m. hursh: aye. >> b. lipkin: yes. >> j. tumlin: aye. >> vice chair gee: aye. >> chair sesay: aye. >> secretary: the ayes have it. thank you. i will now proceed to call your next item, directors. >> chair sesay: thank you. >> secretary: directors, item 10 is approving an amendment to the employment agreement with nila gonzales for the position of interim executive director effective september 1, 2020. >> good morning, deborah miller. you have before you this morning a proposed amendment to nila gonzales's employment contract to reflect her appointment from chief of staff and board secretary to the position of interim executive director. it reflects a change in the description of her civil responsibilities as well as a change in her compensation. the form of agreement is in front of you, both her existing contract as well as the proposed amendment and includes all of the details, but as required by government code 54953c-3 i will note for the record that the proposed compensation this local agency executive would be revised t

m. hursh: aye. >> b. lipkin: aye. >> j. tumlin: aye. >> vice chair gee: aye. >> chair sesay: aye. >> with that, the item is carried. and i will move to item 10. item 10 is authorizing the interim executive director to direct a professional services agreement with parsons transportation group for general engineering consultant services for the downtown rail extension for a four-year term with an option to extend for two additional three-year periods and amount not to exceed $25 million. >> good morning, thank you, again. this is an important item for us to advance our phase 2dtx project. as stated is the general engineering consulting agreement with parsons transportation group, which we are asking approval to execute the contract. the purpose of this contract is to update the existing design documents which have been completed in the past to current standards as well as to the current definition of the project. they'll also provide support to the phasing study which we are conducting as we speak to help identify initial pro

m. hursh: jeff, did you have a question? >> j. tumlin: i do. yeah, let me dive in. so thank you, adrian and daniel for the presentation. this is a topic near and dear to my heart. in my global practice i use the transbay transit center as the best example in the world of failed interagency coordination and deeply anti-customer wayfinding. we do not have a wayfinding system at the transit centre, we have a facility inventory of agency terms. if i'm a customer and i know that i need to get to alameda or sunol, there is nothing there to help me find my destination. so i have a couple of questions. i'll go through all of them because they're related. one question is, can we please eliminate or at least diminish the use of agency logos as our primary wayfinding structure? i love the walter lan dow worm, but nobody knows what that means. and instead of having there be a worm and a little green circle with fog in the middle of it, can the sign simply say buses to san francisco and buses to north bay? secondly, the k1 panels are really useless. and yet they're very expensiv

m. hursh: here. >> b. lipkin: present. >> j. tumlin: here. >> vice chair gee: here. >> chair sesay: present. >> we have quorum. the next item is item 3, communications. we'd like to provide further instructions for the public comment process. to provide public comment, callers should dial into the number, 1-855-282-6330, and enter access code 126 698 0794. then pound and pound again. and then listen to the meeting as they wait for public comment to be announced. members of the public have up to three minutes to provide comment on each agenda item. i will announce when public comment is open on each item or the general public comment at which time callers should dial star 3 to raise their hands and be added to the queue. this call number and access number will stream on the screen during the entire meeting. they will be added to the queue to speak in the order they entered. all callers will remain on mute until their lines are open. an automated voice will let the callers know when it's their turn to speak. everyone must account