Yes, it would probably require a procurement process. But funding first. We will be as ready as we can be when eget the green we get the green light to go in terms of initiating a procurement process. So readiness is what we get from this. I think maybe to add to that, john, in terms of readiness, we also have a partnership established with m. T. C. , who is very invested in helping us get this funded and implemented. We realize this is a time where no one has any extra money and it also says we need to have done, because when the economy comes back and the people come back, they can navigate easily. So we will have it ready and continue to work with m. T. C. And anyone else we might be able to coordinate or partner with to get funds for that. I actually had an idea ill run by john after as we were going to a presentation on who we might seek for additional sponsorship on in implementing more wayfinding. And again, my last question. I mentioned this was designed 10 years ago, but is there anybody we can hold accountable . Want to get back to us on that . I can tell you what i know from being here. Well, i can tell you what i can tell you is, i am familiar with the staff or i should say the Program Management staff that worked. From what i understand, worked with m. T. C. , but obviously not to m. T. C. Satisfaction, not the staff that is working with us now, to implement the signage that was there which obviously needs improvement. Ill be frank and share that i, myself, who have been here since before and saw the plans, and sometimes wonder where im at and im a native san franciscan that knows the city all the way around. Its a huge facility that needs additional signage. We will definitely take a look if there is anyone to hold accountable and if we can draw on some other monies to help support the effort. Perhaps if that is possible, thank you. A couple of questions. I dont know if i can follow jeff and mike on this, but just in terms of mtcs involvement. Have we shared the product that adrian has put together with them at this point . And did they have any reaction to and desire to continue their partnership with us in moving it forward . Yes, director. M. T. C. Has been a valuable partner with me on this project. Worked closely on the product that you have now reviewed. We find it in alignment with the overall bay Areawide Program at m. T. C. Is promoting. And ive been engaged with those discussions with a larger group. I think we have 88 on the last zoom call that was hosted. So lots of involvement from sacramento and bay area. So, yes, its in sync with their plans. And were continuing that conversation. I guess my second question was, almost the question for jeff and maybe i just missed it between the presentation and your comments, but i like what you were saying about helping passengers navigate to their destinations. And i know that some of the signs for the mockups that adrian presented, still was very agency focused. To me, that feels like there is still work to reconcile in terms of like, we cant because i agree, jeff, with what youre saying. If were going to move in that direction the details if you will. So i guess leave it to put you on the spot, but if you have a couple extra hours in your day to help with figuring some of that out or having a staff member figure out, your team perhaps that youve been working on this kind of stuff, but maybe thats another avenue to making sure we get it right. Because i want to go down the implementation route with things that we see as probably not quite up to what were actually looking for and getting too far ahead of ourselves with it. Im certainly happy to help on the next steps. Im sure that director hursh would be as well. Between the two of us if we can corral the other general managers and use our staffs to think about how do we focus on our customers and not just protect our turf . I would like to say, can we abolish the use of agency logos in the wayfinding system and instead pretend like we have one regional seamless Mobility System that happens to be operated by 20odd different operators. That the customer doesnt need to know about. They need to know where theyre going. How to get a ticket. They dont necessarily care which one of us is the operator and what our 1974 logo is. One point on that, if i may. I think just to explain why we retained operator logo, because we have in other instances lobbied for exactly the same thing as consultant. You go to user focused approach. What we had been aware of and wanted to emphasize was the value of regional consistency and the m. T. C. Standard which obviously this is a strategic [inaudible] still use operator logos and while there isnt yet a sort of Regional Transit identity agreed, that is something that we were aware that to fit in with the regional standard, that is something that perhaps is a concession that may need to be made to m. T. C. Standards, but certainly from a wayfinding consultant perspective, i agree that operator logos are somewhat acis inistic at best, well constrained. I would suggest going straight to a dutch or japanese standard and bypassing the standard which i think is a good effort rather than a global standard effort. This comment about us helping. Transit trivia for 400. Ac transit manages the regional sign program for mtc. Before my time, i wouldnt have done it, but we hired a contractor. We have staff that are very knowledgeable of the m. T. C. Process and were happy to collaborate and move this as fast as possible. Sorry to interrupt. Chair sesay i see director chang. Thank you. I really