Quorum but we will take the other items okay. Communications. I have two. One is the question is do we want to make the election of chair and vice chair do we want to postpone until supervisor john kim has asked that it be postponed and arguing in favor is that chairs are supposed to serve a year and i was appointed in february. So we could do that, too. I dont care. What is the boards preference . To postpone it . [inaudible] [off mic] we will postpone that for a year. The other thing that is that until next month . Yes. X month i suppose. I just i apologize for my voice today. I spent the last few days in washington at the Transportation Research board. It was extremely cold and i came back with some sort of cough and deep throat. It was very interesting about that meeting was the overwhelming interest now. You could not get into a room that haven to do with Autonomous Vehicles. Everybody in the industry is trying to figure out what to do with those things. And of them that i attended was what kind of facilities, what would be the feels facilities preparation and my sense was a facility like ours ultimately, could very well have a lot of useful for a time as they goes but nobody could give me an idea of exactly how to plan for it. Right now. Guideways and things but obviously obviously our bus talking is something if we knew what the bus talking technology was we would plan announced in the buses could just move in there. You could even bring them up autonomously from the bus yard because thats a closedpretty close system, but being able to run buses on an urban street autonomously everything saying its about 3040 years away they think from what then happened but it was very interested everybody was on to it did one of those things was when of the ideas was writing Autonomous Vehicles from Treasure Island to the terminal and i said there is muni here. They are going to do buses but they said they gave that as an example of an early application because it would be very specific into the terminal. So whether they got the application, i dont know. Anyway those are my communications. Next item item 4 board of directors new and old business no. . Next item item 5 executive director support good morning commissioners im very pleased very excited to report that all remaining issues have been resolved. The closing phase 1 financing agreement with kitty in the city this afternoon. Which is a 99. 9 chance because the cfo would not make me use 100 . Were closing this afternoon. We resolve the business of [inaudible] in the third week of december and results received the first disbursement december 27 with the close of the finance administrator next person of the tif loan will be on a monthly basis starting generate 15. Does the final step towards fully sunny days one could i like to thank director of the city office of public finance. Vinton city comptroller penny rosenfield and [inaudible] for the hard work last two months. To get this done. I like to express some special thanks to our cfo for working with the long hours and weekends. Again [inaudible] whilst overcoming some Serious Health changes did thank you, sarah someone told me what the hangup was good what was the big hangup . Had several hangups but one of them was they wanted to have npc and wells fargothey want to have a say on how mpc and wells fargo structure their loans outside of would be thought to be done. So maybe sarah could elaborate more . Good morning directors. In a nutshell they was of course trying to protect their ability to be repaid from revenues pledged to them. And of course those of the some revenues that are going to be used in a ongoing interest for the mpc and the wells and so each of the lenders just needed to make sure they were press protected as they could be. But all issues to my notes are worked out and we should be this afternoon. He was what is the resolution . All parties linked. It was several issues where demises in the middle were arrived at. So what did we blink on . What did we want to we die get . We are not in between agreement between the city and wells. The city and mpc we do not care . Been out its really for the lenders and the city. Okay. In regards to our effort to secure prop k allocations we continue to work closely with sfmta he to secure the funding that were on the agenda for january 24. For the funding for the 6. 8 million. I have also had a chance to meet with supervisor peskin and addresses concerns regarding the status of space to and clarify the purpose of our request. I like to thank director kim for facilitating that meeting. Hopefully we get that mean money january 24 and the ford with advancing phase 2 as i describes earlier last year doing that 30 design in coming up with a cost estimate and a budget. Following up on a direction from the board at the december meeting, and also as suggested by the csc we started development of integrated schedule for the delivery of these two and the completion of the study could meeting with director john sleight him later this month to share what we came up with and get some input from them. The goal here is to come up with a schedule shows phase 2 rad as well as caltrain certification and highspeed rail. How they interact and how they impact each other and how best to connect all efforts at the same time did have a chance to meet with john emanuel rahaim at our last meeting get you said you were coming with john rahaim with based on a recognition to you . Yes. Then were meeting later this month. Meanwhile talking on the phone how we are going to do it we started the effort. When i meet it with him later this month also what we came up with and get his input. Be okay we made assumptions on the schedule and so forth there making their own assumptions. Hopefully when i meet this month we will our things out. In terms of the supplemental impact statement we have in the fta completed the final review it did receive some comments from