b be glad to assistant. the malls need to be refurnished. the internal facing is problematic to further the retail success of our businesses. what happens on gary with b. r. t. matters and calming gary and making it safer will drive any redesign of the malls. so what happens here really, really matters. and the last thing i want to mention is if we're considering the fill option i don't know that any uses of the space underground was thoroughly credit card. i know that additional parking was thrown out of the options very early - >> >> thank you. next speaker >> good afternoon. i'm karen i'm here today as an individual although i've been working with the japan town process. i've got to tell you i just don't get it. i've been going to the b. r. t. outreach meetings and we're still talking about so many optioned and i can't get a good grasp on what we're really talking about doing. maybe it's side running are maybe we're going to fill or maybe not pr the other thing i don't see is how filling under gary reunities the north and south. it brings all the traffic up to street level just liquor at webster and laguna. i'll tell you this is hey this is a thing that

my understanding of the b r t whatever it's at its sometimes much more simple than the gary boulevard b r t with the tunldz. i know that a lot of the planning into the environmental analysis is much more complex. i think it's my understanding that this funding for the engineering group and the xhauch design is in and out out of the budget it's only being phased in itself a phased approach so it's not an additional amount of money but it's important for the complexity like the project gary boulevard the tunlz that are divided differently. i urge the colleagues to think about this. that is a phased funding system. there's great things going on i'm happy we're discussing that. but i think detailing this would be harmful and we need the environmental report done and the approach that the transportation staff and i thank the gentleman foreig here this will help to engage the neighborhoods to be a part of the process and i'm for that process as well >> i think the idea to join mta and ta meeting to get the projects moving more quickly and i'll be very brief. i think that the issues that are

i'm aggressively pushing a new deadline with the support of president chiu for the gary b r t not for 20/20 as planned as discussed in the past but to open in 2018. so moving those issues and items forward without dlie is critical for that 94 now a aggressive deadline. so those projects will provide a new spine or backbone to the city with the