Offer Public Comment by calling the Public Comment phone number. I would like to welcome the numbers of the public and staff watching live on sfgovtv. Mr. Secretary, could you please call the roll today. Thank you, prior to calling roll i would like to welcome alisha John Baptiste and diane shaw the ac transit representative and chang is setting in and the director has a scheduling conflict and will not be present. Please respond when i call your name. Chang. Here. Forbes. Here. John baptiste. Here. Lipkin. Present. Shaw. Here. Tumlin. Present. Vice chair gee. Present. We have a quorum. I will call your next item. Item 3. Communications. We would like to provide further instructions for the Public Comment. To provide Public Comment dial to the published number. 18552826330 and enter access code 182 5858053. Pound pound and listen as you wait for Public Comment to be announced. Members of the public have three minutes for each item. I will announce when Public Comment is open. General Public Comment callers dial star 3 to be added to the queue. This access code will stream on the screen during the entire board meeting. When callers dial star 3 they will be added in the order entered. All callers remain on mute until the line is open. The automated voice will let callers know when to speak. It is best to call from quiet location and speak clearly and slowly and turn down the radio or television. Any communications from Board Members at this time . There are no hands raised. I will proceed. Directors, item 4 board of directors new and old business. I do not see hands raised. Item 5. Executive directors report. Good morning, directors. I would like to welcome the new Board Members. I look forward to working with both of you as we execute the initiatives and add vance the downtown rail extension. I want to thank director hirsh on delivering the important transit services. Last month we welcomed President Joe Biden and Vice President harris. We are excited for the new administration. Our project will receive funding over the next few years. We are excited for the new transportation secretary. A few local represents from this area. We continue to monitor federal stimulus package as it may beings the way through the legislature. We are optimistic the 1. 7 billion in funding will keep the bay area transit expansion and modernization projects on track. We join the metropolitan Transportation Commission and other operators in cosigning our congressional delegation in support. We are in correspondence with m. T. C. To include the tjpa in the funding. As we deal with the pandemic we are optimistic. We are working to provide Outdoor Services to respond to the order. We continue to monitor the stay safe at home for collective efforts to reduce the spread of covid19. Adhering to the guidance and working with our transit operators. We continue to provide commuters and visitors the most uptodate information about mask wearing and fiscal distancing ensuring hands cleaning protocols are in place. As rollout of vaccines occur we are working with redevelopment ventures to plan for and help ensure we are ready for increased activation when it is safe. We hope it is sometime this fall. Earlier this week we hosted sales force for their kickoff. Though showcased our rooftop art through the International Audience including 50,000 employees and global partners. They expect these to be broadcast to 10 million viewers. We continue to make progress on the advancement of the project with the Steering Committee partners including funding plan strategy, travel forecasting and ridership modeling. Together with the staff we have been reaching local partners. We went with region 9 administrator and his local to reintroduce the project. We appreciated feedback to prepare the project for the program. We work closely with them to ensure the project development this fall and complete the process within the two year requirement. Also, we are scheduling the commissioners to provide briefings in the upcoming months. We are excited for launch of the project in the powers authority. We realize the connection to the east bay. We are working to plan for and build a seem less connection for the future integrated transportation system. We also sept m. T. C. A letter in response to 2050 five year Implementation Plan and asked them for resolution project and ensure they receive continued funding from local and regional measures to ensure the Transbay Program is built. Early this week Rail Authority issued the revised draft Business Plan 2020 for public review and comment until march 12th. We join the highspeed Rail Authority the future operating partner in commitment to delivering Passenger Rail service to the state. The Significant Impact of covid19. It prioritizes environmental clearance of phase one between San Francisco and the Transit Center and los angeles. We will be tracking and monitoring the plan through the legislature in april and authoritys request to release state bond funding to continue the construction. We support the Authority Plan and request for state bond funds. Lastly, directors, the cac recruitment continues. We encourage anyone to apply for this opportunity and applications are due february 26th. That concludes my report. I will take any questions. We have john here. Thank you director. Any questions on the report this morning . I am not seeing any hands raised. Thank you for the report. Thank you. Good morning, directors. I will bring up the slides. As mentioned. We are continuing to provide the intense high touch area cleaning throughout the center while also deploying the minimum amount of consultant