mr. alberto quintanilla. mr. quintanilla, could you please call the roll. >> commissioner brown? commissioner fewer? fewer absent. commissioner haney? haney ab accept. commissioner mandelman? mandelman present. commissioner mar? >> present. >> mar present. commissioner haney? >> present. >> haney present. commissioner peskin? >> present. >> commissioner ronen? >> ronen present. commissioner stefani? >> present. >> stefani present. commissioner wallton? >> present. >> commissioner yee? yee absent. we have quorum. >> thank you, mr. quintanilla. with that we'll go to the chair's report. colleagues, this month we began with -- we begin with congratulations to the bay area rapid transit district, for its award last week of a long-awaited $300 million core capacity grant from the federal transit administration. this award is the first installment of what potentially could be $1.2 billion pursuant to a full funding grant agreement, to boost capacity on bart's trans-based service by over 30%, increasing the current 23 ten-car trains per hour to 30 trains per hour. i think we all agree th

mr. alberto quintanilla. mr. quintanilla, could you please call the roll. >> commissioner brown? commissioner fewer? fewer absent. commissioner haney? haney ab accept. commissioner mandelman? mandelman present. commissioner mar? >> present. >> mar present. commissioner haney? >> present. >> haney present. commissioner peskin? >> present. >> commissioner ronen? >> ronen present. commissioner stefani? >> present. >> stefani present. commissioner wallton? >> present. >> commissioner

lifeblood of san francisco and a vibrant community >> supervisor walton: albert incident a -- quintanilla is our clerk. mr. clerk, would you please call the roll? >> clerk: yes. [roll call] >> clerk: we have quorum. >> supervisor walton: thank you so much, and i will be filling in for our chair until he arrives in a few minutes. so with that said, are there any questions or comments from colleagues for the minutes? seeing none, let's open this up to public comment to -- for the minutes. any comments from public? no public comment. colleagues, can we have a motion so second and a -- to second and approve the minutes from may 21st? do we do a roll call or vote? >> clerk: we do a roll call for the first action item. [roll call] >> clerk: the minutes are approved. >> supervisor walton: thank you, and mr. clerk, would you read the next item. >> clerk: yes. recommending awarding three-year professional services contracts with an option to extend for two additional one-year periods, to nossaman l.l.p., meyers nave riback silver & wilson, and wendel, rosen, black & dean, l.l.p., in a combined amount not to exceed