comments we've gone over the plan of climate change i'm curious. >> the initial maps that have been done show that the area around mission creek is one of the most vulnerable areas and the railway yards is a low pointed out in the top grafb we need to grapple with that and protect our investment and what we should do as part of those projects to safeguard them for beyond the next one hundred years. >> that will be part of the study. >> yes. >> would i remind me again how it's being funded. >> through a p da grant and the second phase we're still luke to

secure the second phrase wheel we're hoping for tangling funding. >> i think it's important for us to examine the possible scenarios as we continue to move forward with two of the most important projects what the elect causation of the caltrain's. i'm wondering about the finally, my priorities are the input to the final plan we have many residents that live around the areas and second, of course, is moving forward with the alignment that allows the electrification to occur at the fast rate that we possibly can so one the initiate to provide a

revenue stream or whether the alignment is a more efficient route we all want to see d t x and the alignment happen we could maybe bring those two together. understanding, of course, that caltrain has is started to move ahead with electrification and the last piece i want to reiterate i hope we can connect with the waterfront project we're looking at the waterfront so as we examine peer 70 and the proerptd warriors stadium on pier 33 and i'm hoping we can insure there's dialog between

what is happening here with the two 80 and caltrain and doing to make sure we're strengthening our transportation infrastructure to support the increasing density in this city those are the things i want to see moving forward. i agree we're looking at all the possible what the universe looks like and the electrification are able to occur here in san francisco >> thank you chairperson i am following up our engineers work with the team i do want to ask for the boards help the contract for the anticipated planning work is may our funding runs out in june of this year.

so we need new money not money from our existing pots but new money from the san francisco tjpa or the transportation commission to continue to have our consultants work with the city and the various stakeholders as the cities presentation indicated they're to have a number of advisory committees so i need director martin luthers assistance and director edward reiskin in particular to get new money to continue the work and a my understanding is that the mayor's task budget director to start to address some ethics of the phase one and phase two are they aware of this need? >> they've been working with us on phase one and 12 but i don't know if they're aware i can ask

our cfo. >> good morning our meetings have been focused on filling the phase one that's near term we haven't discussed funding our consultants to work with the city after union of this year but we can certainly bring that up at our next meeting. >> that sounds reasonable. we need a budget; right? and a proposal we can work on getting it funded >> yes. we have that and could a provide that i know lewis is here to the tjpa and because we're asking for new money we may need our help i'll accepted you the information. thank you >> seeing no further questions or comments we'll open this up

for public comment. >> i'm aware of any public that wants to comment. >> director ram final comments. >> i want to thank you all for your comments. i'm personally excited about this as a planner but as someone that passing has the practice cattle and this represents the city for the next one hundred years. we're all on the same page with timing and funding of the could he projects move forward. it's not in anyone's best interests to result in delays in the electrification that's critical but we're about figuring out to make that happen and not preclude land investment that will become the future of the city.

i want you all to know that slowing down other projects is not what we're about it's about as quickly as possible and look at this bigger picture at the same time. thank you all very much >> thank you director ram and others. and we'll move open >> item 8 is a presentation by caltrain on the programs. >> good morning michelle. really thank you for the opportunity to give an update on caltrain modernization program. currently we're a diesel push-pull system we operate between kilroy and san francisco.

the bulk of the service we provide is between san francisco and santa fe and we provide limited peak service is from santa fe so gilroy. since 2004 when we implemented our baby bullet service we have roughly 25 average week day riders and now we're at 53 thousand and climbing. in terms of governance of the caltrain service we're governed by the joint powers board from the 3 counties that provide funding for the service and policy gieps so that's san francisco, san mateo and v ta you see the organizations from the 3 that county's involved in that.