resourcesness as part of Cost Reduction measures to balance our operating budget going forward. Additionally, we have been working with fitness sf on outdoor space. They continue discussions with the City Attorneys Office as well as the department of Public Health to move into indoor operations that may being economic sense for them. In the meantime they continue without door footprint. We are happy to accommodate them on the left part of the top photo. As mentioned, we have been hosting sales force Virtual Event culminating in live stream event two days ago that wrapped up the show. The generator on the other side in the picture, the tent located below for catering. The next slide is better perspective on howna toma was used so we can see the fitness activities there. There has been a line waiting to get in anytime i have looked during operating hours. It is great to see that they are getting membership expansion through this expanded outdoor pod. Another activity ongoing discussions with our neighbors to the south at 181 fremont, j paul, working to fastate a number of things underway. One is window washing. That is boring but when you have a high rise that butts against our facility it is a challenge. We have worked with them. The license agreement to facilitate the three week affair for window washing. They also have window repairs that need to be affected above the 40th story. There are minor bridge deck repairs that started yesterday. That work is ongoing. Minimal impact to the facility. The highest impact issue is the window repair where we have to have a fall Protection Area in case of mishap. That will involve a partial closure of the pedestrian path on park. You can see that on the facade depending on weather conditions. The park activities. We did have a holiday lights extension so that was through january. Those lights have been removed just before sales force mobilized for their Virtual Event. It was a two location event on a live stream from two days ago. We let off here at sales force park followed by the chairman presenting from singapore. Latest check on website indicates estimate over 8 million views. That is the world wide exposure we received by facilitating this event with our partners. Also, we can see the covid19 check in area. To get to their area within the amphitheater required a tje; check and some protocols. We made sure that everyone was safe in moving forward working closely with the department of Public Health and city of San Francisco. Retail leasing. We have a number of active engagement to continue to negotiate food and beverage kiosk moving nicely. Lease negotiations continue, not complete but getting there. Suite 232 in the green off beal street side. Those discussions are going well. The key point here is while there is a lot of gloom and doom in the media relative to retail and particularly downtown San Francisco, we continue to have active interest to the point where frankly we only have two first floor suites that arent in active discussions. Only have transactions ready to present town. I am encouraged there is that level of expect in our facility at this time. They recognize the value we will bring when things begin to return. We will have more information on that as these transactions get closer to fruition. This shows you the details. No change from the last meeting in terms of occupancy rate just under 80 . Successful in these pending negotiations that number will change by the end of spring. That is my hope. Improvements. This slide will look familiar. Verizon express is open. Kaiser has completed work. They have occupancy permit from d. B. I. And are ready to go. Looking at target of may 2021 for opening to coincide with downtown with the unit that cannot be found elsewhere in the system. We have more on that as they share what they anticipate the operations and Service System available from kaiser. Across the hall from tjpa on beal street side is the spring fertility suite. They have made great progress. They have moved in furniture. This awaits the permit for them to begin occupancy. Commencement started last year they are targeting the end of this month or more likely early march based on intelligence from d. B. I. Apstatus of permits. This is a quick rundown every maining tenancies. 11 begins commencement yesterday. They are one of the first to open given their relatively limited tenant improvement package. Our building effort moving nicely. We expect quite a lot of material delivery for the kitchen exhaust project to come toward the tail end of this month and early march to dovetail nicely with the anticipated q3 and on the next slide q4 openings. We are trying to marry our delivery of the spaces with hope for return of downtown tenants and Office Occupants and patrons. Happy to answer any questions you might have. John, thank you for the report. Directors, any questions for mr . I dont see any questions. Thank you very much. Thank you. Mr. Secretary i think we can move to the next item. Item 6. Cac update. We have the cac chair to address you on this item. Good morning, directors. I am derek holt. We had a citizen advisory meeting this past tuesday. We welcomed the new role for donald and he will be outstanding. We will walk through the staff report including the efforts to ensure the projects are in federal and state transportation funding, global exposure with the global broadcasting coverage, regional transportation project week 21 development. Several cap members are turning out in recruiting efforts underway. I want to thank those members turning out for sacrifice of time and contribution of ideas and questions