Announcer sfgov tv, San Franciscos government television. [gavel] good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority meeting for today, tuesday, june 25th. Our clerk is mr. Alberto quintanilla. Mr. Quintanilla, could you please call the roll. Commissioner brown . Commissioner fewer . Fewer absent. Commissioner haney . Haney ab accept. Commissioner mandelman . Mandelman present. Commissioner mar . Present. Mar present. Commissioner haney . Present. Haney present. Commissioner peskin . Present. Commissioner ronen . Ronen present. Commissioner stefani . Present. Stefani present. Commissioner wallton . Present. Commissioner yee . Yee absent. We have quorum. Thank you, mr. Quintanilla. With that well go to the chairs report. Colleagues, this month we began with we begin with congratulations to the Bay Area Rapid transit district, for its award last week of a longawaited 300 million core capacity grant from the federal transit administration. This award is the firs
Public utilitys commission is not interested in exploring the acquisition of gas assets. Okay. And then, can you tell me, you know, they have been there have been constant breakdowns on the island, the utility service, can you tell me what is causing those breakdowns and what the new system will prevent how the new system will prevent that type of occurrence on Treasure Island . Yeah, generally speaking, the vulnerability of the existing system is hi, both in the transmission lines, the above and underground portions of the existing system. They are buried and underground. Many of our outages, the p. U. C. The results of their work is inconclusive as to what caused the outage, which tends to indicate, it tends to point out to the primary switch here on the island. Even when they are able to identify an outage as being, for instance, related to a bird strike, really, the bird strike is a cause of the outage, but the underlying vulnerabilities in the mean underlying vulnerability is in t
Yee absent. We have quorum. Thank you, mr. Quintanilla. With that well go to the chairs report. Colleagues, this month we began with we begin with congratulations to the Bay Area Rapid transit district, for its award last week of a longawaited 300 million core capacity grant from the federal transit administration. This award is the first installment of what potentially could be 1. 2 billion pursuant to a full Funding Grant agreement, to boost capacity on barts transbased service by over 30 , increasing the current 23 tencar trains per hour to 30 trains per hour. I think we all agree this is good news for the 28,000 people that travel by bart across the bay during the peak. Twice number who travel by car on the bay bridge. Barts program is extensive, consisting of 300 new rail cars, train control upgrade, and new maintenance facilities. This is what riders have been asking for and its really something transformative for our Regional Transit system. Our thanks go to our bay area congres
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Director chang and are alternates. Il call roll. Director forbes. Here. Director baptiste. Present. Why director lipkin. Why present. Director syed. Present. Director tumlin. Present. Chair gee. Here. Directors we have quorum. Am item 3 is communications. Wield like to note process for the public to comment. Members of the public may comment on the meeting during Public Comment period in person or remotely. The call in line as a courtesy and may be disrupted due to technical difficulties. In person comment will be taken first. Remote comment after. The public call in line is on the agenda and dialing strukdzs should be scrolling at the bottom of the screen on sfgovtv. Are there communications. Next item. Item 4 is board of directors now and old business im not aware of any. Next item. Directors. Item 5 is the executive directors report. Executive directo van de water is here were excited bring in items to you that we have been planning on for over 2 years now. And these will advance th