It was fantastic. There was a transit inspector, there was a muni service planner, there was a Security Guard and a pco, and several buses. And my wife was a bit reluctant to join, but after she saw the smiles on everybodys faces, we held a little Ribbon Cutting ceremony. So i know that the real Ribbon Cutting ceremonys going to be awesome, but we couldnt let this go without a little celebration. So had a Little Christmas ribbon leftover from one of the present. The six of us held the ribbon. My wife turned to the director the production director, and she said well, lets take this picture, lets take that picture. That evening, i posted it on facebook, and guess how small the world is . One of my inlaws husbands cousins was the director was the muni driver whos in that picture, so the guy on the the guy on the right is is a cousin of one of my relatives. Crazy. World small. So it was really fantastic. And the pride i just want to share with you, the pride of the folks that was there, it was awesome. I spent 15 minutes talking to the muni service planner, matt. I want to publicly say i was so impressed with his enthusiasm, thoughtfulness, commitment. Being there, he explained the entire operations of how the 5 local was going to work during this interim, how it was going to work in the actual permanent service, how all the other lines that are going to come in and how theyre going to be staged, and why theyre staged the way they are. The focus was on safety, the focus was on passenger experience, and operations efficiency. And director reiskin, it was awesome. I couldnt stop smiling. I was listening to him talk, and my face was just it was an awesome experience. So i just wanted to share this. It was obviously you can tell by my excitement and enthusiasm, it was really an awesome experience. The only feedback that we provided at the cac was just you know, right now knowing when we went down there, it was a very slow period downtown, would be the communication of transitioning of passengers from the temporary terminal to the actual Transit Center is to ensure its really clear for both. Just ask that maybe muni to check in and kind of see what the ridership looks like to really be taking advantage of the service at the new Transit Center because there are even with the ambassadors, you still kind of have to maneuver your way through and so on. But again, it was just a real positive experience. The next thing i want to move on in the staff report was that the tjpa team as a as indicated, is applying for the application, 275 million of tircp funding for phase two, and the cac submitted a letter of support and assisted in reaching out to other advocacy groups to do the same. Moving onto the annual report, ill just touch on a few items briefly. The accomplishments, the cac wanted to acknowledge and compliment the project team, contractors, and the skilled union labor for their skilled work and progress to date in 2017. Safety is critical, and although metrics for recordable injuries are comparable on osha recordables, the fact that lost time injuries are 25 of industry average was excellent. And so good to see as we cant celebrate the success of this project if were saddled with injuries impacting the lives of our workforce. A specific highlight that was mentioned was the community engagement, and we wanted to applaud the project team. The fact that there were only 12 customer complaints in 2017 as compared to 68 in 2015 and 48 in 2016 really showed the effective engagement. And the cost after the challenges on the life of the project, the team has been holding the line on eac. There were a few areas of concern that were already talked about, and then, other items that the cac would really like to keep a close eye on over the coming months. Again, we were disappointed to see the slippage of the substantial completion date from april 23rd to may 11th, and what was immediate concern and director harper, you mentioned it, and executive director issapiti, you mention they wanted to get it ready to go in june, with substantial completion in april. The fact that its pushed out to may really becomes a problem for the june startup. The focus has always been on substantial completion, and we know that the project team is continuing to work with webcore to pull that back in. One thing that the cac wanted to make a recommendation is on the construction schedule, when youre looking at substantial completion and youre looking at a few key dates of muni transit starting and right now, that shows the end of april, and we just talked about the june implementation for ac transit, the fact that the schedules pushed out to may 11th, we actually have muni bus Service Starting before. If you look at the schedule, thats what it appears, so interestfrom a tran parency perspective, even though the operators will be ready and are planning to be ready on those dates, if you cant start service, you cant really show that as implementation, so we recommend that as a change of how the schedule is prepared. The cac is also interested in a presentation at an up coming meeting on the status of pop ups. What is the mix of offerings . How much of the space is already committed . Although its understanding that this is or will be this aspect of the center will be ready, we would like to be able to provide input prior to the plans being finalized and brought to the board for approval. Were also recommending more visible and specificity of planning for the retail during 2018, insight into the schedule, forecast versus actuals, month to month changes from baseline, in addition to the types of retailers who are expressing interests in committing in contracts of interests to the cac. Public interest strategies. The cac requested a presentation at a future meeting of the overall elements