roll call . Please be advised directors emergencheinke and torr sessiont be present. Any person responsible for an Electronic Device going off may be asked to leave the room. Item 4. I have a motion. Madam chair, no one has indicated they wish to address. Motion to approve. All in favour . Aye. Item 5, communications madam chair, none. Item 6, introduction of new or Unfinished Business by board members. I just wanted to tell chair heinke, hes getting props to move more strategies in San Francisco to a bikepedestrian transit lane situation only. I wanted to mention that and tell him that hes really getting just so much excitement and support and after the unfortunate incident in the tenderloin where a young boy was hit, theres so much interest in that neighborhood, so many families with young children, overly affected and theyre talking into looking into carfree seats. It puts a lot on staff, but its gotten a lot of people excited and happy to hear its moving forward. Thank you. Any other directors have any new Unfinished Business . Seeing none, we will move on to the director of transportation report. As you know, we have been conducting staff and stakeholder outreach most of the summer and were community to receive subject input through a survey we post ed this summer and received 344 employee responses and 29 295 stakeholder responses and we wanted to summarize some of what we learned through the surveys. The top areas of focus where the employees want the new director to focus are on longterm visual ship, setting clear priorities, ensuring Safety Operations of the Transit System and standing up to political pressure, providing strong, responsible and fair leadership and ensuring Customer Service to the paying public, inspiring and empowering staff and ensuring diversity, equity and inclusion and service to customers. In terms of the Stakeholder Input for the next director, where safety for pedestrians and cyclists, safety for transit riders and a vision for environmental and financial sustainability. The Interview Questions that we are asking the candidates came from the input we received this summer from staff and stakeholder outreach. We are actively seeking out individuals that must closely fit the ideal profile, and that profile was itself generated from a lot of that staff and Stakeholder Input we received. As we consider candidates, we are strin striving to find the s from employees and stakeholders. So that is my report and any question, is, im happy to fied them. Any director whos were on the search committee, want to contribute highlight level comments . I want to thank director eakin for directing that cause. Well move on to the directors report. Madam chair, it would be report for public comment. It doesnt look like anyone submisubmitted a speaker card. Any comment on the overview of the search process . Seeing none, well move to the directors report. Item 7, directors report. Good afternoon, im going to start with a review of recent activities and when im done ill ask julie kirshbaum. Its on the opening of the center and i want to recognise thousands of mta staff, every division of the agency who made the launch of Transit Service in the opening of the chase center and overwhelming success for opportunities of thousands of fans, workers and just regular San Francisco people who wanted to get around. On friday, the metallica concert, there were 500 passengers on the bus service and 3,000 to 3600 on the tline and the tnshuttle line. According to the giants who operate the large parking lot at lot a, very few cars in parking lot a and so, we did not see the feared karmagheddin that many of us were prepared for they parked or traveled on foot from somewhere else. As many as 1500 using tnss. The 78x, the nonstop to the bart station was crush loads and 79 loads was half full. Over the course of a few events, we did see muni ridership going up but did not see the traffic crush materializing. We had additional tests last week. The first time that we had a dual event, meaning a giants game at the ballpark and again, got the same observed the same smooth conditions on the streets and didnt get a lot of negative and only positive feedback from the public. Bike use was light, only 30 bikes at the first event and one of the works in progress we have is cleaning up the operation of the smooth operation of bicycles on 6th street between third and the bay and then, bees, the completion of the fully bike path. We have construction all over mission bay and the dog path and as streets open, well be tweakintweaking signage, with sy post and the convenience of everyone trying to travel is prioritized. I want to acknowledge we heard criticism last week of the impacts of the chase center on riders on the number 8 bus. Specifically, we missed about three runs on tuesday on that bus and we immediately got into dialogue with supervisor walton representing the constituents and we offered free service on the 8th, 19th on thursday and friday, but more importantly, it was a wakeup call to us to make sure the message the promises we may the public, we would not let the chase Center Events disturb access to the eastern part of the city, making sure that message is communicated to the details of where we send a spare bus where were short a vehicle or two. The other things will be works in progress and we were, on the hole, the way we worked. Next