so a little bit about the schedule the environmental document was approved by the sfmta and even though lead of the project contributed to the sfmta and peter has been leading the effort and mta implemented the design so it's underway a new project cac was formed and they've met on june 26th a new group of people some people from the environmental cac were there the final design takes us stilettos sum and construction beginning in early 2016 with revenue options in the mid of 2018. with the completion of thirty percent design in the conceptual engineering report there was a new cost estimate to increase to $162 million it's completely fund through the recreational and was the federal small start fund. the c e r identified a few challenges with the project technical and otherwise they've found first they're focused on the station design so one of the goals of the projects is to achieve the level boarding where the doors line up with the platform and there's issues with the vehicle prosecute curd the lug nuts stick out they'll scratch a platform and in addition trying to achieve vertical

elementary school safe roots to the system we were able to feature this in the local papers thank you sfmta for delivering this it project will includes a speed curb on and russian island a large round about. we were trying to draw altercation to those projects to comfort on the clarifying delivery and design to insure they continue to move forward this fall we expect to see chinatown and other promotions move forward. for more information on those types of project please vital sf and contact courtney at the transportation authority. the project for the nsb r project we thank the arts and civic design domino for their approval of the brt designs they have jurisdiction over the urban design and expressed their appreciation to coordinate across the departments. so thank you for that and pleased to see that move forward >> now with the completion of that milestone we're going to position quarterly on the reports. you have the geary project this continues with the circulation of our administrative draft and we're prepping to circulate that to the mta and to the public in the october formulate a

elementary school safe roots to the system we were able to feature this in the local papers thank you sfmta for delivering this it project will includes a speed curb on and russian island a large round about. we were trying to draw altercation to those projects to comfort on the clarifying delivery and design to insure they continue to move forward this fall we expect to see chinatown and other promotions move forward. for more information on those types of project please vital sf and contact courtney at the transportation authority. the project for the nsb r project we thank the arts and civic design d

do we have anyone from sfmta to speak on this item? >> good morning. i'm louis [speaker not understood], senior light rail engineer for muni. thank you, supervisor mar and chair farrell for allowing us to present this project to overhaul 16 of the muni historic [speaker not understood] streetcars. [speaker not understood] and they've been in regular service since then. just due to normal wear and tear, they need to be overhauled again. this overhaul will be a ground up restoration so the cars will be essentially new when they come back and we expect to get another 20 years out of them. we're only going to be taking four cars out of service at a time, so, service won't be affected during the project. the contract is with brookville equipment, contract value is $34.4 million. and if you have any questions, we'd be glad to answer them. >> okay, thank you. colleagues, no questions? mr. row, can we go to your report, please? >> yes, mr. chairman, supervisor mar. on page 4 of our report, a budget for the proposed project costs will be 34.5 million as shown i