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would you call the role. >> change is sitting in as director hain any easal ternate. due to a scheduling conflict den deana won't be able to attend. [roll call] >> director we have a quorum. >> continue mr. secretary. >> the next item is item three for communication. we'd like to provide farther comment on the.

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time for live published screening. any other communications from the board members? seeing none i'll call the next item please. directors item four is the board of directors new and old business. seeing none i'll proceed. >> thank you mr. secretary. >> item five is the directors report. >> good morning, directors. i hope you had a nice and safe thanksgiving holiday. i'd like to thank vice chair gee for previeding over the

meeting. i did want to note that we that tony has moved onto other opportunities. appointments fir their seats are upcoming. dana has been appointed acting district director. we have not received notice on their appointment. with that, i'll move into the rest of the updates. if you have been by the rooftop park you might have observed activities. they were automobile to mark the address. the filming took two weeks of preparation. we transformed a portion of the park into a winter

wonderland. a portion introduced by james correspond den who joked this was his biggest audience that he has had recently given his show airs after midnight. the event was over an hour and received rave reviews. we thank the production team for their strict adherence to covid-19 protocol. throughout the two weeks of activities safely delivering the events to thousands online. showcasing our event to parks. the director will share more information on this event on his update. although, i'm sure we are saddened by the recent stay at home order we fully support the effort to reduce the spread of covid-19. we'll monitor and adhere to all guidance and work with our

agencies. we'll continue to provide the most up-to-date information about mask wearing and enhance cleaning protocols remain in place. the interim activation rsp has been posted for the temporary terminal. this is due to tocii due november 3 with a target date of april 5th. the goal is to secure proposals to provide active community service usages that cay tor to and vitalize spaces for those who live, work, and live-in other nearby areas. suggested uses include outdoor beverage and farmers market recreation, sports programming and outdoor movies. this is enough to potentially

accommodate multiple uses. reyou will will work on the comprehensive work plan. in regards to recruitment for the project director negotiations underred unsuccessfully. the candidate had to consider family ma'amers and recruitment is continuing. the meeting on december 14th has been canceled and a notice has been posted on the website. finally, i'm glad to introduce wu as it communications manager. she will officially start with the tjpa on december 15th. she joined us today for a brief introduction. willie. >> good morning, board of directors and executive

director. i'm excited to join you as part of the tjpa program. i have 14 years with the city of san francisco. i'm excited to join this great program that will bring transportation services to the community. i look forward to working with you all and hit the ground running as it new year begins. thank you. >> thank you. that concludes my portion of the report. i can take any questions before having john provide the facility update. >> directors any questions for our interim director? i don't see anything. mr. secretary, do we have anyone from the public that wishes to make a comment at this time?

>> at this time, no members of the public wishing to provide comment. >> well, thank you for that report. lily, welcome to the team. mr. secretary, i guess we can keep moving. >> thank you. >> yes, i think we have a facility operation update by john. >> perfect. thank you. >> good morning, directors it's great to work with you. so, on the operations update we'll continue the efforts that began a few months ago with the kiosks that were unused. the pilot program continues to rescue and identified farther

service reduction. we have modest impacts to operations. we continue to tighten our belts on the operation side. there have been no changes to our high touch areas. we have been following health detectors with our fitness success that was able to open indoors. then, again restricted and so as a result of the most recent restriction we were able to go under the recreation area for members. there are guidelines to keep

the operation moving as best we can under the conditions. we are taking advantage of light patronage in the area to effect much needed repairs. we had glass breakage from way back in the spring. again, due to covid-19 related issues it's been a challenge to bring contractors on-sites and get bids. we are happy to see those repairs taking place. moving on, so, the playground was opened up and we were happy to have it opened. unfortunately, we were required to close it again on monday december 7th. as of this morning it's back open again. it's open today.

this is consistent with the changes made yesterday to allow playgrounds to open. we are happy to see that back open. that's an amenity the residents enjoy. we were able to install our holiday lights. we have stars on the wallace well as icicle ice along the handrailings on the tacoma side of the park. they were installed earlier. there has been a great success and a lot of comments from adjacent residents and they said we love them so much and asked if we could keep them up after the holidays. it provides a much more pleasant evening walkathon we have had in the past this time of year. we were happy to host the

event on december 2. we have pictures of the activities. they had quiet the intensive technical experience. the bottom middle picture is one of their many tech facilities relocated within locations erected around the site. we were happy to host the two on the winter wonderland theme. they announced the aquisition of slack. they indicated over 1 million impressions were received during the viewing of the sales force website. that's just tremendous international exposure for our park. we would like to thank sales force for highlighting it. i'd like to thank our team

that came together to put all of this moving forward with restrictions changing almost by the day during preparations of the actual event that ended up far different than originally planned three weeks before we started the adventure. mostly to address health restrictions issues that we were facing. it east fantastic and nobody abmlpc. thank you to all of that. we thought this might be an opportunity for our selves. they were patronizing. we ask that the owner indicated it won't be a

profitable venture. we did make an attempt to see if there was an opportunity there. moving onto retail leasing. so, we continue to make progress on two very active engagements. one with our food and beverage kiosk. we didn't receive from important. comments we are taking. those negotiations will continue very soon. we'll be able to have an announcement and the lease is fully executed. target date for opening is late spring. suit 232, those discussions continue. we have fully executed letter

of entente. we have papers on lease negotiations. that's ajayce of jayceent to the tjpa offices. that's moving along quiet nicely. i even happy to say we have interest from multiple parties for four of our first floor suits. that's rather extraordinary in this environment downtown. this is a testament to recognize long-term. this is excellent location. now is the time to get in, make decisions. east side oof return to work force. i'm hardened by the interest by some retailers. we still stand at 74.8

occupancy. this is for the two locations mentioned. i'll continue to update this and hopefully we'll have a more discussions in our next meeting. we have good progress. we have verizon express that opened on november 11, veterans day. they continue to be open. terrific looking facility. we wish them the best and very pleased to see them opening a difficult atmosphere. they continue the pace. also moving forward with nearing completion is the kaiser suit you can see it's just about ready. we have a few technical issues and permitting issues to get them ready to go. they have quiet the extensive training period anticipated.