the basis for the modernization program is our blended system vision i see the major tenants of that is a community driven approach using a two-track system we current have with speeds up to two hundred and 70 missiles with a certain amount of grade separation we have roughly 43 at grade crossings in the 51 miles between santa fe and san francisco. currently, we provide in the peak hour 5 trains per direction we want to increase that to 6 caltrain's and have more high speed rail for direction for the basis of this vision service plan is the n l t k provided

model simulation i'll talk about the l t k model helped us to settle on. caltrain has been collaborating with regional stakeholders and we'll look at the 2012 high speed rail business plan established the basis for the blend approach and that was solid if i did in the - we call that the e i p additional established established a regional basis of support for the caltrain cord ultimately to support future high speed rail. then you see here there's an additional agreement between the high speed rail that again

reiterates support for the investment program. so moving on to the project that is the subject of the current eir we're working on the draft will be out at the end of this month. it's a one $.5 billion project contained of 3 elements the first is an advanced system we're call c boss and the two other elements that are slightly after that is the corridor electrification program and the vehicles we're going to use with the system are e n us. so briefly to discuss this c boss signal system essentially it's a system that has two basic

elements the first element is to comply with the requirement of the 2008 safety improvement act. this establishes federally the requirement for the safety lemons you see them and the scrip legal requirements in 9 bullets. the second bullets is caltrain only enhancements to the c boss system that will allow for enhanced safety and capacity. you'll see where we're at in terms of the project itself. we have been moving forward on this project for quest it's fully funded we put a shovel in the ground so install the fiber backbone on september 4th of this year. we've moving forward this project is on time to make the

federally mandated deadline of december 15th. we'll are testing and commiss n commissioning beginning in 2014 we are in advance of the federal deadline. so then moving forward to the two elements that work in combination to each other we operate 77 miles the scope of work for this project is the first 51 miles between san francisco and that santa fe. it is the intent to continue now and in the future to provide service to gill roadway we'll be using diesel fleet and looking to continue our maximum speed of

79 mile-an-hour. the electrified system and the e m us low deliver to us additional it's important to reiterate in terms of the rolling stock we're retiring roughly 75 percent of our fleet 3 will have reached it's service life around 2015 but to keep it until the electrification. so what the plan is you may ask what's going on with the other 25 percent of the fleet we are going to be operating 6 trains per peak hour using the electrified u m us and we'll still be using the push-pull services this is a mixed certify

and we anticipate to continue to do that for an intern period of time. the overhead system will be 25 k va c. that project to the polls and wires and the traction power that will deliver electricity to the infrastructure. so you know this provides a top level schedule of where we're at. i think we're at a pretty existing junction in this project. over the course of the last 8 months or so we've gathered together we've been out on the street procuring owners and representatives to really with technical expertise we'll have

contractors in place for the owner reps starting in march my april of this year and we're also bringing on a project director in april who has experience delivering electrification projects. we're really excited about having this particular position filed and in the hopes of making our 2019 deadline. your board took the action to answer some analysis to take the recommendation of staff to pursue a design including but not limited to build this is the first time caltrain will deliver a project but that's the methodology that will gusts the best probability of delivering on the 2019 date. we have a line for environmental

clearance to be delivered by the end of february not the clearance but the draft eir. once we've got our owner in place we're looking to embark on a period of industry outreach and issue an r f q if may. just to talk about what's the blended system is. and how we're going to blind that high speed rail pr, you know, we're curling anticipating that high speed rail will be delivered in the 20026 temp and our project provides a increment there will be needed improvements and, of course, the extension to downtown but also high speed rail is anticipated to have is a station at milling

before a and we're looking at additional grade separation as necessary that we the complete the l t k study that looked at 5 potential areas not decided where they will be but the passing tracks will enable the 4 high speed rail trains. we need to taking a look at system improvements not only for the high speed rail up to 110 but those will require additional funding. throughout the process we've been cropping with key folks no san francisco. our engineering group has been working with the taurj to review designs and provide approvals as

well as looking at the d t y. we've been collaborating the tjpa study and most recently we're continuing to work on a blend system concept of systems not only with tjpa but high speed rail at the table. oakland we're working with the city of san francisco we're going to be working with them on the i 280 study and, of course, san francisco in the lead as susan alluded to we did just complete the railway yard on fourth and king that was a study that caltrain took the lead on we did at the request of san francisco. i'll go into more detail about the two options that could really potentially be win-win