appreciate the whole item and all of the fantastic comments from the other directors. I wanted to suggest that we do continue to engage, if weve been doing so, the Disability Community and the c. A. C. , and just continue to keep public involvement and engagement in line as far as the user perspective. And to be able to budget for that as well, so we can go together to seek funding. So in our capacity as a transportation authority, i also wanted to offer our help to seek grants or other opportunities to help fund this very, very important, really critical work, ultimately. So im glad were discussing this today. Thank you. Chair sesay thank you. So it looks like any of my fellow Board Members have questions, but it looks like director gonzalez, you have offers on the table and at some point would it looks like there is enough interest it may make sense to come back and keep us all informed about this, because it is a customer experience. I know we get all wonky on that side of the house, but we definitely want passengers to be able to navigate to their destinations. So thank you for that. Do we have if there are no additional comments from my fellow Board Members, do we have members of the public wishing to comment on this item . There are no members of the public that wish to provide any comment on this item at this point. Chair sesay and an update, its not an action item. So can we call the next item . Item 13 is the San Francisco peninsula rail program e. S. C. Update. Executive Steering Committee chair will present the item. Thank you, mr. Secretary. Good morning, directors. Pleased to help present on the update for the e. S. C. This month. Since our last presentation before you in august, weve made steady progress on a number of items. As director gonzalez mentioned, procurement are making their way forward. The outreach and branding consultants as well as the general engineering contractor which is a really critical Consulting Service that we are going to need on a timely basis. So just wanted to underscore that as you consider. We have also been making recruitment of the permanent project director position. Appreciate being included in on that. In terms of our critical path, as youll recall from the last month update, it does remain, the rail operations as it will feed into the major focus of our work in this first period. And the good news there is that we have found a way as a team to provide the funding in the early stages of this work to caltrain, which is procuring the consulting for us. Theyre doing the work in conjunction with the highspeed Rail Authority and that the whole team is going to rely on. It is to help this work will help evaluate the different impacts of phasing options on caltrain and highspeed rails through input, capacity, reliability, safety, et cetera, among all the other factors that well be considering. Well be able to move that along using existing sfmta funds. And we may come back to you at the end of the year, depending on how the other pieces of work shake out, and that relates to the next item ill provide the update on, which is the joint board plan, the interagency schedule, and deliverables that the team has been producing. Supported by aecon and our director. The team hass developed this initial work plan. Well be reviewing it in a couple of weeks. That lays out all the interrelated tasks to get to a milestone next summer, which we hope to bring to you, the phasing results, phrasing Study Results operational analysis, funding and planning to support decisionmaking about whether and how to identify our initial operating segment that could be lower cost than the whole project that we see before us. So thats our goal. And we dont have that update for you yet today, but well bring that to you at your next meeting in october. Other tools that the team has developed include the phasing analysis sort of cost estimation tools to identify the impact of project features that may be deferred. And to escalate those appropriately. Its also been great to see them updating the projects risk register, which we talked about last time we met. Director gee commented on that as well, expressed a lot of interest. So we are using the f. T. A. Methodology to assure applicability of this work as we head into future grant requests for f. T. A. So that is really Good Progress on that front. Finally in terms of planning and funding, it did come up in public comment, following the good outcome of the placement of d. T. X. And the first period of the planned bay area, as was noted before, the team has participated in coordination meetings with related projects including the transbay the new transbay rail crossing with bart and capital corridor. And tjpa sent comments to the high speed Rail Authority, the draft environmental document. That just happened in the past week. So i appreciate that level of engagement and participation and really a form of championship since that did come up. I think its really great to see all of the related projects being a focus here at tjpa. With that, im happy to take sorry, one thing i did fail to mention. Our next meeting will be coming up september 18 at 11 00. As usual, the agenda is posted on the tjpa website and any callers who require additional assistance, we can provide that for the callin process through tjpa and director gonzalez. We did have folks experiencing difficulty at our prior meeting. I wanted to acknowledge that and offer that assistance. Chair sesay thank you for that update. Do i have any comments, questions from my fellow Board Members . I see vice chair