and director sartipi. and chair nuru. >> present. >> clerk: mr. chairman, you have a

with no items to comment on the item, director harper, director kim, director reiskin, and director sartipi. and director tripousis. and that's six ayes and item 12 is approved. item 13 is authorizing the executive director to write a venture agreement with the san francisco municipal transit agency to have certain bus operations in a portion of the bus plaza on an interim basis. >> i would like to recuse myself from this one. i don't know if that needs a motion. >> i can answer any questions on this. >> i think that this is important to get the buses rolling through here so on that one i'd like to make a motion to approve. >> clerk: first and second and no members of the public to comment on the item and director reiskin is recusing himself, [reading of names] that's five ayes and item 13 is approved. and call your next 14. approving amendment number 4 to the intergovernmental agreement, number 2 related to the construction of the mission street bus supporting island and the extension and an aggregate not to exceed cost of $1,081,000 and not to extend to the amount for all services under a

. >> note for the record that directors kim and sartipi will not be here. director harper, reiskin, present, mr. chairman, you have a quorom. item three, communication. i'm not aware of any. item four, director's new and old business, and seeing none, number five, executive director's report. >> earlier this year appointed process authority of northern california regional director as a representative on our board. the next steps were for the current member agencies to, excuse me, to obtain concurrence from the respective boards. that step has been completed. today's agenda we have an item for the board to approve amendment to the bylaws and rules of order to add california high speed rail authority as a new member and acknowledge additional city and county of san francisco member to the board. once this step is completed and once we have received the executed first amendment to joint powers agreement from the respective agencies, then we will, then california high speed rail will be a member of the city and new member of the city and county of san francisco

and director sartipi. and chair nuru. >> present. >> clerk: mr. chairman, you have a quorum. go ahead and call your next item. item 3 is communications and i understand that the chair has something -- >> chair mohammed nuru: so i think that everyone is mourning the passing of the mayor in the last few days and i know that for me it's been difficult because he was not only a boss but a close friend of mine, but more importantly he was a champion of this project. when i joined the board there were a lot of financial needs and concerns and trying to make sure that we got the project to the way that it is now and we were able to finish it and through his leadership, really stepped up and did everything on behalf of the city. to make sure that the city could do its part. of recent, i mean, we've had closed discussions about the asidelinement and what should -- alignment and what would happen with phase two and i think that we should take a moment of silence to mourn him. thank you. >> clerk: we'll move into the next item on the agenda. board of directors new business. seeing none,

and director sartipi. and chair nuru. >> present. >> clerk: mr. chairman, you have a quorum. go ahead and call your next item. item 3 is communications and i understand that the chair has something -- >> chair mohammed nuru: so i think that everyone is mouin