on november 26 and the tgpa is taking action today. those actions include certifying the final environmental impact report, adopting the findings that go with the ceqa requirements, adopting and incorporating the mitigation measures, along with that, adopting the mitigation monitoring and reporting program that describes who's going to be responsible for implementing the mitigation measures when that is going to happen, how implementation is going to be verified. and then hopefully approving the project. the agencis that have been participating heavily in this -- and in leading the effort has been the transbay joint powers authority as a ceqa leave and the federal transit administration as the federal leave. because of the keen interest of the federal railroad administration in having high speed rail come into the transit center, they have been dubbed a cooperating agency and have been involved actively in all of the decisions and reviewed the documents throughout. as required under the federal environments at the outset of the program

i will report to the commissioners that the tgpa welcomes this, as it will provide tgpa with valuableessons learned. [inaudible] >> -- california high speed rail, and sfcta. we work with sfcta executive director, tilly chang, and the san francisco controller's office to complete these two efforts as soon as possible so that funding can be reinstated and work on the downtown extension can resume. moving onto transit center operations, as you know, all bus operations continues to be conducted from the temporary terminal. since the transit center's temporarily closure, we took steps to reduce staffing levels on all our operational activities. we also developed a schedule of required ramp-up time so we can be ready to augment staff when the transit center is scheduled for reopening is developed. next month, we will present the board with impact the closure has had on our operational budget. we were working with pearl media, the advertising and social media time to rapidly start the social media and rapid response team once the park opens. we will be ready for a full schedule of park event

and timely in terms of other construction methods, in response to the public comment the tgpa on its own took the initiative to go ahead and start a studies option report back in 2017. the f.t.a. was interested in understanding what other methods could be deployed to reduce some of the impacts for cut and covered construction. so, all of the information from the option study has been incorporated into the final environmental documents and has met with f.t.a. satisfaction. the actual preferred solution is something that will occur after 30% design and other factors have been considered. [please stand by] [please stand by] action if approval, a notice will be submitted to the county clerk down stairs, and we'll also do that at the state clearinghouse in sacramento, and we'll be expecting the m.t.a. will be issuing their amended memo of decision. thank you. any questions ? >> questions from board members? >> not a question, but this is a pretty important milestone. advancing d.t.x. is a huge step forward in bringing high speed rail to the salesforce transit center. i just want to congra

happy holidays, martha veles, tgpa property manager.ver the next few minutes i'm going to review the cost and revenue impacts to the transit center as a result of the closure. this slide provides a general overview of the current ongoing activity, the daily operations support for the temporary terminal is now being managed through lincoln and allied as november 1. noted on this slide are the primary areas of focus: park maintenance, minimal clean, general building systems upkeep while working with webcor and also security service. also working with the transit operators to final lies incident active screen content and then continued collaboration with the transit screen operators on finalizing the emergency response. this slide provides a general ideas of the areas where operating costs are avoided which are mostly labor and services. it was decided to look at the information as a monthly average to make it easy to correlate the passage of time to costa voidance, so the monthly average is nearly $520,000, or 26%. monthly operating budge

also want to note that there are representatives here from b.a.r.t., tgpa, and public works to answer any questions that you may have. >> president cohen: thank you very much. i appreciate that. i don't think we have any questions. i'll go to the budget legislative analyst to see if she'd like to offer any remarks on item 1. >> severin campbell from the budget analyst's office. i would like to point out about 29 million of this will go to streetscapes projects under the purview of the department of work public's. we spell that out in our report, and we'd recommend approval. >> president cohen: all right. colleagues, let's go to public comment on items 1 and 2. if there's any member of the public that would like to comment on items 1 and 2, please step forward. you'll hear a soft chamber which sates you have 30 seconds left, and then, a louder chime which indicates the end of your time. hearing none, public comment is closed. can we take that without objection? golf golf. >> president cohen: item is forwarded to the board of supervisors with a positive recommendation. madam clerk, plea