they are hoping to be open by may. rent payments have already commenced. lastly, in terms of photos i have spring facility and they are across the hall. 2,500 square feet if you can see if you recall. i have firewalls. progress continues there. so, the impressions are still on target for a first quarter 2021 opening. again, another opening. i speak volumes about the future of this location. rent has commenced and paid on time. i'm always happy to report that to you.

remaining spaces this will look similar. we continue to make progress on the building improvement. kitchen exhaust systems. all other matters we need to complete to turn the space over to tenants. the proximate turnover everyone targeting q 3, 2021. you can take a look at the next slide, jason. you can see the rest of them there. we continue to discuss matters with each of these folks on a weekly bases and keep them engaged and keep their design teams moving forward with the projects. lastly we have our common area for the gender neutral restroom project. i'm happy to report that there are a few few punch list

projects. that's a key improvement some of these restaurants require that to be done before they get their occupancy permitments. ment -- permits completed and ready for them. lastly, no updates on the budget because we don't have any actuals yet populated in the system. we expect to have a more are robust budget session for you in the next report. happy to address any questions you might have. >> thank you for that report. any questions from the directors? i don't see anyone mr. secretary. we'll continue with the money part, financials i guess. >> we'll have tjpa are porting on the financial reports.

>> thank you. >> the reports reflect what we expected 25 % of the operating budget revenues. no red flags there. you will see in that schedule that there is an addition to fund balance that represents the positive crash flow over the quarter. that was the question you all had previously, so, the quarterly reports will show the cash flow. in the other budgets the debt service budget anticipates and reflects what we anticipated of our first debt payment on october one and redeposition of some of the bonds for

october. there are no surprises there. for phrase one. . . they have progressed like we reported and financials reflect that. for phrase two. we spent about what we would have expected. . .

finally there is a report of the reserve status there haven't been additionses or subtractions that are formal actions there have been some cash flow additions and subtractions as we use it as working capital. but as far as approved additions or uses, there haven't been any. i will take any questions if you have them. >> directors any questions?

>> very good any comments from the public, any of the last two presentations mr. secretary? >> there are none. >> okay. very good. thank you for those reports. we appreciate it. and for those updates. >> thank you. >> all right mr. secretary let's keep moving. >> yes sir. directors item 6 is the cac update we have our cac chair who will address you on this item. >> good morning everyone. we had a productive citizens advisory committee meeting this past tuesday evening. the cac can you hear me debra? you can't? okay all right. >> it's a little low derek. i will speak up. how is this? >> better.

so we appreciated the interim executive director updates and comments regarding the transit center dynamics during the political winds of support for the transit projects. provided helpful information and answered brief questions on several topics along with the reminder with regard to the tower settlement. we're excited for lily. it was great to meet her tuesday afternoon. mr. updike walked us through some of the significant activities the last 30 days including the dreams for virtual conference. he talks about the holiday lights and he talked about a lot more. we're excited about the future retail openings coming in at q2 and q3 and of course good

discussion of additional actions to incorporate art in different places within the center where there may be vacant retail places right now or in the spring or summer. suggestions by the cac members also included the strategy and tactics to better identify who the transit centers are in an effort to further activate the transit center used during these covid times. of course we appreciated the detailed update regarding the phase 2 progress update and acceleration plan and phasing concepts and much more. we appreciate the 10 second future video. and the healthy discussion of using the grand hall to promote phase 2 plans through physical models and video representation on the grand hall as well as using the tjpa website. we're able to provide him with a list of topics that we're

curious about related to regional transit and transit authority and we understand that january might be a better time for an update on topics that might tie into the transit center and phase 2 dynamics. as you can imagine, cac members are concerned about 2020 covid dynamics and impact that it might have on regional transit operations and the tieing into the transit center and of course phase 2. to wrap up my report, the cac discussed actions that can be undertaken to further increase public awareness of the phase 2 project. suggestions from the cac members of publicizing the number of jobs created by the phase 2 project, the people that might serve those jobs and the diversity of those people and the companies that are involved in the phase 2 project. similar to what was done with phase one that you may remember. cac members were also encouraged by the plans to be very

assertive in pursuing funding from all areas possible. we realize that sometimes that can be a very competitive space. and of course we always appreciate contributions by members of the public including topics on the ridership and more. any questions? >> thank you. any questions from the directors? >> seeing none. >> okay very good. >> it seems like this is aligned with the cac on what some of the needs are here. so good stuff.

>> my members will be excited to hear that it sounds like great minds think alike. >> mr. secretary is there any public comment on this item? >> moderator are there any callers in the queue? >> there is one. it is for the 408206 number. and i will go ahead and unmute now. >> thank you. >> you are requested to please state your name you have three minutes begins now. >> thank you. good morning. i appreciate the call as always. from my point of view it would be useful if his report could be posted on the website prior to the meeting. i also appreciate the honorable you know mention of the comments of the members of the public and like to spend a couple seconds

expanding on what i said. right now we just spoke at an extremely expensive very short tunnel that is potentially going to have a lot of collateral damage on the multiple surfaces and properties. i think that if we want to have more exposure at the national level, you know which basically is you know basically increase our visibility which in turn is going to gravely end our chances of obtaining something on the federal level, you see we combine these little projects all over the place, into a single project, which will have massive ridership because most of the ridership into the transit center. not going to be coming from train or high-speed rail i think we're much more likely to be

