Big bucks it will be a long day. I just bring it up now. We look at mitigation strategies and i dont know that there might be something even at this stage in terms of what we are building or finishing we can say my gosh if we 800 foot trains lets not get carried away at the end. We havent. We havent built a extension. The end is beale street, not main. That is the next stage. It in the environmental agreement. Even within the building we have much more than we need on a 800 train. We have a little more. Cal train committed to 8 car trains. They are going to 6 right now and it wont be long before they get to 8. Cal trains, how long is a 8 car cal train . I dont remember the exact number. It is a lot[inaudible] theprint stations. I see they alreadyit is it will be a while it will take 10 years or so, unlessif there is a big push on ridership, you can always put trains in, you just use different parts of the train with the stations. Yeah. It is done all over. Okay, just wondered how we were thinking about that and glad to hear we are. We are not building anything at this point beyond what we originally designed. The big empty box downstairs is defined that is how you get a impression of how big that building is because nothing in the way. Stand there while the train platform would be and looks like the curvature of the earth. You have can hear the trains coming. [laughter] that concludes my part. Thank you all. Ready for next item . Yes, police. 50i89m item 7 is citizen advisory update but understand [inaudible] there is nothing to report. With that we can move to item 8. Public comment, opportunity for members to address on matters notd on todays calendar and have jim patrick here with us. Morning directors. Jim patrick, patrick and company in San Francisco. Im concern about the politics the opening of the transbay terminal when the buses complete and operational and may want to think about those magic dates. Are the same date or different . You are going to have a closed meeting with three potential bidders for the master lease. I suggest several things need to be considered. Number 1, the master lee will have to make maybe 20 or 25 leases as he does his job. Can we package those leases toort together such that we have a streamlined Building Permit process in the city . They are a Sister Agency after all i make that work faster. Can we provide financial incentives . We ask the plumber to work over time or hvac, can we provide financial incentives to the lease ee to be done and operational as specific date we think is right . Not sure we are thinking about those things. Notion is we pay over time for this, maybe we can take some of that money and get those guys fully operational. Also, i think the goal should be up and operating and fully staffed in terminal on such and such date. Maybe it isnt the same as a bus operational date, in which case we need to publicly say this is what the strategy is because now if the bus runs, everything runs. I think that is am mental place where people are. Is that correct . As i look at this play out, i dont think it is correct. Thank you. That concludes members of the public that wanted to kraesds and can move into consent calendar. Yes, please. All matters are considered to be routine acted on by a single vote, no separate discussion unless member of board or public request and not received indication a member of the board or public have items severed. Call your item. Motion for approval consent calendar . So moved. Seconded by the supervisors. Any objections . Seeing none calendar is approved. Thank you. Item 10, authorizing the executive drether to execute agreement for state Advocacy Service for 2 years for 216 thousand with an option to extend the agreement for up to 4 one year terms nchlt. We have two items related to Advocacy Services in dx dc and sacramento. The existing state contracts expired july 31 so engaged in a rfp process and the process is described in the staff and results are what we recommend today. For this item for state services and also for the federal item, we saw a opportunity for some significant cost savings because prior to this going back to 2010, we always had two contracts, two contracts in dc and two contracts in sack sacramento and as we go from phase 1 to phase 2 we believe we can have the representation that we need on the ground while continuing with one contract in sacramento and for the next item just one contract in dc. There are a number of major funding streams in the phase two funding plan that will require both state and federal approvals in the coming years, but in terms of the state contract, we believe the firm we are recommending Townsend Public Affairs has the appropriate experience to provide the representation we need. They have extensive experience with the funding streams we will be pursuing and the agencies that will be implementing those funding streams. Um, we did following the presentation in june where we walked through our phase two funding plan with the board, engage in a peer review process. We had gotten our initial revenue projections that were used to inform our phase two funding plan from sperry capital which is a Financial Firm we worked with a number of years. We engaged a ferment called Ross Financial to engage in a peer review of the assumption and methodology that is used putting the reb new projections together. We just completed the review and the results were quite positive and afirmed the reasonableness and validity of assumptions and methodology sperry used to put those projections together so from our perspective the task at hand shifts to implementing all of those funding streams. In addition we want to make sure we are prepared for new opportunities that appear to be on the horizon and believe that is potentially true in both sacramento and dc in termoffs sacramento, there are ongoing discussions about a new transportation funding pack age and this could potentially be one time funding like things that we have seen in the past, prop 1 b and so forth so