up, i would like to invite our new resource directors, and i would like to introduce you to her, as well. As youve told us consistently, getting our Human Resources operations is a top priority for mta, as well, and kimberly joined us as a new director of human resource. She has 25 years working in state and Regional Transit agencies and came to us from ham Hampton Roads transit and oversaw the entire operation of the Resources Department from talent, acquisition and retention, benefits, compensation, ceo, compliance, Performance Management and policy development and an divert in Human Resources. Before hr, she was an urban planner and passionate about developing efficient Public Transportation systems and creating the dynamic workforces fostering the charging ratio coo get there. Maybe kimberly will say a few words. Thank you, thank you so much. Everyone has been so supportive and welcoming. Not only the employees but San Francisco as a whole. Im skated to be her scooted exe sure were working together to be inclusive and have a diverse work environment. So i really am excited and thank you so much. Youre welcome. Thank you very much. Thank you. Welcome to the agency and happy to see you on board. I just do want to flag that in the course of the search process, one of the things weve heard a lot about is that we are ensuring mta is an environment free of harassments and free of discrimination issue. The board received a letter that im sure you received a copy of from change mta, concerned about the issues and theyre persistents at the agency. I see no reason for a new director to come on and im happy to meet with you any time. I feel these are foundational and urgently address these issues and wipe them out. Thank you so much. Thank you. Looking forward to working with you. Welcomanother scooting excito announce, last week, september 10th, the county admitted 17 million to the overall flier fleet and doing a properly funded overhaul is the way to make sure the investment pays dividends over the use of the buses. So we dont have to retire them early or deal with maintenance issues down the road. This is a good example of funding and planning for keeping our flu down the road. A couple of street improvements, over the last three months, weve rolled out Traffic Signals to keep traffic flowing on some of busiest streets in sanfrancisco. We installed new timing patterns at 50 intersections in eastern soma, east of Fourth Street and another 50 intersections on california pine and bush in lower pacific heights. The improvements that we put in place include making the signals for visible, higher visibility to pedestrians, separation between pedestrians and traffic and weve installed activated two more redlight cameras, two more redlight cameras are active and two are turned on and issuing warnings and another eight installed by the end of the year. So were ramping up quickly in that programme. Some morning, i will join the director of public works and some other city officials at eighth and judith to ribbon cut the straight scape improvement. Its a multiagency project and were reorganizing the end judith stops and also doing some needed sewer work from public works and puc. Customers and pedestrians along juda will see new crosswalk ramps, newly striped crosswalk and improved Traffic Signals to go along with the sidewalks at t the transit stops. I know outreach is on the board. Im proud our team has won awards for Public Outreach and planning. The 2017 bryant project was awarded was given an award by association for Public Participation, better known as iap2 and specifically gave an award for diversity, inclusion and culture category and for improving one of the slowest routes and able to reach populations in soma and tenderloin. That was recognised by the transit riders who gave out a rider first award and at those awards, they recognise the Planning Team that quickly put in place the resign, the common sense pilot at the west portal this year to improve and make the lightrail service smoother. Were giving free muni tickets and for the tthird for providinproviding readable signd to 250a for successfully pass ag contract to improve conditions for operators and kept riders moving. That concludes my report. I will turn it over to director borden, to julie. Dr. Kirshbaum. Good afternoon. Im the transit director and thank you for talking about the Upcoming Schedule changes. These are a part of our ongoing approach to make incremental improvements to improve or reliability. Were in a resource constrained environment right now as a result of the operator shortage, so were not doing big ads to the system, but we are constantly making shifts and refinements to make service better. The changes go into effect early 2020. Were targeting january. Although it may be early february. And some of the things that were doing is enhancing reliability, making new or improved customer connections and also we believe will help with less misservice. On the reliability side, the first thing were doing is well pilot in the morning a change to the rail system where were going to turn the jline along ebarcadaro rather than turning it at ebarcadaro station. Its an experiment but we believe it will decrease congestion and really reduce the amount of delay that customers are spending stuck between stations particular lookly between montgomery and ebarcadaro