successful if we take that approach. to that effect, i have actually offered to give them a presentation of a comprehensive alignment from end to end which basically starts, if you think about the antiproject happy should the invitation be forth coming happy to do that in the first quarter of 2021. thank you. >> thank you. is there anymore are there anymore public comments on this item? >> yes. there is one more and that is on the 405392 number and i will run

that now. hello caller you are requested to state your name your three minutes begins now. >> hi this is jim patrick calling patrick and company. thaw for ththank you for the opo talk. i support the idea. the notion of counting fares from oakland to san francisco, is much larger than from let's say to san francisco. we know that by the ridership statistics. that fair ridership or that fair box will impact greatly i think the approval of any design. so thinking a little bit bigger, a little bit out of the box, now is the time to do that kind of thinking and i think you can make a much stronger case for a larger product. thank you. any other callers any other

public comment? >> there are no others. thank you for your service and to the cac members the best of the holiday season for you and everyone on the cac and thank you for joining us today. mr. secretary, next item please. >> opportunity for members of the public to address the authority on matters that are not on today's calendar. moderator are there any callers in the cue? >> thank you. again very briefly forgot to mention something just now. we had the same issue hearing very clearly of the cac and next

week i have a meeting scheduled with tjpa staff and we will go over what it takes to basically enable somebody use the telephone or whatever deal they've got available on the computer and be clearly heard. hopefully you can hear me clearly and essentially that's how you will be able to be hearing in the future thank you. >> thank you. >> there are no other callers. >> thank you mr. secretary keep us moving please. >> we'll do. directors your next item is the consent calendar. all matters listed are considered to be routine and acted upon by a single vote. there will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the board or the public so requests in which event the matter shall be removed from the consent

calendar and considered separately. >> is there a motion for the consent calendar? >> i have not received any indication that a member of the board wish to have any other items considered separately. >> is there a second? >> i second this is elaine. >> very good. >> moved and seconded, mr. secretary? >> so i will go ahead and do a roll call vote. [ roll call ]

>> the ayes have it. >> please continue mr. secretary. >> directors, item 9 is a presentation of the audited annual financial report for the fiscal year ending june 30th 2020 and aaron roseman will introduce this item and david of mayes and associates will present. >> thank you. it is my pleasure internationally syndicated film criti.[ inaudible ] >> there is something wrong with your mic i think. >> we do this all day everyday and there is usually nothing

wrong with her mic. >> is that any better? >> yes. >> so it's my pleasure to present to you our audited financial reports. [ inaudible ] >> it's so hard to hear. >> getting here with the first full year of operations and all of the significant achievements and accomplishments we have had this year. we've had a bond sale, repayment of city financing, settlement payment, covid, amongst other things and so moving into operations with all of those things and adjusting our financial systems to account for all of these unprecedented or unplanned for events has been a major undertaking for us so with that i will turn it over to david our auditor to discuss with you the things that he did or did not find in his audit. >> great thank you. my name is david. i'm the audit partner with mayes and associates.

we're tjpa new auditor and my job every year is to come in and audit the financial statements and to give a presentation on whether or not those financial statements are fairly presented and free of material misstatements. that can be found on page 1 of the report. and that's the audited opinion. and i'm pleased to say it is an unmodified or clean audited opinion and that's the highest level of assurance that a cpa firm can give an entity so congratulations you passed your audit. like erin said, there were new things this year and those can be found in the capital assets footnote. we moved obviously the transit center into a deappreciatable asset and started recording depreciation on that. we have the restructuring of the debt with the new 2020 green bonds so note 5 looks quite a bit different than last year's report.

but other than that, amongst a couple of other things we did there is not some any major changes. we also as part of our audit we have to issue what's called a memorandum on inter internal cos also known as a management letter. this is my communication to this board of directors of things we have found that we need to bring to your attention. they can be categorized in three ways. the first is material weakness. something material can flow through the financials of tjpa and not get caught. we have none of those. the second is significant deficiency that's something significant can flow and not get caught we have none of those. and lastly, is the last category is other matter. and the only thing we have in the other matter sections are new government accounting standard board pronouncements coming down in the next couple years just to let you know in the head of time, what is going to be expected in terms of

changes in financial reporting and disclosure. the second half of that document is required communication. and this is required for statement of auditing standards as an auditor will tell you that we had no disagreements with management, we had no difficulties in performing the audit other than covid and things out of our control. but we don't think management was trying to limit the scope of the audit or try to influence our independence. and with that i just like to open up to any questions you might have and thank them for their hard work. it's very difficult to do an audit especially with a new auditor and shelter in place i'm pleased to say we didn't find anything that we seen as a controlled deficiency to bring to your attention.

>> without any significant or material issues, that also is it commendable. thank you forgiving us confidence in the work you are doing internally it's just a excellent report. wheldon. any other comments or questions? >> seeing none. >> any comments or anyone from the public waiting to speak on this item? >> yes. one just popped up. and it is 415830 phone number and they are unmuted now. >> thank you. >> hello caller. please state your name your three minutes begins now. >> thank you very much. my name is john goldsmith i'm a 30 year san francisco resident

and the muni station is my primary mode of mass transit. in 2018, well 2017 and 2018 myself along with neighbors and property owners and renters ajoining the site submitted two street park let applications at the muni station. we're hoping to preserve the only greenbelt in the system. our applications were sent directly to park alliance san francisco parks alliance which is a nonprofit working with the city along with the public works. both of those organizations are in the middle of a fbi investigation and as a citizen of san francisco, i would like to know what is the process of protecting our transit assets. i believe it is significant as a

lgbtq civil rights site as well as an environmental asset with mature landscaping. in 2012 city hall approved the nation's first lgbtq veterans grove with the existing five palm trees there. now our senator scott wiener has this idea of demolishing and replacing this with something we're not even sure about. he was able to get $1 million from a state department of recreation and parks to send all of this to landfill and flatten our beautiful train station. so, as part of audit and investigations i would like to keep this topic alive and on the radar that this is transit related. it is interconnected, castro metro mountainy station i muni y

muni. i have brought this to your commission once before in real life in person, so now i'm doing it as a shelter in place. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> 1700 i thank you i would also like to add i have 1700 signatures, 1500 of them are wet signatures supporting this initiative, and this has been going on for several years so if this could be included in the magnifying glass process of an audit i would be very appreciative. thank you so much. >> thank you for your comments. are there any other speakers?