fta late december as a result of the final review. We also received new fta comments from the state Historic Preservation ofc. Received that the first week of january. We are responding to the comments. We hope to spend our responses next week. If except our responses we can post it for 10 days and we can bring the document to the board for approval in february. We discussed the status of the document with john rahaim and discussed the mitigation measures we implement to address their concerns. Following up on the december update regarding the ctc tour, we are having the commissioners from the California Transportation Commission visiting the Transit Center next tuesday on the 17th. We will give them a tour and presentation. We teamed up with the city and ocii and we would also include a presentation properties of the city has that caltrans owns and the city desires to also build parks there. So and then we will have the city will followup with ct ctc later on on what they need to make that happen but basically is a team effort. I like to advise the Board Members [inaudible] it can be in the afternoon on the 17th. Ctc is doing what for that are the parts underneath . Ctc is coming for a tour of the Transit Center. The city and ocii wanted to discuss with the ctc potentially there is some caltrans state owned parcels within the city that they would like to build parks there. So parks and so forth on the rampart. So we have included a portion of our presentation for the ocii and Mayors Office are these different from the parts we heard last month about coming underyes thats different. Other parts of the city want to build. Okay. That were not as part of our project . No. Okay. On todays agenda weve item to discuss potentially inviting California Highspeed Rail Authority to the tjpa board. With completion the authorities important partner as we shift towards fully delivering phase 2. I the meeting scheduled with the authority ceo jeff rouse there is much to update on the outcome of todays discussion. We will talk about next steps it is mutual agreed and to proceed. And work that in for 2017. This year is very very important for it year for us because we are ron is going to be talking about substantial completion in december. You will start seeding tweets at the roof top part [inaudible] the contractor for the less having his can start delivering and installing the trees. Thats a big milestone for us and ron and his presentation is going to elaborate or indepth. Then you have before you the pla report it we will discuss in detail the pla report is part of the Program Overview item today. That ends my report. Okay. Questions . Thank you. Next item item 2 is the citizen advisory to many update. I see we have the chair with us. Good morning chair harper. Directors, executive director zabeneh my name is boost i get i am the chair of the tjpa Citizens Advisory Committee and i want to focus my comments this morning in three areas could first, the cac wants to congratulate the project team under accomplishments in 2016. I know youll see that report later on in the Board Meeting. You were please to see after the mitigation strategies that were implemented the schedule for the operational readiness of the Transit Center is holding at the baseline date of december 22 of this year as important is that the eac is been consistent at 13 million below the target macs. We were also pleased with the sense of urgency demonstrated by the project team drive the bus operations begin as soon as possible after the operation readiness date. Weekly meetings with the transit operators focused on the phased startup epicenter makes so much sense. We look forward to seeing the results of the weekly meetings that the operators and a schedule of which each of the operators will transition from the temporary terminal to the transbay center. We are also pleased to hear that one semester easy is chosen the same sense of urgency we demonstrated that the appropriate amount of retail ready including temporary popups as soon as possible to coincide with the implementation of bus operations. Secondly, we are very pleased to know that executive director zabeneh and scott sleight will be meeting with Jeff Kosinski from the department of Homeless Services and Supportive Housing along with sam dodge to discuss the following items regarding homelessness issues at an and the vicinity of the transbay Transit Center. Its minor sending the agenda will include an education for just apartment regarding the design of the center in overall readiness plans good second, the role of the master leasee jeffs team as i understand it can be very helpful in negotiations with the bidders clarifying the roles and responsibilities in this area. And where was almost be directed when engaged at the Transit Center . Sam dodge shared that hes already been involved in some informal conversation with the tjpa budget team. From a cac perspective, we would like to see an integrated approach to address the situation. When that one that is holistic in nature. We dont want the home was pushed from the center into the lincoln hill neighborhood and then into adjacent neighborhoods. Again we like to understand that there is a holistic strategy in place. These are just some of the items in know that Jeff Kosinski and his team are committed to working with the tjpa project team and the cac looks forward to a briefing on these readiness plans in the first or Second Quarter of this year. One of the items i would like to finish with is with all the positive aspects that are going on, the cac was a bit disappointed when we heard that the meeting between executive directors zabeneh and john rahaim was not scheduled until the end of this month coming up. We were hoping based on the direction from the last Board Meeting that there would be a report out of what progress was of that meeting. From our perspective, its a month that is lost. In some cases, six weeks. Im