we happily we received a $50 million from the federal transit administration to support the project. part of that funding will be passed over to the authority and part of our previously prop 8 funds will be passed over to mta. this is all to cover some of the work already happened and budgeted for back in the 2010 appropriation as well as reflect the past year. over the past year, the agencies have all done significant work to refine and develop the locally preferred alternative both agencies have been incurred a bit of additional cost. we have also added more consultant support to the budget. the memorandum of agreement will also update the project budget to add about $1.1 million of total project budget to bringing total project cost up to $6.7 million range. again, this additional cost is fully covered by the federal transit administration grant and no additional funding is being sought today. finally this memorandum of agreement, the amendment to this mla provides for the milestone-based transition of the project from the authority to the mta. the idea is that following the board

we're doing that with meetings with the transportation authority, the federal transit administration to keep them up to speed on what we're proposing and why we're proposing it. in concept, we're always looking for a better way to mitigate construction disruption. and, so, the current approach is to evaluate what i believe to be a very good option to explore and will be bringing along our funding partners to support us in that decision. >> [speaker not understood]. let's hear from members of the public. i'm sorry, captain chu from supervisor david chiu's office. good afternoon, mr. chu. >> good afternoon. thank you very much, chair nolan, members of the board of directors and director of transportation rifkin. i'm legislative aid for board of supervisors president and district 3 supervisor david chiu. and i'm going to keep my comments relatively brief. you've already covered quite a bit of ground. we want you to hear from our neighbors and businesses in district 3 and the north beach in particular. we have come a long way since may and i want to very much appreciate director rifkin's

environmental approvals from both the planning department and the federal transit administration, i met briefly with the fta this morning to discuss the topic and they're fully briefed on this report presented to you today. and i should have at least a preliminary review from the fta by the end of this week. >> those are the only three approvals -- >> and funding, and additional local funding. >> would that be the ta here we're talking about? >> we have not yet identified funding source. >> okay, thank you. other questions before we hear from the public? >> yes. just to clarify, 3 [speaker not understood]. it says it would be encased in concrete and it would be more difficult to continue the tunnel along if we were to continue to north beach or fisherman's wharf in the future. is that correct? >> i believe, director brinkman, you're referring to option 3. >> yes. >> the benefits of option 3, it does allow the construction of 3,000 feet of critical thank youerctionv that could make the possibility of an extension be real. >> right. >> the downside of option 3 is that in order to accommod

>> what is the operations plan that we have submitted to the federal transit administration and are preparing for as part of the central subway project. >> that would be great. the t-line one of the slowest lines i've taken here in san francisco. i just want to make sure if we do this turn around, it's going to be coupled with the additional services to ensure we have trans making that full ride down to sunnydale. >> absolutely. >> commissioner cohen. >> i think it was last year, maybe it was earlier this year, we had a hearing about switchbacks and i understand that there were problems with v-tags. there particular piece of equipment community the shuttle or the car and the street lights. it wasn't working so that means operators were having to manually cross through intersection. long short of a story, this has been fixed i'm told. i don't know if we have anyone from muny here until this is fixed. i want to echo a little bit what supervisor kim was mentioning and supervisor avalos. i want to echo the importance that we get it t-line worked out as quickly as possible. >> what mission bay loo

transit systems like this. we need to invest in the systems that we have but expand the growth of tomorrow, so let me just say it's very easy for me as federal transit administrator to stand up and make these speeches but i want recognize the people that really made it happen. would everyone stand up that has been working on this project for the last two decades? [applause] these are the people that do the environmental work, the planning, the staging, the construction planning, the contracting. these are the people that made it work, the board members. thank you for all your leadership. thank you to all the leaders up here. we are going to reinvest in the system that we have and maybe great investment for jobs and prosperity for tomorrow. thank you. [applause] >> thank you peter. we should get you up more whenever we win games. well, next up to bat president of our board of supervisors, supervisor of district three where the greatest impact in the neighborhoods will be felt in a positive way for central subway. someone who doesn't own a car. rides his bike everywhere and takes public transportation and learn to riding a bike at night and watching out for everybo

status reports * including the cost and budget reports that jpv will be submitting to the federal transit administration and there will be periodic meetings to review the problems of the project and to request concurrence from -- review and concurrence from all of the project sponsors. so, this is really i think a win for the project, but also for the region because the transportation commission will be involved in that in addition to the transportation authorities of san mateo, santa clara and san francisco counties. we are essentially working from the same sheet. i think this is a good model for how these multi-county projects not just get if you -- funded, but how the oversight gets done. fundamental here is it is the same information that will be provided to everyone. * so, that's just a clarification on the conditions that are in the board resolution, the project -- the allocation was recommended unanimously by the plans and programs committee. >> thank you, mr. moskovich. unless there are any comments or questions, why don't we open it up to public comment. any member of the public would like to s

