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. quintanilla. colleagues, our board president, commissioner, supervisor norman yee is representing all of us today across the street at the earthquake safety fair, the department of building inspection has put on. so can we have a motion to excuse commissioner yee, made by commissioner mandelman, seconded by commissioner brown and take that without objection. next item, please. >> clerk: item 2. citizens' advisory committee report. this is an information item. >> mr. larson. oh, mr. larson. >> hello. thank you very much, chairman peskin, as well as members. i'm the vice chair festival community action committee for transit authority and i would love to give you a quick brief from the meeting on the 22nd of may and try to correlate that also with your own agenda that was going on. so to start off, i'm going to get the right page. consume. thank you very much. we had a number of action items, pardon me. and the first one was a action item which was your number 10, to adopt a motion of support for pro

mr. alberto quintanilla. mr. quintanilla, could you please call the roll. >> commissioner brown?brown present. commissioner haney? haney pre

mr. alberto quintanilla. mr. quintanilla, could you please call the roll. >> commissioner brown? >> brown present. commissioner haney? haney present. commissioner mandelman? mandelman present. commissioner mar? >> present. >> missioner p.e.s.? >> coss

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?