chairman, commissioners, i'm ron magill. it's been my pleasure and privilege to share the citizens working group for rail alignment and benefit study. the rep members represented a large segment of our city geographically, particularly those areas which will be most impacted by this project. they are intimately involved in all areas of transit, local, and regional, and they fully understand the complexities in moving the project forward. the study it was conceded by the planning department three years ago. our working group started in august of 2016. we were charged with looking comprehensively at possible solutions to bring high-speed rail and electrified caltrain service into the salesforce transit centre, which will open later this year. our first meeting was august 2016. our last west yesterday evening. we did walking tours, station tours, discussed efforts and effects on mission bay, system capacity, to be a level, alignment options, railyard reconfiguration clark or relocation, other land-use and urban form used, as we