Until supervisor john kim has asked that it be postponed and arguing in favor is that chairs are supposed to serve a year and i was appointed in february. So we could do that, too. I dont care. What is the boards preference . To postpone it . [inaudible] [off mic] we will postpone that for a year. The other thing that is that until next month . Yes. X month i suppose. I just i apologize for my voice today. I spent the last few days in washington at the Transportation Research board. It was extremely cold and i came back with some sort of cough and deep throat. It was very interesting about that meeting was the overwhelming interest now. You could not get into a room that haven to do with Autonomous Vehicles. Everybody in the industry is trying to figure out what to do with those things. And of them that i attended was what kind of facilities, what would be the feels facilities preparation and my sense was a facility like ours ultimately, could very well have a lot of useful for a time as they goes but nobody could give me an idea of exactly how to plan for it. Right now. Guideways and things but obviously obviously our bus talking is something if we knew what the bus talking technology was we would plan announced in the buses could just move in there. You could even bring them up autonomously from the bus yard because thats a closedpretty close system, but being able to run buses on an urban street autonomously everything saying its about 3040 years away they think from what then happened but it was very interested everybody was on to it did one of those things was when of the ideas was writing Autonomous Vehicles from Treasure Island to the terminal and i said there is muni here. They are going to do buses but they said they gave that as an example of an early application because it would be very specific into the terminal. So whether they got the application, i dont know. Anyway those are my communications. Next item item 4 board of directors new and old business no. . Next item item 5 executive director support good morning commissioners im very pleased very excited to report that all remaining issues have been resolved. The closing phase 1 financing agreement with kitty in the city this afternoon. Which is a 99. 9 chance because the cfo would not make me use 100 . Were closing this afternoon. We resolve the business of [inaudible] in the third week of december and results received the first disbursement december 27 with the close of the finance administrator next person of the tif loan will be on a monthly basis starting generate 15. Does the final step towards fully sunny days one could i like to thank director of the city office of public finance. Vinton city comptroller penny rosenfield and [inaudible] for the hard work last two months. To get this done. I like to express some special thanks to our cfo for working with the long hours and weekends. Again [inaudible] whilst overcoming some Serious Health changes did thank you, sarah someone told me what the hangup was good what was the big hangup . Had several hangups but one of them was they wanted to have npc and wells fargothey want to have a say on how mpc and wells fargo structure their loans outside of would be thought to be done. So maybe sarah could elaborate more . Good morning directors. In a nutshell they was of course trying to protect their ability to be repaid from revenues pledged to them. And of course those of the some revenues that are going to be used in a ongoing interest for the mpc and the wells and so each of the lenders just needed to make sure they were press protected as they could be. But all issues to my notes are worked out and we should be this afternoon. He was what is the resolution . All parties linked. It was several issues where demises in the middle were arrived at. So what did we blink on . What did we want to we die get . We are not in between agreement between the city and wells. The city and mpc we do not care . Been out its really for the lenders and the city. Okay. In regards to our effort to secure prop k allocations we continue to work closely with sfmta he to secure the funding that were on the agenda for january 24. For the funding for the 6. 8 million. I have also had a chance to meet with supervisor peskin and addresses concerns regarding the status of space to and clarify the purpose of our request. I like to thank director kim for facilitating that meeting. Hopefully we get that mean money january 24 and the ford with advancing phase 2 as i describes earlier last year doing that 30 design in coming up with a cost estimate and a budget. Following up on a direction from the board at the december meeting, and also as suggested by the csc we started development of integrated schedule for the delivery of these two and the completion of the study could meeting with director john sleight him later this month to share what we came up with and get some input from them. The goal here is to come up with a schedule shows phase 2 rad as well as caltrain certification and highspeed rail. How they interact and how they impact each other and how best to connect all efforts at the same time did have a chance to meet with john emanuel rahaim at our last meeting get you said you were coming with john rahaim with based on a recognition to you . Yes. Then were meeting later this month. Meanwhile talking on the phone how we are going to do it we started the effort. When i meet it with him later this month also what we came up with and get his input. Be okay we made assumptions on the schedule and so forth there making their own assumptions. Hopefully when i meet this month we will our things out. In terms of the supplemental impact statement we have in the fta completed the final review it did receive some comments from fta late december as a result of the final review. We also received new fta comments from the state Historic Preservation ofc. Received that the first week of january. We are responding to the comments. We hope to spend our responses next week. If except our responses we can post it for 10 days and we can bring the document to the board for approval in february. We discussed the status of the document with john rahaim and discussed the mitigation measures we implement to address their concerns. Following up on the december update regarding the ctc tour, we are having the commissioners from the California Transportation Commission visiting the Transit Center next tuesday on the 17th. We will give them a tour and presentation. We teamed up with the city and ocii and we would also include a presentation properties of the city has that caltrans owns and the city desires to also build parks there. So and then we will have the city will followup with ct ctc later on on what they need to make that happen but basically is a team effort. I like to advise the Board Members [inaudible] it can be in the afternoon on the 17th. Ctc is doing what for that are the parts underneath . Ctc is coming for a tour of the Transit Center. The city and ocii wanted to discuss with the ctc potentially there is some caltrans state owned parcels within the city that they would like to build parks there. So parks and so forth on the rampart. So we have included a portion of our presentation for the ocii and Mayors Office are these different from the parts we heard last month about coming underyes thats different. Other parts of the city want to build. Okay. That were not as part of our project . No. Okay. On todays agenda weve item to discuss potentially inviting California Highspeed Rail Authority to the tjpa board. With completion the authorities important partner as we shift towards fully delivering phase 2. I the meeting scheduled with the authority ceo jeff rouse there is much to update on the outcome of todays discussion. We will talk about next steps it is mutual agreed and to proceed. And work that in for 2017. This year is very very important for it year for us because we are ron is going to be talking about substantial completion in december. You will start seeding tweets at the roof top part [inaudible] the contractor for the less having his can start delivering and installing the trees. Thats a big milestone for us and ron and his presentation is going to elaborate or indepth. Then you have before you the pla report it we will discuss in detail the pla report is part of the Program Overview item today. That ends my report. Okay. Questions . Thank you. Next item item 2 is the citizen advisory to many update. I see we have the chair with us. Good morning chair harper. Directors, executive director zabeneh my name is boost i get i am the chair of the tjpa Citizens Advisory Committee and i want to focus my comments this morning in three areas could first, the cac wants to congratulate the project team under accomplishments in 2016. I know youll see that report later on in the Board Meeting. You were please to see after the mitigation strategies that were implemented the schedule for the operational readiness