but well seeing it between powell and montgomery. The crossover move, because we dont have a dedicated pocket along the ebarcadaro, the crossover move, weve tested and it takes about 90 seconds. So there will be some delays if theres an end train or a ttrain coming in either direction, but we believe that delay is better than the big delay that were seeing in the tunnel itself. If it doesnt work, you know, we have the ability to quickly revert back to the current system, but we think that it will make an incremental improvement. Then as we discussed, we are looking as we develop our Capital Programme at an additional pocket track along the ebarcadaro which would really, i believe, help with the terminal. The second thing im excited about and weve waited a long time, is that were upgrading the buses on the weekday. It currently has longer buses on the weekends. Weve been holding off on doing that because weve needed coaches, the bigger trains for some of the Rail Construction thats been happening, including the warriors platform that was you have completed. But were excited to be rolling that out and getting a lot of positive feedback from folks that are experiencing crowding on that service. This will also allow us to retire some of our very oldest 40foot buss that weve been holding onto. Theres small incremental changes. Unfortunately the city continues to slow down and so, we have to make adjustments in the schedules to keep up with that negative trend. The second category of changes is looking at ways to have better connections and one of the things i am most excited about is that we are going to be restructuring the Early Morning service for our rail customers. On some of our routes like the tline and mline, we provide a route downtown but on others we wdont. We force a surface lane to west portal and then they transfer to a bus. When we interviewed the Early Morning customers, many whom are going to jobs and making connections that without reliable transit they wouldnt be able to get where they needed to go, about a quarter said they were transferring two times just to access our earlymorning service. Additionally, were putting extra rail miles on the system when we dont need it. The bus loads the customer loads are more appropriate for a bus at that hour. So what well be doing, well be pulling out the trains a little bit later to match when the subway open and deriving direct connections on our bus system. This is something we will do Extensive Customer information campaigns so those Early Morning customers know what to expect. Theyll be told, you dont have to get off this and this will take you down to make your destination. This reduces the number of vehiclevehicles on tonsend. Weve been hearing feedback, the 9r, which is something that has had positive feedback, for example, in visitation valley isnt starting early enough. We will be implementing service to rinkon hill which is something weve been work o worn for a long time and something this board off proved. Another change is an equity change, currently the 29 sunset is not very customerfriendly. We dont have a very good layover at the end of the line. So what we do and weve done it for many, many years when the bus gets to third street, customers have to wait through the entire operator layover before heading to the end of the line. So what were working on is to try to work to get a terminal and a location but if were not able to, well do the terminal loop twice. So we will take customers directly to the end of the line. Well go back and do the layover and start the line again and pick them up. I also want to flag on the 29, we continue to get a lot of feedback about all of the schools and all of the activity. I know we had an interesting presentation from students last summer. Our transit planners are doing a yearlong process with that class to look at the needs of students along that route and looking at how we can get potentially some skipstop service or express service focused around the school time. We dont have the resources do that now, but im optimistic as we continue with our operator hiring that we may be able to consider ha in the future. So i wanted you to know the planning work is going on, even tothough were not able to add f extra service. The last areas were looking at is to sea what we ca see what wn minimize misservice. Were changing the schedule. We have the number of parttime operators. Even with all of our recruiting efforts, we only have about 35 parttype operatorparttime open the system. So well be adjusting the schedule to reflect that. Well be as a paper exercise, were going be reducing the amount of service on the f line. It will not be different than what were delivering today because, unfortunately, we just dont have enough operators trained on the historic fleet, but as our training improves, well be able to rachet that back up and it will be more stable because instead of having big gaps in service, everything will be more smoothed out to match our actual resource levels. We will also be making some judgmentadjustments to the lrv e to reflect the number of vehicles we have. The end result will be fewer car trains in the system. The last thing, weve taken a hard look at all of our routes to shift resources and one place were pursuing this is on the richmond expresses. We currently provide one trip after 7 00 p. M. On all of the