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Which should get us all moving quickly. Thank you. Members of the board anything else . Any final comment . [inaudible] michael schwartz. Good afternoon. I am with the sfmta and based on Public Comment want to make sure people know where we are in the very near term and the final environmental document is available and as director reiskin said it will be certified by the board and we will bring it to this board in september and approval and adoption of the findings. Anyone that wants to review the project its on the project website and you can download all of the chapters and parking and 3. 5 ...

Supported by the mayor, by this board, by the planning commission, so i think this will be similarly coming with a lot of broad support from all the key policy makers in the city which should get us all moving quickly. Thank you. Members of the board anything else . Any final comment . [inaudible] michael schwartz. Good afternoon. I am with the sfmta and based on Public Comment want to make sure people know where we are in the very near term and the final environmental document is available and as director reiskin said it will be certified by the board and we will bring it to this board in sep...

Thing . If i can address some of the schedule questions and concerns . First of all my reaction generally is the same as yours with the schedule looking forward that another two years with design and two years to build seems like an awfully long time and longer than should be required so some things that were doing we have advanced some of the preliminary design so were moving that forward. We have looked at resource levels in terms of our staffing to make sure between us or dpw or whoever is involved in the design that we have everybody working at full capacity, but moreover what i have talke...

If we make changes to the cash fare and used by this amount of people and 160,000 are minority and because of the percent and the 8 threshold this isnt considered a disparate impact. Alternatively if we were making changes to the youth pass and in this example its used by 75 minority that is considered a disparate impact but if were making changes to the two at the same time we would look at them collectively and collectively they would be found to have a disparate impact because the percent minority using the two pass types are more than our city wide average plus the threshold. The threshold...

Coming back after Community Outreach and so forth within the next few months, so if we get the decision in september then sometime in late winter or spring you will hear about parking legislation. While youre up there one more question because i know director ramos brought it up director nolan brought it up. Do you see any ability to speed this up . Do you think as director ramos asked were willing to make hard decisions and push on this do you see the ability for this to move faster . Am i putting you too much on the spot there . Were looking at ways to try to save time on the project, and we...