of the Transit Center is holding at the baseline date of december 22 of this year as important is that the eac is been consistent at 13 million below the target macs. We were also pleased with the sense of urgency demonstrated by the project team drive the bus operations begin as soon as possible after the operation readiness date. Weekly meetings with the transit operators focused on the phased startup epicenter makes so much sense. We look forward to seeing the results of the weekly meetings that the operators and a schedule of which each of the operators will transition from the temporary terminal to the transbay center. We are also pleased to hear that one semester easy is chosen the same sense of urgency we demonstrated that the appropriate amount of retail ready including temporary popups as soon as possible to coincide with the implementation of bus operations. Secondly, we are very pleased to know that executive director zabeneh and scott sleight will be meeting with Jeff Kosinski from the department of Homeless Services and Supportive Housing along with sam dodge to discuss the following items regarding homelessness issues at an and the vicinity of the transbay Transit Center. Its minor sending the agenda will include an education for just apartment regarding the design of the center in overall readiness plans good second, the role of the master leasee jeffs team as i understand it can be very helpful in negotiations with the bidders clarifying the roles and responsibilities in this area. And where was almost be directed when engaged at the Transit Center . Sam dodge shared that hes already been involved in some informal conversation with the tjpa budget team. From a cac perspective, we would like to see an integrated approach to address the situation. When that one that is holistic in nature. We dont want the home was pushed from the center into the lincoln hill neighborhood and then into adjacent neighborhoods. Again we like to understand that there is a holistic strategy in place. These are just some of the items in know that Jeff Kosinski and his team are committed to working with the tjpa project team and the cac looks forward to a briefing on these readiness plans in the first or Second Quarter of this year. One of the items i would like to finish with is with all the positive aspects that are going on, the cac was a bit disappointed when we heard that the meeting between executive directors zabeneh and john rahaim was not scheduled until the end of this month coming up. We were hoping based on the direction from the last Board Meeting that there would be a report out of what progress was of that meeting. From our perspective, its a month that is lost. In some cases, six weeks. Im sure you share in our disappointment as we can assume each month or each week thats lost in this discussion delayspushes out the decision ultimately on the alignment for at least another month and at best, i think we were looking at understanding what phase 3 from the rad study is, at best coming to a preferred alignment recommendation towards the end of 2017 and without fully fundedand again stressing the fully funded integrated roadmap you really cant get to the point of a recommendation so that the decisionmakers can go ahead and make that decision. We are hopeful, though, hearing that the meeting is scheduled for the end of this month that very quickly there could be agreement of what an integrated roadmap could look like. There could be discussions on where will that funding come from for phase 3 of the rap study and then a clear path to recommendation to the stakeholders and thats a real positive thing because from there that becomes a jump off point to plan the schedule and strategize on funding for phase 2 based on the decisions that are made. With that that wraps up the Citizens Advisory Committee report and as always happy to answer any questions. I agree with you on the rahaim meeting get there be a special agendize for the next meeting. Thank you. Okay. Next item item 7 Public Comment opportunity for the matters of the public to address the authority on matters not on the agenda. We have jeff patrick. Good morning directors Jim Patrick Patrick and company in San Francisco. Some good news with your friends and some trees in the park next week. First trees planted. This is a Public Relations opportunity we shouldve the mayor down there putting the first roots in so i think we need to make more out of that than we are. Number two, i am curious if any of you directors on the various agencies are putting any marketing dollars into the notion of promoting the Transit Center is a better ridership, better asset for your writers. Whether you thought about putting budget money in your trains and the other agencies and you talk about that. Now is the time to be talking about that if i dont hear any of that discussion going on. Maybe im not in line to hear that. Number three, are we going to set up a muni bus link from the cal trains to the new transbay depot or are we to know that chariot do that . Or are we even think about that . So transit comes up lets provide that link and eventually overly levit trained to do that job but are we just going to wait and do nothing . I am concerned we might do nothing and i would be a mistake. I would like to see a budget developed for the operational aspects of this terminal. We developed the proposed budget to what we think the elevators window cost, with this deal is going to cost. I dont see any budget its been developed of what we think the master leasee should be pain and whether it measures up to the standards that at least weve sort of set. Of course when you give the master lease in place right away but i was any good testing or evaluation going on there. So anyway those are my thoughts for the day. Thanks for taking the time to listen to me. I dont hear quite frequently but i do know how else to get my message out. Thank you. An answer to your last point, weve had lots of budget numbers and stop the last few months. Its been in close session because part of the negotiations with the master leasee and thats why you not heard about it. We throw numbers around for months now around that. Next item we will move into the consent calendar where all members are considered to be rich and get the window separate discussion of the items unless a member of the board of request. [inaudible] directors i dont think any member of the public wishes to have an item severed. Your items are a point when approving the minutes of the december 8, 2016 meeting and item 8. 2 authorizing the executive director to execute the next number seven to the professional Service Agreement Supplemental Environmental Impact seven by mental Impact Report services to extend the term of the agreement to november 26, 2017 to complete the final task in the scope with no additional compensation. Is there a motion for approval as is . We have a motion. Second. Without objection consent calendar is so approved speech thank you very much. No. Number nine is authorizing the executive director to execute the amendment number five to the professional Services Agreement to retail consult services and increase the amount of competition by 60,000 hours total 280,000. Directors if you have any questions i can enter them or sarah can answer questions if anyone has a question bs i pulled this from the consent calendar because i found it hard to believe that were not even completely through the process and have not even started doing contract negotiations which is exactly what shepherd mueller was really doing and already theyve spent almost the entirety of their budget. The thing that i dont know why they were so involved at these early stages and i dont know what i mean, how much of these bills, 200 something thousand dollars in bills has been interoffice discussions. Because i mean, that isi found that to be amazing that they spent all the money before we even started negotiations. Yes. Could be entered into the contract in 2009 and we started out planning how we do it. We release an rfp. They helped us with erp and we [inaudible] rfq. So good morning again directors i apologize i dont have the specific dates in front of me but for those of you who have not been on the board since 2009, we have had several stops and starts in this process. Back in 2009 when we brought him on board it was a twoyear contract. We anticipated we were going to have the retail process done between 1809 and 2011. Then in 2010 weeks and the schedule out get i think was placed on hold. You will recall we put on out and rfq and i think was 2014. Got one response and then then be initiated the process within another rfq. So john has and her colleagues, have been on a stop start, stop start. They been valuable and putting together the rf juice and the rfps that we have put out and thats why almost 200 something thousand dollars over five years, i donti dont feel its been an exorbitant amount i can see that the people that