reflect policy spending. if there's a specific population that has a specific need, we should discuss that here today as well as on wednesday. otherwise you want to trust our departments to do their best to identify the needs within these specific policy areas and they will do that through the r.f.p. process. we will bring expanding funding back on committee reserve to understand how the r.f.p.s that will be spent. they will be rolled out from department head. it's a lot of information. i hope we'll be able to have a robust discussion. gao the spreadsheet in front of you. we can start with supervisor fewer >> supervisor fewer: thank you. what i see -- thank you supervisor cohen for taking a stab at this. who i see missing here, we heard

lot about this in public testimony. workforce development for homeless people. i actually think that getting them a job is a step out of homelessness and actually into the san francisco workforce is also an entrance san francisco general society. i think it's a good thing. i think that wasn't mentioned here in these priorities but i think it's pretty important. i also think that the housing subsidies for seniors and people with disability, in my district i'm seeing seniors displaced as a rapid rate and it's because they can't keep up with the housing cost because their income is flat. these are people retired 25 years ago or 30 years ago and now find themselves in a housing market they are priced out of.

i bring your attention to those two topics. this is something that ewould like to see an investment in. >> supervisor cohen: thank you, supervisor yee? >> supervisor yee: i know this is a lot to put this all together. really appreciate that. thank you for moving in the direction we're seeing the need for early education and also some of your suggestions on supporting seniors. so yes, there's couple of missing pieces as you already mentioned that i would love to see more support. home meals are would be very important. you mentioned foster children. many of the foster children will

be timing out and they will become the future. i'm hoping that we can find some way to lend support for that piece. there's nothing this there for the foster kids. one thing that's missing to me, maybe it's already in the budget, i'm not sure, i didn't see it. we all passed a resolution to ask the department of elections to educate immigrant population about the possibility of voting on school board members in november. we needed also inform them that there are some risks involved

with that and even though we passed a resolution and the allocation of funding to support that, i don't know if it's in there or not. >> supervisor cohen: supervisor it is in here. give me one second. it is in the plan. i'm looking to where to help direct you. maybe you can tell me where. under voter education outreach. for the same amount. for the full amount, excuse me. >> supervisor yee: thank you. >> supervisor cohen: no problem. i recognize the fact that this is the first time you've had a

chance to take a look at the balancing plan before you. we will have an opportunity to revisit this again on wednesday in open session. the goal is to be complete with a budget process on wednesday. between now and wednesday we need to make sure that these are numbers that you can stand by. we'll be able to support. would you like to take a 30 minute recess? 30 minute recess to review the document? >> we are not voting on this today? >> supervisor cohen: no. supervisor fewer asking if we're voting on the balancing plan. the answer is no.

we'll be voting on it on wednesday. this is kind of third phase of the budget process the third and final phase. normally, lists like this were reserved for the 11th hour. it's been published since 11:30 this morning. i want people to ask questions on it. we'll be addressing this on wednesday. i don't want to feel like you're on the spot and have to respond. each of your offices provided -- let me back up, each supervisor has been asked to review the spending plan and to put in writing some of the things they like and don't like. your offices have responded in particular. i want to thank the colleagues for that. ave letter from supervisor ronen. she like board of supervisors to work on further investing and addressing the homelessness in

the mental health needs. i got supervisor yee has also provided a very thoughtful letter. supervisor yea yee^already articulated like he likes to see. supervisor fewer you said you like to see grade of level of specificity when it comes to population of each the policy areas. we can speak little bit more to that. you expressed that the spending plan totaled -- at the time the original version of 24.8 it's now up to $30 million. this is not the final number but this is a draft to where we are now. you articulated that it's too conservative. i don't want to put words in your mouth. you want to go over your letter?

supervisor peskin indicated that his office priorities go into house and homelessness higher education, specifically summer course is covering three city college which was noted on the spending plan as well as public safety. the supervisors letters will be made public as well. colleagues, i'm sorry, ift to recognize supervisor safai he provided a list of feedback. listing concerns of health services to youth, education and

adult senior services. >> supervisor yee: suggestion to come back to continue discussing this can we wait until wednesday? >> supervisor cohen: it's only 4:00 in the afternoon. i'm happy to break for 30 minute and you can review and ask question and discuss. i suggest we break and retur ret 4:40. >> supervisor yee: my preference would be to wait until wednesday so we have more opportunity to look at everything closely. i can do something in 30 minutes. i feel like i want to take as much time. >> supervisor cohen: general consensus is to recess until wednesday until 10:00 a.m. >> just so see how this compliments the mayor's -- what they've covered also. we know this is on top of what the mayor has allocated to see

