do we have any? no? okay then this meeting is adjourned. >> pilaties. it's a creation, an old regimen of exercise. really based on core engagement

and core structure and core development. we do a lot of exercise in developing that and think about lengthening of the spine and our muscles. if you're a runner, if you're into kayaking, martial arts, cycling pilates are for you. >> programs are variety year around at various locations and to learn more come to the from. >> so good morning, everyone so so much for coming out open a beautiful san francisco summer day blessed by the weather and blessed by having you here to celebrate what is a milestone and an critically important

project for transportation for san francisco and only for the distant future but the day the central subway opens that will provide serve for san francisco on my way here i was unable to get on the first stops it was crowded did a b x was packed to the gills a that's exactly the capacity this project will bring to the city from again from the day it opens but for the next generation for all the growth in san francisco particularly to the esdz of san francisco where the t line runs we're happy to be here. a big project didn't happen overnight it takes years and in this case decades of hard work and vision it takes leadership, it takes a lot of technical diligence and engineering and

any member of the public wish to speak on this item and a lot of people too many to be able to thank today but know that a lot of people spent a lot of work trying to marking make this happen. i do want to acknowledge in particular our funding partners leslie from the transit administration and tilly chang in the transportation arthur i don't know if anyone is here from the metropolitan transportation system but we have one representative here we have caltrain a lot of folks working to make that happen and particularly our federal senators barbara boxer and dianne feinstein and nancy pelosi has been a great champion of this project. we couldn't have done this without her. and i do want to acknowledge the u.s. department of transportation starting from secretary norman who's been that

he beginning up to our secretary jonathan fox and a lot of support from our federal leaders to make sure this project happen it is on the ground project it is years of work from a lot of people in the city and county family i'm happy to ask you to join me in welcoming our mayor, mayor ed lee >> thank you edward reiskin and congratulations. i'm sdlltd to be here with our board president david chiu and i'm sure he's 4th of july which successor team a head and supervisor wiener the district supervisor where i live in that's good as well and you're right i know ed mentioned all

the agencies that have been working together and the county the m t c and the liaison representative for caltrain thank you and the board but most important with this milestone i want to thank the community leaders in chinatown and the north telegraph hill they've been pushing this and the signs in the back finishing the subway delighted to see that that that reenforces a decision about 20 or 25 years ago, thirty years ago we were struggling because we already knew the thirty line was filled ed described and people telling us we've got to improve the transportation system north and south here in the city. this toounl of the two machines

today is a mill stoop because literally if you get our right hat on the south central team allows you to see the big alma which is the names of machines have their heads in the retrieval shed to indicated the most part of toounl is finished. it's been about a year worst the drilling underneath and quietly doing its work but the boring part the actual tunnel 8 thousand feet plus a mile and a half through the city reaching south of muscone and the towns and streets underneath union square and through chinatown and now here to north beach.

this is a racket mile sown and i want to thank all the people working on the centralized subway project all the laborers and locals and all the labor family of san francisco. mike is here as well the construction trade unions all knocking on wood making sure that is the safety project for all the workers because it is a wonderful project and an expensive one but one that is well worthy san francisco. i can't say enough about the community leader that advocated for this they were able to convinces our leader pelosi and senator financing to get the money with the help of the president obama but it has always been the community leaders and groups working with our city planning and now i see the president of the planning

commission we've got more planning to do in the city a with the leadership i'm working with the board we want you to make sure that it would think of the pronlsz the next two years is serious investments road refargz as well as pedestrian safety we've got to work on that and the street designs to make sure they're designed properly for all of the different modes of transportation so we have reflected in the two year budget very serious contributions to that and, of course, our big decision to make hopefully with all the residents this november $500 million general obligation bond that didn't increase the property tax in san francisco and yet gives $500 million to our municipal transportation system. i want to thank our san francisco mta and the board here

today for their lisp in all of that. transportation is a series expensive matter we have to complete all the transportation systems to make our city work without that and housing and the business relationships that we make we won't see a positive future all of those things have to work together so people can live and work here and get to their jobs. i look forward to working with everyone the careers recorders get all the increased property taxes that will generate from this system to pay for things in the city. thank you everyone for the success of this project and keeping us constantly focused on the infrastructure in our city. thank you very much (clapping) thank you mr. mayor you can hear the former project director