come there where others whenever the [inaudible] [off mic] yes, that i could see them because i have been strung out and i can see their job getting that out but i thought that Sheppard Mullin was going to come in and once we had a situation and we had a contract to be drafted thats when they would be put in he did why did we need them with erp rfq . I thought we had all the expertise we needed the people we have hired with done that lots and lots of times queen we had and you may recall we reach out to the City Attorneys Office could does want Legal Counsel involved in the procurement process. Not just for german consultants but Legal Counsel involved to make sure the german is dying being done properly,. Whether there was a draft lease attached to the rfp i dont recall off the top of my head but definitely Legal Counsel be involved from the beginning. When we asked the City Attorneys Office they indicated that they could certainly assist but that Sheppard Mullin would be the recordation for the firm to use why did the City Attorneys Office not do it . They do procurement for the whole city and county. You have to ask the City Attorney but ive actually talked to them earlier last year and global discussion on how they can of the submittal this in particular, [inaudible] on this determined well, this what frustrates me about the city journey being the titular general counsel to this body. I mean his is a discussion i had with the city to your either going to do it or youre not going to it and lets replace you with somebody who really does the job. This is frustrating director harper it its us needing to plan more with him and whats going to go [inaudible] when i talk to them we had not planned what we were going to give them. They need to ramp up and plan to help us. So its a matter of us coming up with a plan for them to help us with and they can staff accordingly well, this board has remained several times about the amount youre paying in legal fees and its been stated several times how the City Attorneys Office would be so much more efficient at this. When you talk about procue coming shepherd moment probably has some expense but i guarantee you it pales in comparison to the event City Attorneys Office. Ment dir. Harper take into account this particular procurement includes [inaudible] rights as much of which the City Attorneys Office does not have expertise in all. Its not just retail. Well, are we under the oppression their idea theyre going to stop at 280,000 having spent 220 is anywhere close to reality . We are in final negotiations that now. Were going to enter final negotiations with Asset Management and thats what we need them for. Great we dont need a lot of work. Negotiations can take a long time no. I know. I know. With a cap it at 280 . That would be nice. Im not sure if bill j especially contract negotiations but thats what frustrated me they understated this from the beginning because it is it doesnt go to the job nicely increases that much. To be fair, they have had to reengage multiple times and we work things that have been previously done when minds were changed about the past to follow. Thats one of the reasons you hired a firm because they dont have any hiccups when, okay, finally got lots of attorneys that got lots of stuff to do. I can understand it were small firm they said, look we were counting on that work and now weve done it but shepherd and mullin is not one of those fronted they shouldve been able to withstand those changes a lot. I guess dir. Harper, [inaudible] always needed 60,000 and we are done. Do you know if the contract calls for the internal Office Meetings that they have is that though thats one attorney or every attorney at the meeting . I would have to joan is here and were only working with to our journeys preps i can add theres only two attorneys who, since 2011 have worked on this matter. Its myself and Catherine Allen was an associate when she started working on. Shes a very junior partner now. We dont doubleteam. We dont both attend meetings that shes done the drafting. We are talking about seven years, 220,000 over seven years. Three sets of serially of consultants who were involved. And rfq. An rfp for which we drafted a master lease and now we have read i can drafted as an Asset Management agreement because the bidders who came to the floor were only prepared to do Asset Management agreement, not a master lease because they did not want the Economic Risks that went that were associated with it. And most of the business terms negotiations have, in fact been negotiated by hr a. We have advised them. We have advised on structure but this is not a circumstance in which you get a large firm running a market i understand your concerns. I see it in law practice but that is not the case here. I think what you hadand you have also had, you know, this kind of a structure for management of a facility this complex and particularly, on the commercial side of it, is not part of what the staff of the tjpa has extensive experience on. They are not Lincoln Property company its not what they do for a business, so they have also asked for more advice on structure, what is appropriate, how do you protect yourself, how do we assure that these Revenue Streams are predictable to my back kind of thing. I was just assuming all that expertise was held by our other Consulting Firm but apparently it was not its accommodation commendation. Well, lets just see if you can do the rest of the job for 280, total. We will see. [inaudible] [off mic] in terms of your comments, and i for lisa board that and we will do our very best and we are pushing this through and we will make it clear to whoever we are negotiating with an exclusive basis, that this just has to get done immediately. And you know that shortens the amount, lessens the amount of legal fees, but we dont have total control in the prosecute you know that as well. Okay. Is there a motion for approval motion to approve second. B was motion at second be dick ames dir. Gee aye reiskin spirit nuru aye harper aye that is for aye item 9 is approved. We do not have members of public dont want to comment on the item. Sorry. I forgot about that. Next item item 10 is the presentation of the annual Program Status report this is a direct joint presentation. What well do include a full dissection update as all. Will start with mark odell his Program Manager with project manager project controls good morning arco delle. Mark odell. I was not program with a temperate terminal and design phases update followed by sarah scott and ron. So 2016 mark our six year of Successful Operation at the terminal there we served as a key transit link to the super bowl city party and events in january. The passenger was increased by 30 since 2010 and ac transit has increased ridership 14,000 to about 19,000 and a total the transit riders have increased from about 21,000 two 31,000. Phase 1, which milestones we completed the infrastructure for pg es embarcadero circuit and will complete a Mission Circuit later this year put providing complete redundancy for the transit summit would complete design coronation with Salesforce Tower and fremont for the pedestrian bridges, the gondola permissions where and all the civil war. We released to rfps this year. The neutral post to stupid Antenna System or the for cell phone Medication Systems and the physical Security Management system and emergency to medications and master Medication Systems [inaudible]. We awarded five major packages the data network and Systems Integration audiovisual [inaudible] artwork it cant access multiplies power to the muni buses built in and around the Transit Center and the w 122012 2013 class iv. The club you 12 being the class floor at the grand hall. Bus storage, since last year, ac transit actually secured favorable terms with the lease with cpc. We summit documents to the state fire marshal and state architect and be issuedwe completed our bidding documents. We completed our contractor prequalification process. Our plan for phase 1 design for 2017 is to award the [inaudible] that i mentioned earlier. Also to award contracts for the extension and the Mission Street island. The potomac extension is the session of the potomac at pedestrian way from the tjpa property out to second street. And the mission st. , ivan is a bus ivins for buses between first and fremont street. Both contracts will be funded by tjpa with the final design and construction be taken on by public works. Our plan for the bus [inaudible] tjpa will execute a Lease Agreement, will execute a Lease Agreement with caltrans that were issued for bid in january and come back to you in march to award good we will begin our Architectural Archaeological fieldwork in february and will resume our neighborhood update meetings. Our competence in 2016 for phase 2. We respond to all of the comments on the draft sea ass eir and coordinate with fpa in preparation for coming to the board in january for approval. Earlier