Public utilitys commission is not interested in exploring the acquisition of gas assets. Okay. And then, can you tell me, you know, they have been there have been constant breakdowns on the island, the utility service, can you tell me what is causing those breakdowns and what the new system will prevent how the new system will prevent that type of occurrence on Treasure Island . Yeah, generally speaking, the vulnerability of the existing system is hi, both in the transmission lines, the above and underground portions of the existing system. They are buried and underground. Many of our outages, the p. U. C. The results of their work is inconclusive as to what caused the outage, which tends to indicate, it tends to point out to the primary switch here on the island. Even when they are able to identify an outage as being, for instance, related to a bird strike, really, the bird strike is a cause of the outage, but the underlying vulnerabilities in the mean underlying vulnerability is in the main switch. The new switchgear that we will have wilma will be much more fault tolerant. It will be able to handle fluctuations in amperage that happens, for instance, when a bird flies into the power lines. Without tripping out. So some of the things that cause outages today will not cause outages in the future because the new switchgear will be more robust and more able to ride through fluctuations in low that result from minor faults or problems like that. There will be a great increase in the liability with the new electrical switch. The intention is also on the overhead line that i showed coming out of the new switch here to then trump off of that line to feed, for instance, the existing residential neighborhood, the department of labor, the island, and then to come down to the west side of the island where phase one of construction would be to feed the new underground electrical distribution to solve this first phase. In each of those points of connection to that main trunk line will have their own views isolation, so if there is a problem within, they will be the campus that goes down and not the entire island. Increase reliability there will be increased reliability. Thank you. My main question has already been asked about the difference between the current vulnerabilities and the future. I wanted to make sure we design for them. So, lets see, im curious. It seems like the majority of our Power Sources are essentially connected from oakland through submarine cables or connections. Or any of those infrastructures being upgraded as part of the process . The electrical service, the submarine electrical cable was the cable that historically fed the island from oakland. It needed to be relocated as part of the construction of the new eastern span of the bay bridge. Caltrain was paying to relocate or install a new connecting as to oakland. At that time, the p. U. C. Advanced the money to have caltrain install a second line, so we currently have two cables connecting the island to oakland , either of which will support 100 100 of the projected demand of the island. We have Service Redundancy right there. Those cables are about a decade old at this point. I dont know the age of the natural gas from the east bay. That is something i can look into, but i am not certain of its age. Great. You spoke already quite a bit about the thought process that goes into ensuring the new overhead electrical main line, the line can handle more fluctuation and it can be isolated if there is a problem. Im curious why it was designed as an overhead line as opposed to underground. It is obviously less attractive, there are still vulnerabilities from bird strikes. Our permanent facilities will all be underground did, but because of the geotechnical work that hasnt been performed in these areas yet, we were not putting in permanent infrastructure, but as we build out the eastside neighborhood, we will underground that line in conduit after that zone has gone through geotechnical work. The line along ninth street is purely temporary. The eventual feed would be in a different location. Okay. That makes a lot of sense. And then, for the water storage, the reservoir, i have heard of evaporation loss problems with reservoirs, which i wouldnt imagine it to be a big concern here because our climate doesnt look superhot, but we are very windy. Are there any potential loss issues with the wind, like water blowing in the wind . These will be close reservoirs. Okay. Again, because we are taking the water treated. We dont want it open to the air evaporation losses are more related to open reservoirs, for instance, the san andreas reservoir that the p. U. C. Owns. They would have losses both do both due to regular evaporation, but also wind aided evaporation in our climate. The wind made it the wind evaporation tends to be the larger factors. Great. Just to echo the president s concern around or i guess, for discussion whether or not there are opportunities for us to increase the renewable source of energy on the island, i think , if i heard you correctly, you said there is 5 of the islands and his plan to be generated by solar. Are there any other percentages that would be from renewable sources . Our primary source of electricity is from pg and e. Their primary source of power is hydroelectric electric, although they do own, as well, a substantial installed solar amount. I dont recall exactly what percentage of the total generation capacity is now solar , but i believe it is above 10 at this point of their generation capacity. I would be curious to hear what that number is just so we can understand what the island percentage of renewable sources are in cumulative sense. