i attended along with our board member sartipi. it was really great to see.as a reminder, the first session is 19-miles in length and stretchs from madero to fresno county. more good news on tuesday of this we're the board of supervisors unanimously approved the legislation to declare the election results, levy and special tax and i again want to thank mayor lee and the board of supervisors and our chairperson kim for her steadfast support of the cfd. we're beginning to solicit applications for the citizens advisory committee for the transbay joint powers authority and the applications will also are on our website. in particular, i want to mention that this year we have a daily cal train raider opening, as well as a daily ac transit rider opening. so always look forward to your recommendations. and now i would like to move on to our annual program status report. every year we give an annual status of what we did and what our accomplishments were the prior year in 2014. what the plan is for 2015, and where we expect to be by january of 2016. we will be reporti

sartipi thank you please join necessary me in the pledge of allegiance and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all thank you very much we are now on approval of the board minutes of the regular meeting of january 13, 2015, may i have another motion and second. >> move to the adaptation felt minutes. >> thank you any corrections to the minutes roll call. >> ms. sonata mr. chin commissioner fewer mr. haney ms. mendoza-mcdonnell ms. norton ms. wynns mr. walton and dr. murase 6 i's. >> thank you before i call the next item i'd like to remind members of the public if by the wish to address the board of education complete a speaker card prior to the item being called and present to the assistant speaker cards will not be accepted for an item before the board please get our card in and next the presentation inform the board of education superintendent carranza. >> good evening, everyone boone notches so yesterday, i had the honor of convening with mayor ed lee and our ceo of the foundation fred blackwell on the submitted on me

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. >> director sartipi might be late too. director kim. >> here. >> you have a quorum. >> is there any old business today. seeing none. we can move to the director's report. >> happy holidays. i received some good news. we got a review of the train box grant of what they do annually on how we're doing with the report and it's a good report. i can share it with the board if they would like to see it. there are a number of best practices they will recommend and the recent survey we commissioned to have a better survey in the construction market, the mitigation measures in place including accelerating the payment cycle and having the [inaudible] in place and having us do outreach to smaller contractors. in addition we were commended for our job's net and employed over 8,000 people in 19 states across the u.s. and i really love that map so i am glad we put that together. we were thanked for tracking the bi-america alliance and they were -- (low audio) -- and how we track issues and resolve issues. additionally they found that the