the total amount. not to just see these amounts but the total investment in this area. >> supervisor cohen: all right. >> supervisor fewer: i like an opportunity to look at the think and the mayor's budget proposal to see what the total amounts are and investments in these areas. i think that would give us time. this is our supplemental and this is mayor. really what is the real amount for the services. >> supervisor cohen: you don't have that information just yet. >> supervisor fewer: with the mayor's and this together. that's wednesday is better for me. >> supervisor cohen: no problem. i'll make a motion to adjourn if there's no other business before this body. >> clerk: can we continue all four items to wednesday? >> supervisor cohen: supervisor seconded that. we are adjourned.

thank you.

[laughter] >> get in there. >> mayor farrell: all right. there we go. [cheers and applause] >> mayor farrell: let us get started here. first of all, i want to welcome everyone to city hall to kick off san francisco's are judy -- lgbtq pride 2018. let's give a round of applause, everyone. [cheers and applause] >> mayor farrell: i want to thank, first of all, the incredible people that made this happen here today. not only outside of city hall, but thank you to the volunteers who are making this month exactly what it is for the city of san francisco. special thanks to our own san

francisco pride team and i want to acknowledge teddy witherington who is scheduled to be here. teddy, if you are here, or he will be here soon enough. i want to acknowledge him as well for being here. i want to acknowledge, there are a number of people up here as well. acknowledge the elected officials, alice randolph from art city officials board, carmen two, our assessor recorder, the woman of the hour, for sure. [cheers and applause] clair farley from our office of transgender services. [applause] london breed, our president of the board of supervisors. our treasured tax collector and our share of. [applause] so today, in san francisco, and

throughout the month, we honour both individuals that have made a significant difference in the past that are doing it now in the present and will in the future, for our lgbtq community. we also acknowledge all the organizations that work with our community of san francisco on lgbtq issues that make san francisco who we are as a city. you know, as civil rights are under attack throughout our country, it is so important that san francisco stands tall above every other place in america. that we, as a city, recommit ourselves to reject the ideologies of bigotry and hatred that come out of the trump administration and others throughout our country, throughout the world, at times. san francisco needs to remain a beacon of hope for everybody. i am proud to be the mayor at

the city and county of san francisco that stands exactly for those principles. [cheers and applause] in san francisco, we stand up for our principles of diversity. we stand up for equality for every single person in our city, and we make sure that our city continues to be an example for the rest of our country to follow. you know, as mayor, and before then as member of the board of supervisors, i've been able to witness the strength of our lgbtq community here in san francisco. we have fought many battles over the years. today, with what was a very narrow ruling out of the u.s. supreme court, but the rhetoric that comes with that, and what our lgbtq community must do to

combat that and stand proud and stand tall. it is so important at the rest of us, as a city stand with our lgbtq community. that is who we are as san francisco. along those lines, i want to make sure i let everyone know today, and announce officially, san francisco is joining with the rca of california and banning all business practices with the state of oklahoma. [cheers and applause] we will not -- we will not, as a city, continue to tolerate other jurisdictions that discriminate upon our civil rights, and certainly with her lgbtq community. we will continue to stand tall as a city, and stoned -- stand tall for exactly who we are as people and residents in our city. you know, i want to acknowledge the contributions of our late mayor ed lee and the things he

did for the lgbtq community as well. he founded the federal mayors against lgbtq discrimination organization. but he did so at the national level. he started the player. the first and its client in our entire country. and it has been a great source of pride as mayor to continue this legacy. last week, the supervisors and i announced that the city of san francisco and i will be backfilling the four-point $2 million for hiv and aids funding that a federal government cut. [applause] together with claire farley, we have created a transgender advisory committee here in san francisco. and legislation that our board of supervisors was proud to pass through and i was proud to sign.

