Director harper, reiskin, present, mr. Chairman, you have a quorom. Item three, communication. Im not aware of any. Item four, directors new and old business, and seeing none, number five, executive directors report. Earlier this year appointed process authority of Northern California regional director as a representative on our board. The next steps were for the current member agencies to, excuse me, to obtain concurrence from the respective boards. That step has been completed. Todays agenda we have an item for the board to approve amendment to the bylaws and rules of order to add California High Speed Rail Authority as a new member and acknowledge additional city and county of San Francisco member to the board. Once this step is completed and once we have received the executed First Amendment to joint Powers Agreement from the respective agencies, then we will, then california high speed rail will be a member of the city and new member of the city and county of San Francisco will join the boards. Two new members were expected to be seated at the december Board Meeting. On november 3rd, we hosted a senior delegation from australia led by minister andrew constance. The New South Wales of transport and infrastructure. Mr. Constance is responsible for overseeing public transport and infrastructure for australias largest state, New South Wales, includes sydney as the capital. Also in attendance, dan richards. Minister was very pleased with the Transbay Program and the opportunity we realize. He was equally impressed with the High Speed Rail Authority in undertaking to link the high speed rail to california. Moving on to phase two, as a followup to discussion at the Board Meeting last month, we have posted the operations analysis report which results presented to you as part of the phase two update last month. As you recall, the reports concluded a threetrack system is needed between the future fourth and Transit Center. I have asked the San Francisco county Transportation Authority to undertake a peer review of the report and they have agreed to do so. Once completed we will provide more detailed briefing of the report and the results of the peer review. In terms of funding for phase two, we continue to seek funding opportunities for the downtown extension. Last month i reported that Governor Brown signed bill 595, regional measure three authorizing legislation into law, if passed by the majority will provide 4. 4 billion in transportation funtding for the bay area and 325 million for the downtown extension. We have now turned our attention to seeking funding opportunities from other sources of funding, including the transit program. Transit to inner city rail Program Provides grants from the Greenhouse Gas reduction fund, trans formative project, transit improvement project. The program recently received a significant amount of funding due to passage of bill 1 legislation of the capandtrade program. Senator bill 1 will bring 1. 4 billion to the program and capandtrade 1 billion, for total of 2. 4 billion. Earlier this week i met with staff and cal transit regarding the application process and the requirement. Applications are due to caltrans on january 12, 2018. We will coordinate our efforts. We believe that we should be competitive in funding for this program. However, our success in receiving funding for the program is heavily dependent on the completion of the study as soon as possible and our ability to obtain a decision. As doing so would provide a clear path for comprehensive delivery strategy for the g. T. X. Project. At this time i would like to invite merv pryor, our Financial Consultant to provide you with a quick overview of the program and presents funding for phase two. Can i give you this . Hi, im mary pryor with nwc partners and i wanted to give you a brief overview of the tricp program. The Program ProvidesGreenhouse Gas reduction funds for transformative Capital Improvements to modernnize the rail systems and bus and ferry systems to significantly reduce emissions of Greenhouse Gasses, vehicle miles traveled and congestion. A sample of some of the previous awards, 20 million for the electrification project, muni, 20 million for the bart to san jose phase 2, and 85 million for the Los Angelessan Diego rail travel corridor program. As mark mentioned, 2. 4 billion available over the next five years and the state will program the funds similar to how they do the stip program, every two years adopt a fiveyear program of projects. So the d. T. X. Project meets the tircp goals and objectives. It reduces Greenhouse Gas emissions, increases ridership, integrated rail services, including high speed rail, improves safety and provides benefits to disadvantaged communities and leverages the funding. But scoring well on the project readiness will depend on completion of the study and obtaining the record of decision in the near term. And as mark mentioned, we have met with various different agencies to find out how best to position the project so sscta, cal sta, and staff, feedback, and through the process we may highlight different elements of the project, including potentially design and engineering, rightofway acquisition, utility relocation, tunnelling work, track work and systems, and or stations. So here is an overview of the schedule. Applications are due on january 12th, and approved list of projects will be published at the end of april and the c. T. C. Would approve the project list in may. Are there any questions . Other programs we are going to be pursuing will be the local Partnership Program under sd1 and solution for congested corridors. Last but not least, in honor of veterans day, all the veterans currently working on the