Public to make Public Comment. Members of the public may comment on the meeting during Public Comment meetings inperson or remotely. The common line is provided a a courtesy. Inperson Public Comment will be taken first. Comment line, pardon me, is printed on the agenda and the information should be scrolling on the screen w. That, are there any communications. I do have one, if there is i just want to say thank you for your service. This is your last meeting with us, before you take on your new assignment in tc. Thank you. Thank you for all that youve done and best wishes on your next chapter. Thank you, chair g and thank you to all the directors for being so patient while i was in training, apparently the training went well. And thank you for your laider ship. Its been great. So in exchange, can we have have another thousand. All right. All right, if there are no other communication, i will check the room for Public Comment. Seeing no Public Comment in the room, i will check online. All right, seeing no member that would like to like to comment, i will call the next item. Item 5 is xhek tiff directors to report. Adam, will address you. Good morning, directors, welcome director john baptist, thank you for being here today. Its about a crazy day out on the roadway, so im glad you were able to make it on time. There was a reminder why we need to continue to invest on our roadways its when they get overloaded like they were this morning. Tlkz to car zee for being here, she is just going down the street. We hope to continue to see her in and around our buildings and with our meetings at mtc. As we approach the procurement phase of the project, we need to build the capacity of our finance team. And im happy to report that we made significant progress since our last meeting. Last month we promoted our own senior accountant and welcome live chan to Accounting Team and posted two new positions. One for our financial after and one for executive analyst on our website and linkedin. I want to thank the entire team for their hard work as we buildup this capacity especially to davina and mary prior and look to the board and to those listening to help distribute widely to join our team as we enter our next phase. At the Transit Center, we celebrated transit month with our transit operators. There was a lot of enthusiasm for the revival of the project and we spoke to a steady stream of visitors at our table at the event, where i understand there were over 4500 excited passengers and neighbors and riders of the new system down at the king rail yards as well as an event at our park. The top 20 riders to the Transit Center, will be awarded on opportunity to win a tour of our capacity including the two level train box contest this friday, tomorrow the 13th and we look forward to bringing them through the center later this month. At the American Association 2023 conference earlier this week. And youll see a photo of our Team Including one of our former Board Members later on on todays agenda. This reflects their 2200 employees including trans bay riders from the east bay into the third floor of our Transit Center. Regarding the extension, we continue to advance the project and Transit Administration program. Last mobsinger the team submitted the required documentation for fta to complete its readiness review under the investment granted and just last week they concured with the assessment of the project readiness. This is a strong signal for receiving the project rating and entry into its engineering phase. Once in the engineering phase, well be able to ask for a full Grant Agreement in the fall of 2024 prior to its execution in spring of 2025 assuming we have all matching funds which ill speak to later agenda. To ensure that we have our matching requirement. This includes work withing the metropolitan on an update of advancement policy, just yesterday, the program and Allocation Committee met and recommended, allocations of tirtcp, cap and trade funds and we requested that they consider moving the portal to level one priority instead of its current status, level two to recognize our 50 matching requirement we have in hand as well as our advance state of readiness. They also expect to update their framework, in november time frame and we hope they where endorsing our mega application and staff has indicated that they will revisit the Recommendation Commission in november. Finally, were excited to bring you several items to advance the projects d t. X. Project to state of readiness and risk identified by in our may workshop. The first of which well discuss items 9 and 10 to consider approving request for qualification for the civil tunnel contract and to adopt a conflict of interest policy procurements. Look forward to your comments on those items. And youll see in the look ahead, there is a number of number of items to advance our projects in the coming months. Happy to answer any questions before we turn it over for the facility update. Adam, thank you, directors any questions . Not seeing any, alrighty, what is going on at the facility. Before we hear from director walsh, i want to note for the record that director john baptist has arrived. Good morning, im ari walsh with your october update. Starting off with our popular programs, we had the fleet week band perform last week. And avoided our government shut down which was fantastic and shortly before that, we had the alice and wonderful math quest which was fantastic because it brought a majority of people from out of county which was one big goal putting on these events. As director van de water mentioned, we had a great time getting the word out. Speaking of, you may notice some Friendly Faces on this slide, won Outstanding Transportation system award and its clear why, because they do provide great service. Upcoming