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Question . Sure does. Okay. I wanted to just confirm that i understand this correctly. And and negotiated with the original amount so that amount has not changed. And on the 12,500 per month, originally it was 12,000 per month but it was negotiated at the time of the original contract, so there was 12,000 a month for the first three years and up to 12,500 for the next two option years and if it were extended there is a small increase for the last two option years and it is a monthly retainer so ...

Photos so he show that there are Syrian Refugees on every square turf of lebanon. He said they cant take any more people. Whats the likelihood in 2014 of lebanon closing their borders to Syrian Refugees . Im going to try would you agree that would be a bad situation . To keep that from happening. Trying im trying to plan for the worst case. The worst Case Scenario would be a lot more refugees streaming out of syria. The amazing thing to me is that not more have. They clearly are trying to stay p...

Northern and southern book ends and the idea was that the early funds would be used to deliver, high speed rail, related up grades that could be completed and delivered to the public earlier, than the over all high speed rail system and so also, as part of this mlu it was negotiated that the funds that go to the Northern Book end would go to complete the cal train electric identification and positive train control because those are important regional projects and certainly relate to the Transbay...

September. So, that is the critical and we proceed with the formal application process. And i assume that these folks contracts will guarantee our success. They got us the 171 million last time. Okay. Thank you. Director, metcalf . A question on these Political Consulting and lobbying contract and how do we know the advocacy positions that our staff and consultants are taking . We dont take any position and so if there is any measure that is going to the voters i dont mean on the voters. What ar...

Good morning, everyone. The the meeting will come to order. Welcome to the regular meeting of San Francisco Transportation Authority finance committee im mcly cowen the chair of the meeting and to my left a supervisor cowen and to my right is Supervisor Scott Wiener and supervisor farrell will be joining us as well the clerk is erica changing id like to thank our friends jonathan and others for broadcasting in meeting. Thank you very much. Madam clerk, any announcements . There are no announceme...

Correctly. The data base, the panel will begin in the next couple weeks to actually select an an all claims data base. The data manager and i were on a call today where we listened to risk adjustment and how its being done across the country by the states that have exchanged. There is a lot of work that goes into it and a lot of effort, but i think im expecting that california will be doing their risk adjusting at a state level. We are building our data base to also be able to do risk adjustment...

Funding Grant Agreement you get a guaranteed amount for the federal funding for construction and it is a significant amount of funding and so, that opened up the two shots in the pipeline, and it was a long term goal for tjpa to get one of these designated. And it is falling away and the largest funding stream that exists for this type of a transit expansion, those are made officially made in the regional plan and the most recent version was named, plan bay area and in the plan bay area, the dtx...

Going to turn it over to jim, who is with spary consulting and is he part of our Financial Consulting team. Good morning directors, i am jim martin at sparry capital. And we are an Advisory Firm and the overview. And now, i dont think of p3 as the appropriate vehicle for every project. I advise, cal transseveral years ago on a 100 million straight resurfacing of i80. And that was not the profile for a p3 project. A p3 project rather should be complicated, and in large, with challenges that can b...

Is Supervisor Scott Wiener and supervisor farrell will be joining us as well the clerk is erica changing id like to thank our friends jonathan and others for broadcasting in meeting. Thank you very much. Madam clerk, any announcements . There are no announcements. To meet new requirement ill do roll call. Supervisor chiu absent. Supervisor cowen. Supervisor farrell. Absent. Supervisor tang. Supervisor wiener. We have quorum thank you very much please call item 2. Eight amendment. Are under any m...