in an effort to make this transportation project one of the best in the world and feed the needs of the community. The meetings were pleased with answers to the question to connect Transit Center dynamics to regional partners. That link 21 is appreciated by the cac members. Comments and questions address the mega transformative rail program objectives, capital corridor elements and connection to the Transit Center. There was a great deal of interest from members in the community in elements such as potential for new transbay crossing and benefits to the citizens, requirement the quality of life and transportation in general. We appreciate the contributions to the cord nations between link 21 and sales force. There were questions on the lines on the map that spoke to different rail routes. I do note there is cap interest in reviewing topics regarding track alignment, how developed, constructive ideas for alternatives. I noped the presentation from link 21 asked for ideas and suggestions from cac members and the public. I thought that was great. Members of the cac such as paul and howard and bob and members of the public should ask questions regarding speeding up the timeline of moving forward on the construction and completion, track alignment. Safety of buildings and consideration of big picture ideas to incorporate to the transportation plans. Some of the big pictures included expanding ferry service, impact of Autonomous Vehicles and impact of covid. We loved s. F. C. T. A. In the presentation by jessie. It covered the valley to Valley Service and more. Questions from danville and others involved around identifying the inputs for modeling, impact of covid, identifying the targets for number of transit hours connected with the Transit Center and key hubs. They were well received. Of course, we always want to understand what is going on inside the Transit Center. John updike, thank you for the facilities update. Members suggested using the wifi in the rooftop park for k12 student classroom activities. Interesting idea or Adult Classes or academic activities. We have done a little bit of that already. I will wrap up pie pointing out future agenda item requests include rail yard updates and budget forecast updates which executive director gonzalez will provide with the help of our esteemed cfo in the near future. In conjunction with working on new cac members we acknowledge that it is difficult during covid to offer the tour. Based on discussions with executive director gonzalez we will develop an update review of all key things and share the virtual tour with new and old members. This will be part of our efforts to get new members up to speed on all things Transit Center related. This concludes my report. Thank you for your report. Directors, any questions . Mr. Hall. I do not see any hands raised. Thank you for your report. Thank you to the members for finishing the terms on the cac. It is a service, a passion. It is a commitment. I appreciate it and the board does appreciate it. Please pass along our appreciation. Have a good day. Mr. Secretary. Yes, this is informational appears a them member of the public raised their hand. Please let in the caller. Please state your name. You have three minutes. Good morning. The only thing i would like to add to the report is that it was very over debt during the overvi debt that evident it has a profound impact on the Second Street alignment. Thank you. Any other callers . That appears to be the only member of the public to provide comment. I will call the next item. Directors 7 is Public Comment. Opportunity for members of the public to address the authority on matters not on todays calendar. It appears we have a member that wishes to address you. First caller. Hi, jim patrick, patrick and company. I would like to follow up row lands comment. He is a engineer, i am not. He has a bright idea of the alignment for Second Street. Everyone discards it because we have done Environmental Impact report and cant look anywhere else. I believe that is short sighted. There is a lot of money to be saved, in the billions, there is a lot of gains from his idea. I would like to ask this board to solace it is a presentation from roland as to what he thinks a better idea is instead of sweeping this under the table. Thank you. Thank you for your comment. Any additional speakers . That was the last member of the public. Next item. Before you call the next item, let me also offer my welcome to director John Baptiste and director shaw. You are coming on board at a great time to look at what is next with the downtown extension. I want to offer my appreciation to director hirsch for his time. It is a partnership and i value and appreciate his presence on tjpa. To our new directors, welcome. Item 8. Approving updated board policy no. 001. The chief Financial Officer will present. Thank you. I have a request to approve updates to the policy. We are trying to implement updates based on federal guidance to allow for micro purchases and large purchases to be increased from 3,000 to 10,000 and large purchases up to 110,000. The federal guidancal laws up to 250. We felt we should limit to keep in line with the city and county of San Francisco administrative policies and the boards and agencies you all represent. Additionally, we wanted to update the policy to include affirmative statements on prohibiting communications during r. F. P. S and affirmative statement on prohibiting collusion in contracting. These two updates come as a result of a report issued by the city and county of San Francisco Controllers Office on Public Integrity review. We felt these updates