creating all gender bathrooms in our sros across a city of san francisco. and also signing legislation naming terminal one for harvey milk at our san francisco airport. [applause] it is with great pride i stand here as your mayor to kick off this month. and to be part of some amazing celebrations yet to come. i would like to say a few comments about the next person who is going to be speaking. she is going to be the recipient of the teddy witherington award, which recognizes individuals for their long-standing, and lasting contributions to our lgbtq community in san francisco. kate kendall has served the executive director of the national centre for lesbian rights for 22 years. [applause]

she has placed the ncl are at the centre of the civil rights movement in our country. under her guidance, they want the landmark equality case in 2,008 and was later part of the team that secured national equality in 2015. [applause] they have done problematic work around asylum, immigration, around lgbtq people in prisons and transgender rights, poverty, issues for those that are part of our lgbtq community, and issues that matter for lgbtq people of colour. just last year, and clr -- nclr joined court people to file lawsuit challenging trump's transgender military band. it secured a nationwide

injunction. that is what we can do when we stand together for our principles. [applause] i've gone to meet kate a number of times to get to know her a little bit, but she is a symbol of standing for social justice in our city, and it is with great pride that i welcome up kate kendall to the microphone and pronounced today, kate kendall day in the city of san francisco. [cheers and applause] the stage is yours. >> thank you. i was not prepared for that. i really thought i was just coming, just like all of you to a flag raising. i didn't realize that i was going to be acknowledged in this way. what i want to say is that en i came to san francisco, 24

years ago, to start as a legal director for the national centre for lesbian rights, i thought i was coming to be the legal director at the national centre for lesbian rights. i never thought i would be the executive director, and i never imagined that a city could so transform a person and make them feel so embraced and so loved, and so welcome to, so supported that they could, every day, and that is me i am speaking of, have my reach exceed my grasp in what i thought i was capable of. this city, on the support of many people who are here, and many people who came before and who are no longer here launched me in so many ways, and i have often said, but it is so true, i get so much more than i gave and i am so grateful for this. grateful for the work i'm able to do. the fight will continue and someone else will lead nclr and they will be a bigger badass

than me. that is what we know we need to. it is time to know when to lead and time to know when to step aside and let someone else lead and i'm excited for the next chapter for nclr and for this city, and for where we go as a country and taking our country back as a place where all of us can live fully and freely and feel supported for who we are and and hate and discrimination and white supremacy and racism. thank you so much for this and for your support. [cheers and applause] >> mayor farrell: thank you kate. up next, i have the pleasure of introducing someone who is really a part of living history for lgbtq community in san francisco. someone who has been the forefront of this fight for civil rights, for decades in our city. someone who has had the opportunity to be a leader

outside of city hall and inside of city hal and at this point, it is the only person on the board of supervisors that is part of the lgbtq community. please join me in welcoming up the great lady -- leader for our city of san francisco supervisor jeff sheehy. >> thank you kate i have a certificate from the board of supervisors for you as well. [applause] just a note, under her leadership, nclr has led on these national court battles, but one of the most moving things i experienced was i was with my husband in a small town in florida, a lesbian couple, the woman who had been previously married to a man wa

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cities e city's land area more than all the parks combined they're far two wide and have large flight area the pavement to parks is to test the variants by ininexpensive changing did new open spaces the city made up of streets in you think about the potential of having this space for a purpose it is demands for the best for bikes and families to gather. >> through a collaborative effort with the department we the public works and the municipal transportation agency pavement to parks is bringing initiative ideas to our streets. >> so the face of the street is the core of our program we have in the public right-of-way

meaning streets that can have areas perpetrated for something else. >> i'm here with john francis pavement to parks manager and this parklet on van ness street first of all, what is a parklet and part of pavement to parks program basically an expense of the walk in a public realm for people to hang anti nor a urban acceptable space for people to use. >> parklets sponsors have to apply to be considered for the program but they come to us you know saying we want to do this and create a new space on our street it is a community driven program. >> the program goes beyond just parklets vacant lots and other spaces are converted we're here at playland on 43 this is place is cool with loots things to do

and plenty of space to play so we came up with that idea to revitalizations this underutilized yard by going to the community and what they said want to see here we saw that everybody wants to see everything to we want this to be a space for everyone. >> yeah. >> we partnered with the pavement to parks program and so we had the contract for building 236 blot community garden it start with a lot of jacuzzi hammers and bulldozer and now the point we're planting trees and flowers we have basketball courts there is so much to do here. >> there's a very full program that they simply joy that and

meet the community and friends and about be about the lighter side of city people are more engaged not just the customers. >> with the help of community pavement to parks is reimagining the potential of our student streets if you want more information visit them as the pavement to parks or contact pavement to parks at sfgovtv.org

>> supervisor peskin: good morning and welcome to the san francisco county transportation meeting for today, tuesday, may 22nd. could you please call the role?