performances, so weve got three upcoming performances in october and then we get a little bit lighter in the month of november. This sunday, weve got post ballet, followed by a drag show and musical performance the saturday after on the 21st and a silent disco to wrap up the month for halloween. Also weve got live music on wednesday, fridays and saturdays, so its always a good time at the Transit Center and the park. Just, giving some intuition to traffic trends, what were seeing around San Francisco and around the country with regard to return to work, i thought these next couple of slides were really informative. After dream force and variety of events like fleet week, he we did see some nice up ticks in office occupancy. And here the nice thing and positive light is San Francisco had the biggest increase in the country at one point one percent, beating the average by one whole percent. The week after, we had a little bit of tapering and it sounds funny to say but San Francisco did the least bad, we had a drop of point 2 and often is the only one who continued to increase. But again, seeing some positive numbers coming out from all the activities that we had over the last few weeks. Again, interestingly, the drop that we saw in october, the first week of october, was almost completely due to people coming in on monday, and the monday percentage drop was almost 3 percent and Everything Else stayed leveled. So it seems that folks are avoiding those mondaysed but coming all the other days. Friday continues to be the lieest day of the week. And were still looking for things to do, to promote and increase activities on fridays, especially for our retail tenants. And speaking of retail tenants, modi just got a new logo and they put it up yesterday. And were still looking for them to open in the next couple of months. Bear bottle, that delicious looking beer and pretzel in the background is going to be opening in the winter of 2024, very much looking forward to that, especially as weather gets cold and her people want to go inside. And want to make sure that we have our shout out for the current tenants and with that, im happy to answer any questions. All right, thank you, directors any questions . Not seeing, thank you very much. Thank you so much. All right. That concludes the directors report. At this time ill check for Public Comment. Ill start by checking in the room. Seeing no one in the room, i will check online. Seeing no Public Comment online, that concludes the item. Director item 6 is the Citizens Advisory Committee update, nc a chair brian larkinis here to address you. Good morning, chair g, vice chair mandelman. Our agenda included the staff report facility Operations Update and process and the work plan schedule and updates. Mismatch will give update since september, cac meeting, charles asked about matching funds for the full Grant Agreement. Chair asked if there will be clarification regarding the affect of the d t. X. Being rated level two, versus level one. We just heard a little bit about that from, mr. Van water. Nine fao in alley martin asked whether the increase would affect dtx standing in its request for funding . Ari walsh gave updates and there were no questions, and if ari was disappointed, he did a great job hiding. Rodriguez, gave the updates in discussing the procurement schedule mr. Rodriguez focused on the civil and tun elg contract. Gabriel chan asked if cost increase escalation were included in the Financial Plan. Anthony also asked the question about cost escalation, and marco asked how many contracting teams, the staff expected to propose on the 40ct contract, regarding the work plan update, eric asked how much the success depends on the cal train ridership projections. Brian shaw said that dtx should get money from the high speed rail traffic because its benefit to the high speed rail too. All right, we ended with general Public Comment and in review of upcoming presentations. Ill say that, that i pass on to the questions that different members asked. I dont know provide the answers, in part because when im trying to write down the question, i dont do a good job of writing down the answers. Further, youve got a whole bunch of staff here who are well prepared to answer much more than i can hope to. So, thats all i have to report, ill look forward to seeing you, tonight. Thank you, brian, maybe we can see you at the silent disco. Okay. Directors any questions on the cac report . Yes, brian, go ahead. Thank you. Thank you for the report. Thank you, at this time ill check for Public Comment in the room. Seeing none in the room, i will check online. We do have a member in the public who would like to provide comment. Moderator if you can go ahead and let them in. Caller good morning, an joes, would i like to briefly bring to your attention that cal train cac report, the train bold, comment by the public are not being captured. And im hearing some really strange background now, thank you. Thank you, caller. I will check if there is additional Public Comment online. Seeing none, that concludes Public Comment for this item. Directors item 7 is Public Comment, an opportunity for members of the public to address the authority on matters that are not on todays calendar. I will check the room. Seeing no Public Comment in the room, i will check online and it looks like we do have a member of the public that would like to provide comment. Moderator, if you can please let them in. Caller hello, directsers thank you for the opportunity. I would like to give you a grief update on the broad line. Scheduled for [audio indiscernible] i dont know if you can hear me. Thecanceled because of the opening of to orlando, they have been by three weeks. The news line was opened on september 22, that broad line had to double the number a15 a, after