involved and the narratives that are being highlighted. The center the real Center OpeningRibbon Cutting, were pleased to here that the comprehensive ceremony will be planned, including all neighbors, city and region wide, and the cac looks forward in participating in this ceremony. One last item i wanted to mention is i wanted to follow up on our discussion regarding the integrated planning effort to address and compassionately support any issues with potential Homeless Population which could be attracted to the center. The cac at this last meeting had a robust and passionate discussion. Regarding the discussion the panel presented last month. Although overall we were pleased with the progress to this point, we are working on a set of recommendations that we will provide to the board, our district six supervisor and the department of homelessness for consideration hopefully in the next few weeks. Sorry for going on so long here, but tr for the opportunity to provi thank you for the opportunity to provide this update. If i could, i just want to thampg t thank the chair for his full and comprehensive report of the cac, but in particular for the ad hoc Ribbon Cutting ceremony. I also wanted to commend the staff, ron and mark and the project team for all the work they did with the whole team to get ready for the 26th. When i went back and asked my folks how things went, it seemed that things went off smoothly and well. I asked them to make sure that the rider experience would be positive and not make them feel like they were in the middle of a construction site, and from the photos, i feel you guys did a good job, get an early attest of what the full experience will be when the center opens. Please convey to the whole team or gratitude on behalf of our riders for making that happen. Will do. Thank you. Great. Thanks. Item 7 is a Public Comment. Opportunity for members of the public to address you on matters that are not on todays calendar. We have jim patrick. Thank you. Jim patrick, patrick and company. To the board of directors here. Id like to call your attention to the San FranciscoTransit Authority that agreed to spend 188,000 on a peer rephrase for the design to bring together the rav report, two track versus one track, and the proposal to the tjpa has been made, and i believe mark or one of our representatives are going to sit on that board. Thats a strategic thing, and as this peer Group Reviews it, theyre going to finally make a recommendation. It seems to me, from an outsider looking in, that no one can do what the peer group doesnt want to do, so it will essentially be a decision about how the dtx and the connection on down the line is going to go. Its a clever political move, but id like to see reporting and i had id like to see an agenda item on this board as to how this process is going. We have to Pay Attention to this, and im also curious what the board policy direction is to our staff relative to what we should be reporting and promoting to this peer group. Ive heard nothing from this board and that ive seen, so what is our plan and can we bring a report back to this board as to how this peer review is going so we can influence it necessarily if we need to. Otherwise we sit like a dummy in the back of the truck, and the truck leaves town and were without. Thank you. At this time, you are scheduled to go into closed session. Weve not received any indication that a member of the public wishes to address you on th. All right. The tjpa regularly scheduled meeting of january is 1, 2018 is back in session. There are no further items on the calendar that need your support. Okay. We are adjourned. Thank chair peskin good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority meeting for today, tuesday, january 9, 2018. Happy new year. Our clerk is mr. Alberto quintanilla. Mr. Clerk, if you could please call the roll. Clerk item one, commissioner breed. Cohen present. Commissioner farrell. Farrell absent. Commissioner fewer. Fewer absent. Commissioner kim. Kim absent. Commissioner peskin. Chair peskin present. Clerk commissioner ronen, present. Commissioner safai. Present. Commissioner sheehy present. Tang present. We have quorum. Chair peskin all right. Could you, please, read the Consent Agenda and then well take Public Comment on the minutes. Clerk items two to three compromise the Consent Agenda. Item three was approved at december 12th Board Meeting and considered for final approval. Staff is not planning to present, but presenting if desired. If a member objects, any items can be removed and considered separately. Chair peskin is there anyp on item two, the minutes of december 2017 meeting, mr. Rice . Public yeah. I want to point out and explain part problem is transportation roads are deteriorating. Next time you talk to caltrans, charge them. They spend billions of dollars tearing down the bay bridge when all it needed was renovation chair peskin mr. Rice, there will be an opportunity for general Public Comment. This is just Public Comment on the minutes of december 12, 2017. Public all right. Chair peskin thank you, sir. Seeing no other members of the public for Public Comment on the minutes, well close Public Comment and a roll call please. A motion to move the Consent Agenda made by commissioner tang. Seconded by commissioner breed. And on that, a roll call please. Clerk on the Consent Agenda, commissioner breed. Breed aye. Cohen aye. Commissioner peskin. Chair peskin aye. Clerk peskin aye. Ronen aye. Commissioner sheehy. Sheehy i. Commissioner tang. Vice chair tang aye. Clerk tang aye. We have approval. Chair peskin all right. Next item. Clerk item four, election of chair and vice chair for 2018. This is an action item. Chair peskin okay. Nominations are now in order for the office of chair. Are there any nominations for said position . Commissioner cohen. Supervisor cohen thank you. Good morning. Happy new year. I would like to make the nomination to nominate commissioner peskin to be chair of this body. And correct me if im wrong, chair, im able to make a nomination for vice chair at this time as well . Chair peskin we can also open the nominations for vice chair at the same time if you would like to do that. Supervisor cohen thank you. You would have nominated to nominate our same colleague, katy tang, for vice chair. Chair peskin seconded by commissioner breed. Are there any other nominations . Is there any Public Comment on item number four . