sfcta has done a tremendous job, heavy lift, of convening a number of stake holders in the region, to think through how to better do this in san francisco. my family has been in san francisco's south-southeast neighborhoods for over 40 years. we are still stuck in our cars and we want choices. i've been doing transportation advocacy for 10 years. my family does not know what i do as an advocate. and so today, i will tell you that when i ask them, what would it take for them to give up their cars, they understand what it means to have access to bike share. they've asked me, when are we getting our scooter share? when are we getting car share? i will tell you, the same neighborhood i grew up in, looks exactly the same in terms of options. and so today, i thank you for this tremendous effort that lets these companies play by city rules and helps us to get to a place where we don't have this drastic inequity between communities. and so i do want to highlight the fact that even as companies are starting to acquire one another, there are those that are already responding to this call. on sc

and thank you to the sfcta for consideration.we will get that funding at the july 24th boar board meeting. that allows us to continue -- just continue our operations so we can keep this project on schedule and allows for us to take advantage of the free money that comes into account that comes to us in early 2019. so the amendment number 4, the scope for phase one is really limited, as mentioned previously. it is really close out of the project. you can see it is document control. it is closing out the environmental process. and helping with the facility readiness and t the ongoing program management and coordination that is needed to close that all out. the balance of the money is really intended -- is all for the face two scope. and as mark and his present -- his presentation had said, it elaborated there is a myriad of things that have to be accomplished. it all has to be accomplished within a two and a half year. we want to be shovel ready. we want to have those documents ready to advertise those contracts. we want to be read

once again, the grant as reported, sfmta and sfcta have been awarded $10.99 million.f that total, $5 million is being utilized by timma and will support the toll system design and implementation. $300,000 will support the piloting of an autonomous circulator shuttle on the island. at its june 29, timma meeting, we provided an update on grant award and are ready to move forward with utilization of of funds and are excited to that opportunity. related to that, staff will speak at the upcoming automated vehicle symposium scheduled for july 9-12. the annual symposium is organized by the national transportation research board and so hes yugs for unmanned vehicle systems international. on the project delivery front, as it relates to construction here, there are numerous construction projects that are just starting right now on yerba buena island. let's talk first about what was recently completed. as you all know, the efforts that we led the i-80 westbound on and off ramps is complete. also completed vista point. we're working to make the vista point facility permanent. so

in terms of where we are in the process, it's been around for a long time and it was a year ago the sfcta board approved the project and we've done a lot of outreach this summer and leading up to a final approval we're expecting at the sfmta board next month. we would be moving into construction and so we're expecting for construction to last two and a half years beginning this fall through the early part of 2021. in general, even though the durrization two and a half years it doesn't mean there will be disruptions along that stretch the entire time. disruption would probably be on the order of between a few weeks and a few months depending on how much work is happening in any given location. these are some of the notification efforts that we will take to make sure people are aware and anyone in close proximity of the construction would be receiving mail notice 30 days before construction begins. we also do weekly updates on a look ahead of what construction expected in the upcoming two weeks and we also have a dedicated e-mail line and hotline that will be active throughout the entire du