rich monday routes. Its a very expensive trip because it forces or schedule to go from 12 hours to 13 hours, which doubles the number of operators that we need. And theyre not very well utilized. So we are going to ask customers on the richmond express to use the 38 rapid and one california after 7 00 p. M. So these changes right now, i know january or february seems far off, but in scheduling world, were actually kind of in the heat of developing those changes. This will also be a general signup for our operators, so they will have the opportunity to change modes. This will be our last traditional general soonup, where people can go from bus to rail. One of the things we changed in the contract negotiations was how we do rail training, by the commitment that we would be doing one more traditional signup. I do believe that the rail service will be more stable than it was the last time we did a general signup. The last time we did a general signup, we had about a sixmonth slow down in training because of the blue light phone replacement in the subway and weve had an extended period of shutdowns in the subway impacting our hiring. Our hiring levels continue to be good on the lrv side. But this will have some impacts. It also means that instead of our october class being 60 students, we do have to rachet it back to 30 students because we need trainer capacity to train existing operators on their new modes so people will go from a 40foot bus to a 60foot bus or a motor coach to a federall trolley and we need t those contract obligations. I think thats the end of my presentation and im available to answer any questions have. Directors . Director eakin. Thank you for the update and i know its making tough decisions, making a decision you dont want to make, but weve been so heartened to hear of the strong sizes at the operator classes and i did note a decision to temporarily reduce the size of the october class and i wanted to hear you speak about whats the constraint there and any way to troubleshoot that. Can we ever bring in contract parttime trainers or temporarily supplement or Training Force to allow us to keep the momentum with the recruitment . Thank you for that question. We the constraint currently right now is the number of trainers. Although, we have worked very hard in a multiyea multiyear o develop a trainer classification. That eligibility list we expect to be done decemberjanuary timeframe which allows us to increase our Training Staff for the first time in many years. So i think that well have to, as those new trainers become qualified to lead classes of their own, i do think well need to rachet up even further the class sizes that we have and im going spend quite a bit of time in my october presentation to you sharing where i think were at with the training when i think we sort of stabilize but what i think we do to ultimately put this shortage behind us. And not have to be making these tough tradeoffs that youre talking about. Directors . Director hemminger. Thank you, clear. The 31x used to be my bus. And i through it over for the 5r because its a lot better. [ laughter ] so good for you on that. I recall that the last bus on all those richmond expresses was 6 00, not 7 00. So you must have expanded it or lengthened it when i wasnt looking. So if the last bus is not going to be 7 00, when will it be . So about a year and a half ago, maybe two years ago, we increased the service span from 6 00 to about 7 15, 7 00, 75 00 and this will move it back to about 6 50. It recognises there is a market from 6 00 to 7 00. So youre reacting to the ridership trend youre seeing out there . Yes. Thats fine. The borde broader question, thee a whole mess of people outside of the city hall front doors a few days ago, talking about a dramatic expansion of Rapid Bus Service citywood an citywide. I would appreciate what those folks are talking about and what your views of it are. I know the Rapid Service was launched in sort of a methodical way so you went for the routes you thought you would get the biggest bang for the buck. So were farther up the tree now in terms of lowhangin fruit. But it does seem to me that with the success youve had in the te richmond district, we should build on that success and maybe reach farther up in the tree and we may need to make tougher decisions to reach the fruit but im game for that. So i was hoping we could get that when its convenient for you over the next few months or so. Director rinkman. No specific questions but i just wanted to congratulate you on some of the change and thank you from the rider point of view. Some of the Early Morning changes, the seven buses, all of these will help just address the problems that our riders are having out there, so thank you for that. On the operator sued, you came back from rails resolution and at one of the sessions, one effort panelists asked all of the represented cities in the room who was having problems with operator shortages and every city raised their hand. So were not alone in this and thank you for not losing focus and continuing to push on it. And hopefully well at least, if not solve it, we will keep up and well get much closer in the long range. They use an outreach bus and they kidded up and drive it out to the neighborhood and park it and people walk through and look at all of the information about the project in hand. So i thought that was