Been in business for 18 years this year and we work with a lot of public agrees in San Francisco and this will be the first contract with sfmta thank you very much. Are there any other representatives. Okay. Please come up to this podium hi, im hymie with Barbary Coast consulting were a strategic conversations firm in San Francisco weve been in business 11 years and have worked with the Transportation Authority over the last six or seven years. And we are happy to be one of the firms selected as well congratulations my compliments with engaging with the dbe firm. Why dont we take that concludes my presentation. Item 8 any Public Comment . Is open. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And see this is an action item. And i see a motion made by supervisor chiu and seconded by supervisor tang without objection this motion passes. Thank you. Madam clerk other items item 89 this is introduce item. Thank you are there any new items to be introduced . Seeing none. Lets take any Public Commen
After be looking at the language that the attorney general asphyxiate or proposed to affix to the petition and consulting with the stakeholders theyve decided not to proceed this year. In effect its dropped its not preceded to the petition stage so no measure on the 2015 or 2016 ballot. Highspeed rail im sure youre aware of the highspeed rail practice writing program is awaiting the governors results of the accelerated request from the Supreme Court that the court can say back to the Appellant Court and briefs are a due later this, r week and well see how that turnout. Its an accelerate process and the Appellant Court will offer see is Supreme Courts activities take into consideration the new briefs and within two months well have some clarity on the highspeed rail so the treasure can go to market if the court were to direct that. Cap and trade amber alluded to one of the biggest issues about cap and trade this region and as well as other multi couldnt mp os want any cap and trade reve
Project so we think were saving time there because were getting them in tune with what the project details are. One thing is with respect to the process with the van ness project, again, i think because of the newness for both the agencies and the community, they did things kinda sequentially. There was a release of a draft environmental document and then said lets focus on what will be the lpa and so sequentially it was a release of a draft document and then another process to figure out what we want to adopt as the a lpa. In the geary process were looking to do that in concurrence. As we develop the environmental analysis, we want to start the lpa discussion. We know something about vrt and the different con configurations. Hope is we can compress the time it takes to get to the draft environmental document and selection of an lpa and so we can get to the ends of the environmental process sooner so well be ready to start design. Weve been talking closely with our counter parts at the
Weve been talking closely with our counter parts at the sfmta about how to speed up the part of the process theyll be taking over the final design process. For instance, one of the things we could do is we could start their work after the selection of an lpa before we get to the certification of an environmental document. They could start that process for final design. We think that could save some time as well. Were definitely looking out for ways we can compress the schedule. And i appreciate there is some thinking on this. Is there a written analysis or have you form alized what youre trying to do to make sure youre standing to your schedule . We can provide a written process. Right now were trying to build off the momentum from the mexico city brt trip. Were working with your offices and trying to meet with mta and director risk and this is a conversation about how can we support the city, how to Work Together to make this faster and i think as soon as we nail that down well be hap
A i can give a little bit of background for this project in particular. When we started the environmental phase of the geary project, the estimate to complete the phase of work was for about 6 Million Dollars. But we didnt request all that those funds at once. We requested installments as we did the work and as it became khroerer what remaining work needed to be done. So weve cock come back to the plans committee and the full board periodically throughout this phase as weve made more progress and clarified what, again, more work needs to be done. The total phase of this work where were estimating now at 6. 7 Million Dollars, which is within near 10 percent of the original cost, but again, we are requesting this work in installments. Requesting it in installments. Hello. I do want to clarify because this is an authority led contract and geary is one of the bigger ones and cash is pretty tight. We purposely asked for the money in installments to help cash flow it, but i think the positiv