and the t.a. board is one of our last stops before we kind of go back and really try to distill everything we heard to make some changes to what we're recommending. we will return to our board in october for their potential adoption of a recommended service vision. we're in the process of conveep ago special meeting to dive deep into the organization issues. that's something we heard from the board and we wanted that and confirmed that for a november timeframe now. our hope is to wrap up the complete business plan in early 2020. we've been doing a range of outreach. casey, our director of community affairs, has really been leading that effort. and really focusing on working with all of the different 21 local jurisdictions on our corridor, to make sure that they understand what we're doing and what it could mean for them. thank you. >> chair: thank you, sebastian. i don't know if you have additional preparations, and i know that mr. hartnet is four minutes past his departure time. but, jim, if you want t

today, early because this is, again, no action being taken, this is an ongoing effort to keep the t.a. board and our stakeholders generally up-to-date on the progress we are making to address what are some real design concerns and performance concerns related to the l.r.p. four. it is always good to start with the good news. we have had 66 expansion vehicles delivered, 57 of them are service ready. in this first phase, which is all expansion vehicles, all adding to our ability to address crowding and some other issues that we are facing, we are getting 60 in total. we are wrapping up this phase. the second thing, as we talked about at the last meeting, the door retrofits have been completed, so we have a much more sensitive door, and we have also been able to return all of the returns to find operations without restrictions. in the spring, we're facing a situation where we only had single car l.r.p. is and we are walking up to that door. we now have two car trains in service with all doors functioning. we do have some final repair work on some of the couplers that were damaged by that design