mr. finebaum mr. robert? >> good morning, my name is steve roberts and i'm a member of the rail passenger association of california, a public transportation advocacy group. i thank you for the opportunity to address you this morning. because of the benefits of reduced automobile usage, fully leveraging caltrains electrification project which thereby will increase caltrain ridership and its revenue performance and financial performance, also reducing green house gas misses, facilitating transit-oriented development, the extension of caltrain service to transbay terminal is one of our association's key priorities. any actions that delay this vital project and snarl it in endless planning reduce its operational flexibility or capacity are of a concern to our association. the rail passenger association of california recommends a focused effort to begin construction of the approved shovel ready extension to transbay terminal. thank you. >> mr. finebaum >> good morning, i'm bob finebaum, i'm a member of the citizen

mr. finebaum mr. robert? >> good morning, my name is steve roberts and i'm a member of the rail passenger association of california, a public transportation advocacy group. i thank you for the opportunity to address you this morning. because of the benefits of reduced automobile usage, fully leveraging caltrains electrification project which thereby will increase caltrain ridership and its revenue performance and financial performance, also reducing green house gas misses, facilitating transit-oriented development, the extension of caltrain service to transbay terminal is one of our association's key priorities. any actions that delay this vital project and snarl it in endless planning reduce its operational flexibility or capacity are of a concern to our association. the rail passenger association of california recommends a focused effort to begin construction of the approved shovel ready extension to transbay terminal. thank you. >> mr. finebaum >> good morning, i'm bob finebaum, i'm a member of the citizen

mr. finebaum, followed by mr. kaufman. >> hi, i oppose this resolution. i think you cannot pass this today. i want to commend ed iskin on artfully combining the most favorable management strategies of jimmy hoffa and stalin. mr. murrow, you are head of the public works. you must recuse yourself. this is an organizational change you cannot participate in or vote it. if there's any doubt i ask the tjpa attorney to make a ruling on that. secondly, there is no contract here. there is a contract somewhere in ether. this does not meet any rules of public disclosure, none. you can't act on this today until you have an actual contract or an actual agreement that people can look at. no. 3, this whole arrangement of bridges, an existing contract you have with turner construction. they are the contract managers. what you are doing is either forcing an employee on turner construction -- and incidentally as a member of the cac i heard the gentleman's presentation, he took a portion of what turner construction has bpb presenting to the cac for many months. you are brid