this year i should say. We completed our Construction Cost estimate update incorporating mpc recommendations based on peer review they provided. And last june begin to the board with our next steps for phase 2 approval and i were working with our partners to advance phase 2. We also partnered with the city on their rav study and their continued coordination with caltrain and highspeed rail. Our plan for phase 2 is to come back to the board in the next couple months for approval of the ses eir. Work with that pa to support the record of decision and secure funding for phase 2 update, complete the drawing to 30 , we do our cost estimate, to our risk assessment, ridership study to continue our Development Plan and or funding plan and to develop an integrated design schedule for the stakeholders. [inaudible]. Program why. So last year program wide basis as you all well know we approved the final baseline budget for phase 1. We released the master leasee rfp we party discussed today. Also, we worked quite a bit more on security hitting ready for that operational readiness completed the final draft of the concept of operations and also visited several stations around the country to talk about security with their experts. Also, in the last meeting at the end of the year you approved an update Title Vi Program that will get to fta this week. Then, upcoming. As we have talked about we will be executing and Asset Management agreement overly sooner rather than later. Earlier this you. We will be on boarding operational staff. I believe its at the beginning of next month or the end of this month that the American Public Transportation Association will be coming out to conduct a peer review of our Security Staffing plan and we will be also releasing rfp in awarding the contract for security services. On the small and disadvantaged Business Enterprise front, these numbers are for the life of the program so since 2004, weve awarded 337. 2 million in contracts to small and disadvantaged Business Enterprises that represents 20 of contract awards overall. To date, about 187 and 1,000,000 1 2 to those businesses. By the numbers, 37 of our prime subcontractors, 13 of them excuse me 13 of them are small Business Enterprises and over half of our subset of loans. This on the professional services site. Then on the construction site, also 37 of the prime subcontractors are small business. A funding. Some major accomplishments this year. The sale of parcel f halfway through the year major accomplishments last two. The sale parcel f letter to repay the Goldman Sachs wells fargo bridge loan. As you know, this board as well as city and mpc approve the shortterm financing that we are his bidding will close this afternoon. Receiving our first speech via disbursement as mark mentioned, almost 7 years after it close of the loan was a pretty major milestone for the program. And mpc and san diegan are reaffirming [inaudible] as the rates for priority and highperforming project and increase the regional commitment up to 1 billion from 650 million in new start funds. What will you will be doing this year . I will hopefully be having celebratory drink this afternoon after we close on the financing good we did this morning trade the Interest Rate cap. We were to sell the Interest Rate cap that we had for the Goldman Sachs bridge loan. You may recall from our Financial Statement that june 30 the data value about 1. 6 million and pleased to report that with the interestrate activity in the market we were able to sell that for over 3 million this morning and the new cap that we are being required to purchase by tif yet to hedge for the city financing only cost us one quarter million. So little bit of again there which is coupled to the program. We will continue to seek Grant Funding whenever there are opportunities. We apply for them and to the extent that we can reduce the amount of financing that we need to use, that would be fantastic. Continue to work with you on all our partners to seek full funding for phase 2 and of course this year we are also looking very closely at operational funding. Width the new were new to be secretary of the department of transportation get a conference last night. And the one thing that she said that was most important is that she was looking for a lot more private money to come into transportation projects. So i dont know how we do without now, but expect it. I imagine its the sort of thing that might carry through for a while while we are doing that. So as well just looking out to dot we should be looking out to see if its possible for private money we can get. She said she would specifically be looking for that for future funding. Without alternate over to scott for Community Outreach. Good morning directed as we move towards completion of phase 1 construction we of course about 2016 continue with all the construction outreach tools were putting in place over the years. These include our Monthly Community meetings we have them third wednesday of every month of noon at the tjpa office an opportunity for lovers of the public to receive the construction progress update ask any questions that they have. We continue to distribute our tenday construction look at it we put that up every week. That now goes to nearly 1500 recipients each week. We will conjure up a 24hour construction hotline. Any member of the public who has a question or concern about anything they see happening on the site can call that number any time of day for 15409 tjpa. We continue with our newsletters and expanding our social media outreach. So we have those platforms to highlight milestones, construction progress, things like the trees going in xp. It was mentioned earlier we should be highlighting that. We use our social media platforms to do so. We continue to provide towards two interested stakeholders. I felt we did a lot of doors in 2015. We actually had over 25 increase in 2016 get a think as the building comes together just to be more and more interest. Of course, continue to add to the components of our website including adding two new profiles to our faces of transbay page. Our most fundamental Community Outreach function is to keep our neighbors around the site both residential and commercial, informed of the activities that are under way that could impact them get so things like traffic flow whether that is pedestrian or vehicle or Evening Network to produce night noise. We are really pleased to report that in 2016 we are fewest complaints ever. Since the beginning of construction. We have been very pleased over the years that each year since 2011 you had an annual decrease in the total number of complaints with the exception of 2015. In 2015 we are a slight uptick but remember 2015 with the year we put most of the steel and please and thats [inaudible] so we went up slightly in 2015 but we are very proud and 2016 we reverted to the previous trend of going down each year. Again in fact that are fewest number of complaints ever. I like to commend our Construction Management team for all the work to make that happen. We get receive some notable recognition in 2016. The project received a best project award and Specialty Contracting from the engineering news record. We had a minister from the australian cabinet, to the site and be briefed on the project he then went back to australia and other living cities workshop in melbourne identify the project as a model for Value Capture particularly capturing value from surrounding private Sector Development for the chairs. 0 moment ago. Also as a model for innovative Transit Oriented Development of course we continue to take opportunities to give presentations, participate on panels [inaudible] more examples. In 2017, review our outreach work as expanding as we shift towards operations. We of course will continue with our construction outreach as we finished these final components of phase 1 and i will include further request from the board a couple meetings ago. You will have an event to mark the completion the bus ramp as a milestone. That will be sometime in mid april. But we will also be working really closely with her transit partners to think through how to make the transition into operations at the new Transit Center is smooth and seamless as possible. So that will of course be planning for a big grand opening event, but also working to educate the public not only about the beginning of operations at the Transit Center, but all the other amenities that really part of the facility and the ending of operations at the temporary terminal get some of you might remember when a temporary terminal [2010, we did things like temporary signage but it sidewalk decals. The team of Community Guides that were available to help people navigate good so we will be look at those are the strategies, but also working with our social media platforms, our website, and again on transit partners to develop strategies to make that as soon as possible. That will include updating the