were timely and pertinent to our affairs and wanted to recommend these updates. I will take any questions if you have them. Thank you. Any comments or questions from directors . I would like to move the item, please. That was director lipkin. Second . Second tumlin. Motion and second. Any other questions or comments . Lipkin and tumlin. Now roll call vote. Director chang. It is advisable to see if there are members of the public to comment. Thank you, ms. Miller. Apologies. There are no members of the public to address you on this item. I will proceed to roll call. Director chang. Aye. Forbes. Aye. John baptiste. Aye. Lipkin. Aye. Shaw. Aye. Tumlin. Aye. Vichair gee. Aye. There are seven ayes and item 8 is approved. Thank you, mr. Secretary. Before you call item 9. I would like to let the board and public know i will recuse myself from item 9. In abundance of caution to avoid perceptions of a conflict as i am the appointee of the jpb. I would like to at this point ask that director tumlin handle this item. I will go dark on my video and rejoin when this item is concluded. I would be happy to take the gavel. Thank you, director tumlin. Thank you. I will go ahead and call the next item. 9. Approving the interim executive director to enter into a memorandum of agreement with the joint powers board for operations analysis for amount not to exceed 185,000 in support of the downtown rail extension phasing study as required in the memorandum of inning and interim project director will present. Thank you. Good morning, directors. The purpose of the request here is to authorize interval executive director to execute moa with joint powers and provide funding in support of operations analysis to complete the phasing study. Cost for this would be shared with the socta with tjpa contributing 185,000, and 75,000 for the total cost. Need is related to some of the phasing concepts that were proposed and developed by such as the two versus three track. Deferral of highspeed rail that requires analysis, operational analysis not previously available. The way to conduct this work is using caltrain and highspeed rail existing operations consultant. We feel it is an efficient way to conduct this work. The scope of work is to run various Service Level to simulate the level and associated Infrastructure Improvements ranging from relatively Minimal Service of six trains per hour and no highspeed rail trains all the way up to eight caltrain trains and four highspeed rail trains. The scope of work including the simulation of regoperations to determine reliability and flexibility but also disruption operations to determine what reliable the service is in terms of recovery should a train be out of service for some reason or other delay. This is an important way to look at operations pause delays occur from time to time. We will simulate as well a run through operation at sales force Transit Center envisioning for example a future link 21 connection the east bay and determine if that connection in some way reduces infra Structure Requirement to share that information with the executive steers committee as we bring the phasing report to tjpa board with you the directors. The source of funds for this request is unexspended funds from the cta grants 15914028. With that that completes my report. I am happy to answer any questions the directors may have. Thank you. Any questions or discussion . I just wanted to appreciate the teamanticlar caltrain and highspeed rail task who are the lead under the work program. It has worked out well. The consultant is on knowledgeable already about the operations. Thank you. Any further questions or discussion . Seeing none. Do we have Public Comment . Seeing none as well. Is there a motion . I move. Second. First chang and second forbes. Will i call roll. Director chang. Aye. Forbes. Aye. John baptiste. Aye. Lipkin. Aye. Director shaw. Aye tumlin. Aye. There are six ayes and zero nays. Item nine is approved. I would like to note as we were calling roll a member of the public raised their hand to provide a comment. If it is okay with you, i will let that member of the public in. I will allow the comment. Please let in the caller. Thank you. San jose. I would like to briefly take an opportunity of echoing some of the metrics that i shared with the cac for this exercise. Specifically, to establish specific targets because we can get away with six trains and worry later. It is ridiculous. The target as follows the target is 12 trains in the amount of Transit Center with two tracks, not three tracks. With 21 your target is 30 trains in and out of the Transit Center every hour. If the simulation indicates that this is not possible, i respectfully suggest that you start looking at different alignments, similar to the alignment that london uses for the olympics. That is how they got 12 trains an hour in and out. Also, i suggest it is impossible to get 30 trains an hour up and down the peninsula. We need the scope of the simulation to additional track work in brisbon south of the bayshore station. In closing i will make it very clear especially to the San Francisco Transportation Authority that unless these targets are met, caltrain will never ever be able to if fourth and king. Thank you. That concludes members of the public. I will call the next item. I will hand the gavel back to acting chair gee. Thank you, director tumlin, appreciate the assist. Directors, item 10. Approving the minutes of the january 14, 2021 meeting. Is there a motion to approve . So moved. Second lipkin. No members of the public to address you on this. First tumlin and second lipkin. I will proceed to