro) Board in LA. RAFT, SFT and TransDef have both approved submitting ballot arguments. Here is the text of the ballot language: Submission to the voters of an ordinance amending Chapter 5 of the Administrative Code to add Article XXVII to designate and establish a procedure for appointing City's appointed members on the Board of Directors of the Transbay Joint Powers Authority. Be it ordained by the People of the City and County of San Francisco: Section 1. The San Francisco Administrative Code is hereby amended by adding Article XXVII to Chapter 5, to read as follows: ARTICLE XXVII: TRANSBAY JOINT POWERS AUTHORITY Sec. 5.271. Findings and Purpose. (a) In November, 1999, the voters of the City adopted Proposition H which,among other things, called for the extension of the Caltrain commuter rail line to a new multi-modal regional transit station to be constructed on the present site of the Transbay Transit Terminal. (b) On February 12, 2001, the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco adopted Resolution No. 104-01 authorizing the City and County of San Francisco (the "City") to form a joint powers agency for the purpose of developing, designing,constructing and operating a new intermodal transit facility on and adjacent to the site of the existing Transbay Terminal. (c) On April 4, 2001! , the City entered into that certain Joint Powers Agreement creating the Transbay Joint Powers Authority with the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District and the Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board. Under the Joint Powers Agreement, the Transbay Joint Powers Authority is governed by a five (5) member board of directors, of which the City appoints three. (d) The People wish to designate certain City officials to be among the City's appointees to the Board of Directors of the Transba! y Joint Powers Authority and to establish a procedure for appointing one of the members in event of duplication. Section 5.272. Designating City Members to the Board of Directors. The City's three appointments to the Board of Directors of the Transbay Joint Powers Authority shall be the following officials: (a) The Mayor; (b) The member of the Board of Supervisors who represents the district in which the existing or new Transbay Terminal is located; and (c) The representative of the City and County of San Francisco appointed by the Board of Supervisors to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission or subsequent regional transportation planning, coordinating, and financing agency, and, if such City representative is also the member of the Board of Supervisors representing the district in which the existing or new Transbay Terminal is located, then a person nominated by the Rules Committee of the Board of Supervisors and approved by the Board of Supervisors. Section 5.273. Amendments to Appointment Process. In the event that the members of the City's Board of Supervisors are no longer elected by district, the Board of Supervisors shall have the authority to amend this ordinance to modify the means of City's appointments to the Board of Directors of the Transbay Joint Powers Authority. _______________________________________________