Our draft 2020 plan. This is an every other year tradition for us, that we do, the Business Plan sets out the progress that has been made on the program, where were at, what is coming up in front of us, updates a lot of the numbers and figures for the project. The draft that was released is the management recommendation. It is now out for a 60day Public Comment period. So get your comments in. There are many different ways, through our website and other means, to comment on the plan. There will be several public hearings with our board of directors, and ultimately theyll adopt the plan in april. The 2020 Business Plan really builds on a lot of things we said in our 2018 plan and 2019 project update reports. It continues to advance towards getting electrified highspeed rail running in california, making the initial investments we need to do in order to get trains on the ground, maintaining are bookends projects, and getting the rest of the system shovelready. It highlights at this point
Investigation is ongoing and we do not know yet all the facts at this time. More troubling is that the tjpa, the agency that we represent as directors was mentioned in the complaint relating to our retail leasing program. I want to take a moment to emphasize that there is no allegation of wrongdoing by the tjpa or any of the members of the board of directors or staff at tjpa. I want to take a moment to assure everyone, the public, and everyone who wants to look at the minutes and pays attention to what we do that we have a very rigourous and transparent process to receive and validate proposals from Companies Interested in leasing retail space at Salesforce Transit Center. Including regular, detailed reporting of Public Meetings like this one. I would like to take a moment and ask the executive director to share with the public the leasing process that we go through here for any Interested Party when theyre looking at a potential lease at the salesforce center. Thank you. The tjpa uses
This is an every other year tradition for us, that we do, the Business Plan sets out the progress that has been made on the program, where were at, what is coming up in front of us, updates a lot of the numbers and figures for the project. The draft that was released is the management recommendation. It is now out for a 60day Public Comment period. So get your comments in. There are many different ways, through our website and other means, to comment on the plan. There will be several public hearings with our board of directors, and ultimately theyll adopt the plan in april. The 2020 Business Plan really builds on a lot of things we said in our 2018 plan and 2019 project update reports. It continues to advance towards getting electrified highspeed rail running in california, making the initial investments we need to do in order to get trains on the ground, maintaining are bookends projects, and getting the rest of the system shovelready. It highlights at this point were looking at 350
5 17. With that, directors, we have. Director chang is sitting in for director haney. Additionally, we have two new members that were welcoming, director forbes, who is representing the San Francisco mayors office, and tom lynne is representing the municipal transagency. With that, director chang . [roll call] and noting that director debars is also absent. With that, we have a quorum. Item three, communications. Directors, im not aware of any. Seeing none, well move into item four, board of directors new and or old business. I believe we have director lipkin with some information. A small update. Yesterday the highspeed Rail Authority released our draft 2020 plan. This is an every other year tradition for us, that we do, the Business Plan sets out the progress that has been made on the program, where were at, what is coming up in front of us, updates a lot of the numbers and figures for the project. The draft that was released is the management recommendation. It is now out for a 60da