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions . Just a couple. Currently, it is 12 kv capacity. Yes. Capacity coming over and then as it gets distributed out, it will be stepped down. Right. And that is enough for the buildout . Twelve kv is the voltage. In terms of the Wattage Capacity , i wouldnt want to cite off the top of my head what the transmission capacity is, but that is something i can bring back to you, but the figures that were projected, each of those cables could handle 100 of the load. We have done some reevaluation in recent years because while on one hand homes are becoming much more energy efficient, the prevalence of electric vehicles is adding a new electrical demand to the mix and trying to project out in time what sort of demand electric vehicles will contribute to is a changing picture. Could they both be used to bring electricity so we could increase the capability or capacity . That is an option. We could bring more across those if we needed to. Okay. The next question is just out of curiosity. How old is the switchgear that we currently have . I believe it is about 40 years old. So i imagine the new switchgear, in addition to being more modern and robust, will be smaller. Will have a smaller footprint . Yeah, it will have a smaller footprint than what we currently have in hangar three. Okay. For maintenance, do we have maintenance on island . If there is an issue like a bird strike and it trips the breakers , somebody have to come out to the island to fix that . The p. U. C. Doesnt have line crews on the island fulltime so they do have to respond to the island. Even when it is weekends and after hours, their response times have been very good. With the one president theys out last for 13 hours, the average time for restoration of power over the last year and a half has been two hours, and that includes responding to the island. Maybe they can get a boat to get out there quicker. When we are planning the buildings, will they use natural gas as a heat source or electric have we gone that far . I believe most of the buildings will use natural gas where it is available, and then pricing. Will the residents in buildings on Treasure Island pay the same price for the gas and electricity as we do here on the mainland . They will be paying the same price for gas. There electricity is provided through the p. U. C. Is expected to be nominally lowered then the price of electricity. Okay. Great. Thank you. Thank you again. This is been very great. Right now, the p. U. C. There is a conversion going on, unless you state otherwise, the city will automatically convert to you to the p. U. C. , and Treasure Island residents, being San Francisco residents, i am sure that is what we are going to be confronted with. That is already going that way now. I just received my own letter. You have to state otherwise. They automatically convert to. They also did take away their new stateoftheart, Technology Technology driving, renewable energy. The first generation where there was massive structures, and that is no longer the case. She is right. If you go to denmark and sweden, the europeans are way, way ahead of us. I think we need to maximize renewable energy, and i think that is coming out of this committee. I would like for them to explore that. Thirdly, it is very interesting. Even though the switchgear is 40 years old, it is very interesting that up until now, it is not conclusive. There is still speculation as to what is going on. That is no good. With all these engineers and people like we have, someone should be able to pinpoint that. We do not know, there speculation with new equipment, but right now, if you are not able to trace what is going on, even with the new system, we might still be confronted with this uncertainty. Maybe i misspoke or made it seem when i say the p. U. C. , they are not able to identify what caused a surge in the system, but it is the switchgear tripping out is what ultimately resulted in the power going out. It is the cause of the source of the surge that the new switchgear would definitely be able to override those momentary fluctuations in power demand that are causing outages today. They will definitely be an improvement in reliability with the new switchgear. Is the p. U. C. Utilizing expertise as well . On the island, it is just the p. U. C. Is our operator today. Our point of service is in oakland. Again, we are trying to find the bottom line here. It might be wise also for them to utilize all these other experts. You know the resident frequency. It will be a while before we build out the new infrastructure , and for this commission, and for the residents on Treasure Island, we are trying to get a supervisor. We want to make sure we are at least maximizing these outages because the frequency right now is not us. We are not the experts. We depend on the p. U. C. All i am saying is it may be they can solicit other experts to try and help us to do that. Commissioners, are there any other questions on this matter . Seeing then, thank you, bob. Item number 6, discussion of future agenda items by directors commissioners, are there other items that we would like to discuss . One thing that i was telling mro bring rita back for the water transportation. That agency is very important. We need to engage with them more it would be great if we could bring the director or whoever back so they can tell us about their plan for Treasure Island, and also for us to educate ourselves, learning about the plan for the area. This is where we are right now. We would like to bring them back okay. I can work with them on that. Okay. Thank you very much. Meeting is adjourned. Meeting is adjourned. Thank you, commissioners. [gavel] good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority meeting for today, tuesday, june 25th. Our clerk is mr. Alberto quintanilla. Mr. Quintanilla, could you please call the roll. Commissioner brown . Commissioner fewer . Fewer absent. Commissioner haney . Haney ab accept. Commissioner mandelman . Mandelman present. Commissioner mar . Present. Mar present. Commissioner haney . Present. Haney present. Commissioner peskin . Present. Commissioner ronen . Ronen present. Commissioner stefani . Present. Stefani present. Commissioner wallton . Present. Commissioner yee . Yee absent. We have quorum. Thank you, mr. Quintanilla. With that well go to the chairs report. Colleagues, this month we began with we begin with congratulations to the Bay Area Rapid transit district, for its award last week of a longawaited 300 million core capacity grant from the federal transit administration. This award is the first installment of what potentially could be 1. 