two weeks of operation. What is even more remarkable is that the line between miami and west palm beach, we have, cumulative to gilroy against expectations, 55 2000 to employee and climbing. [audio breaking up] the entire lower level platform, gapa to start this conversation at the early of the committee. Is my time up . Eventually, followed that presentation to the board including proposal to investigate potentially telling me, projection thank you. Thank you, caller. I will check if there is additional comment online. Seeing none, that concludes Public Comment. Okay, directors, the consent calendar allsorry. Go ahead and move on to consent calendar. All matters listed will be acted upon by a single vote, there will be no separate discussion of this board unless its requested. Directors, i have not received any indication that a member of the board or a member of the public wishes to have any of the items considered separately. And i would just confirm that there is no Public Comment in the room or online. I see a member of the public with their hand online, moderator, is that left over from the previous item . No. Okay. All right, i will gomoderator, if you can please let the caller in. Caller okay, again, thank you and very briefly. I would like to bring your attention to the last page on the minutes on number 15, [audio breaking up] this background is just unbelievable. The minutes on the fact that i mentioned that the documentation, if there was any, there was missing from the packet. What you did not direct is the fact that a different approach to the two billion dollars. Sxl that seems to be, to do sothank you. Background is incredible thank you, caller. Seeing no further Public Comment online. Thank you, karsy, this item is for action, is there a motion to approve consent. Ill make a motion to approve. Second. Thank you, vice chair mandelman. Moved and second. Thank you, chair gee. Item 8. 1 is approving the minutes of september 14, 2023 meeting. 8. 2 to extend their agreement for one year for compensation of 330,957 dollars. On a motion to approve, we have a first by director forbeses and second by vice chair mandelman. Ill call. Forbeses. Aye. Johnbaptist. Aye. Director lipkin. Aye. Director syed . Aye. Vice chair. Aye. Mandelman, aye. And chair gee. Aye. The consent calendar is approved. Next to the next item. Please. 9, approving the release of civil and tunnel progressive design build, request for qualification with the express condition expension also known as the portal construction related procurement, be conditioned on the further t. J. P a board action after demonstrating full compliance with the governorance blueprint stage gate 1. Director. Thank you. In this presentation, ill provide an overview for the build contract which will complete our design for the largest construction contract and thats the civil and tunnel work. And how it relates to our peninsula mou as it was extended at the end of this calendar year. Which also includes an element of the blueprint specifically relating to the construction procurement. Ill also cover, ill also cover the stage gate process in the governorance blueprint or compliance with the various requirements in that first milestone, ill discuss the risks of proceeding or not with the progressive design for qualifications. And then next step for proposal underdevelopment. Sorry. After this presentation, we will request the boards consideration of staffs recommendation to approve the release of the civil and tunnel progressive design build request for qualifications. With the condition that releasing the request for proposal which will follow for this contract, as well as the other construction related procurement, will demonstrate full compliance with the governorance blueprint stage gate 1 for particular procurement. So, let me cover a little bit about the stage gate. Sorry, i think i went off here. A few months ago, the board received a presentation which depicted mild stone from the portal from the start of construction procurement through the construction, through the entire construction of eventually revenue service. Which is when the project opens to the public. The board adopted this blueprint in august. Its understood though that because of the multiple inputs for each stage gate that some of the requirements may be provision alley met depending on the circumstance on that condition to advance. Additionally, the mou specifically indicated that the board would be required to approve the start of construction procurement and thats why were here today asking for your approval to release the rfq. Stage gate 11 requirement include completing bid document, approval of blueprint, fta approval to enter engineering which is the next phase of the new starts program. Adoption of policy documents and completion of Third Party Agreements. In the next few slides, ill go over inputs but i wanted to point out that the tjpa did approve the blueprint this past august. We have completed all the requirement of the document and we have completed the policy document which includes project scope, otherwise known as project configuration. Weve also completed our design criteria, the service plan, the master schedule, our delivery strategy and updated our review which was reviewed in may and confirmed. We have, i think im off with the slides, im sorry, there is a lot of slides today. Sorry about that. We provisionally meet compliance. Sing is entry for engineering, we submitted documents to engineering. We already received positive findings on the project, sketd and project management capability and capacity. And we anticipated to grant our entry into engineering. Next, is Program Budget. And our Program Budget has been set, the board approved our 20year Financial Plan in august with decision to enter. And with f