it's really a great report. thank you. >> i would like to thank my finance staff from anna. i couldn't have done it without them and all of their hard work throughout the year. i would be remiss if i didn't point their efforts out. i appreciate all of your support in helping us through this endeavor thank you. >> thank you. >> next item please. >> with the chair's consent we'll call items 10 and 11 together. >> please do. >> directors item 10 is annual

review and approval of update to board policy number 9 investment policy and item 11 is annual review to board policy number 17. that management policy. erin will prints thes present t. >> thank you. so the investment policy -- for the debt policy, we made refinements to account for the active refunding bonds. since we have undertaken the

initial sale of bonds moving forward we want to refund them at some point when there is economic value or noneconomic value. so the policy adjustments defined the noneconomic values or opportunities where we want to restructure or refund debt and those would be toat to add r debt instruments where it makes sense to refund the current bonds to achieve our construction goals. additionally, we've added this continuing disclosure requirements and internal control we've agreed to them as you have to with an shoance of bonds with the irs codes. but we wanted to make sure that they are clearly stated in policy. that we will comply with the continuing disclosure requirements. now we previously agreed to in the bond documents. so those are the adjustments to both policies. i will take questions if you

have any. >> thank you. questions from the directors. >> seeing none. >> these are two items for action. debra we can take these in one motion together. >> just to interrupt it looks like the director chang may have a question or comment. >> i just wanted to thank you for including the provision regarding the future financing options we know those are things that the phase 2 project has taken advantage of in the past. going forward the risks will be interested to explore that further as we dive into the funding strategy for the project. thank you. >> thank you director chang. >> any other questions or comments from directors? are there any is anyone cued up

from the public on these two items? >> seeing none, moderator any callers in the queue? >> there are none. >> thank you. is there a source of second motion? >> what was the item? >> sorry. >> secretary. >> i think that was director chang and forks if forbes if it correctly? >> yes. >> i will take a roll call vote. [ roll call ]

>> item 12 is adopting board policy number 19. write off policy and erin roseman chief financial officer will present. [ inaudible ] >> is that any better? >> a little better. [ inaudible ] >> is that any better? >> yes. >> so today in your packet you have a request to adopt a new pilpolicy the write off policy. as we have transitioned to

operations there and new facets to our operations in accounting that we hadn't come across before. so this policy is forward thinking to the need to remove fixed assets inventory things that have expired, but will require a reduction in assets so we're riding off a value of an asset. additionally as we've been in this covid situation where some of our collections of revenues have not come in we have a provision for us to make the accounting transactions to write off the debt, but not to give away our ability to collect. so this policy is really allows us to make the accounting entries for in place procedures and collection criteria and criteria for determining the value and the types of assets that we will want to write off, but not give away our ability to

collect further or gifting any funds of public funds. with that i will take any questions. >> thank you. any questions from our directors? >> we're not writing anything off right now are we? >> no. [laughter] >> no we are not writing anything off. the criteria that we set would make it six months out before we could do anything. >> most of the things that would qualify of value would always come to board for action. the minor things getting rid of surplus property where the value has been deappreciated and we sell it and the salvage value would require us to write off the differentiation it would be

something minor something that i think you would want to delegate to staff. >> any other comments or questions? >> seeing none. >> any public comments on this item? >> seeing none. moderator can you confirm? >> there are none. >> thank you. is there a motion? >> i will make a motion to move the item. >> thank you director. >> mr. secretary take the vote please. [ roll call ] >> the ayes have it.

thank you. >> thank you mr. secretary. >> directors item 13 is approving the comprehensive work plan for the downtown rail extension as recommended by the executive committee under the terms of the san francisco peninsula route program of understanding and steven interim dtx project director will present. >> actually mr. secretary if i might just say a few opening remarks on this item? >> please do director chang. >> thank you. and so really putting on my hat as a the chair of the executive steering committee group i wanted to provide a quick few words here this item is being recommended by the executive steering committee. and so it is a collective recommendation from the multiagency set of partners to bring this forward for your consideration to approve this it

would be a living document, but this is a significant milestone as i think we discussed last month. in that it brings together all of the activities that are included in our six party mou. the work program that is attached to that has been our guiding document. and as we presented most of this in detail last month, i will just highlight two things that we've worked on since the last meeting. where we did appreciate your guidance as well. regarding how to manage the risks of conducting all of this work. it's a lot of work. but mainly we're driving toward and early milestone of late summer, early fall next year to bring a recommendation forward for the identifications of an initial operating project that we hope can reflect some reasonable and cost effective sort of changes to the project to make it more fundable to really prepare that the project to compete better for federal

and state funds. that brings me to the business case, so we have added a bit more detail about what a business case should include. that will proceed our recommendation of course, and then finally, the schedule for applying for federal funds through the fta federal transit administration new start program was also a subject of conversation and we landed on a submittal in 2024 with hopefully an opportunity to see if we can accelerate that as annual deadline to submit so if we can make it 2023 # that would be even better. but there are many things that we're reviewing to see if that is feasible. and we are headed into a very important period at mtc the metropolitan transportation commission regarding the federal priority projects for that program in particular which dtx has been for the past 20 years one of the two top ranked

