Existed ever attempt to get rid of it was soon back operating in my opinion serving all the issues ive said that before lisa should get a badge in going beyond the call of duty theres no simple solution i dont want to discourage the community from tweaking this to the point it might satisfy more of people but im of the firm belief that moving the location to satisfy 4 out of 70 steps didnt make sense that is a compelling argument the buffer zones mean a lot to the neighbors and theyre the once or ones that have to agree to moefksz that meet trail criteria what started this was security criteria i want to keep the priorities and context in place with that i want to commend commissioner bonilla and ask here her to say a few words. First of all, i voluntary to express incredible appreciation for the amount of flexibility that lisa has demonstrated or experienced in this whole process i know all along the way when more meetings have been asked for were new individuals have come in and new
And some historic rehabilitation projects. For a variety of reasons the procurement has been delayed, if you will, to the latter portion of the five year plan period, so these reasons include mta has recently updated its fleet plan and revised its fleet procurement strategy to incrementally refresh the fleet with staggered procurements. They have been coordinated with us for the other project and now that the locally preferred alternative has been selected this procurements are moving forward so all of this is to say that in the fall the board approved the programming, or the reprogramming of 40 million of the 57 million it left about 10 million left for programming. Also in the fall the Authority Board allocated about 16 million for the procurement of about 60 40foot electric diesel hybrid coaches and these are important projects as far as transit performance and reliability. There is no substitute for getting new vehicles and replacing and refreshing the fleet. This is the second par
The timeline for procuring them. Its going to be done through a consortium through the state of minnesota and thats the intent for the additional procurements coming up where mta participates in a larger contract and tailors the specks for San Francisco needs but doesnt have to go through a longer process of coming up with the contract guidelines so this saves about a year for the procurement process. The impact of pushing out when the funds are needed but bringing when the funds are needed, if you will and pushing out the programming but accelerates the cash flow. Its essentially a strategic neutral plan amendment so it makes the cash available when mta will need it in order to secure these vehicles. I am here to answer any questions that you have. We also have mta staff here as well. Thank you. I had one question. I know commissioner breed raised how crowded different lines are from the n judah and a know of other lines are crowded and the plan is replace the 40 feet motor coaches an
This is something that we simply have got to move forward on. I was happy in 2012, i was able to get language in their that put a cap on this Publicprivate Partnerships. And there are folks around this country where theyre moving forward on that. Its really critical. And mr. Bishop rod of foreign manufacturing possibly taking place possibly take the place of domestic manufacturing. Thats something we havent talked about here but thats really critical. 40 balance in trade, for our economy, for a number of reasons. I guess what i would like to ask all of you, but mr. Jones if he would start out, how are Publicprivate Partnerships going to be affected by sequestration and the c. R. . What kind of longterm effects are we talking about . I agree with you, Publicprivate Partnerships are absolutely critical, protect the critical capabilities in both the public and private sector now more than ever as we are seeing significant downsizing. Capacity within the national sustained and daschle base
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