gee. Vice chair gee thank you, chair sesay. Director chang, i wanted to say thank you for the update. This is exactly what not just this board needs, but the public needs to see where this is headed and where they can engage in the process. So i appreciate it. Look forward to the more detailed work plan as well as all the other items that you shared in your report. So thank you very much for that. Youre welcome. Chair sesay thank you. Anyone else . I dont see anyone else, at least my fellow Board Members. Mr. Secretary, do we have members of the public wishing to comment . Secretary yes. You have one member of the public that would like to comment on the item. Jason, can you put that caller in the queue . They are unmuted. Fellow caller, please state your name. Your three minutes begins now. Thank you, directors. This is roland from san jose. So, to start with i think that director chang is asking for the modelling on behalf of caltrain is critical. And in my mind, this is a very best 200,000 you will have spent on this project so far. Moving forward, i expect that the analysis will finally expose the Second Street alignment. That will ultimately make it impossible for caltrain to vacate the 4th and king rail yard until the new transbay tube opens. I would like to close with a couple of recommendations. First of all, when youre doing the modelling, limit the model to the section between breeze bane and the sfdtc. Any issues caused by to eliminate any issues caused by the rider way in san matteo county. I would like to share with you track work in the vicinity of the tank form that makes it possible to turn around 12 trains an hour per direction between the Transit Center and brisbane. The other thing i would like to address is to consider, is to expand the scope of the contract to study the 7th street alignment in parallel with the Second Street alignment, because this ultimately will inform the board the 7th street alignment is indeed the only alignment that will enable six fulllength true platforms in translink. And im pleased to inform you that one of the seven Design Builders who responded to the r. F. I. Gave me a verbal quote to construct both the d. T. X. And p. A. X. As a combined project for less than 1 billion. Which means that you currently have a funding envelope of 1. 3 billion, all this project needs is environmental to proceed. And we have two bills, one that passed, senate bill, i think it was from senator wiener. And the one that make in the session, which is 7965 which is extension of 8900. That bill is critical and i need you all legislators to basically join with the mayor in san jose and to convene an emergency session to pass that bill. Thank you very much. Secretary thank you. It seems there are no other members of the public that would like to provide a comment. I will proceed along with the agenda. Chair sesay thank you, mr. Secretary. Secretary at this time the board is scheduled to go into closed session. If there are any members of the public that would like to provide comment on the items listed for discussion in closed session, this is your time to do so now. Seeing none, i will now put us in closed session. Moderator, can you please put us into closed session . Yes. I can hear you. Thank you, jason. You may report out. As to item 16, conference with legal counsel, existing litigation in the matter as specified on the published agenda, there is no action to report. As to item 17, for the spaces in the Transit Center as noticed, there is no action to report. Chair sesay thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much for that. So i take it were adjourned. Secretary it looks as if you have a member of the public who wants to provide a comment at this time. Chair sesay okay. Jason, can you please pass the person the caller through the queue, please . Hello, caller, please state your name. I dont need to state my name. Im pretty well known. You know, you need to know something about the brown act. So i was listening to the meeting and we are at home because of the covid19 situation. Those of us who Pay Attention to the various deliberations are getting piecemeal information on what is happening with the Transbay Joint Powers Authority. You know, some of us are very interested in the highspeed rail system with all the millions of dollars that have been spent at the transbay. And the last meeting i saw the one of the directors, i think the main director retired. And i know theyre going to get some new people in. I know your chair person pretty well. And all i say is, that san franciscans are very astute and stellar. Dont hood wink us in broad daylight. Keep us informed with goals that have time lines. And i know you have your c. A. C. And some others, but lets not have people that rubberstamp issues. We need sound deliberation. We need people who understand what this process is, including the brown act. And, hopefully, if you do things the right way, well go to a better place. If not, i think that Transbay Joint Powers Authority will also be involved in some sort of subpoenatype of situation, which we do not want to be. Or happen. Thank you very much. Chair sesay thank you. Mr. Secretary, do you have any more . Secretary no. There are no more members of the public that wish to provide comment at this time. Chair sesay, that concludes your items for todays agenda, you may adjourn the meeting. Chair sesay thank you, everyone. Goodbye. Congrats to you, director gonzalez. Everyone be well, take care. Thank you, take care, everyone. It. 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