priority projects within the whole bay area region so we hope to reaffirm our position as a regional priority network. with that i will go ahead and hand it over to steven to project director to present the item. thank you. >> thank you director chang good morning directors appreciate the chance to present this exciting milestone to you. we are asking for your approval as required under the peninsula rail program mou to approve our work plan. if we could go to the next item. next slide i'm sorry. so as director chang said this work plan has been a product of several months of work amongst the partners. i want to express my appreciation to the other ipmt members. as well as yourselves for the guidance you have given me in preparing this. this comprehensive work plan is closely tied and completely

reflective of the mou summary work program and it's also tied to our master schedule with the goal of creating a ready to procure project. the next slide please. we developed this flow chart to sort of demonstrate the interdependence of these many work tasks that are in the work plan itself. and ought to emphasize we are grounding our work in the existing approved project for which there is a record of decision approved by both you the directors as well as federal transit administration. but also we know that we need to conduct the phasing study to try to develop a project which is affordable within relatively high confidence funding sources. so we begin with that basis of thecal train and high-speed rail

authority business plans as well as plan bay area 2040 soon to be 2050. we are updating the operations analysis right now to look at demand modeling and what sort of service we would start with in the early years. so that we can try to develop a phased project and initial operating project. it is affordable, but still meets the requirements of the riders and the operators to conduct safe, dependable service that has flexibility and reliability. we are intending that our phasing work stay within the existing environmental documenter and so the intent is to come up with funding strategy, back with the rebranding plan to try to ensure that this project is viewed as one of regional and even national significance and as director chang said present you with a business case and a phasing recommendations in

august of next year. that of course would then drive into our project delivery approach which again would come back to the directors. go to the next supplied please jason. the work plan is structured around seven primary areas, which includes project positioning and outreach, funding and finance, operations, planning and demand for the dtx project in terms of ridership itself. we look at different procurement methodologies and bring those recommendations to you whether the project should be bundled into one large contract or broken into smaller contracts. when we should use design build or construction management at risk or public private partnership, all of which will be evaluated and recommendations brought through the ipmtesc and the tgpa board of directors.

with your approval last month of the general engineering consulting contract we'll be beginning to update the prior 30% design and incorporate the phasing recommendations and then we also of course have a great deal of work to do to go through the federal new starts process, to assure that federal transit administration will participate in funding this important project. we'll also be looking at under the terms of the mou, governance andover sight issues bringing to the tjpa board through the esc recommendations on how the project ought to be delivered through construction and then eventually of course, the two operators. next slide please jason. just some key dates that i wanted to share with you. this winter and into the spring will be developing the facility use and project benefits report

to really capture broadly all of the users and the benefits that the project will accrue to those users once it is in operation. we will be bringing to you the completion of the phasing operations analysis which will then drive us into our risk workshop as well as the second workshop for the phasing in march which will be a very busy month for us. and then once we complete the analysis of the phasing ideas, through july and august we'll be bringing the phasing recommendations and the business case to the esc and to you the tjpa board of directors for your consideration and hope for approval. concurrent with that next summer, we hope to begin design of utilities that we heard very loudly from our industry outreach activity with the 13 construction contractors and project development contractors that getting utilities and real

estate buttoned down early in the process was a critical activity to reduce risk and when we reduce risk, we reduce contingency pricing in their bids so it helps save us money. then in october, 2021, next fall, we will be bringing our recommendation to you on the project delivery method. again designed build, construction manager at risk, public private partnership. all options that we'll be studying and describing to you in terms of pros and cons for your decision. and then finally under the master schedule right now we are looking at submitting our funding request in august of 2024. as director chang mentioned in her introductory remarks we are working very hard right now to advance that by a year. i am really thrilled at the

collaboration we've had with sfcta in developing an approach to advance some funding to allow us to move some of the tasks necessary to pick up that year forward and we'll be bringing more information to you about that i hope next month. but that involves moving ahead with some of the programmatic documents that federal transit administration requires as well as a few of the design elements like utilities for example that need to be advanced regardless of what our phasing decisions are and so we're looking at work that is very low risk in terms of potential rework depending upon the phasing decisions. in fact i would say it's no risk. so we're being very prudent with those dollars, but also trying to accelerate to get this service to the residence of the region more quickly and frankly to save money on escalation. every month we save on a big

project like this means an awful lot of money. i just wanted to spend a moment talking about the fta process if we could go to the next slide jason. in the new starts process there are basically three major steps that one goes through the project goes through. project development, engineering, and full funding grant agreement negotiations. we hope to get into project development which is that first official phase late next summer, perhaps in the early fall. and this is when we would complete all of the design work to define our project so it is subsequent to that phasing decision that we're asking of you and planning to do next august. now dtx has a leg up on many projects that go into project development because we have a record of decision, a completed environmental process, and also,

obviously, strong support from the board of directors and the rail program partners. project development however is a two year process under fta regulations and we want to be sure that we can complete all of the work that is in project development including being able to demonstrate that we the region, can produce 30% of the nonfederal share of the project with committed funds at the conclusion of those two years. so that means that depending upon what our final project budget is after we do the phasing study, we would need to be able to present or demonstrate rather, a 30% funding of the nonfederal share. and so that once we can do that, will get us into engineering and then eventually into the full

funding grant agreement which as i said and as director chang said we hope to do in august of 2023 #. then on my final slide, just a little bit more detail about project development and that's two years limited as i said, is to again obtain commitment it will be 30% of the non-new starts money. to complete 30% design and engineering which i'm confident we can do. also to have a good solid cost estimate because as you go out of project development, and into engineering, that federal funding commitment changes from a percentage amount to a fixed dollar amount. so if we ask for 25 or 30% of our project budget, for federal funds, once we go into that second phase the engineering phase, the feds will commit not to share a percentage of the

