Have quorum please silence all electronic devices. Any person responsible for disruption may be asked to leave the room. Cell phones set on vibrate can cause interference with the microphones, we respectfully ask they be turned off. Item four approval of the minutes to mark 4 regular meeting motion to approve emphasize. Opposed . The is have it. Thank you communication Board Members and walton flynn died was a think outstanding citizen and loved dearly a thinker public works when oversee muni in 1970 the first africanamerican to be serving this position and was the first chairman of the board with the manifesting he did an amazing contributions we flew the flag in halfstaff for what he did if we can adjourn the meeting in memory of mr. Flynn. Mr. Chair two items please be advised item m m m n have been removed from the consent calendar at the request of staff in order to make a presentation also want to clarify item 4 in closed session amended politician of the california code v two an
Directors new and old business. No hands waving, next item. Item 5 is Public Comment which is an opportunity for member s of the public to address the board on matters that are not on todays calendar and we have mr. Robert, followed by mr. Finebaum mr. Robert . Good morning, my name is Steve Roberts and im a member of the Rail Passenger association of california, a Public Transportation advocacy group. I thank you for the opportunity to address you this morning. Because of the benefits of reduced automobile usage, fully leveraging caltrains electrification project which thereby will increase caltrain ridership and its revenue performance and financial performance, also reducing Green House Gas misses, facilitating transitoriented development, the extension of Caltrain Service to transbay terminal is one of our associations key priorities. Any actions that delay this vital project and snarl it in endless planning reduce its Operational Flexibility or capacity are of a concern to our ass
Hills. You can see the damage from homes by a torpid that was whipped up by arthur. The hurricane reach add category 2 status. Winds of 100 Miles Per Hour last night and 22 thousand ,000 people right now are still without power. The storm is moving northeast after turning slightly west yesterday. Were going to have a live report in North Carolina in 15 minutes. Erica kato tracking the storms path. Lets look at it on radar imagery. You see it has made its way through North Carolina. The eye shrank which indicates an increase in wind speeds. It will continue to peril the coastline. Were going to continue with hurricane watches an warning. This has been downgraded to a category 1. It should die out by saturday morning. Heres a look at our satellite and radar. Patchy fog along the coastline. Its a little gray out here at the golden gate braj but were going to see warmer and sunny conditions later in the afternoon. Im going to give you a full forecast coming up in 15 inmanies. Were monitori
Lets talk about hurricane arthur. After slashing into the Barrier Islands over night, the hurricane reached category 2 status. Some 23,000 people are still without power. That storm is moving northeast after turning slightly weather yesterday. Erica has the latest. Good morning. You can see the eye of the hurricane moving away from the outer banks. So though the eye shrunk a bit. It looks like its drifting out to see. It will parallel to the northeast coastline here and its going to bring a heavy rain and thunderstorms to portions of new england. So look at the red and blue on your screen. Rip currents are still certainly a possibility but this storm will die on out as we head into tomorrow morning. Heres a look at the bay area, we do have a little bit of fog. Sunny and warmer conditions on tap later for today. Warmer conditions as we head into your saturday. It looks like temperatures will peak around sunday with High Pressure back in the picture. So the full details on your developin
Revenues and the 3 hundred and 10 adjustment that leaves the monies that were going to be receiving from the mel ruse 28. 5 million towards the construction of the park and another 2 hundred million from the mel ruse. Phase two is the tunnel it connects the tunnel into king and the new Transit Center. On this map first of all, you see alignment 4. 3 miles going up targeted downtown i up to the new trait center another thing the need for the d t x extension a lot of people that dont use caltrain they dont see that but youll see on the slide the area half mark radius there are one hundred and 80 thousand jobs compared to other figures of jobs open fourth and king about a tenfold difference the other thing on the aerial part of the city this is a few years old the area north of market is built out not a lot of room to grow its a long term grossly goal to shift into the south of market neighborhood. You saw this slide earlier during adams presentation but it shows that were having tremendo