we were asked by the federal rail administration as a continue of the 400 million that they allocated to us that they extend the platforms and the radii. we applied to the federal transit administration for a grant specifically to do that and that is all we were... the money we were given was to do just the specific work that the fra asked us to do as a condition of the 400 million. so we cannot add more to the scope because there is only, so much money. because that is the first point, the second point is that to my knowledge, cal train and high speed rail are supportive of our alignment and the work that we are doing as art lloyd can attest to. we can certainly have a discussion director. but at this point, we have a cleared environmental document. and we are in the new starts pipeline. we have got only so much time, to get the funding that we need in order to start construction under the new start schedule and we are proceeding along the cleared environmental document that we have and we are do what the fra asked us under this very specific scope of the money that they granted us so we can't add to the scope that does not preclude doing what you indicated about reop

>> it would -- the environmental approvals from both the planning department and the federal transit administration, i met briefly with the fta this morning to discuss the topic and they're fully fe

the federal government. are these things covered in this bill or is that money squandered? >> there is money for the federal transit administration which would help mta. there is money in here for the disaster relief fund which will help people in is disaster and future disasters. this will help the flood program because borrowing will have to increase by billions of dollars with this underwater program. there are things that are important and critical and legitimate. the problem there is so much other garbage thrown in here and things n necessary, that it just feeds the voter cynicism as you're talking about. adam: with 40 seconds left does it pass? i never known a bill congress didn't like that they put money into the pockets they could disperse. >> there is good chance it will pass the senate. i don't think anything like this will pass the house and be enacted. adam: since you're from taxpayers for common sense what do this think the common sense legislation. >> this would be largest single supplemental bill we've ever done. a lot more than katrina there are a lot of ones in agra dwat. taking smaller bite to see where we are a

the new jersey transit staff, in close coordination with the governor's office, continues to work with the federal transit administration, the the part of transportation, amtrak, the port authority, a private is street and insurance adjusters on all aspects of storm recovery. in that immediate wake of the storm, we created new bus and ferry service that carried thousands of commuters while emergency repairs were made to the rail system. rail workers fixed washed out, removed trees and utility poles and boats even in record time. thanks to their dedication and that of the 11 dow employees of our agency, brought to report the 12 realigns are again running at more than 90% full service and we are back to full three hurricane service levels on our bus, light rail and access link paratransit mode. most of portly, want to express my thanks to the hundreds of thousands of daily customers for their patience and understanding while new jersey transit and the entire state of new jersey continues to rebuild after this terrible storm. although the system has returned to near normal, repairs are continuing and will go on for months.

governor christie's leadership, we worked with fema, the department of transportation, the federal transit administration, and other departments to immediately implement interim bus service, to continue to deliver essential public transportation to our region's transit riders. sandy has shown that to restore our rail system to its previous state would leave us vulnerable to the next storm. we must rebuild in a way that is more resistant to future storms. those steps will require additional resources. we have identified $1.2 billion in projects that would be eligible under emergency assistance. they would improve our ability to withstand storms of all kinds, not just super storms that mimic sandy. let me outline a few of these projects. more than 25% of our rail cars were damaged during sandy, most of them flooding at our primary maintenance and repair facility, which had never before flooded. to prevent a recurrence, the top priority is ensuring that we have sufficient storm-proof railyards to keep cars out of harm's way of floods and storm driven debris. we estimate it will cost about half a million dol

officials with the department of housing and urban development, federal transit administration and representative from new york and new jersey's transit and port authority. >> good morning, welcome everyone to today's hearing, the challenges our region's public transit and housing base as a result superstorm sandy has been addressed -- tough morning. we started with a hearing on the loss of our ambassador from libya. those challenges, just had opening ceremony for senator o inouye line in state and now the devastation the northeast region -- has been a tough day but we appreciate our witnesses being here to shed some light and hopefully some commitment by our colleagues to meeting our challenges. as you all know sandy's destructive force overwhelmed the region particularly in new jersey and new york and the result is massive unprecedented damage, unprecedented but this was our second hurricane in two years and we expect extreme weather like this to become more common for our region. because we need to prepare for the next storm is not enough to spend our time today simply discussing how we restor