project, but a specific dollar amount. we also need a 20 year financial plan that demonstrates not only our and to support the capital costs, but also the operating cost of the facility and then a variety of supporting plans and documents for management, quality, configuration management all of which i'm confident we can reduce on that time line. with that directors i'm going to thank you for this opportunity to present and take any questions that you might have. thank you. >> thank you for that presentation. i appreciate it. directors questions? >> director looks like you have your hand raised. i finally figured out how to do web ex. my apologies. >> thank you for the

presentation. as you mentioned my second time seating so i want to ask the question i mentioned i would ask at the other meeting, but at the tjpa you're coming for approval from the board for a multiyear plan you know i think it goes out to 2024 at this stage even hearing you mention there are some things that we might be revisiting including new start early if we could do that that would be great. what is the process for updating and you know are you going to be coming back to the tjpa board for revisions or are you going to report on changes what is that going to look like as we know, while it's a great plan i'm sure there will be things that will come up over the course of three or four years that will change it so what is the process on that? >> you know i appreciate that thank you director. i think the eoc should probably discuss this and we take the guidance of the tjpa board. but understanding that unless it's a rather significant change, that you understand that some of these things could be fluid and moved by the month or two. i think we would want to have

some criteria for any policy level changes and or major schedule or budget sort of implication time changes to our work plan. so that's what i would propose for our group to discuss at the esc, but certainly take your input and correction on that question. >> and i would simply add that any changes in milestones or deliverables that we see and frankly at the moment i don't other than that acceleration of the year we have will certainly bring to the esc and i would expect to the tjpa board as well. i don't anticipate changes in the deliverables and at this point other than trying to achieve that one year act celebration of the ffga application i'm committed to meeting our milestones. >> i should have noted thank you for that and all of your work that you've done with the ipmt.

one thing we should be clear about is the work of the tjpa and at least the ta portion of our work plan is funded really only for the first i guess 18 months is that right steven? so we're into this about six months already. and that means the remaining portion of this multiyear plan is not yet funded, but we have a funding plan for that and so we should just caveat this is all subject to obtaining all of that funding and originally we thought we would all have access sooner which as you may recall has about $350 million line item for this project for project development. so you know whether it's rm3, whether it's high-speed rail authority or any other partners we welcome the participation to detail out the rest of the work program funding plan. >> can i offer a comment? >> yes please.

>> between the partner agencies describes a summary work plan that other partner agencies approved. one of the line items is this comprehensive work plan before you today. it contemplates that the board would approve this work plan. so my suggestion is that to the extent that there are proposed changes to this detailed work plan in the future, that those would come back to the tjpa board for approval which i think is consistent with the mou to the extent there are adjustments in the actual schedule compared to the plan. but if there is a need for change, approved change to the detailed work plan i see that would come back before the tjpa board. >> all right thank you. director any other questions before i go onto director hursh

who has his hand raised next? >> maybe just a final thought maybe tilly if we can make sure in the monthly reports that any sort of things get called out and as debra mentioned they need actual substantial change gets brought back for approval that would be my recommendation on that subject. >> and i just think i heard director chang ask high-speed rail for an advance so did you pull out your checkbook? [laughter] >> anyway director hursh you're next. >> i just want to really try to pull that date back on the full funded grant agreement. 24 will be another presidential election. we hope to have a long stable california friendly administration, but it would not be wise to attempt to do that during 2024 #. if we can make 2023, please do everything we to do so.

>> four years seems like a long time and it's not that long of a time so. any other directors i don't see any other hands raised any other directors that would like to make comments or questions at this point? >> with the indulgence of the board i do have a few questions. and i will try to put them in some buckets. just to manage expectations. if i'm reading this schedule correctly we're looking at 100% full funding grant agreement in at least the schedule shows 26 is that correct? >> 100%? >> i'm sorry director. i was muted by someone. so i didn't realize that. yes that is correct. >> so just to manage

expectations, once full funding grant is achieved, we're not looking at anyone coming in by rail to the transit center until 2030? >> i think that that would be the soonest much depends upon the stream that we can access and right now as director chang said the principal funding streams three is in some doubt so we're taking a conservative approach at present and focused on trying to get that full funding grant approval in april of 2025. >> very good. >> with our accelerated schedule i'm sorry. the schedule you are seeing is 2026 we're trying to move that up a year. >> correct, but again this is just planning, engineering, you

utility relocation there is a lot of work on a project of this scale. for a train can physically come into the transit center with passengers on it whether be it high-speed or, cal train or anything else. >> yes, sir. >> in reading the report there was sort of i don't know if it was intentional, but or a oversight, but there was sort of a inconsistent use of dtx project verses program and different chapters. was that intentional or was that -- >> i don't think so. and i apologize for that. i will have to check that. >> as i was reading from front to end there are references to detaxed project and program. and the program is a suite of projects i recall the mou correctly includes dtx and other projects the rail yards.

i was just i think we should be consistent and very clear. >> i will double check that thank you. >> okay. >> and then in the schedule i apologize for going back. the recommendation for project delivery whatever it is, and whatever the board approves, my perception is based on the schedule that was in the package that would run concurrent with procurement would run concurrent with the other activities that are in the schedule. >> for the purposes of this master schedule, we have assumed a design build solution with fairly large contract packages. the project delivery recommendation could change that unless we would have to modify the schedule to reflect that. but we have tried to make that

as a base assumption so we have something to work with as we go through the studies over the next year to really define the project through the phasing study and then subsequently provide that delivery recommendation to you. >> okay. thank you. >> i only have two more buckets the questions so thank you for your patience. with regard to finance, and i wasn't sure i should have asked even in the mou when it was being developed as well as in the report, i come from a place where on the public side particularly projects like this there are going to be multiple fund sources no question about it. no one is going to write one check to fund this project. however, i also confirm place where i know there are a lot of entities that like to put their hands in the pie and get their piece of it. and that is a recipe for disaster.