want to be prepared to take advantage of the opportunities if they arise to augment what we already have in our current phase two funding plan. But again, there are elements of the existing plan that will require state and federal approvals Going Forward. Commitments made in planning bay area related to things like future bridge tolls and highspeed rail funding and passenger charges we will look at. The other thing i wanted to mention, when we had our first meeting of the new Cost Review Committee in august, there was questions that came up about the nature of the interaction between our lobbyist and citys lob i byist. I reached out the the Mayors Office and walked through how we approach the service squz walking through in the Staff Reports you see today and how we intened to move forward. Got good feedback, concurrence with the approach we are repding recommending and had a good conversation looking for more opportunities in the fuch frr collaboration and coordination on areas of mutual interest, shared priorities. I know that in terms of the state services, the firm we are recommending Townsend Public Affairs have a good and longstanding relationship with [inaudible] which is the city works with. A similar situation for the dc contract. They welcome the opportunity to have the increased collaboration and that can be as formal or informal as the city would like. We could do more regularly scheduled meetings or a as needed basis. I do have with us Christopher Townsend and nick low dulukea and alex gibs from townsend Public Affair squz happy student answer any questions you have as would i. Thank you. Questions . I sort of have my problem with this and i dont know ifdidnt know the mayor s office want in full agreement and this is something they wanted but always had the issue that really the city of San Francisco should have a lot to say about the transportation projects and what is pushed and when and that include us but that is just my feeling. I did want to start crossing swords with the satey because the city has a lot of transportation infrastructure it is trying to do and on this one if we are going on the basis of the alignment they havent figured out yet or not, i just wanted to make sure that thats not happening. If you say that is fine, thats a little bit of relief in that respect we reached out to them specifically in response to that question coming up at the Cost Review Committee in august. The other thing i would say about the rab is regardless of the outcome of the study we need to put the elements of the funding plan in place to move forward with which ever alignment goes forward. Im still not suremy preference and expressed a number of times is take whatever money we have and giveren supervisor peskin and ctc, San Francisco ctcs reluctance at least to give the 6 million, i want to be sure we are husbanding the money in the right way and we are not stretching out. To me lobbyist are something you hire once you know exactly where you are going and doing and im not that comfortable that we do at this opponent. Point. I dont know what to tell them . Keep a eye out for the generalties coming out of sth state . Our apreach is see a stimulus or funding package in sacramento come up and washington dc. Through the contracts we are able to capture 400 million that wnt to phase 1. How do you capture them now . What do you use to capture the money . We have approved environmental document and funding plan that we could use in order to secure funding. If the alignment happens to change later the money stays with the project. The money doesnt disappear. So, why not so we use an environmental document approved to get money if the alignment were changed and it is amended we keep the money . It comes with the project. Vice chair. My question, is this something that can wait a little so that we can really iron out things we are trying to figure relating to dtx and funding opportunity we need . Well, the reason i see urgency at the federal level is that we are poised to enter the new starts pipeline and continue to be identified as a regional priority. We have funding identified for the preliminary engineering and design work happening in the first phase of the new starts process which is process justification. We are anxious to begin the process and also looking at federal loan programs that will help us take fund that flow in the out years beyond construction of phase 2, particularly things like the Redevelopment Area tax increment that need to be captured and brought forward to years of construction. Going through a process like the riff program, which is one of the key loan programs we are looking at for phase 2, it is multiyear process to get through the riff application process. So, there is some urgency related to continuing to move forward with locking in those funding streams. And, it is i think a unknown if a transportation spending package is approved in sacramento when those deadlines would occur and how quickly we would need to move. My recommendation would be to delay this for a little bit. My position is little different in the sense that we are Just One Agency of money many across the country in the federal level and state trying to compete for funding. As we all know there isnt enough to go around and as you alluded there is a changing administration coming that we need to keep a eye on whether they make a commitment to invest in infrastructure or change the rule jz suspect there will be changes in rules at the very least. Unless we are willing to be in sacramento and washington dc and have our hands on the pulse of what is changing, we better have resources to help us to at least stay in line at the very minimum and hopefully get ahead of the game and be ready for when those rules change andfunding becomes available because this takes a long time. We have seen sacramento what two years of extraordinary sessions on infor structure investment and havent come up with anything yet and hopefully in the next year because it wont get any better by maintaining