website because the function of the website will change as we transition from being primarily a construction project into an operating Transit Center. So that is what we will be focused on in 2017. I have a question, to comment on that. Maybe three. One is that my board is very interested in getting some clarity from the tjpa on whatwhen is operational expenses start and what does it cover and what are left or project expenses or whatever . Because we are on the hook on that operational cattle. They want to have some discussions early on as you set this up with what is it that we have to start looking at and start possibly budgeting for . I think some of those components i the meeting on 18th actually with mike [inaudible] we will go over the numbers. Yes. These sorts of things talk to him about what is all this Community Outreach going to be good i must say that the five and impressed by the lack of complaints. I think we have really handled this jobsite well in terms of the Community Outreach i think. I dont know what i wouldve expected but certainly more than what i think weve got it so i think thats been a big success. The last thing is that the Transportation Research board is going to be meeting from july 1014th. 2017 is can be a repeat of the meeting and 26 and it was so successful. It is ultimately based on Autonomous Vehicle technology some relationship to it but they want to tour the terminal. There will be a number of people so this is athis is the second biggest pr gpa after the annual. There may be as many as 1000 people there. But i dont know if youre the name of a Contact Person just love you know and we can start setting up up on your other point, in addition to them eating mark mentioned we do have a meeting with the marketing and are reaching for ac transit 20 on the 23rd to Start Talking to that. Thank you. Good morning directors him and give the construction update for 2016. The peek into what will happen in 2017 while weaving in some of my peel a quarterly slides which will dovetail with the staff report that was submitted. Was a very active year. Its been very productive year. We are well over the 700 workers out there. Were going to continue to go above that. As we start on boarding more electricians. We anticipate being closer to over 200 electricians here very shortly. Even though carpenters will be off boarding to be others coming on board but through this graphic that weve been using for a while now you can see its very colorful, very active upon the roof part. That middle section is the central zone which we are really getting a cut from requester and hot require a showing of good most of the [inaudible] is shown up and get out of the choir and hesters way and give them a lot of room to elbow as they start putting those trees and phone entered a lot of things that i can start taking shape this year. But that is taking shape very well. Its been very productive year. And the mezzanine and of course the ground level, it is very active throughout the area. Then down below its base we all the interior walls are almost there. The far left and you can see a lot of activity a lot of color thats in that area. The green lines are the ramps of the coop 2 howard st. From the lower concourse. And pedestrian accident theyre almost done and all of the concrete will be done by the end of february but the structural country is done itself. So in past years, 2013, weve done a comparison to the euro steel was very dramatic between beginning of your and the end of you. This is an as dramatic it is a lot of work thats inside but you can see that a lot of the concrete there and a lot of the rooftop elements have shown up over there and then within their the ground and i will show it and weve seen the pictures of route. That december 16 it looks very well as we were preparing for all the storms that weve just weather with all that shrinkwrap that shown in the picture on the right. Through 2016, its hard to believe its been a year now. The steel was installed. And welded in place did all the structural concrete was completed with the train being poured in 2016. Busted drive i o and the commuter ill is 75 pay much run the [inaudible] is left is made amends project on the bus that in our span proving was assaulted 20 cr various curtainwall i think of those two madigan the awning is well on its way. Its looking beautiful out there. I got tremendous complements the most on the awning. It will be done when i percent installed in just a few months. Feel like we just started it. So its looking beautiful out of it the other almonds are going well. The bottom left picture shows one of the rooftop skylights. This particular one is right where the choir has to trees are going to class and this one already usually well grasp this i would choose joint initiative its really starting to take shape to what we envision. Also, on the inside of the mechanical electrical, plumbing and hvac type elements are all progressing well. Cmu, all those interior partition walls, those are all coming along well. Then all the stairs progressing well throughout the Transit Center as well. Moving to it happen and bus ramp on 2016, i think there wasthey wrapped up a lot of work in the. There is still some elements left but in 2016, we completed all of the bridge construction. The bridge concrete is in place. The cable state, the cables were installed in 2016. The frame five, that is the drop in spin thats a connection between the cables they and the tradable Transit Center is going to be actively being worked on. It will be completed installed in next month. Thatll will allow the put the concrete deck in place in about conductivity by that april date that weve been talking about. But also all the cables for the frame for as well will get their armoring in shortly within the month and we will all complete by april. So very Good Progress on the bus ramp. As one of the graphics are we been using to show our jobs creation. From the life from the beginning of the project over 18,000 jobs. Weve touched 21 states. We are goal is to hit all 50. It would be tougher to hit montana south dakota or wyoming, but virginia would you mind for that one could seems like we find something that were actively looking in the goal is to have all 50 even if whatever we need to do to get alaska hawaii in there and the grand opening maybe thatll be what we need at that point. Veterans produce a very good year for veterans on the project with a lot of outreach. From helmets to hardhats activities to our veterans day lunch. It was very honored to serve the 31 veterans that are on our project and my daughter even joined us to serve lunches to everyone, all the veterans on the project. With court and turner sponsored that. And it was determined this access you can see that, roderigo was created out of that event. Beyond that too, a lot of Veterans Outreach career fairs of those guns of things continued as well. Regarding safety, 26 and was a better year than 2013. We had one lost time incidents that we had nine and recorded wills 11 in 2015 the number went down. We will update when the 2016 National Rates come in. But it was a good year for safety and even the first aid cases when we dump you at the report does but those have dropped dramatically in 2016. He obtained over 2. 8 million craft hours through the project by the end of 2016. Adding over 900 justin 2016 on. Those a third of our craft hours justin 2016. So choose you how much we really ramped up and will continue for little bit longer here. In our apprenticeship we continue to exceed our goals on apprenticeship. 16. 67 is our goals for well over 90 in our apprenticeship. Within the majority overwhelming majority of our premises coming from San Francisco county. In overall over that 2. 