good morning. welcome to the transbay joint powers authority meeting for thursday september 13th. may we do roller coaster, please. >> i would like to announce the record directors metcalf and sartipi will not be. (roll call) >> madam chair, you do have a quorum. >> thank you. are there any communications from board members today? seeing none, let's move to item four, which is also -- sorry, the board of directors old and new business, which there is none. item five, the executive director's report. >> good morning, directors. good morning, members of