commissioner cohen: [inaudible] >> good morning, tilly chang. you are correct. our cac member did make a request, and they ask the authority to consider ways to increase the involvement of the community in the whole program of transportation improvements that are connected to the area. our thoughts are still forming on that, providing different options to the commission, to the authority board. one of them would be to conduct a feasibility study of brt common that we anticipate to be one of the first projects out of the block. we are working on a consensus plan with san mateo to finish up what the composition may be there. there is some thought that it ought to be another by-county type of cac. commissioner cohen: thank you. commissioner mirkarimi: mr. executive director, since sometimes it is pertinent to hear from our representatives on the mtc, those items are rarely, if not ever again dies. i know we rely on the border supervisors to hear those reports. -- agendized. but there are some items that i think reflect the transportation sustainability program, esp

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