electrickfiation moved ahead and our project and our work ahead this year, on the island ramps and we just allocated just approved of the construction contract there and the construction is beginning and we will be having a ground breaking in the next month or so. and finally i just wanted to thank, sorry. what happened to my slides? i think that my remaining slides i am sorry that the screens are not working are really just to thank the board for its leadership and its support to our staff. to thank our citizens advisory committees both the over all ta committee, chaired by davis as well as the project committees on the san francisco transportation plan and the geary and the van ness and the balboa as well and thank you to the community members who give so much of their time and guidance to us in our improve our work. finally, i also want to thank our partners without their partnership and collaboration, we could not do as much as we do and we rely on that going forward. okay. so with that, i am happy to answer any questions that you may have, i am sorry for taking so much time but i

we continue to participate in the capitol working groups on the transbay transit center and electrickfiation and to coordinate the project and to insure that we are speaking with one voice, and they called us together with other city agencies to discuss our advocacy in the trip to dc later in march. and the island will also be celebrating a commencement event, set for march 7th so we will be meeting out there on the treasure island with commissioner kim and tita that is going to be a great event to highlight the partnerships to deliver this project and where we have set a disadvantaged commitment of 13.8 percent and we are on track to meet that. and skipping ahead, i will just note that the prop aa, program call for projects has been released in january, a call for projects between $1 to $2 million. and this is funds that the voters approved a few years ago, the ten dollars registration view, and the surfacing and the pedestrian process and the applications are due to the transportation authority by monday, march tenth and the information can be found on our website, and i number of project

the good news, is that we recently looked, at the cost of electrickfiation, and specifically, for the supplies and the supports and the wires and estimated 785 million dollars. and we have just discovered that is approximately between 600 and 650 million dollars more than it would cost to do the same work in europe and so this is more for you to think about, thank you very much. >> thank you, and are there any other members of the public that would like to comment? >> and seeing none, we will close the public comment. and colleagues, i would like to point on your desktop that you also have the monthly progress reports for the geary and bus rapid and transit and projects, and it is a great to share with your staff as well. it is something that we asked the transportation authority to share with us every meeting. and okay, so, can we colleagues could we take this item same house same call? ? and the item passes. >> next. >> 14, introduction of new items this is an information item. >> colleagues, any new items or issue to introduce? >> and seeing none, we will go on to public comment. >