Transit Center, hosting and serving lunch to approximately 35 hard working men and women that are laboring hard to finish the transit project. With this, that concludes my reports. Thank you. You have any questions next item. Next item is the Citizens Advisory Committee update. Good morning, chair nuru, directors, bruce agat, chair of the Citizens Advisory Committee, ill focus comments on the following topics. First in regards to the staff report, in regards to the d. T. X. And the r. A. B. Study, understanding we would see alignment by mid to late october with the decision still possible by yearend. And although we have heard in the report a decision is still possible, as we know its november 9th, the Holiday Season is approaching, and we have approximately six weeks left to the end of year. We are concerned the window for the decision by year end is closing. The c. A. C. Is mainly concerned about losing momentum towards phase two and looks forward to hearing more on the timing of the specific steps required to reach this important decision. With that decision, the project team can then turn their attention to next steps required to move phase two forward. Next was a presentation by p. R. I. , outlining the popup retail program. The level of expertise and experience came through clearly, and in the presentation, and although the c. A. C. Had some questions to gain additional understanding regarding look, feel, and quality of the popups, the c. A. C. Was overall very impressed with the approach and looked forward to hearing more on the implementation and progress to ensure the Transit Center is fully activated upon startup of bus operations. The construction update and facilities readiness, although the schedule remains at a 12week delay, we would like to again applaud the project team and web core for holding the line on a substantial completion of the center for the second straight month. We were also pleased to see the schedule expanded to include all elements required to ensure successful opening of the Transit Center. Specifically added were charts on transit operations, facility, and security readiness. We reviewed current completion dates of these approximately 49 high level work streams, and we now have insight on the key elements required of implementation of bus center and activation. One recommend we made and director gee as a followup to your comments at last weeks meeting, to clearly identify the key interdependency, work streams may not all be essential for startup. We look forward to next months refinements and update. As we said and discussed last month, implementation of bus actions for a. C. Transit is the long pole, currently scheduled for june 2018, and the project Team Continues to work with a. C. Transit to identify opportunities to pull that date in. Based on the current and anticipated substantial completion date of the center, it would be beneficial to clearly identify the key elements which are driving the june date and specific opportunities to pull that date in. As a last item, we were very pleased to hear that we will have a presentation at our next c. A. C. Meeting regarding the integrated plan to address the Homeless Population that could be attracted to the Transit Center on opening. While the homeless have every right to use and enjoy these public facilities, we are concerned once the park and building close each evening the Homeless Population will be forced out on to the streets to find refuge. Obviously the first place to find refuge will be in the surrounding neighborhoods of the transbay district, hill, south beach, north of market, along the waterfront, etc. We look forward to understanding how the department of homelessness and supportive housing, c. B. D. , staff and others as appropriate will interface and Work Together to supportively address any potential homeless issues. Thank you for the opportunity to provide this update and happy to take any questions. Thank you. Item seven, public comment. Members of public have an opportunity to address the authority on matters that are not on todays calendar and we have jim patrick. Good morning, directors. Jim patrick, patrick and company, San Francisco here. I was at the c. A. C. Meeting the other day and it appears that a. C. Transit is going to maybe slip this delivery of a whole project and i would like to get all these agencies together, i would like to hold revely at a. C. Transit to get everyone together and i think seems someone is dropping the ball over there, because we want this, i think we want this Transit Center to open with a bang and not with a major tenant not involved with the fireworks. So, something just doesnt seem right to me as an outsider looking in and i would like to hold revely to find some solutions, of the opening and coordinating with the a. C. Transit. Thank you. That concludes members of the public that wanted to address you under that item. Go ahead and call your consent calendar. All matters listed are considered to be routine and no further discussion of the items unless a member of the board or public would request, and removed separately. The resolution for 8. 