w -- [roll call] >> supervisor peskin: thank you. i will give the chair support. colleagues, at this time, please ensure the news of several major state -- state branches received from the real capital program and california transportation commission. senate bill one, competitive grant program. as you recall, it is a package that was approved last year and maintained and improved our streets and transport system. the transit in the inter- -- intercity rail program was funded by trade revenues.

as a result of these grants, san francisco transit passengers will greatly benefit from three key rail improvement projects including $318 million for new cars and train system. hundred 65 million for additional retro cars. and capacity improvements and $27 million for eight new mini light rail vehicles. the state also were awarded 6.8 million from local partnership programs, a competitive program, to san francisco public works of construction of jefferson street improvements which have to be in district three at fisherman's wharf, which i am crate -- quite grateful for. in addition, other branches benefiting, 14 million for a transit for zero emission buses and 50 million for purchasing vehicles for new express routes to and from san francisco, and 200 million for the county to

construct express lands along u.s. highway 101. i want to thank the mayor and the san francisco public works and the staff to helping us pull this altogether as our legislative delegation. and, of course,, as we all know, we are under attack in the subject of repeal on november's ballot. it is just one piece of the package that is helping to address the billions of dollars in transportation infrastructure needs here in the city. there is also, as we all know, regional measure three. but even if a majority of voters in all nine counties vote to increase revenues in order to finance a four and a half billion dollar program of highway and regional transit improvements, we still have a long way to go to accommodating the growing mobility needs of the bay area. so i want to take a second and thank the land use committee which voted yesterday to move forward with an increase to our local transit sustainability f

fee. and an acknowledgement that are blooming office market will pay more towards the infrastructure that benefits their workers and their buildings and with that, let us proceed to. is there any public comment on the chair's report? being none, public comment is closed. madam executive director, your report, please. >> supervisor tang: staying with the state funding picture, welding on the chair's remarks, theactive transportation program, cycle four is another state fp1 funded program and this cycle project we can expect to build about $217 million available statewide with a program for about 37 million for the ba bay area region. and from what we've heard, public works are preparing to submit a number of great

multimodal project applications. definitely want to get the ball rolling to ensure these are pretty involved with the application project. very important to the criteria. the most recent cycle, which was a first augmented by the fund. san francisco was awarded a $.8 million for a vision zero safety program. for more information you can go to mcc's website. as well i wanted to report last week i had the pleasure of joining with several colleagues from around the state and the region with our transit direct director. he was retiring. he was with the -- the departmendepartment for over the decades. and district four and oversaw some of the largest projects and largest projects in the region.

within san francisco, he was a tremendous partner to us on the presidio parkway project as well as he sat on our trans bay joint powers authority, directing the terminal project. as well as partnered with us on another project. we are grateful to his leadership and great -- wish him all the best in his future endeavours. staying with the regional picture, mpc continues to develop their horizons initiative, this is a future scenario planning project that began earlier this spring and they held it -- held a workshop in may to contemplate a number of plausible scenarios. looking at sea level rise and resilience as well as all kinds of demographic and technological -- technological trends to see which kind of futures we can envision and best position our trans persuasion infrastructure

investment to service in any of those scenarios. they will be issuing a call for transformative projects. projects and programs that are costing potentially over a billion dollars to test again some of these scenarios. things like a second to you, major rail investment, for example, for the bay area. for more information go to the connect s.f. website and you can also contact any of our staff here at the transportation authority. and, on the local scene, survey is underway for the reduce of the sales tax over the next five years. i wanted to think a lot of the board members commissioners for circulating our survey on your sights and in your newsletters. we are certainly interested in the public feedback on how we spend the next five years on the programs and funds for a number of categories. pedestrian and bicycle

improvements, traffic measurement, resurfacing, traffic calming and the like. we've launched a multilingual survey to gather input which is available online. it is also available in hard copy form. we will make that available to a number of community-based organizations and can also send that to any neighbourhood group or organization that still would like to pass those out. so far we have been able to receive, already 400 completed responses, each of these will be conveyed to sponsoring agencies to incorporate the public feedback. for more information you can contact our staff, and the survey does close on june 1st. in terms of our project delivery work, westbound ramps improvement project has received an outstanding construction project award. we were appreciative of the recognition and the effort of managing and a team of

contractors including golden state bridge. we are going to continue to deploy the program over the summer and i want to look for the r.f.p. for this work coming up very soon. and the next stage of the rapper's project. on the transit side, the bart daly city pedestrian rapid bus circulation treatment program is anticipated to finish in june. we continue to upgrade to the bus area, the station will be expected to finish construction next month and the project to extend the pedestrian pathway to meet the standards that are necessary there. the new rabble not only provide a better way to navigate the station for people with disabilities but improved operation for limiting the need of the 28 lying to stop at two place is in the station. it will actually save the community about hundred 50 million a year in costs. finally, in terms of our and