an interesting idea since were retiring buses. But thank you so much. These are the kind of innovative changes that people are really excited to see and addressing the Little Things you can do and try them out with the turnback on the ebarcadaro and see if they work and if they do, fabulous and if they dont, well go back to the way it was. Thank you for all of your work. On the richmond bus, i wanted to make sure when we change the time, do we make sure we dont miss any buses before that . Because i used to lo live out tt way and i remember if one of the buses got missed along the way, the next bus was packed. I dont know if we look at that and troubleshoot that better than back then. Maybe you can talk about that. The ric richmond expresses comet of the 10, 12 and 19. Were constantly in this kind of tough set of choices, but we do make sure that we fill the last trip on every route because we think its important to set peoples expectations, but in some cases, the expresses are taking more of a service hit so that we dont have double gaps on routes like the 12 or the 19. So to that point, are we doing better information to the customer to let them know the last bus will be will be mixinmissing a route. People can take the 5r, depending on where theyre going, theres more than one option. If we can communicate to people because theyre standing on the bus stop and dont know why the bus hasnt come and it comes and its backed. They dont have any communication. I think if we can do a better job because we know the entire run will be missed, letting people know sooner, then we can let them make a different choice to take a different mode. I think thats a great suggestion. We are doing it, but i think doing it more would be helpful and particularly acknowledging the fact that thats a very Digital Client base and making more Information Available in realtime, because in the morning, somebody doesnt have to choose, you know. Luke i. If the express bus comes, they can take that but in the evening, the express has their own terminal and would be helpful to give customers information in advance. About the early weekend transit, making sure you reach out to the hospitality groups because a lot of riders are going to hospitality service, hotel, restaurant jobs, making sure we reach out to those, and i know that was effective in bart when they were opening later and focusing on that demographic. If theres anything to increase the 30 to a higher number, that would be great. I was lucky to be at the graduation last friday and it was inspiring to see the new class members about joining the mta family and having the mayor show up, which was an extra icing on the cherry for everyone in that class and it made a big difference. One of the stories that ge i dit mention earlier, there was a woman going through chemotherapy and she was never late and never missed a class. I felt inspired by how dedicated people are to choose to do this work. So just wanted to recognise that we are looking for drivers and whatever we can do to make sure we can meet that demand to miss left rounds would be great. You can speak to this. Christopher peterson and then lastly kat carter, h who have turned in a speakers card. Herbert winer, i think the elephant in the room is the addition of more buses to the fleet. Now you can say, ok, weve added some more buses, but youve retired more buses, which means the addition is much lower, if theres any addition at all. Right now what youre doing is reallocating the existing resources to different runs, dust routes, different time schedules than the reft of it, but the population of this city is growing. The fleet is growing and it should be increased to meet the factors. Basically, progress has been very gracial in this agency, if any at all. I would like to see a report on the task force because i dont know, frankly, you know, what the schedule is, when theyre going to meet, Public Participation or anything. So these are my comments. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Christopher peterson followed by kat carter. Im Christopher Peterson and my comment relates to the impacts of chase centre on Transit Service. I think its very important that mta be evaluating the ripple effects of that. I suspect there are dust caned t kinds of ripple effects. The friday Night Opening of chase center, i trade to catch an outbound k at vanesse at 11 30 at night and there was an hour wait and the water for the el was 40 minutes. I looked at the system map in the station and not a single train was running in the direction of balboa park from sunnydale to balboa park. So was that kind of extreme clustering an extreme gap in service because of the chase center or just another incident unfortunately too frequent of there being large gaps in latenight service on muni metro, thank you. Kat carter and thats the last person who has turned in a speaker card on this topic. Good afternoon. Im the acting executive director of San Francisco transit riders. I just wanted to say briefly that i support everything that director of transit is doing and im looking forward to the changes in january. I particularly ride the 12 and the expanded capacity on the 7 is certainly welcome. I really appreciate her honesty and transparency about all of this stuff. I appreciate that it is shifting agencywide. Weve been hearing more about whats happening and i