2 billion pursuant to a full Funding Grant agreement, to boost capacity on barts transbased service by over 30 , increasing the current 23 tencar trains per hour to 30 trains per hour. I think we all agree this is good news for the 28,000 people that travel by bart across the bay during the peak. Twice number who travel by car on the bay bridge. Barts program is extensive, consisting of 300 new rail cars, train control upgrade, and new maintenance facilities. This is what riders have been asking for and its really something transformative for our Regional Transit system. Our thanks go to our bay area congressional delegation, which advocated strongly for this grant, particularly Speaker Pelosi and senator feinstein and congratulations also to my former colleague, chair duffty of bart, as well as general manager grace krukin who worked hard to achieve this milestone. On a related note, id also like to congratulate and recognize general manager of bart, ms. Krunkin on her upcoming retirement after seven years of service. Bart has focused on modernization of this important half a century old system, that i remember making my mother show me as they were digging up berkeley, california, to put in the Berkeley Bart station. San francisco was proud to help pass the bond and we are glad to see bart improving escalators and elevators and adding canopies and station access enhancements across the system, particularly in San Francisco. Were also excited to see bart advance the planning for a second transbay rail crossing, leading to a potential west side rail link in San Francisco, something that supervisor and commissioner walton and i were discussing with our cal train counterparts last evening in san jose. And i want to thank supervisor walton for his leadership on the cal train joint powers board. Turning to our local transit system, as announced yesterday, together with the mayor, we are convening a muni transit performance working group, in partnership with supervisor mandelman and under the leadership of Ed Harrington and gwyneth borden. And to provide an actionable set of reforms for this sfmta board and the next director to implement a number of transitfirst goals, as well as visionzero goals. As we continue to identify sources for sustainable revenue, to build out San Franciscos infrastructure, riders and voters want to know that their public dollars are being invested strategically and with accountability and oversight. They want their buses to come on time and their next bus alerts to work. They want to know that muni drivers are being paid a living wage, they want to know that the sfmta has a plan to deliver projects on time and on budget, without destroying vibrant and Small Business corridors. And they want to know that transit planners are working with neighborhoods to prioritize Pedestrian Safety and access for our most vulnerable communities. Well be assisted over the next several months by a number of respected transit experts, labor leaders and transit advocates. I also want to thank our executive director and her staff for lending support to this important effort. I know that all of you share in these goals and im looking forward to hearing your feedback and ideas as well. And, of course, these meetings will be open to the public. Finally, in closing, i also want to congratulate our direct pier tilley change on her recent award as woman of the year, by the Bay Area Transportation seminar. She and two other honorees a, Annette Williams from Accessible Services and danielle harris, from innovation and new mobility, were recognized by their peers in this transportation industry, professional association, Whose Mission is to recognize excellence and promote the leadership of women and minorities. Because i was at my last Coastal Commission meeting in san diego, bart director janice lee represented me at the awards ceremony and managed to capture a great image of director chang, fist triumphantly raised, last seen trending on twitter. [laughter] thank you, vice chair mandelman, for joining our staff and celebrating with tilley it he event. The contributions of women to city planning and Transit Management are truly significant and we are all very proud to have you steering this agency, miss chang, well done. And with that, i conclude my remarks. Before i turn it over for the directors report, is there any Public Comment on the chairs report . Seeing none, madam executive director. [gavel] thank you so much, chair peskin and commissioners, for those kind words. It was really an honor to be there and to be recognized with my peers and all of the other great honorees. Thank vice chair mandelman in particular for coming and making the time during a busy board season and our staff as well. Really the ability to even aspire to lead in this way is a result of generations of women who have come before, including grace. So i want to add fly thanks and congratulations to grace. Shes just known as grace in our region. Shes 30 years, 40 years, i dont know how many, plenty of years. But through her leadership, originally at the f. T. Ample, assistant administrator and eventually at seattle d. O. T. , where she pioneered urban city policies, Sustainable Transportation at the local level. Weve been lucky to have her here in the region. I do hope to see her contributing in the field, although she deserves a nice, relaxing rest and good luck and best wishes in her future endeavors during retirement. On the bart transbay corridor capacity project, that was a huge win. We were really, really excited. As chair mentioned, the total transbay project is pretty large. It involves 300 new vehicles bringing the fleet from 700 to about 1,000. Control to all