the status quo. I look upon of giving the magnitude what we need and what we need to stay in line and keep the hands on the pulse of what is coming, this is a wise investment. Otherwise we have the potential of losing our place in time and trying to play catch up which is never a good place to be when you seek federal or state funds for transportation and infrastructure. There is a lot of work lobbyist do relating to new funding streams that we are seeking. There were changes that needed to be made to tiffia loan and approval in sacramento needed by state department of finance to move forward with bridge loan. It afs lot of work and meeting with legislative and agency staff and keeping them informed. As everyone knows we had cost increase with phase 1 and had to keep our delegations in dc and sacramento updated and i dont think any of you heard concerns about that because we did a lot of work to make sure they understood what was happening and why it was happening and how to address it and how to proceed with city, mtc and other financing. I guess thats why we have a 9 thousand month cost on this thing. We are doing more than just standing in line i presume. Okay, sorry. I guess i would largely concur with director gee. I think if you look at the history of other projects in the region, im sure it was the case with the central subway, but predates me before the final alignment was chosen the citys lobbyist were at work getting the central subway in line and keeping them there. Orignomy there was talk coming up third and kearny and on fourth and stockton not sure i concur we need the scope drilled down before state and federal funding and policy. Cal train i know had their federal lobbyist engaged in working before the Core Capacity Grant Program existed and because they had some presence in dc as soon as the federal government created that Core Capacity Program they were able to be one of the first in line and that will probably bring a couple hundred Million Dollars of federal funds to the region. Not sure waiting is helpful to our project. There are some things that are maybe imminently upcoming in the extraordinary session that they are potentially will be some proposed legislation brought forward by the chairs of the senate and Assembly Transportation committees within the next month and while the prospects for passage may not be grite, we want to make sure our voice from our agencies and this agency are at the table for that discussion. Likewise, that transition is underway at the federal level and as i understand the person they brought in to lead the transition with regards to transportation isseems that would lean towards support for programs like the riff that are within the new i think the build America Transportation build america bureau. Build america burey. Bureau. I can see a lot of shift moving towards those programs and will be redefined and want to make sure we have a voice so we dont get redefined out of eligibility for them. I think continued voice for this billion Dollar Program at the state and federal level is pretty important both for funding and for policy reasons. Supervisors . This is not the item that i had concernwise. I have certains with the next item. Looks like we are out voted. [laughter] i move to approval. Alright. Is there a second . Approval and second. Any discussion . No members of public wanting to address you on the item. Okay. Take the roll. Director gee, aye. Kim, aye. Reiskin, aye. Nuru, aye. Harper, aye. 5 aye, item 10 is approved. Just on the side and this i like our attorney to look at. This contract is embarrassing to me. I mean our poor folks out in sacramento have to promise the preservation treated containing arsenic not used mpt i like to find out if we can talk to had city and find out we can have something that is a littlefood Services Waste requirements. It is nice to have something that has less than 62 sections in it for getting some lobbying service squz other things. I know the citys got its things but if you are not building a staircase, preservation wood requirements have nothing to do with the requirement. As does i say about 15 other things like that and maybe we should look at it and make sure that we are not handing out contracts that are silly in their scope. It is just for me a matter of pride, just i draft contracts sus sinktly and if we do that and still get citys yes, fine, it would be nice. Okay. Next item, please. Item 11, authorizing the executive director to execute amendment to extend agreement for federal Advocacy Service for carpy and clay for 1 year additional compensation for 155, 500. This is federal extension of federal contract for one year and [inaudible] the federal contact we have one more one year option to extend and what we are recommending moving forward with carpy and clay which is a existing firm. Supervisor you want to start out here . I think we worked something out that i think that there is a lot of uncertainty about the future of federal funding and like more time to think about what our role in washington dc is. I do feel comfortable with three month extension but at this time wouldnt feel comfortable with a full year. In lieu of my original proposal which is continue the item for a month i feel comfortable move frgward with three month extension. Three months. Comments on that . Ill second it. Motion and a second. Director gree. Director kim, i understand. At the end othf three months what we would look to either do Something Different or extend for another three month just for a clarity standpoint . I wanted to continue for a month to discuss what our goals are and get a better landscape of what federal funding will look like particularly to citys like San Francisco that are sanctuary cities given the president comments about the first 100 day goals so want to make sure we are wisely investing our resources. This is a unfortunate statement not a hopeful statement but i think this deserves further discussion about what we plan on accomplishing in washington dc. That