finch -- efficiency improvement initiative and customer service initiative i wanted to thank the team for deploying our web-based funding request form. it sponsors... we are accepting all new applications through our online grant management system known as the portal. it will improve not only commune occasion between the agencies but also efficiency, speed, and accuracy of all of our funder's request. at thank you very much for the team. i conclude my remarks. >> supervisor peskin: thank you. is there any public comment on the executive director's report? being none, comment is closed. can you please read the consent agenda? >> clerk: items five through nine were approved at the may 8th board meeting and are being considered for final approval. the remaining items are considered routine. they are prepared to present if required.

>> supervisor peskin: okay. is there any public comment on item number 4? seeing none, a public comment on the minutes is close. i do have a speaker card on item number 8 which has been previously heard, but because we do not have -- do not want to discourage public testimony, we will sever item h. from the consent agenda and take the public testimony on the balance of the consent agenda and you items 4-9. a roll call, please. >> clerk: roll call. [roll call]

>> supervisor peskin: could you please read item number 8? >> clerk: item h., adopt a ramp intersection study, phase one, final report. >> supervisor peskin:, mr olson, the floor is yours. >> thank you mr president. my name is ted olsen and i'm a third generation san franciscan and sit on the division zero task force. -- sit on the division zero task force. i want to support the approval of this. we've made such progress with vision zero. i think what's really impressive about it is how the departments of the city have come together, acting on such and an important thing. especially how they've been using surveys, media, to conduct such a survey and gather community impressions. i took the survey and i'm sure

many others did. there's much discussion in the community, i know it certainly has been on the market. it has been discussed about removing freeways and stuff like that. i commend division zero team and command your approval. >> supervisor peskin: thank you mr olson. seeing no other public comment, i will close public comment, i think you have one more commissioner thacommissioner tho solicit a vote from on the consent agenda. if you could please ask commissioner kim how she would like to vote on items 4-9? >> clerk: commissioner kim? >> supervisor kim: yes. >> supervisor peskin: on item eight, is there a motion from

item h. made by commissioner kim and seconded by commissioner yee agreed that item is finally approved. can you please read item number 10? >> clerk: update on the rail alignment benefit study. >> supervisor peskin: thank you. we welcome director john around the from the san francisco planning department. mr ram, i said you would be on at 10.09. i am eight minutes off. my apologies. for the long-awaited rail alignment, and is now renamed, benefit study. the floor is yours, and with you is susan geeky wh kiki who has e program manager on this long-awaited study. we look forward to your presentation. >> thank you. i'd also like to recognize a man in the audience who is our chairman of our citizens working group who will make a few short comments after my presentation. thank you. drawn ram, planning department. i'm pleased to present to you the update on the rail

alignment. i want to thank the staff and the tee -- tee dot a dot. we think there are serious land-use implications and analyses we wanted to make as part of this process. it was a great joint partnership. i am here today to not only give me the update, but to give you stats, and a recommendation for our preferred alignment. so that has been something that we have not presented in the past. we want to give you that. our thoughts on that, and why we think we chose this alignment and why this should be the one to go within the future. i will start by giving you, it was important to us to take a step back, and remind ourselves why we are doing this to begin with. and the importance of rail in the future of this state and in this region. what you see in this slide is

some of the gross numbers that are happening over the -- in the state over the next 50 years. we did a broad brush, 50 year projection on growth recognizing these numbers and that timeframe can vary somewhat over time. and broad strokes, you see some of the extraordinary numbers that could be happening in the state over the next 50 years in both population and jobs. really, the point i want to make here, as we have two choices to make to accommodate growth. either build a rail, or expand highways and airports. i don't think the latter is something that is going to value the city and state. with decisions to make about how we accommodate growth, and they responsibly and act environmentally careful way. zooming in on the bay area, same thoughts. our population could grow by as much as 3 million people over the next 50 years. with a comparable increase in jobs, and really, again, the choices are expand the rail or

look at highway expansions which i can't imagine this region would accept in this day and age. it is important for us to think as a region about a rail as well. zooming in at the city level, again, same thing. i think the important thing to remember here, is this corner of the city, if you will, the southeast quadrant as we call it, will contain about 75% of the city's growth. the vast majority of the city's population and job growth will happen in this quadrant of the city, along this rail corridor. again, to accommodate that growth, we have the opposite -- option of expanding the highway which is absurd in our anchor -- in our current environment, nor do we think it is environmentally sustainable or friendly to our neighbourhoods. it is interesting for us to look back at the city's growth patterns and you can see the numbers. like most u.s. cities, there was little growth in the sixties and seventies. very little growth in either jobs or population.