talking about the tunnel how important this type of kind of important infrastructure a project of this size you don't see above the ground. the leadership for this project really all infrastructure in the city a lot of it comes from our board of supervisors and i'm pleased to say that every time an action came green before the board of supervisors related to this project it was adapted by unanimous support by the board of supervisors. that leadership has been consistent and instead of through the project we're lucky to have the president of the board of supervisors who represented the district where a lot of the construction is happening. throughout this project there's

lumps along the road president chiu as stood firm in support of this project many moving forward and it's fair to call him one the chief architects of the plan that actually got us standing here today instead of standing out in front of columbus avenue bill clinton by brokering this to get it off the public right-of-way we had less disruption to the public and facilitated or exceeded the work he exceeded that but the project that is overall done here today. thank you bringing up president chiu >> good morning north beach i've never been so happy to see

a massive hole in the ground i want to welcome our heaviest things weighing seven hundred and 50 tons welcome to the oldest and most historic neighborhoods of our city they've traveled over one and a half miles each and moving one hundred and 14 cubic yards of dirt yaefrd on time and on budget pr i want to take a moment yes give it a hand on time and budget. >> i want to join mayor ed lee and thanking the leaders who 3 decades ago talked about the density neighborhood outside of manhattan building a new ground subway thank you to the vice presidents and the men and women

who are wearing the hard hats and the community from our leaders in chinatown to north beach to telegraph hill and russian hill you came together a few years ago to this site when the theatre needed to be the place where the machines came about and thank you and our colleagues for moving those projects forward i want to say i have a vision that's shared by which i want to thank our colleagues that put together the idea our work is not done we've finished phase within 0 and two but need to move forward with phase 3. with respect able to get our subway we were with phase two from union square underneath to knob hill but we need to finish

the subway all the way down to the bay does montage so thank you, again, for this amazing announcement we've got a lot of work to do by the year 2019 but we'll connect 16 million visitors in the fisherman's wharf and i look forward to working with you to get that done. thanks for being here >> thank you president chiu. members of our board of supervisors serve in multiple different capacities in addition to being one of the strongest advocates for transportation investment in the city i particularly in the investment in muni and supervisor wiener serves on the transportation commission and serves as at the vice chair of the community transportation authority so,

please welcome scott wiener to the mike to say a few words (clapping.) >> morning i had a similar experience that edward reiskin had this morning i got on the subway at castro station and remember thinking that will be nice to switch over to the strool subway instead of walking i got on the 45 and basically was hanging off the edge of the bus i jousted getting to know a number of chinatown residents but it would have been nice to hop on the subway and had more capacity. we know that san francisco is growing we know we're having one hundred and 50 thousand residents $2 million residents in 2040 and can't assume everyone is going to have a car we don't have the space we have

too much congestion we have to expand our public transportation capacity and that means adding to what we have and adding new lines like the central subway we have to make sure this extends to fisherman's wharf mayor ed lee is an advocate for the project and president chiu and our community transportation authority because of the sales tax transportation funding thank you to the voters has provided more $120 million including 43 millions for those boring machines it's been a great collaboration i want to close by saying there's a narrator in the press about the major transportation whether high speed rail or the central subway or the downtown extension and

boy it's will expensive and sometimes, it comes in more expensive then you thought >> boy controversy in terms of alignment and lawsuits so people say it's not worth it back off and let people keep driving for cars and creating for congestion in the city that's not the way to think about it there's not a major transportation project that hadn't taken longer than you thought the golden gate park had more than one hundred lawsuits can you imagine if we hadn't built that we need to stay the course and extend it to fisherman's wharf from this site thank you. >> (clapping) >> i think we can all support that.

the mayor mentioned property tax we're not here to talk about property tax but it's important one that muni gets the biggest set aside of general fund so as the general fund gross the muni services grow and property takes are our revenues they're important to the operations of muni and property tax are important when we issue new depth like the $500 million bond we do it in a way that didn't increase property tax we're able to do that because we're growing the tax basis so there is no more property base so we're very happy to be joined by our careers recorder in here previous jobs o job in the board of supervisors she helped with

the proposals to keep them going. please help me in welcoming carmen chu >> i'm glad when people see me they see dollars and money. anyway, i'm happy to be here i didn't have the same experience scott or drerlg had i drove many in my car there's a lot of construction 2, 3, 4 this city there's no better way to get people out of their cars to have a transportation system that's topnotch and connected and having representatives like this the folks way out in the avenues i can minimal they have a hard time getting to the downtown think of the places that will be corrected through the central subway i can't think of a better way to get people out of their