just want to say i support it and thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Sorry, i put 9 instead of 7 on my speaker cards. Sorry about that. I wanted to speak to director mcguire opening the chase center and in that discussion, the topic of signage came up twice. Theres a lot of soonage that wasignage for thenew express bu. I happened to be traveling there while there was a concert going on and there was really good signage directing people to the bart station as well as, like, the signage this agency got an award for last week about the t third that was happening. I think its great that the temporary signage is really good and the temporary signage is terrible. So i would urge you to bring the resources that you clearly possess to bear on that problem. Secondly, the bike lane, i think its awesome that was implemented as part of the chase center project. Its great and i like the huge bike share station at the stadium. But the separation is not good right now and its not clear to drivers. I was biking by the stadium when there was one of the metallica concerts going on and a guy in an s. U. V. Cut me off trying to drop off people because he went over to the curb. Thankfulfully, therthankfully tr cycle cop on top of it, but for outoftown drivers, its not clear and to separation at all, apart from painted parking spaces. So it could use improvement. General comment to address the board and not on todays calendar. Well start with frank reeg followed by john par. Can i have the projector, please. Just start talking. Good afternoon. Im the ceo and cofounder of rebel. For background, re york e yorkve largest moped operator in the United States and im speaking in front of you because we would love to bring this electric mow memoped programme to the city of San Francisco. I think the biggest thing here is that our electric moped is a motored vehicle. So each of the vehicles has a license plate. In order to acquire that, you need thirdparty liability. Everyone of our m mopeds has two doc certificates. The reason it fill into both new york city and d. C. And why scoot has been operating here for many years safely and effectively is because theres to regulatory grey area with our vehicle, right . It rides in the street, parks in the street, has a license plate and it provides enforceability for bad behaviour. Just to close here, just two last points. Its important to mention, revel does not use a gig economy in any way. So with the fleet operating in new york city, we have 50 operations staffed and all employees. Theres hea fleet managers, cusr support and the same Health Insurance i have at ceo and all paid a living wage. I think this is a responsible way to run a business. Thank you. John par, scott ellis and Herbert Winer who was the last person to turn in his speaker card. Im john par and the new suit is by george yo giorgio armani. This is called justice unsafe at any speed. This book revolutionized the Auto Industry safety and through various acts of congress, seat belts were installed in cars throughout the United States. Then the endline, unsafe at any speed. In this new book, he will highlight how men, women and children and specifically disabled people are sent into the open street to face death while emparking on disembarking into an open street in front of ten new trains every single day for nearly 100 years. There is no safe modern elevated platforms or station on that street corner. The safety of my community has been ignored and seen as normal. We are, as i have said before this board, at the back of the bus. And we are out of mind and out of sight along the end corridor. I am asking this board to allocate 16 million to build a proper elevated train station just like you did for the warriors for 40 million for the first time in my community, the outer sunset. This will be a wonder, probably, to see in the outer sunset and practically beyond imagination to do that. Im also requesting that a lowlevel Improvement Project promised and approved through any sole efforts thank you. To be approved by shawn kennedys team. Sir, your time is up. Thank you. So please have this work done as soon as possible. Scott ellis and herbert winier. Im the new operator of Business Development on the west coast and wanted to take this moment to introduce myself to you and director brinkman, im sorry i missed you at revolution. I just wanted to introduce myself if you would like to see my face around. Nice to meet you. Next speaker. The last person to turn in a speaker card, Herbert Winer. Herbert winer, please spell it weinr on the board, thank you. I had a real problem with the 27 bus last week. I arrive at the bus stop, ok, the bus is going to come in five minutes and then its going to come no one minute and then in less than one minute. And it kept changing back and forth, back and forth and one minute, and it took such a long time to get that bus. Now, you say the 27 is the success. I dont believe so. There arent enough buses on that run. What youve done is youve eliminated the bus stops, kept the same amount of buses for that run and it still runs in a lousy way. So youre not to be commended. Youre to be censored for what youve done and this should be ruthlessly examined because a lot of people are inconvenienced as a rule, but a lot of other people do and a lot peach have e been rudely inconvenienced on that line. So no thank