of course in the eighties and nineties that all started to change and that is true of cities across the country. even my hometown of detroit, which has seen some devastating economic conditions, is seeing growth now for the first time in many decades. we are seeing a substantial turnaround in urban preferences in terms of living and job locations. and we do think that by 2065, the city could have a population that is approaching 1.5 million people. getting down to the tangible level of this particular corridor, the area essentially from mission bay to the north, we want to look more carefully at the growth in this area. you see the extraordinary growth numbers in the population here. almost 200% growth in a population in this corner of the city. you also see the value that we have placed in terms of trying to reconnect, or actually

connect for the first time these neighbourhoods to the other neighborhoods of the city. mission bay and it's entirety as a neighborhood has been cut off from the rest of the city. we believe we have a major opportunity to correct that. we could connect as many as six roads in the east-west direction between mission bay and dogpatch and the neighborhoods to the west and connect those neighborhoods to mission bay and the bay. for all those reasons, adds that one of the primary reasons for us taking on this study is to look at how we can get to the trains underground sooner and farther south than what has previously been proposed. so in that light, we of course as you know, i think, looked at three alignments. we initially had a fourth alignment week considered and rejected which was the alignment which would have threaded between the columns of the highway. that alignment proved to be

infeasible. we looked at three scenarios. one is the existing which we called the future with surface rail, with one addition to that existing alignment, which was the trenching of the streets underneath the rail. if you recall, the proposal that had been put forward by high-speed rail was to maintain the grade crossings -- crossings at 16th street and seventh street. the city for many, many years said that is an unacceptable solution to actually have those conditions with the vastly increasing the number of trains that will be coming in the future. in the rush hour, for each hour of rush hour, we anticipate that as many as 20 minutes of the hour the streets would be closed with trains, with an ambulance route on 16, access to east and west was an unacceptable condition. the proposal that had been put on the table was taking the streets under the trains. so that scenario, and we will talk about the financial implications of that, is the first scenario. the second scenario is simply

taking the existing alignment and extending it farther south and that is what we call the pennsylvania avenue alignment which is shown in orange. it expect -- extends the tunnel farther south to a point south of mariposa, perhaps around the location of the current 22n 22nd street station. the third alignment is what we call the mission bay alignment which is the third alignment that would take -- veer off towards the bay and tunnel under third street. under the third straight line, and connect, as you can see, with second street tunnel around at&t park. why do we need this? we think there are a number of important projects may need to coordinate. we think it's important to reconnect these neighbourhoods, it as you can see from this image, this is the type of condition we would have if the proposal, as currently proposed, would move forward with moving the streets under the trains. this is actually less impactful than the actual reality, because there's a large piece, the outfall in this area, we would

have to dive down as much as 50 feet in some locations in order to transport the streets under the trains, which we do not think his away with that we want our city to go in the future. so we looked at these three major projects. these three projects alone, just in this quadrant of the city, while probably -- probably in the range of 6-$8 billion of public investment in the city. it is so important for us to get this right and make sure these are coordinated. as we look at the various alternatives, we wanted to make sure we were looking at a range of issues ranging from equity to transportation issues and our transportation planning. looking at operational issues, looking at existing plans and policies, of which, of course,, there are many. looking at construction schedules, potential development and, of course,, cost. as a reminder, we initially looked at five components of the study. the alignment, as i've been talking about, the actual railyard itself, urban form and

land use issues with respect to the rail yard, and the surrounding areas. and then we also looked at what would happen if we extended the alignment beyond the salesforce transit centre. and we looked at the issue of 280 and weather it made sense to consider modifying or removing it. i will start by saying that the last two items on this list have essentially been taken off the table. we looked at an extension of the alignment which could happen in the future and we think it has positive benefits. and we looked at whether if we are moving to this portion of 280 made any sense in terms of the overall transit system. whether the freeway would get in the way, if you will, of a rail alignment or vice versa. whether it would have to be modified. we have concluded there is no reason. there is no real connection, but we can accommodate the alignments that we need without touching the freeway. for now, that is not under consideration. again, just a little more detail, the alignments that i ed