so could, could the group, and given the great audit report we just heard earlier, someone talk about how all of these multiple funds come together under one entity and all of the tracking and controls and contracting comes from one entity. so there is a single source of controlcontrol, tracking, budge, auditing rather than everybody taking a piece of it before it gets here or wherever here is. i didn't quite see that clarified in the report or even in mou and my apologieses for not catching that in the mou. >> so maybe i will start and erin if you want to augment and improve my response. right now all of the project funding actually correct that, the bulk of the project funding

is coming through tjpa where the bulk of the physical work is being done directors. the mou also envisions that a partner agencies will have several discreet tasks that they will be conducting as well. so for example, one is responsible for developing the funding plan. which they are working on at present. as well as the ridership modeling which they are just beginning to do for the schedule. and so presently, i think the exception of those discreet tasks and the funding is running through tjpa and being reported each month through our progress reports and each quarter through our progress reports. the mou did contemplate the possibility that tjpa subject to

board of directors approval of course, would use another agency to do the construction of the project. that is one of the possibilities that the mo uconn templated and i would imagine that with that governance report would come recommendations for management of the construction finances through the construction period. >> thank you steven. if you might want to offer also some comments? >> go ahead. [indiscernible] >> is irrevocably pledged to the tjpa. the rm3 is dedicated to tjpa.

the csd although they are affected by the city and county of san francisco, the jcfa pledge is 82% of that special assessment to tjpa. when we apply for grants tjpa is the grante so the funds would flow to us. if it's the new start money it will flow to us because we would get it as the grante. all of the funding sources generally that we have identified come to us. there is the caveat of the idea of passenger facility charges or maintenance funds that would come from the operators.

kind of dives into it, the partner agencies, so if i'm a partner agency, and i'm committing staff resources -- >> . >> if i might add to that, after we're allowed into project development, which is the program for new-starts, i believe that the partner, the local expenditure by any agency

should be accountable toward our match. so we will want to start publicly asking for everyone's expenditures as a matter of documenting the investments we're making, but more importantly to have that documented once we're entered into the new-start program, so we can count it towards match. >> that is important to do that. counting everything is important for a lot of different reasons. that's why i bring it up rnght,so we're all aware and we capture everything. the last question is just a question on the governance section in the report, and part of the m.o.u. is to talk about governance, whether it is d.t.x. project or d.t.x. program, i'm not sure if it is about the rail program or the project. but there is also reference to assets in

other cities along the peninsula. i'm curious how the government process review is going to engage other cities on the peninsula, or if it will, or if that was the intent? >> the intent, director gee, is to look at the governance of the construction delivery, and so we do want to engage partners who will be affected by that, to gain their input, but broadly speaking, it is focused on the delivery of the project itself. >> again, i would just take a look at page seven. there is a reference about development-related benefits, south and market, fourth and king, and other sites in san francisco on the peninsula. and i need to let my colleagues on the peninsula know that this may be coming, if that is the intent, that last sentence, about other sites on the peninsula,

and how they engage or not engage. i'm not sure. >> i will look at that and make sure that you're informed. >> all right. i believe our intent was really to limit it to the d.t.x. infrastructure itself as to who would be the owner, who would be responsible for any contracting, and be responsible for o.n.m.. i think the o o.n.m. part will be the portion -- that might have been -- i'm not sure exactly. so we'll followup. thank you for the question. >> thank you, director, for the indulgence of my questions. any other questions of the directors at this time?

i suspect we might have some public comments on this or questions, mr. secretary? >> that is correct. moderator if you can let in the first caller in the cue. that would be great. >> you're unmuted. >> hello, caller. please state your name and your three minutes begins now. >> hello again. yes, i do have a few comments. the first comment i would like to make has to do with transparency. i would like to

believe that the procurement for the section between the transit center and townsend will most likely be designed, a build, and designed at at least 60%, so the company can see visually what is being proposed down there. the -- yes. i'd would also like to see on a monthly basis the current status of the funding plan and see what is in there. i'm particularly interested in rn2 and r.n. 3.

it clearly identifies the need. i'm sure that has to be in rn3 as well. the issue is that the current environment is a clear document -- it does not make any consideration whatsoever for trans bay crowfg. crossing. the real issue is nobody really paid anys attention to all of the buildings and what is the plan. [inaudible] wrapping up here on funding, i believe potentially we could be reaching out to cal train for some measure "r" funding when it becomes available to support the project. to be quite frank with you, personally, i'm not prepared to support this project as currently being proposed.

the last comment i would like to make goes to the first slide of the presentation, with a graphic that shows a cal train diesel locomotive inside the trans bay terminal. i would respectfully that you recommend replacing that diesel locomotive with a cal train e.m.u. -- quite frankly, you have a credibility issue here. thank you. >> thank you. >> okay, we have the next public comment, and they are unmuted now. >> caller: thank you. >> please state your name, your three minutes begins now. >> caller: this is jim patrick, patrick and company. i looked at this memo, and i don't see -- it's all things about what you would sort of like to do, but there are no goals for achieving them. it is sort of an open-ended thing.

i think the memo comes up short. if you wanted this thing to be ready for 2023, that's what it ought to state. and that's the people who are doing that work who should have that front and center goal to accomplish, rather than being wishy-washy about it. and it talks about the history a little bit, and this thing started in 2001 with initiallizing initiallizins stration. initiallizing registration, so that's 20 years. i think we're awfully slow. i think there should be specific goals in your proposed resolution. thank you. >> there is no other public comment. >> thank you. >> is there a motion. >> so moved.