3 has been slightly modified from what was posted to clarify that the action is conditioned on each members execution of the First Amendment to the joint Powers Agreement. With that, i have not received any indication from the board or the public to have any items severed. I move approval. First. And second. Director harper. Aye. Four aye and the consent calendar is approved. Call your next item. Item nine, the construction update. Good morning, directors. Todays construction update is an expanded one this month. Not only is the regular first half that i will give, but also ron almada and others will have an expanded schedule explanation over 12 slides that will be all the integral elements, so they will walk through that. Ron and also Steve Humphries will go through the risks slides and then ill end it and come back with a per Board Director request, a bus ramp merge item that, and go through some of the slides explaining what the issue is and where we are at going forward. So, with that, our usual kickoff picture here that shows a lot of trees. As you go into the usual graphic, youll see on the rooftop level there is a lot of activity going on, continues at all levels. Yellow is the focus on this particular slide, we are really on the bus deck of some important concrete poured at the joints on the bus deck level where they allowed for the completion of the coating that gets us to the busses running on the bus deck starting in december. Other elements that we are working as well, too, down at the muni bus plaza on the ground level, a lot of yellow activity completed in the last month and some pictures to show that as well. Going down below grade, continues to work in that upper left hand area with the lower concourse, all the various, the big box of interior finishes, from paint to dry wall to activities in the maze of buildings or rooms in that upper left hand corner progressing well. In general throughout the site, rooftop landscaping in all areas, pathway pavers as well. On the bus deck, its m. E. P. , including column covers throughout the entire area. Bus deck coating is underway on the west end and completed on the east end. Elevator, escalators throughout are being worked on. The terrazo floor are 70 complete at this point. Muni bus plaza is under construction, along with the m. E. P. Throughout the entire structure. Electrical is our controlling operation at this point. Some pictures up on the roof. One on the right is some Water Proofing going the restaurant element and then on the left shows a portion of the pathway, the half mile pathway around the entire Transit Center being poured and looks like some cure there. This is what the bus deck is looking on most sections now, the bus deck is getting ready for the december busses to arrive. Cat tracking, the temporary striping still first of december, and the first full week of december is where the testing will happen with all the agencies that transit agencies up on the bus deck. Final striping by the 18th or 23rd of december, and turned over for training and ready for training any time thereafter. Another element, the ceiling panels are going up. This is sort of the west end. That will still continue through the training, but there will be other activities on the bus deck that will be scheduled around the bus training as that commences after the final stripe is in place. This is an element thats interesting, one of the 27 large fans on the bus deck, some of the back lighting. So you know, showing pictures of that coming up where that moves a lot of air throughout the bus deck area, and thats coming along. Moving down to the grand hall, this i thought was a really neat site of our rendering versus the actual. The only way you can tell the difference, i think the glass floor looks better in actual. Terrazo floor is beautiful in person, but missing column covers, one of the items lagging, but great to see the floor, as a closeup, coming along ministry. Minna street, all the site work thats hang. We also have the first and fremont sidewalks in and buildout of all the streets is coming along well with a lot of activity over the next couple months. Muni bus plaza, the day before, this is the aisle, number five fulton by the beginning of december, poured probably the day after this picture, october 28th, and the team is in ernest working to meet that goal in cooperation with muni. And then here is another picture of the bus plaza as well, too. On the north side, and also oth other elements. A lot of the Safety Equipment is going in place and i do point out that as being a buy america project, i loved the use of the word proudly on this particular package. It sent a tone that was really cool. Electrical cables pulled in switch gear rooms are coming together. Ron and steve both will talk to the electrical. Talking about the fisk, the assistance, and in that picture that is a rosaden person pulling wire. Bus Storage Facility is progressing well. They are on schedule to deliver summer of 2018. Working through the concrete challenges. Theyll have some bridge pours that will be happening. They did have some impacts from the wildfires up in napa, their particular rebar sub was up there. Fortunately, only twoweek impact and their facility was ok. They were in the evacuation for two weeks, so that sucked up, what, what float they had, but still on schedule now and progressing well with no impacts. We did have one recordable noted on this schedule. It was a fisk employee that happened to strain a knee as he was walking down a step, so that was the extent of that recordable. And we have surpassed 4. 2 million craft hours on the project with over 700 workers still on the job. So with that, ill turn it over to ron for budget and contingency and beyond. Thanks, dennis. Always nice to see the great progress out in the field and the focus on starting the button up the edges and get ready for operations and as dennis and bruce noted, our presentation has expanded a bit on schedule to speak to the operations elements, adding that up, with respect to risk, i have distilled it down to schedule, thats the big risk that we are being mindful of and watching. Previously i had been carrying the risk of potential delay or delay of claims and the like, but those matters will