opportunity on fourth and king. just to focus a little bit on the 2013 rail yard reduction study i mentioned it was at the request of san francisco. it was a technical exercise that looked at, you know, establishing the needs of caltrain and then looking at how we might be able to satisfy those operation overlook needs in the context of san francisco's objectives. i see the prince the principles also continue to enhance electrified caltrain's not only

to support it. in terms of the evaluation summaries we assumed that caltrain will be electrified in 2019 with that 25 percent diesel and 75 percent electrified and a subsequent to the 2019 electrification there will be the downtown extension as well as the high speed rail on the peninsula. we looked at the caltrain's would continue to terminate at fourth and king and being that 2019 is our date for electrified service so we did want to take a look at how to accommodate some level of development while continuing to support the blend service vision with the initial

caltrain. here we just wanted to articulate what the basic needed functions at the northern for caltrain assuming we have 6 trains per peak hour per direction we still anticipate robust service with the warriors service and their essential maintenance and light rail functions that need to happen just to look at in order to provide the 6 peak hour trains we need to we need to a restore between 10 and 11 trains. not only to support the operations but support customer functions we take a look at how we might be to provide robust

customer bicycle facilities and access type of facilities as well as facilities for crew and a staff. and then in terms of what i'll call a transitional commissions living function we've identified the fourth and king terminal as the "'question: key place to commission our fleet once it's delivered that function allergies take we're anticipating roughly i want to say a year and a half. so while it's temporary it will take a significant period of time. so just to talk about the preliminary findings i'll forward to this graphic you've seen before. the study really did identify two options we thought were possibilitys that will balance the oufbdz on one or accommodating best possibility of accommodating 9 caltrain

operational needs as well as supporting development and i'll reiterate the area in the purple blue would be arranged for caltrain operational needs as well as high speed rail needs and then the pink areas would provide square footage for certain development and in both of those cases it's anticipated in addition to the pink areas that's the frontage it would be the capacity of pompous investment over the top of the facility. there are some key different between those options. the option to the left acquit possibility could support are all of the caltrain operational

needs. particularly given the assumes that the rail yard as it stands today would be reconfigured into on that would be able to accommodate service much more efficiently and the second one we call action b on the study provides for much more development potential role it does provide sort of a more complex approach to caltrain's operations there's only a certain amount of railway functions that could be comedy. this particular option needs to have some sort of an off sight inspection areas for trains to be located somewhere we did a

brief scan of where many of those places might be in san francisco. and i think that was trying to take a look at what the operations @al peculiarities for the off sight storage areas. having one of those areas in conjunction with this figured out and king terminal that is the preliminary part where the resource occurs there are capital costs but there are additional dead heading and operational costs to get trains from the off sight to the downtown terminal. so implicit both of those options really merit some further study. the real benefit of this study was to be able to provide input to the other studies there was a third option we

tabled and this the the total yard removal but this requires significant effort in a completely different study if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them >> okay should we go we'll go the opposite way. >> one question obviously there's strong support in the region of electrification of the train we want to make sure it didn't get detailed you well articulated in the presentation the many benefits of electrified service versus diesel it's quieterer and faster and cleaner which is very relevant the community you serve. given all that i was wondering

why the plan to continue diesel service for i guess an unspecified length of time do we know how know that is while dole continues to move into san francisco >> so i'll say this one of the things that the blended the blended service has a as abeyance to transition ourselves to the service. the 2019 date is serendipity we have the rest of the fleet it's required in 2000 and after you consider that thirty year alive as the life of the vehicle we're

looking at 2030 when this would be replaced with electrified fleet. really the basis of it was to make a pursuant of him be decision. i'll say this if money fell out of the sky to be able to replace that with electrified rolling stock certainly we'll consider it >> and is that something the tjpa has brought has brought forward it's preschooler a procurement life that will keep trains returning after electrification it complete; is that right. >> it is something we've brought up to m t c.

>> the comment they're a lot of sdurgsz about the northern term news in the presentation it was clear that the northern term news would be the north by a transit center not fourth and a king fourth and king is only relevant until it's built than a different discussion. the previous presentation the long-term view recognizing that until the final northern term news is built absolutely caltrain has accommodations to be take care of for fourth and king >> i'm glad for that clarification you kept