>> chairman: is there a second? >> second. >> chairman: thank you. i will take a roll call vote. director chang? >> yea. >> director forbes? >> yea. >> director hersh? >> yea. >> director lipkin? >> yea. >> director tomlin? >> yea. >> mr. gee? >> yea. with the comment that the team come back with some of the clarifications that came up with the discussion at the next meeting. >> gee, yea. the yeas have it. >> thank you, mr. secretary. thank you, directors. i believe, mr. secretary, we're going to go to closed session. is that correct?

>> that is correct. as of this time, the board is scheduled to go into closed session on item 16. the negotiations related to 425 mission street, spaces 216, 218, 2020, 103, 104, 207 and 212 regarding in terms of payment for retail lease in the transit center, and item 17, relating to the price and terms of payment for an easement at the parcel at development site at the transit center. >> thank you, mr. secretary. the public will be going to closed session. for those of you that want to hang around, we'll be coming out at the end of it. for those that are leaving, we wish you the best of the holiday season and look forward to seeing you in january. onward into closed session. >> thank you.

>> just before we enter closed session (indescernable). [audio breaking up] >> my apologies. are there any members of the public that want to speak on items scheduled foreclosed session? >> seeing none. >> okay. thank you. >> thank you, jason. >> okay, welcome back, everyone. we're back into open session, i believe, mr. secretary, is that correct? >> clerk: that is correct, vice chair. >> any report out on closed session for us today? >> as to item 16 and 17 there's no action to report. >> thank you. madam secretary, is that it for today? >> directors that concludes the business before you today and it concludes our meeting. >> very good, thank you. thank you, directors, for your

time today. the best of the holiday season to you and your families. be safe, be healthy, i look first to seeing everyone in january all well and healthy. enjoy the season and happy new year early. so thank you very much. with that i would like to adjourn our meeting. be well. >> happy holidays. (♪). >> neighborhood in san francisco are also diverse and fascist as the people that inhabitable them we're in north beach about supervisor peskin will give us a

tour and introduce is to what think of i i his favorite district 5 e 3 is in the northwest surrounded by the san francisco bay the district is the boosting chinatown oar embarcadero financial district fisherman's wharf exhibit no. north beach telegraph hill and part of union square. >> all of san francisco districts are remarkable i'm honored and delighted to represent really whereas with an the most intact district got chinatown, north beach fisherman's wharf russian hill and knob hill and the northwest waterfront some of the most wealthier and inning e impoverished people in san

francisco obgyn siding it is ethically exists a bunch of tight-knit neighborhoods people know he each other by name a wonderful placed physically and socially to be all of the neighborhoods north beach and chinatown the i try to be out in the community as much as and i think, being a the cafe eating at the neighborhood lunch place people come up and talk to you, you never have time alone but really it is fun hi, i'm one the owners and is ceo of cafe trespassing in north beach many people refer to cafe trees as a the living room of north beach most of the clients are local and living up the hill come and meet with each other just the way the united states been since 1956 opposed by the

grandfather a big people person people had people coming since the day we opened. >> it is of is first place on the west that that exposito 6 years ago but anyone was doing that starbuck's exists and it created a really welcoming pot. it is truly a legacy business but more importantly it really at the take care of their community my father from it was formally italy a fisherman and that town very rich in culture and music was a big part of it guitars and sank and combart in the evening that tradition they brought this to the cafe so many characters around here everything has incredible stories by famous folks last week the cafe that

paul carr tennessee take care from the jefferson starship hung out the cafe are the famous poet lawrence william getty and jack herb man go hung out. >> they work worked at a play with the god fathers and photos he had his typewriter i wish i were here back there it there's a lot of moving parts the meeting spot rich in culture and artists and musicians epic people would talk with you and you'd get

. >> president yee: of the 26 neighborhoods we have in west portal, it's probably the most unique in terms of a small little town. you can walk around here, and it feels different from the rest of san francisco. people know each other. they shop here, they drink wine here. what makes it different is not only the people that live here, but the businesses, and without all these establishments, you wouldn't know one neighborhood from the other. el toreador is a unique

restaurant. it's my favorite restaurant in san francisco, but when you look around, there's nowhere else that you'll see decorations like this, and it makes you feel like you're in a different world, which is very symbolic of west portal itself. >> well, the restaurant has been here since 1957, so we're going on 63 years in the neighborhood. my family came into it in 1987, with me coming in in 1988. >> my husband was a designer, and he knew a lot about art, and he loved color, so that's what inspired him to do the decorati decorations. the few times we went to mexico, we tried to get as many things as we can, and we'd bring it in.

even though we don't have no space, we try to make more space for everything else. >> president yee: juan of the reasons we came up with the legacy business concept, man eel businesses were closing down for a variety of reasons. it was a reaction to trying to keep our older businesses continuing in the city, and i think we've had some success, and i think this restaurant itself is probably proof that it works. >> having the legacy business experience has helped us a lot, too because it makes it good for us because we have been in business so long and stayed here so long. >> we get to know people by name, and they bring their children, so we get to know them, also. it's a great experience to get

to know them. supervisor yee comes to eat at the restaurant, so he's a wonderful customer, and he's very loyal to us. >> president yee: my favorite dish is the chile rellenos. i almost never from the same things. my owner's son comes out, you want the same thing again? >> well, we are known for our mole, and we do three different types of mole. in the beginning, i wasn't too familiar with the whole legacy program, but san francisco, being committed to preserve a lot of the old-time businesses, it's important to preserve a lot of the old time flavor of these neighborhoods, and in that capacity, it was great to be recognized by the city and

county of san francisco. >> i've been here 40 years, and i hope it will be another 40 yeararararararararararararararr >> clerk: good morning. the meeting will come to order. welcome to the government audit and oversight meeting. i'm joined by commissioner peskin and haney. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? >> clerk: in order to protect our public, board members and city employees during the covid-19 health emergency, the board of supervisors and committee room are closed. this precaution