Good morning. Good morning thank you so much for being here. It is my pleasure and deep honor to welcome everyone to our grand Opening Celebration and Birthday Party for our new westbound i 80 yerba buena ramps project are happy birthday to our new ramp. [applause] i am kelly tang director here at the county Transportation Authority. Thank you all for taking the time to join our celebration. The four i begin i would like to recognize some of our officials and special guest who are with us today. Assembly membered david chius office we have judson true g5 staff. Over here. Per david hes who i understand is celebrating his wedding anniversary. I wanted to be here but is celebrating his wedding anniversary. Smart man. [laughing] we are grateful. So grateful to judgment and Assembly Member two 480 7324 over the finish line this past session which provides us and other sponsors with Construction Management general contractor Delivery Authority which will help our next stage project the westside ramp and bridges next year. From the betide a board we have president s panel and window bridges and linda spoken our groundbreaking 2. 5 years ago on so pleased and grateful for your participation today. And bobour executive director from tida his team. This man get so much done with so few words. Bob. Thank you, bob. From the tac presenting district 6 and herself a resident, did i see becky hope . I saw her last night at the tiedye event but becky is ours on our Citizens Advisory Committee did thank you, becky and from our board we have chairman scott weiner and commissioner jane kim. Thank you chairman weiner and bobby thank you so much [inaudible]. And from the Us Coast Guard we have right rescue. Thank you, greg and your team. And the captain as well. You been tremendous allies throughout our project. From the chp we have commander christopher sherry. His team will be speaking later as well in our program. And from the cpc even mahler is again thank you so much for being here, stephen. And for your support and from ntc we have executive director Steve Preminger as well. Thank you, steve. Steven has a striped cap. [inaudible] so youve got the biggest giants fan up here as what could id also like to recognize several people who were unable to be here today. Who provided critical advocacy legislative and funding support for this project. Senators feinstein and boxer, sen. State sen. Mark leno. Former state sen. Carol mcginn and Assembly Member john amato at the time. This project was 90 million project funded by federal highway Bridge Program funds. Not easy to get. And state prop b b1 funds as well as local match provided by tida and it was through their efforts were able to help secure those funds. Gov. Schwarzenegger brown, and sec. Bonner reinhardt, kelly and caltrans dir. Kempton [inaudible] generations of leadership at the state level have all been great partners in support to our project as well. Of course, radical California Division administrative [inaudible] who cannot be here again but we do have mr. Cole who will be speaking. Going back to the beginning of our partnership with oewd that is the office of economic and Workforce Development the Mayors Office and tida that was in 2008. We appreciate the leadership of then mayor newsom and his key staff which is continued with mayor lee and his administration. Item objectand there he is. We work so closely together. Jose luis and speaking of jose luis we must recognize our great former executive drucker here at 58 who he had another operative produced so he senses congratulations to all of you, all of us. Jose luis demonstrate a great commitment to this project as well. Also great wisdom in taking eric cordova are amazing project manager and now deputy for Capital Projects the quarterback this after. Eric. [applause] so eric will be up in a moment but eric led the procurement the resultant selection of golden state bridge and the a team who is here about the prospect [inaudible] from golden state rage, president and are the Construction Management team, pb, with mike scott and Mark Whitehouse is here. Thank you so much. This group with their team has built this amazing project and we are really fortunate to be working with golden state bridge and this writer team not only do they manage every challenge from the migratory birds that wouldnt migrates [laughing] to the difficult and really challenging crowded site conditions. We had our project we had the tida construction of the homes in the golden gate excuse methe baby rich project all in the same site. Also we have frustratingly late shipments of critical supplies we guys made it all work. You pushed through by champs and you deliver this project on time and on budget. Take you. [applause] not only that they met are disadvantaged Business Enterprise goal of 12. 5 . Thank you, dave and for dsps commitment to achieving that goal and help create jobs and opportunities for local Small Business community. Thank you for sharing those b van values. Finally, we are proud of our collaboration with our little units and workforce on our project later this morning youll hear from pat karen and whose without local union 34. Pat. Thank you for representing labor and how important this is such an important project speaking about that to the local workforce. Because of your collective efforts, as policymakers, community leaders, funders, and project delivery partners and builders we are here to celebrate the opening of the ybi west bound rampart. This is a connection to the future of speech robert yerba buena and Treasure Island about a round of applause for all of you. [applause] now for Transportation Authority staff many of whom im so glad earlier it is a really special initiative. Because it was our first largescale construction project that we read and delivered from a to z. I like it a moment to recognize several Key Team Members from the sfmta a loving critical to the success of this part. Of course, first and foremost, eric Cordova Deputy for Capital Projects. Our project manager and human project delivery juggernaut. [laughing] [applause] anna laforge director for policy and programming and her staff who helped us get all those funds and keep our partners coordinator limo Maria Lombardo chief Deputy Director 70 phone Deputy Director for finance and administration who seven Straight Year clean audit. Go team. Eric young on Communications Officer and Bridget Smith are fabulous Graphic Designer who spent about his job present your project to the public. Thank you, all. Please join me in giving this team a hand in their Excellent Teamwork. [applause] now speaking of excellence in transportation, it is my pleasure to introduce our chairman scott weiner whos led the mta for the past two years and also represents San Francisco on the metropolitan transportation commission. Chairman weiner. The clapping thank you, kelly. I want to just thank kelly chang and her incredible staff as well as those eight lisa moskowitz. We are really blessed in San Francisco do have amazing amazing Transportation Leaders at our Transportation Authority as well as that are mta and planning department. And we are really lucky in terms of the internal capacity that we have to do good work in San Francisco and to work with our regional partners to make sure that were all moving forward together. So, thank you telling. This is really exciting. On the one hand when you first look at what this event is about its about an off ramp and you might be pensive to say its just an offering. Its not just an offering. This is really one of the i think early steps towards the complete and utter transformation of Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island