call the roll. Chang. Aye. Forbes. Aye. John baptiste. Abstain. Lipkin. Aye. Shaw. Abstain. Tumlin. Aye. Vice chair gee. Aye. There are five eyes and two abstains. Item 10 is approved. Thank you. Go ahead and call the next item. Item 11 is San Francisco peninsula rail Program Executive Steering Committee update. Thank you. It is a pleasure to provide the Monthly Update on our work at the integrated project team. High level of outline. I will take a few minutes to briefly update you on activities listed here. It remains a very, very busy time for the whole team we appreciate guidance of the board through this period. In terms of the funding man as the interim director gonzalez mentioned. This is the 2016 funding map to update the existing sources, committed once as well as newer ones, working with Funding Partners we confirm the forecast of Funding Sources such as the tax increment revenues and evaluating the sd1 gas tax funded programs we have applied in the past and will apply for the transit inner city rail program and the solutions for congested corridors and other relevant programs at the state level. City has the Agency Working on the pricing study. Should that be approved that is a potential source as well. There are recently passed or planned revenue measures to consider as well. In addition we are reevaluating the fta federal Transit Administration resource funding. I will come back. We had a productive conversation with the region nine office as interim director mentioned. There is potential for private participation in creative financing which we will be exploring. Near term the jtpa and the staff are working to seek an amendment to the prop k allocation the Transportation Authority approved last year to update and align the activities with the work plan that you adopted in december. This is going to reflect potential acceleration of the project schedule to see if we can make earlier submittal to the federal government on the restarts program. It showed august 2024 submittal. We are exploring to move that up to august of 2023 as i reported last month. This is a once in a year submittal window. That is a important decision all partners and you will be making. If approved, the prop k funds would support the teams work through the end of this year including approval of the operating project definition. That is key this fall. We would also need additional funds to comment the prop k funds by other sources going to 2022 and 2023. I will note that is the current focus of the work with the partners. We are discussing this as well so we can present that to apply for the entry to the federal program to fta. As the interim director reported that was a successful meeting february 4th with the administrator. Several members of the staff joined the Virtual Meeting to provide encouraging feedback as well as helpful guidance to the people. We were introduced to the entire rile maam partnership with importance of the Multi Agency Collaboration and we reviewed the purpose and status of the phasein study and importance of looking to see how we can make that strategic decision about balancing cost savings with other factors and criteria. We further introduced the ridership modeling task. It covered the different aspects of those technical decisions. Also the capacity of the fta program. Again, administratortulelis and members of his staff were very supportive and ledge pledged pledged to guide us for entering the federal process this fall. We appreciate fta administratortule lisas signed a member of his staff for this work. On the ridership forecasting that is a very important activity right now early leading item to establish the benefits and really understand the scenarios that will be evaluated as the last caller mentioned. Sftas Modeling Team is reviewing the forecasting scenarios and input with s m. T. C. We want to be consistent with 2050 and regional assumptions as well as the operating agencies who all have their own Business Plans and forecasts as well as highspeed rail authorities models. We are working together very closely right now. There has been some discussion about not only this project but no project that we are picking up fta guidance and m. T. C. Treatment of Key Assumptions during this difficult period in near term but moving forward establishing what the future demand profiles will look like as we enter the evaluation of investment through 2035. Consistent with the blue print from the planned bay area we will ensure there is a wide regional look at the potential benefits including integration across the bay. As mentioned before by steven, the Team Continues to analyze the options to identify Cost Reductions for the operating project. Mindful of the tradeoffs. We will bring that to you in coming months. Thank you for approving the funding for operations analysis to support the teams work. Turning to the planning benefit assessment. In addition to demand forecasting we have a Business Case analysis. Last week bart and capital corridors link 21 vision did include analysis by the Bay Area Council Economic Institute which published report estimating broad and significant benefits of the potential Regional Program featuring the crossing across the bay connecting to the other sales force train box. Similarly, we will prepare a Business Case as well under the tpa for the lead for that task supported by partners for mobility and costeffective and congestion and Greenhouse Gas reductions affords ability and Economic Development affects. We will bring that to you as we scope and develop the analysis through the executive Steering Committee. It will be a companion to the