you to the 27 bus line project. Next speaker. Thats the last person to turn in a speaker card under general public comment. Moving on to our regular calendar. Madam chair, moving on to your consent calendar, theyre considered routine. I have not received a request from any member of the public, nor a board to sever the item. Directors, do i have a motion to move our consent calendar . Motion to approve . All in favour. We have now approved or concept calendar and moving on to our regular calendar. Item 11, approving contract modification 122 to contract 1300, phase two, subway station, surface track systems with extended term by 730 calendar day and substantial completion date of june 20, 2020 and pay 31,240,000 for competencable, unavoidable delays in 8,520,000 and making environmental review. And director, the new Programme Manager will be giving this presentation. Good afternoon. Im the Programme Director for the center subway. I will go over this mod and the first light i have is a summary of the proposed modification. It extends the contract by 730 days and it commits the contractor to finish its construction by june 29th of next year. It settles the delayed claims of the contractor, completely as of september 3rd. And it settles the delay claims by awarding the contractor 31. 2 million for the delay. It also directs the contractor to follow on contractors to come in and allow them to do their work while hes finishing his work. And it also says they agree to review the remaining claims of the contractor and subcontractors. So those are the two additional things that we have to examine. It allows the radio and control guys to come in ahead of time. And sets realistic dates for construction. Completion dates as i have mentioned, the substantial completion which means the contractor essentially finishes its construction. The original date was february 10th and then it went on to become june 30th, but now the proposed substantial completion which is a contractual agreement is jun june 29, 2020 and with that completion and the systems testing, dynamic testing, vehicle testing, that takes 12 to 14 month. We should start running train and carrying passengers. We estimate summer of 2021. So that kind of a schedule. The next is project completion dates. Contract value, and this a summary. The original contract amount was 839 million. We have so far throughout the dur augustduration of this contd 8 million in increased scope and changes. And so the current value is 847 million. This contract modification for 31. 2 million added to that mix contract amount of 878 million. So that is the full amount. The next slide shows us what the cost summaries are. The original as i mentioned was 846. The work that has been completed up to now is valued at 730 million, so we have paid the contractor that amount for the work that he has done and just by looking at these numbers, you can see somewhere between 80 , plus or minus of the work, is finished. And the remaining work and the remaining budget the contractor has in the original contract is 108 million. To finish the job, they have to finish the job with the amount of money they have for finishing the job. With the change order which is 31. 2 and when we pay this from the contingency, which is 46 million, we have 50 left in contingency after we make in modification. The next slide shows, obviously, as i mentioned, we have to look at the additional claims of the contractor and the additional claims of the subcontractors. So when we look at those claims and see how much we actually owe, that money has to be found. We have 50 million in contingency and that will not be enough. So the Funding Forces is what is shown on this slide. We work with our staff, a cfo and these three areas are the areas of potential funding to either in combination of one or two or all three see what money we need. Now we dont need that money right now because we are still evaluating the claims. Once we evaluate the claims and we form our own prenegotiating position, we will at least know from our point of view what we think these changes are worth. Then we can sit down with the contractor. Obviously hell be asking for more and once we negotiate, if we can settle, and we know what the amounts are, we come back to you and say this is the additional amount of money that we need. And i would say that the time span i think it would be nice to do it within two or three months. That would be nice. So the next few slides that i have deal with th this and the assignment that i was asked to see, when this can project be finished. So what i did is i did an ec extensive review with my team of the work finished and the work thats left and for each station i examined what are the key elements of work that still need to be done and how much time will it take for these elements to be completed . Based on that, i have prepared a few slides which kind of show in summary the work thats left to be done and the amount of time it would take and the longest one is the chinatown station. As you can see, i have listed some of the seven key elements that need to be completed. And with these things getting done, this station can be finished by june. And that is the commitment of the contractor and we, of course, have had discussions with the contractor and he has committed to finishing the
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