cars i want to get out here and celebrate and see the hole in the ground but thank you to the public leaders when the subway want first thought of its for the people to get behind this project when there was no advocate and there were community members fiat for the money to be in place when there was no money those are the heross so thank you to all those folks who have done that. thank you >> (clapping) >> thank you carmen there's a lot of folks that worked on the ground a lot of county leaders if not for them this wouldn't

have gotten the start. when it comes to actually getting the project done the hard decisions will approving contracts and construction budget comes to the mta and we've had great leadership from our board there's the ones that have driven those i'm not sure if oars other leaders here but thank them and pleased to welcome up the chair of the sfmta tom northern california we have 6 here and hope to have 7 shortly we've been on the front line and people have talked about this and we've licensed. my job sorry about that an important with an we were told i had no reason to know that but

boring machines are named after great women and ms. chronically is represent by her naive and would you come forward so we can see you clapping thank you very much for being here. dr. changing margaret was the countries first chinese-american physician and a sincere arrogant mother this is an identical boring machine the big optional let it had a constricted tunnel and representing her family is a family member come down and glad to be here on behalf of our

board. (clapping.) >> thank you, mr. chair so one the great leaders the policing political leaders the folks behind me make a project happy someone got to do the project like all phases of the project the planning and design and construction is a collaborative system we've got a core team but the rest of the mta family from the dpw to the planning department to numerous other embodying bodies to community supporters particularly to the trades to labor and, of course, our private sights partners this is really a project of this scale is done with the public and private sector working together we've had great support our overall project management is done by a e coming the design work for the toounl by telecom

and the construction of the tunnels being done by other folks and there's numerous folks that have put their blood and sweat and hopefully not too many tears i want to acknowledge matthew fouling letter and a resident engineer and others ben representing yeah. please give them a hand (clapping.) many people that have worked to bring this together in the leadership for someone living and brooethd this project for many, many years we're happy their family is still speaking to him this project has become a member of his family can't begin to convey the leadership that he brings to the project not only the project director but getting

into the details and solving problems and making sure we get to point like today where we can celebrate a significant milestone please welcome john our project director (clapping.) good morning, everyone. this is a wonderful day for san francisco. you all have been invited today because you've played a special part in making this subway a reality thank you for your support. we did it. (clapping.) all right. so you're about to see the cutter heads of two tunnel boring machines that have completed a very long journey. we have mom chung to our right and big alma to our right actually reversed mom chang is a

25 one ton dynamic machine seven hundred and 50 ton monz machines there are beneath your feet. she launched in july and arrived june 2nd of this month now big alma she's built a tunnel and was lavender in november of last year and arrived on wednesday. those machines have excavated through one hundred and 13 stones of soil and rock and built linear feet of tunnel from fourth and harrison all the way up to the portal box here today. we have this work has been done primarily because of the

dedication and support from our contract barnard they've driven tunnel over half the pace we originally thought one of the riskiest elements was the bar under crossing on market street mom had a two active tunnels. barnard did the work on thaigz of last year they've worked twenty-four hour to make that happen the same thing on friday and saturday and sunday that's the dedication we need to have a successful project barnard has earned our admiration (clapping) and we also before we visit the tunnel we have a surprise only two people know literally we

have a literal toej token for the appreciation i've been blessed reiskin republican mentioned every project received the support of the board this project has been successful because of the leadership of mayor ed lee and the board of supervisors and my bottles edward reiskin and the director of transportation. mr. north korean the chairman of our mta board of directors and it makes my job easy so we have a token of appreciation a brace token mom chung and big al mass journey thank you

(clapping) >> so i want to thank everybody for coming out we're going to allow some of the folks and that media so see this we can only do is a certainty up to the minute amount of people at that time, so thank you all so much for coming out welcome to the june

special meeting of the san francisco municipal transportation agency board of directors and parking authority commission. am i [speaker not understood], please [speaker not understood]. >> director reid? reid present. director nolan? nolan present. director rubke? director ramos is expected and director heinicke is absent with notification. >> thank you. >> item 3, announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices during the meeting. please be advised that the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and other similar sound-producing electronic devices are prohibited at the meeting. any person resib