8 million craft hours, we have that county breakdown that shows the majority of the journeyman and areas there is other trades are still coming from the east bay. One of our highlights of the year of course was our interns. If 10 of them. In various different groups. We always look forward to those. These one more summer with interns working on the construction project, so we look for good im sure will start the process of very soon. Welcoming our interns back every summer. So what is coming up in 2017 . The bus ramp will be done. It will be ready here by april. All the underground utilities that are up by the west approach, bainbridge area will be finished here within a month or so. As long as it stops ranking people say that final jacketing goes up in february and that will really look done with substantial completion by april. That is our goal at this point. Complete final punch list as well in the 80 or so and there some tale activities such as commissioning element that ties into the Transit Center but it will be all done. The Transit Center itself, really, is it transitioning out of the traditional what we been reported on for years now. Were into the commissioning. Its pretty critical systems, integration of data networks. That is really where come this summer we are going to be reporting a lot on and how that is come together in the generality i called the black box kind of elements as we start getting the building ready , which one will talk to more in the operational readiness complete installation of wayfinding digital signage. Today actually a lot of the savagery of a block of down in corona down south. A lot of the qualities of making sure all our signage comes up to the standards we want. So those cuts of elements are happening very soon and complete our installation of our arbor from our terrazzo in the picture here. To the various couple other ones that are from shaw alley to the leds to display in the grand halted as we all look towards our substantial completion in end of 2017, good in years past we have been using the model to show you where we will be in a year from now. But i was really proud to be able to show that a year from now is go look like this renderings been staring looking at for years and years. Its going to look like this in a year from now from the grand hall to our skylights to our glass floor. With that i turn it over to ron to bring his own with operational readiness and his other slides. Thanks. Good morning directors. Thanks, dennis. Yes, its been a very good year, productive year. Albeit a challenging year and this coming year i think promises to be just as challenging but in different manner as we progress. The project. I just want to touch on the budget as i do every month. Really no new news here. Expenditures over the month were just under 20 million. Committed was an uptick of just over 13 million. Maintaining a about a 1 uptick on Program Budget and contract time and maintaining the estimate at completion. So you know, its proven out that we stabilize the budget and we are moving forward as planned. Likewise, with respect to schedule, no real seachange this last month. Weve achieved another month of maintaining a recovered schedule with the Transit Center earmarks were trending towards the contractual 12222017 for substantial completion. The bus ramp held top. Its a few days out from their contract will substantial completion of march. We are working real dedicated towards talking that in and ensuring that team things in the bus ramp as planned by the end of march. Even though weve got a lot of flow between the end of the bus ramp and actually open up the Transit Center. The bus storage facility, again, retained its plan and weve made some Good Progress on that in terms of going out to advertise for the construction. We would but clean up the Lease Agreement as was mentioned earlier at the ctc this month. So we are positioned to get back on track the bus storage facility. We have been trending the roof part as well because thats to joe and in 2018 and we are eager to Start Talking that substantial completion in as well. We are very encouraged by the vigor that what mcgwire and hester has hit the site with you they arrived last month, really, progressed a lot. Did a lot of cmu walls in and site features but as mentioned a few times, trees are, huge trot trees requiring crane, are arriving next week. So weve got good momentum and i am optimistic about that. At this point, we usually touch on the challenges day in and out on the project and im happy to say that nothing new has arisen that requires the attention of the board. I want to make good on what i mentioned last month that we were going to start advancing discussions and planning towards operational readiness. I mentioned last month that we are the have identified a handful of what we call distinct areas of activation that included the bus deck, the grand hall, the bus plaza, certain retail zones, and the Security Operations center. Geometrically, how that maps out, is i think in the most important keys first in terms of a focus of getting ready and start mobilizing or dovetailing staff in operational staff in is a Security Operations center. Thats going to be the brain and the eyes of the facility. So i think in terms of progressing with the construction and the focus on commissioning as well as on boarding this operational staff, we will see a high priority focused on that to position us to start on boarding other aspects of the project. Bus plaza is pretty much the stakeholder is muni. Its a distinct area. Off of buell. You yield and fremont. Very distinct pocket of training and operations in the future. The bus deck and ran home are kind of couple together is an area of importance. Its not the critical its on the Critical Path and thats where the majority of the transit operators are focused in their training and operational readiness. Then, lastly, greyhound waiting area is an area that needs to be handed over for tenant improvement work. So we are looking to hopefully dovetail that ti work interlaced with the advancement of the web core work. Compatible Work Together to advance it as soon as possible. Based on the current schedule from web core, as early as july i think we will start seeing that area starting to wane on Construction Activity and start affording an opportunity to get staff in there to understand with the systems are. Likewise, as we start working towards the bus ramp and the security center, we will be integrating those folks in to understand the building through the commissioning stage and also at the bus ramp in terms of ensuring the striping is correct in all that. So we have already sent out word to ac transit to be ready as early as march to arrive and partake in the finalizing of those elements. Likewise, on a parallel track with the master leasing which will be responsible for on boarding and staffing towards the rooftop park in the restaurant and thats another distinct area and another set of stakeholders that we need to focus on to prepare us to meet the targeted activation of the part. Then, lastly, there are various retail zones in the first floor retail west pretty much between first and second street. Likewise on the second floor where greyhound is not and then lastly we have the second floor retail, east is kind of distinct areas to focus certain stakeholders to advance to thinking of operations. As i think i mentioned last month, really, there are Three Streams of activity or stakeholders were camps of stakeholders. Theres a transit operators and their responsibilities towards operations of the bus. Then articulating their needs in terms of what it and would have likewise when the master leasee arrives we need them to focus on facilitys operations and maintenance. On boarding those and dovetailing them and for the handoff in december could then lastly the third stream of activity were pocket of stakeholders are the Property Managers to ramp up and perfect the retail leasing scheme and advance tenant agreements associated with that. Some thoughts were considerations that we been having as we start to intensify our meetings with the various stakeholders as that not all multiuser new Lease Agreements on for the operational staff. Security. Outreach. Some of the Public Relations that scott had mentioned. And also with that constraint of having to hand over block four by june of 2018, its never too early to start thinking about what it means to deactivate the temporary terminal and be ready for that as well. We only have to turn it over as is, right . Yes. Premuch okay. But it does take away one third of the temporary footprints which is one of many constraints that we need to give dovetail together. We have ac transit who i met with last one they guard on one of these ongoing meetings onthinking about when they will be operationally ready and despite my best efforts, i could not break the mindset of march 2018 because the set of constraints they have in terms of training and agreements and what have you. I think all the stakeholders will have their sets of constraints. We have hours and respect to making december the objective of these leaking viewings now is to daylight what those concerns, overlay them, and see where the daylight exists if theres opportunities to meet our objective to operationalize or operate the facility is close to december as possible. Is there an opportunitythere are opportunities for instance, given personnel and commissioned it we work closely with the contractors with their progression is, with their constraints are and identify what areas afford earlier, rather than later, ti opportunities we dont get in their way but we have our opportunities when they come up. If, in fact, and they were fairly convincing in terms of ac transit not being able to do better than march of 18, but there are otheras these areas of activation show and collection of stakeholdersthere are other opportunities. We may want to kick around the idea of some measured migration. West cat greyhound, if theyre more ready than others, that may be opportunity to have a measured migration and start operationalizing without throwing everything at everybody at