to be an amazing sustainable urban Walkable Community to help with all of our really daunting goals here in San Francisco and the bay area around housing in particular and transportation as well. Of course, when this project is done and it will be done and its going to be phenomenal, its going to house 20,000 people with a great commitment to Affordable Housing and also to formally homeless residents. We will do wonderful transportation improvements relating to the bridge but also robust ferry service. We need to make better use of our ferries here in the bay area. And its going toit just want to be amazing. And the fact that this effort both these operands but ultimately for the entire project, will be such a great regional collaboration is a real testament to where we need to go. Because we know that today in the bay area we can no longer go it alone as San Francisco or any other community. We are all in this together around housing and transportation in particular in this project will ultimately, i think show that in spades. So i want to just thank all of the agencies that made this possible including our federal government, and the state, the mtc on which i circuit as well as our local county agencies, the coast guard as well. Just one of those it takes a family kind of situations and im just really honored to be here to be able to take this great step four. So, thank you. [applause] thank you so much chairman weiner. Next let me welcome Barbara Lopez legislative aide to district 6 supervisor jane kim. Chairman kim services are Treasure Island mobility chairman. Barbara. Speak good afternoon anybody but its a pleasure to be here with all of you. I think the last two days has been really great day for the Treasure Island and yerba buena communities. How many folks out last night celebrating tiedyed . Yes. Lets give it a hanford tiedyed. [applause] tiedye is an Amazing Organization that serves an acre. Treasure island helping homeless families and stabilizing the community and helping build what were going to look for it it makes sense that we talk about tiedyed when we talk about the opening of the ramp because just the kind of partners we have and need to great a smart sustainable city. I know our office as work with all of you for many many years and even before our office many of you were working on these items for 10 years. To make sure that we have the kind of design with its bike access, or account cart access or ferry access with a kind of transportation access we need to make this a Sustainable Community. We talked about that a lot. What is a Sustainable Community looks like that i think the historic commitment of folks like caltrans and county authority board, tida the residence of Treasure Island, all the other partners were here the Mayors Office, it shows what awful were able to get Affordable Housing at the levels we need to great the communities we want and b we can create the infrastructure on some projects to make sure that our residents have the kind of transportation they need to get to work were to enjoy the city. I just want to again thank everyone here and say really this is your work. I think [inaudible] get the levels of respect you show. Comment read our offices we nod our heads and weekly or disagree but really you are the ones doing the plans the engineering plans, the plans to make sure that the project go forward on time. So, thank you. [applause] thank you, bob. Thank you so much. Next, were honored to have say 10of the tida and perhaps the so fortunate of the trust and support of tida do an amazing job of the implantation of the implementation and vision. Thank you. Welcome everybody to Treasure Island. And Yerba Buena Island. What a Beautiful Day for this opening. My name is faith then i service the president of the board of directors of the Treasure Island development authority. Before i begin i would like to recognize my fellow Board Members especially the past german window richardson. Racer hand which linda. [applause] mark don mark is here as well. Mark is on the authority. We also john [inaudible] larry rizzo who are not here but they are members of the board and we worked very diligently for Treasure Island. I would also like to recognize actually, one of the most important people at Treasure Island and it is bob beck, who is the executive director of the Treasure Island development authority. All of you know bob and you know his staff and it is because of bob and his staff that we are here today. So, thank you so much, bob. You know, we have a vision for Treasure Island. It is a vision which has taken three decades to make. It has gone through years of Community Consensus and Environmental Review and it is incredible that we are finally at this point where we are starting the infrastructure and we are doing the work, starting the construction, for making Treasure Island the reality that weve all dreamed about. We very much appreciate the work of all of you in doing this , these ramps the old rams were so antiquated and in order to build the vision we had of 1000 homes of 300 acres of parkland and open space with pedestrian pathways and bicycle pathways that we have envisioned, we need to have the access. These ramps are the way to give us the access [inaudible] ve said and working on the west side as well [inaudible]. But, so we want to applaud the Transportation Authority dedication to this project. We havent they have been great partners from the planning stages to the funding plan to the financing role to that place to the timely project of events that its been a great job and thanks to you all. At the federal state and regional levels have supported us in this effort. And a shout out to golden state bridge contractors would have been an Excellent Team working with us to the successful conclusion. This is not the end of the transportation authorities work on ybi and Treasure Island. We look forward to working with them on many additional important projects. We have the west side rams ahead. Working together to realize our Overall Development plan and we are working for a comprehensive transportation policy which will also provide accessibility, not just to cars, but to varies, to transit Public Transit because thats very important part of the overall plan of accessibility for Treasure Island. So, thank you again to the Transportation Authority. And to tida that and to all the partners that work so hard to make today happen. Thank you for your continued support. [applause] thank you so much fate. This is really the first of many connections to the future that we are partnering on. Next, we welcome our great friend and leader at caltrans District Board chief deputy district director Dan Metrolink against the work closely with us every step of the way. To ensure successful connections to the east span of the bay bridge. Thank you, dan. Wow. Its a great day in San Francisco at Treasure Island. Thank you for having us caltrans is part of the team. Of course, for our great bridge here in the bay bridge area to have these ramps not only providing the safety on main lines for traffic moving through the ybi tunnel westbound but also for access to the island. That left him ramp to the island will be closed by saturday night. [cheerring] on dan macklin chief Deputy Director for caltrans and the bay area and when the city and the region and the state and the federal can come together for the bay area enjoy competitive we can be statewide for those highway bridge funds which are very its very competitive processits really about Building Trust and confidence in what we delivered today. The are competing for summer highway bridge funds for the next ramp going eastbound. So i w