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Supervisors amend response to Van Ness grand jury report, continue hearing for follow‑up
Summary
The Government Audit & Oversight Committee amended a draft response to the Civil Grand Jury’s Van Ness Avenue report, voted to send the amended resolution to the full Board, and continued the underlying hearing for further action. MTA staff and the grand jury disputed some factual points and acknowledged lessons for future CMGC projects.
The Government Audit and Oversight Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Oct. 7 amended a resolution responding to the Civil Grand Jury report “Van Ness Avenue, what lies beneath” and voted to forward the amended response to the full Board.
The committee’s discussion centered on the grand jury’s findings about schedule delays and cost impacts on the Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit project. Supervisor Rafael Mandelmann, who led the review in committee, asked agency staff to clarify several findings and proposed language for the board response that ranged from agreement to partial disagreement depending on the finding. “Finding 1 is that the delays in completion of the Van Ness BRT project were caused primarily by avoidable setbacks in replacement of the water and sewer…
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