sure you share in our disappointment as we can assume each month or each week thats lost in this discussion delayspushes out the decision ultimately on the alignment for at least another month and at best, i think we were looking at understanding what phase 3 from the rad study is, at best coming to a preferred alignment recommendation towards the end of 2017 and without fully fundedand again stressing the fully funded integrated roadmap you really cant get to the point of a recommendation so that the decisionmakers can go ahead and make that decision. We are hopeful, though, hearing that the meeting is scheduled for the end of this month that very quickly there could be agreement of what an integrated roadmap could look like. There could be discussions on where will that funding come from for phase 3 of the rap study and then a clear path to recommendation to the stakeholders and thats a real positive thing because from there that becomes a jump off point to plan the schedule and strategize on funding for phase 2 based on the decisions that are made. With that that wraps up the Citizens Advisory Committee report and as always happy to answer any questions. I agree with you on the rahaim meeting get there be a special agendize for the next meeting. Thank you. Okay. Next item item 7 Public Comment opportunity for the matters of the public to address the authority on matters not on the agenda. We have jeff patrick. Good morning directors Jim Patrick Patrick and company in San Francisco. Some good news with your friends and some trees in the park next week. First trees planted. This is a Public Relations opportunity we shouldve the mayor down there putting the first roots in so i think we need to make more out of that than we are. Number two, i am curious if any of you directors on the various agencies are putting any marketing dollars into the notion of promoting the Transit Center is a better ridership, better asset for your writers. Whether you thought about putting budget money in your trains and the other agencies and you talk about that. Now is the time to be talking about that if i dont hear any of that discussion going on. Maybe im not in line to hear that. Number three, are we going to set up a muni bus link from the cal trains to the new transbay depot or are we to know that chariot do that . Or are we even think about that . So transit comes up lets provide that link and eventually overly levit trained to do that job but are we just going to wait and do nothing . I am concerned we might do nothing and i would be a mistake. I would like to see a budget developed for the operational aspects of this terminal. We developed the proposed budget to what we think the elevators window cost, with this deal is going to cost. I dont see any budget its been developed of what we think the master leasee should be pain and whether it measures up to the standards that at least weve sort of set. Of course when you give the master lease in place right away but i was any good testing or evaluation going on there. So anyway those are my thoughts for the day. Thanks for taking the time to listen to me. I dont hear quite frequently but i do know how else to get my message out. Thank you. An answer to your last point, weve had lots of budget numbers and stop the last few months. Its been in close session because part of the negotiations with the master leasee and thats why you not heard about it. We throw numbers around for months now around that. Next item we will move into the consent calendar where all members are considered to be rich and get the window separate discussion of the items unless a member of the board of request. [inaudible] directors i dont think any member of the public wishes to have an item severed. Your items are a point when approving the minutes of the december 8, 2016 meeting and item 8. 2 authorizing the executive director to execute the next number seven to the professional Service AgreementSupplemental Environmental Impact seven by mental Impact Report services to extend the term of the agreement to november 26, 2017 to complete the final task in the scope with no additional compensation. Is there a motion for approval as is . We have a motion. Second. Without objection consent calendar is so approved speech thank you very much. No. Number nine is authorizing the executive director to execute the amendment number five to the professional Services Agreement to retail consult services and increase the amount of competition by 60,000 hours total 280,000. Directors if you have any questions i can enter them or sarah can answer questions if anyone has a question bs i pulled this from the consent calendar because i found it hard to believe that were not even completely through the process and have not even started doing contract negotiations which is exactly what shepherd mueller was really doing and already theyve spent almost the entirety of their budget. The thing that i dont know why they were so involved at these early stages and i dont know what i mean, how much of these bills, 200 something thousand dollars in bills has been interoffice discussions. Because i mean, that isi found that to be amazing that they spent all the money before we even started negotiations. Yes. Could be entered into the contract in 2009 and we started out planning how we do it. We release an rfp. They helped us with erp and we [inaudible] rfq. So good morning again directors i apologize i dont have the specific dates in front of me but for those of you who have not been on the board since 2009, we have had several stops and starts in this process. Back in 2009 when we brought him on board it was a twoyear contract. We anticipated we were going to have the retail process done between 1809 and 2011. Then in 2010 weeks and the schedule out get i think was placed on hold. You will recall we put on out and rfq and i think was 2014. Got one response and then then be initiated the process withi