Option 3 until february 1st of 2013. Now, if the necessary reviews and approval cannot be obtained at this time, staff recommends that the project focus on constructing the approved retrieval shaft. Thank you for the opportunity to brief you on the central subway and im available to answer any questions you might have. Thank you. I have a couple. Thank you for the excellent report. That has to do with the final line of this thing, if necessary approval. I assume one approval would be from the owner of the pagoda theater, a deal. Probably environmental one from the city. What other ones . It would the environmental approvals from both the Planning Department and the federal Transit Administration, i met briefly with the fta this morning to discuss the topic and theyre fully briefed on this report presented to you today. And i should have at least a preliminary review from the fta by the end of this week. Those are the only three approvals and funding, and additional local funding. Would
Believe, and we were presented five options on a piece of paper like this. We reviewed them and we all voted towards the end of the meeting. And the overwhelming, almost unanimous choice was number 2. Shortly after that, we received invitations to this hearing from john funge and ed reiskin. And instead of what we expected, we were offered options 3 and 4. And no mention of option 2 and why it was omitted, even though it was a unanimous choice. So, it seems like we still dont have sfmtas ear for community input. And id like to encourage the organization to spend more time and concerns. I think youre going to get a good start today. But the things you have on your agenda youre going to be voting on options 3 or 4 or possibly falling back to option 1. And i think 3 or 4 would probably be reasonable. I just wanted to say if these fall through and you decide to revert back to option 1, i think youll have a lot of opposition in north beach again [inaudible]. Thank you, sir. And just as a la
Increase the project budget by roughly 24 to 26 million. Now, the above alternatives that were presented to the public on november 19th, the meeting was attended by approximately 90 people. And based on the above option review, only option 4 addresses the construction concerns of the Community Without impeding a possible future extension of rail service to north beach or Fishermans Wharf. Now, the challenges with this option include a very tight timeline to secure the access rights to the private property, would require the appropriation of additional local funds needed to secure the property access rights. And then a bit of additional engineering review. And approval, if necessary, to remove the tbms from private property. Now, if option 4 proves infeasible, option 3, leaving the tbm head under columbus avenue, would respond to the disruption concerns raised by some members of the north Beach Community. The challenges with option 3 include also a tight timeline in which to obtain the
Steve taylor. Good afternoon, mr. Fonaro. Hi, thanks for giving me time to speak. Can you hear me . First of all, i want to say that these new options that you have come up with are fabulous if, in fact, theyre going to happen. But based on this report that im reading, i dont think that they ever will. I dont think february 1st, 2013 is near enough time to take on these new options. And i think that its funny that february 1st, 2013, is probably two days before youre going to start digging the trench on columbus avenue. Also it seems like to me, based on our future or our past business together, that this is an item to a bees us when the real serious matter is paragraph 3, which says, if we cant do options 3 or 4, were going to do what we had originally intended. I think thats all i had to say. Thank you, sir. Next speaker, please. Lance carnes, steve taylor, lorenzo petroni. Mr. Carnes. Good afternoon, mr. Carnes. Yes, nice of you to hear us today, board members. Id like to underline
This project, this organization known as the mta has been using lies, trickery and deception to economically terrorize the chinatown and north beach business communities by limiting consumer accessibility, by using the construction blockade the mta has been committing larceny against these business communities and will curtail them from enjoying the economic boom from the americas cup. As we all know, this public hearing is a formality. The decision to approve this project has already been made prior to this hearing. It is a huge waste of money because you could have just run rails up concern i street instead. The polls are still there where the 16th streetcar were. For what . So you can be reliable for the deaths in an earthquake in a project that uses flawed engineering [speaker not understood] . How can you sleep when you know you pushed the mayors agenda in chinatown and north beach just as was done in the bayview and Hunters Point with the tthird . Since the mta has decided to app