recommendation in the fall when we come to the conclusions for the initial operating phase analysis. We do expect to see similar results to the Bay Area Council institute 21 analysis with robust economic benefits of the whole rail Program Including transbay crossing. We will collaborate with connections to the centers which we examined at high level and shared connections with the link 21 team as chair holt mentioned earlier presented to the cac recently. These links will be further developed by the bart and capital Corridor Team through the next phases of their study. Turning to the outreach engagement. Our team has made presentations to multiple groups including cac chair and i will note regarding 21 interested members of the public are invited to participate in the survey located at survey. Link 21 program. Org goals. That is a way to express your feedback to bart and capital corridor. The tdp team commenced work to update the project website and outreach materials to subpoena support other briefings planned such as commissioners and this will continue the outreach as done with caltran senior officials as well as state legislators earlier last year. Finally, i was pleased to speak about the recent symposium to prepare for the biden infrastructure and climate plan hosted by the foundation on economy and environment. Speakers included the u. S. Transition team chair washington, m. T. C. Executive director and acting administrator, highspeed Rail Authority director kelly and private industry leaders. We discussed innovations and opportunities for Public Private collaboration in projects. There is high private sector interest in projects well defined and supported by local sponsors. We will conduct markets as we study various delivery methods to support the project. We are prayer pairing input to preparing input to congress as they bring up the bill in the coming weeks and months. We hope that bill will be taken up by the middle of this year. We are getting ready to provide input at that time. Thank you. I will take questions. Thank you for that update. Directors, any questions of director chang and the esc team . I dont see any hands raised. Mr. Secretary do you see any hands raised . I do not. Any Public Comment at this time . There are none. Quick question. Thank you for your hard work. I am sorry. A member of the public raised their hand. First caller. Thank you. This is roland. There is something seriously wrong with picking up requests to speak from the public. I really want to thank director chang for her report. The only be thing i would add is that the new bart project manager is watry. He correctly identifies the only viable alignment that they are working on the last four years. I would like to remind you if you were on the board at the time. The reason we have to stop working on that alignment we lost the powers alignment when the tjpa sold block five which is where the tower is. Mr. Waltry defined pretty much the issues caused by this pushing the transbay crossing into the bay. I really hope we continue to work with him and come up with solutions that are going to push these platforms back to where they were to be in the first place in the middle of the train box. It means that there will be no train box extension. That is where the east bay goes. Thank you. Thank you. Any other public speakers . No. That was the only member of the public. Thank you for the update. I know this was ambitious work plan. A lot of work is being done. I want the check is the work plan on schedule . It is by and large on schedule. That is the subject of the prop k amendment to reflect the changes in the work plan itself that was adopted by this board. There is a lot to view. There is risk. We are asking to track that. In fact we have an item at the meeting this month to review. We can provide better update next month on the potential schedule impacts. I think you and your team with the esc work plan was presented in december had a big schedule that went with it. Would it be reasonable to ask that be updated in the six month mark . Absolutely, director gee. If the action of the director chang spoke about is approved we would come back to you for approval of the accelerated schedule. Thank you. I dont want to add any more work but it is important to know you are on schedule and add adjustments are being made to manage the expectations. We are on schedule. I will come back with more detailed presentation. Very good. Thank you for the hard work. Any other questions from directors . Seeing none, mr. Secretary, lets keep moving. At this time you are scheduled to go into closed session. As i check to see if there are any members of the public. I have not received any indication members of the public wish to address you. They have an opportunity to do so at this time. We will hang out to see if the system identifies anyone that wants to make a comment. Yes. Anybody raise their hand yet. No, sir. Okay. Ms. Miller, do we expect any action out of this closed session so the public doesnt need to hang out . I am not anticipating there would be any. Thank you. Seeing no Public Commenters wanting to speak to the board about this we are ready to go to closed session. Thank you, vice chair gee. Thank you, vice chair gee. The meeting of the San Francisco health commission. Will you please call the roll. Yes. [roll call]. Ill note for the record that she will join us shes having technical issues and i will note it on the minutes when she a arrives. President bernal thank you, mark. Well move on to the next item. Approval of the minutes of the january 19th Health Committee meeting. Commissioners upon