once. So again, the next couple of months will be teasing out what are these constraints can map out a plan to operationalize the building. That is pretty much our report. Well, you know my position on that good i dont tolerate them being there later than the opening. So i am going to i been helping them to continue helping you on that respect. But i tell you, the one thing that i hear from ac transit more than anything is about we need to have some operational estimates that so you may find theyre trying to tie the to and trying to say when you figure out how much its pointed cost us to operate. Maybe they think that by delaying it three months they could do that, i dont know what they think theyre not come up with good enough reasons for me yet yes. That underscores another constraint that i did not mention. All the stakeholders have constraints and as do we and one of which is when is operational funding going to be ready to support opening and running that this outfit thats another dimension that needs to be nurtured sooner rather than later. Yes. Theyre worried about that. Really operating as opposed to just kind of operating. They are going to get one of the things that this prb conference opened up was, every facility that has taxi accessand weve never talked about how we are handling taxes, right . But all those the cities that handle taxis are being overwhelmed with Spielberg Uber and left. So the number of vehicles coming in their now are quite substantial. That is going to be heavily tourist the subject i think we may look at that and say well if that happens to us is there anything that weis there anything we need to be prepared for queen because other facilities are saying that its really hampering them because they were not ready for it. Yes. It has come up in discussions. For to work on a positioned with these zones in terms of distinct zone for muni, bus only on the deck. Taxis being off the north and south sides bs but the trouble is uber and lift you can use those facilities they will go somewhere and the Impact Community thats going back the city thats going back traffic. All that needs to be thought about. Whether or not we will say give it a try at first and see what happens. Yes. Any many challenges but its going to be a good year. Okay. Just a couple of quick questions but overall this is a great overview. For all the folks that presented, will be a good concise but complete. Were accounting of a lot of work weve done. In 16 and more to come in 70 so i appreciate the overall report. A couple of questions just on the same last bits of conversation did i just want to comment to the respect that you are anticipating that the startup of operations are going to have cost impacts to any of the stakeholders, you really need to start articulating and the only goes down soon because most of the stakeholders will be building their budgets for the fiscal 1718 starting about now. This operation will happen in that fiscal year. So if it is march, april, may and you say by the way this can be another cost. Some of these agencies may not be in a position to be able to address it because well miss the budget cycle. Just a comment and a caution. Then the question has to do with the discussion about the vacation of the temporary terminal. I understand i have technically there are three different parcels that i understand there is a maybe a range of transition from say december through march and i think although im 1 with a chair that we want to get people in the facility as soon as possible its a lot to move at once. So it may make sense to do a little bit over time, but that notwithstanding, you made a comment about something being just one third of the temporary terminal. Which im not sure i understood. The temperate when would be we will be ready to fully vacate and turn back to ocii each of the three parcels, though think we it depends on how the migration over to the new terminal plays out but the temporary terminal is comprised of three blocks. Two of which will be handed over to ocii. One of which is obligated to be at least available to be turned over in june of 2018 to the purchasers of parcel off. F so to block towards, block 12 and three, would be ready to hand over as soon as ac transit and others migrate over. Okay. Assuming migration happens by march of 2018, we should be ready then . Yes. The idea is that as we work with the transit operators and ac transit, they are not able to move into the Transit Center in december it will be march. By then all operators are vacated the temporary terminal by then and the temperature model can be turned over. Like ron says, block four is one third. [inaudible] developer or have the option. The other box we turned over to ocii. The idea is march 1 is the last day. Thank you. I want to add my complements to the report. It was very clear, very articulate, very easy to understand, but probably also unfair because its a lot of hard work by thousands of people that his activities are not happening one by themselves. Theyre all happening concurrently and with the work coming in first 2017 you probably adding another thousand players and stakeholders to the mix that is just amazing that, as everyone is taking turns to present their portion of the report, it understates the complexity of the funding, the context, the neighborhood, the labor conditions, everything. Here we are getting very close to the finish line and being ready to actually occupy and run buses and people and retail. So my complements to everyone, to the thousands of people involved it is amazing how difficult this is when you look at all the different parts and really think about it. But it is a great accomplishment for the last year and looking for to even more at this you. So thank you very much. Complements to everyone. Thank you. No one member of the public dont want to comment on the item. Good morning. Happy new year and chair harper thank you very much for bringing up what sec. Chao said last night. Reality mckinney got to start looking this when [inaudible] what i want to do is to share what i know about this and how we can make this work. Now realistically speaking, if you want the private sector to just build edx thats just not going to happen. The reason its not going to happen is because you dont have the right ship. You maybe dont have the right [inaudible] and its also contained does not shut well it just negligible. Given talk about passenger facility [inaudible]. But if you take a different approach, and you now start looking at the transbay tunnel you have massive ridership right that. The transbay tunnel to the private sector is a nobrainer. They know this is like basically starting a money printing machine. The key is, this is where you come in, and where people in the east they come in, is that you have to work on the book ends on the inside. The only way it work with the private sector for transbay tunnel is pretty much going to be from howard and the scottish eight shots to the pause on the other side. Absolutely weight financially this can be made to work. So [inaudible] anyway thats gone to death to be resolved. At that point, when you have got to hundred thousand passengers coming in and out of the transbay terminal every day, these trains have to carry on. You have to go to the tjx and that point passenger [inaudible] for the gtx is beginning to make sense of the private sector might actually chip in and say, we will do gtx is what i will leave it at that. Thank you. Thank you. That completes members of the public will want to address one that item. Next item item 11 is discussion of the caution regarding potential invitation to a Public Agency to join the Transbay Joint Powers Authority as a new member. Directors, as i mentioned i do of a meeting later this month with the ceoarouse highspeed rail to discuss the steps it and what it takes to do it. We made out in the staff report the benefits of inviting highspeed rail to the board and steps that are required and the amendment that are required to do that. If the board wishes to proceed with that. Ill turn it over to yes. , i think some of the issues herethere was some discussion about well and retake california highspeed rail, are we sayinghow narrow to be wanted in terms of the specification as to who would qualify . Would it be a board member or senior manager or Something Like that . I dont know that we do want to necessarily specify that but that kind of came up as an issue as to who we would accept. The other thing is, think given this report, i mean, in my opinion i dont have any problem with leaving the quorum and number of votes needed but the way comes out under the bylaws. Would be a bylaw change if for some reason we want to change one of these numbers here. I think would staff is saying is that basically, you dont have to. Theres no reason to, but you may want to make up quorum bigger or smaller. In fact it would be that. The other thing is i dont know what the timing is with respect