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Nobody else wants this job. What . [laughter] chair peskin we do have a new house. That is true. We will call the roll. So, with that on the nominations for peskin as chair and commissioner tang as vice chair commissioner ronen. Supervisor ronen i just wanted to thank you, chair peskin and vice chair tang for doing this jb all last year and being willing to do it again this year job all last year and being willing to do it again this year. You taking this leadership means a lot to the city and i know it takes a lot of work and a lot of sacrifice in addition to your jobs as members of the board of supervisors. I just wanted to on behalf of the board thank you for that work. Chair peskin thank you commissioner. Commissioner tang. Vice chair tang thank you so often ronen. We didnt have a chance to speak much about it at the december 12th meeting because it was just a little bit crazy inside here. And i forgot to mention it during item three. But i wanted to say that together with chair peskin, really doing a huge overhaul of schools has been meaningful. Thank you to the staff and all the City Departments. I hope everyone will take a look at the new staffing structure. All that information should be in item three. And if you have any further comments, suggestions, please let us know. But changes will be coming forth and fully implemented by 2019 i believe. Chair peskin so, i guess if voice chair tang saying some words, ill say a few as well. I want to thank vice chair tang for her leadership on reforming safe routes to school, which i think was a major accomplishment. And we also celebrated a milestone that we all read about relative to the city wide vision zero strategy ending last year with a 41 reduction in pedestrian and cyclists fatalities since 2013. And i think that is really remarkable. But we are not going to stop until we get to zero. Weve engaged i think in thoughtful discussions around project delivery, including the downtown caltrain extension, better Market Street, van ness vrt. We have initiated independent expenditure plan. Weve learned a lot about Transportation Network companies and their impact on our Public Transit system and city streets and kon jucongestion. Weve undertaken a really remarkable and ambitious identify a local contribution that we will get before the voters in november before the 20 billion projected need for transportation and operations through 2045. I want to thank the folks from the Transportation Task force who spent the last half year getting critical neighborhood feedback after the sales tax failed in 2016. So, i think its been a very good year and im honored to continue to be your chair and look forward to working with all of you and our citizens. And with that, a roll call please. Clerk on the motion in favor of elects commissioner peskin for chair and commissioner tang for vice chair. Commissioner breed. Breed aye. Commissioner cohen. Cohen aye. Commissioner fewer. Fewer aye. Commissioner peskin. Peskin aye. Commissioner ronen. Ronen aye. Commissioner sheehy. Sheehy aye. Tang aye. The motions are approved. Chair peskin all right. Next item please. Clerk item five allocation of 110,000 in prop k funds with one requested and approach yaths of 180,000 in funds. This is ana item. Chair peskin mr. Pickford. Good morning. We are going to turn your microphone on. Thank you. I mr. Present i will present the first request and hand it over to my colleague. Circulation improvements of the daly city bart station. This includes upgrading exiting pedestrians ramps that provides access to the bart station including the 14 R Mission Rapid to make it ada compliant. Currently, the muni bus drops passengers at a lower level bus stop which you can hopefully see on the screen. It lays over in the upper level parking lot before looping back to the lower level. This ramp will allow the 28 to leave directly from the upper level stop, which mta will save about 23 minutes a route which could end up in 150,000 per year in operations cost. The operation will be separate with san mateo county, expected to be open in summer of 2018. I will pass it off to eric. Good morning commissioners. On your screen you see there the dpx project overview thats already been environmentally cleared. I want to give you a background as it relates to this request. The dtx was cleared and has three tracks from Fourth Street to transbay Transit Center. They have performed various analysis. Some concluding three tracks are appropriate and others are concluding three are appropriate. In this record, commissioner peskin thank you for the request for us to perform an independent peer review. The purpose of the request is to evaluate three rail operation studies as ive indicated and form key policy Decision Makers on the two versus three track issue. The request is for 180,000 of prop k. The three studies in question, one performed by a private Property Owner and his consultants, the other prepared by t. J. P. And consultant partners. And the Feasibility Study analysis prepared by sma Rail Consulting under the direction of the city planning department. Weve assembled a Peer Review