to the director, the additional director that San Francisco would have and how long that might take. So i presume that if california highspeed rail is ready to put on a director and San Francisco is and for whatever reason we can still accept the highspeed rail director knowing that San Francisco can take whatever time it wants to figure out who has the authority and how that will work with an additional director. Because thats what i think would be the only possible timeline could i presume were talking about just giving everybody notice very early on with our letters. Same, look this is our intent so that they can act on contingent this all happens they can make zero points. I do know how often california highspeed rail needs. Probably monthly. But if we want to basically get not get caught up into this, this debt can happen because that did not happen, have it ready make the decisions as early as they want everybody to fall in place when the three numbers here in the city and ac transit and joint powers board make their decisions, as to allowing a new member. I guess that would be the first step concurrence with reaching out to highspeed rail and getting their agreement as well formally. Yes. Saying we have the director will go back to their agencies and get a resolution. Yes. Thats right. Yes, thats right. That has to be to elicit that in the report. If you have any questions, heather can elaborate on that. Yes, jeff . My comment in looking at the staff report the timeline might be a little aggressive that we would be able to seed the new members by march 1 with all the resolutions in between the agencies. So i just grabbed a new member sitting here by our march meeting and having i dont know how fast ac transit moves or jvp get erosion and my dealer past yes. Thats my concern about getting everyone out there working at the sometimes we dont have to wait for each pot to kick in. This one this month, this one next month is always going to be tight tie lines. [inaudible] i think its great. Theres not really, since we do want to do this, theres not much reason to wait for anybody to cogitate about it. If you want to do it or not . I suppose even coltrane california highspeed rail if we could give them a membership there would not even have to do it. If you look at the agreement between us, the tjpa agreement it is interesting because it says that San Francisco at one point when it talks about bringing in a new member in one line, it says the fan shall have shelving and a new member. In another one it says, San Francisco may bring in a new member. Which makes a lot more sense but you cant force San Francisco to do anything given our lack of Enforcement Authority but i think i found the kind of interesting that they changed birds within the same document. But i presume San Francisco will wanted new member. Any other questions great not a question but i think is extremely important. Advanced deftly the right thing to the ultimate will be one of the biggest stakeholders of this terminal and the reason we are building is to get highspeed rail and caltrain to the transbay Transit Center. That is absolutely the right thing to do. I think there are decisions that we are going to be making an information we are going to be seen in 2017 better very much about phase 2. So i agree. Maybe its an overly ambitious schedule but things went on we should shoot for because the things coming up very soon or imminent, that we will have longlasting impact that think the sooner we have a voice at the table better off. I would assume they would want the same. So i will certainly work for on our side to try to move it on the San Francisco site as quickly as possible. I dont think we will have necessarily a big lag in terms of getting [inaudible] but if we do with an empty seat good i dont think thats a problem. In terms of needing to change the bylaws, i think the staff laid outit looks like the agreement kind of anticipates already with the changes of the quorums and approval thresholds will be. So i would noti guess i would not be opposed to considering any changes but i dont think they be necessary. Probably would be overly complicating it could its kind of surprising that its pretty safe or half to make this change should the board and three member agencies in highspeed rail one to do so that i think the sooner and faster we can do it the better. Okay. You have a resolution we do have an action item. You will take action new one member of the public that wants to address you on the item. Okay. Thank you, directors but this is actually the reason why made the trip today. I dont normally slander people in public but im going to be make an exception today for mr. Gibner. Mr. Timothy is on record as stating his intention was to stick a fork in the san jose towns. Its eventually led to his demise under san jose dot. He was eventually stopped by the highspeed rail dot as essentially was deflating his way out of city hall. Mr. Zabeneh one of the 220 people witnesses so you can ask him. He can remember it was the summer 20 [inaudible] this one is happened what happened in san jose is particularly to you. Its very important to you. Because we all know that we are beginning to get some kind of consensus on how were going to go with gtx and learning [inaudible] central subway. The last thing you want at this stage is a repeat of the divisive taxes for which mr. Gibner was famous in san jose. Last but not least, with regard to the motion from today mr. [inaudible] try to do this at the tjpa laster and was denied. [inaudible] any reason the tjpa which are active in my request to you is to reject the staff proposal. The staff are never going to reach out to disturb trickles. This is what happened here and this is the reason why the meeting with the Planning Department did not happen. This is deja vu that ive seen this in san joses alum asking you to deny the staff report. Unanimously. Thank you for a much. Moved for approval motion . I think we had this discussion a number of times and we know the challenges are ahead of us and we need to make sure highspeed rail is represented at the table and they are in partnership with us. Like ed said, the city would be smart to do what we need to do. Its a mistake to change what you want to do structurally because of individuals. You have to do your structure based upon the assumption youre going to have, [inaudible] we have a first and a segment with that director tran i got reiskin aye nuru aye harper yet. Thats for aye and item 11 is approved. Your next item item 12 z legend of chair and vice chair which was noted earlier under item 3 that the item was being proposed to next month. At this time, you are now scheduled to go into closed session not received any indication member the public wants to address you on the item listed. However they have an opportunity to do so now. We will go ahead and clear for closed session. The tjpa board of directors meeting of january 12, 2017 is back in session. Reporting out in closed session on item 15 conference with the Real Property negotiators regarding payment for longterm master lease of transbay Transit Center but there is no action to reports. On item 16 conference with Legal Counsel existing litigation. Communicates john engle versus Millennium Partners at all there is no action to report. On case lay him versus Transbay Joint Powers Authority theres no action to report. On item 17, conference with Legal Counsel anticipated litigation five potential cases there is no action to report. That does conclude your agenda for today. All right. Adjourned. [gavel] [adjournment]. Things for joining us toy and thank you all Interface Council and Public Safety and Department Heads to the Police Commission to all those that are worked together 0 make sure our city is safe and successful for the most part let me personally change chief of police toney chaplin. clapping. tip line i didnt stepped up and led our department with grace and indirectly during a trying time for the city and worked tirelessly to move our San Francisco Police Department forward an pathway to reform and the San Francisco Police Department is better day then when we took the rule and acting chief for that were all indebted to tony. Thank you on behalf of myself and the city of San Francisco the only reason i didnt thank you very much. As you all know this process was very comprehensive a great deal of effort in searching candidates with the skill setsdz and characteristics that are desired and talked about in so many communities meetings and the right experience to lead the San Francisco Police Department the search included internal and external national as well as local about the its my pleasure to announce the author process paid off we found a candidate that both the commission and i felt embodied what the Police Department needs in the police chief in William Scott the deputy chief of the San Francisco Police Department. Deputy kind of scott a 20year veteran of lapd