>> good morning, and welcome to the transbay joint power authority board of director's meeting for thursday, november 14th. can we take roll call please? >> sure, i will note for the regard due to the scheduling conflicts, sartipi and lloyd are absent and lee will join us. >> harper, present. >> here. >> lee. >> present. >> metcalf. >> here. >> and director reiskin? >> present. >> and chair kim. >> here. >> madam chair you do have a quorum. >> thank you, are there any communications today? seeing none, any board of director's new or old business? seeing none, we will move on to the executive director's report. >> good morning directors and members of the public,

typically we don't hold a december meeting because of schedule travel and so forth and november is our last board meeting given that this is most likely our last meeting of the year i would like to report on the highlights, in particular since director lee is joining us today and has not been with us this last year. and the various things that we accomplished and with respect to the transbay project, beginning with the ground breaking and the sale of tea to hains, and that is how we started off the year and we then sold block six as well to gala for 30 million and entered into an agreement with havan and bridge housing to purchase, block nine for 43 million, this is working with the office of community and structure and we have to thank them for the work and support throughout the year. in addition i want to let the board know that on november 20th, ocii will release the rfp for block 8 which will

secretary the development teams for 540 market rate and 240 affordable units on november 20th. >> another major accomplishment this year was receiving the final and conclusive determination from the state department of finance, confirming that all of our redevelopment forces are available, and again, i thank ocii and tiffany and her team for working with us on that. and if you know we updated phase one this year and we included prudent, and also recommended by the department of homeland security and fema and it goes to the best practices that the project is enjoying in the process we vowed to engineer many of the key elements and the exterior of the statement from glass to metal and incorporated the design which many people are excited about. and a number of elements saving millions of dollars for the project.

next month, we are going to publish the statement and expect to receive an unqualified opinion which is the highest level of confidence that any public agency can receive on the financial records and books and so we continue to do good work on that front. i thank our cfo and her finance team for the good work that they are doing there, we started as you know permanent construction of the station by pouring the foundation at the rail levels and we are joined by the board by our chair person kim and mayor lee and leader pelosi., and so that was an mrirment and we also were awarded the steel contract and this month, we put out to bid, the current loft and skylights and so we are starting to move quickly now on all of the work that needs to happen to bring the station above ground and i want to let the board and the public know that we received a complimentary report from the federal railroad administration and because we are receiveding

400 million from them, they over see the pro-yekt and came and reviewed all of our records and found that we were in compliance with all of the rewards, and we submit everything in a timely manner free of errors and moving forward on schedule as projected and they listed us as being a project that they want to hold up as a national standard and model and some of the things that they mentioned was the accident work that we do on the document control and the use of technology and ben 360 probably monitor the ground movement and how we out reach to students and veterans and all of the educational tours that we conduct and the quality assurance that gave us a great deal of kutos for as well as the project labor agreement and work with doing to fund public art. and so those are just some of the highlights of the things they really noted as the best praks on the projects so i will

have the report for the board in december. and finally i want the board to know that we have been working throughout the year as we have in years past on the rail extension on the project we have been working with the rail and the federal rail administration and we hear about the work and the advances on the engineering on the bath front and updated the cost and schedule and reviews the various delivery methods as a path forward to delivering the project. we have been asked, how can we deliver the extension and what are the options and you will be hearing about the various objections and sources later in the presentation. i should add that some time ago we briefed the board on a study that we asked sifel consulting to conduct. what benefits will come as a result of having a new transit center with the buses and rail and marks and the report has been completed and i have a copy for the board and the

bottom line is the summary is that as a result of building the public transportation infrastructure, the property values increased in a quarter of a mile of the station by 3.9 billion and for the property, both residential and commercial and this produces many benefits for the project and one of them is the ad dishing tax revenues that we can use for affordable housing and the infrastructure. and i did want to congratulate transit on the new fleet of buses and they held an event at the terminal last week and director harper was there along with the general manager and the ac transit staff and it was the trip on the eline, i believe and the coaches are green colored and manufacturered locally and bringing jobs to the bay area

and feature a number of amendies such as padded seats and overhead storage and reading lights, so congratulations a tasty transit and just that we have finished the celebrating veteran's day, i wanted to see if ted was here to give an update on the work that we have done with the veterans and given that we just remember the work that the veterans do, thank you. >> good morning. thanks for having me. i just wanted to give you an update on what has been happening in the last six months with respect to our work or veteran's hiring. as you know we have convened a number of roundtable kind of conferences working, leadings with different cvos and city agencies and veteran assist organizations as well as employers and the unions on what to do towards bettering opportunity for the veterans in the industry of construction industry. and i am proud to announce that one of the contractors

association united contract's this past cret veteran's day announced an initiative focused on construction and opportunities in construction, and so immediately, our ceo and signed off on the pledge, and i'm going to work with our affiliates team members on the transbay project as well, as the general construction and industry, locally to drive both veterans and sourcing veterans as well as the organization helping them toward this initiative. because as we knowthe initiative talk is cheap but the action speaks louder than words so what will be asked and actually be working actively with united contractors on driving the opportunities with the veterans in the construction site and as an example on november 21st, we will have an luncheon and we

will be describing to the students who are at the veteran's corn and her have this built, recently for a place for veterans to kind of have so to speak a hang out and a place to convene will be speaking on construction opportunities, whether it is going to be sfstate, university grad who is a web employee, to describe how he got from sfstate, to a project engineering position, as well as the operating engineers union, because as you know, the anvil builders is a disabled veteran's owned company that was on the manalit and the package has a 50 percent veterans or i think that is disabled veteran's goal for the labor and we are going to actually try to help them achieve that to bring in the engineers at sfstate there are a lot of students who are enrolled and don't necessarily realize that it might not be the place for them and so we like to see whatever opportunities we can show them.

in this single venue. so i will report back on that once we start this series of lectures, so that is my update for now, if you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. thank you. >> thank you. >> ted. >> and i appreciate the good work that ted does as well as web corps and now i would like to ask jack adams to present our construction update with turner and steve could not be here today and jack is with toner and so he will be giving us the regular construction update. i'm jack adams oversight for the project on transbay. there were no injuries to report since we last met. we did have one small fire where one of the construction workers put a bag of trash in the bottom of a metal dumpster and i am sorry, yeah. and one of the other iron workers was cutting metal and caught the bag on fire and it

was put out by the fire immediately. there are 885,000 hours of construction since we cited 23 years ago and 25 works hours since the last presentation. going down on mission street and it is the last that we have to upgrade on the water system for the fire department. and that is going at night now, and we are concentrating now down in the mid section of main and mission and working our way west. and the excavation work is really progressed. and it is 90 percent complete now and all of the bracing in. and supporting the walls all the way into zone three. which is down to freemont street. it is between freemont and beal

and we have bracing and the excavation has started and we also relocated some utility conduits underneath the bridge and that was completed by pgand e and that was in support of the block. and the grounding and the med slab and excavation and bracing is completed we can go up to zone three. and we are moving along with the excavation, and we can follow on the work of the micropiles and the thermal and micro piling will follow. the slab pours we have poured over 28,000 cubic yards and so you may know that just about every saturday we start around midnight on friday and we pour between 4,000 and 6,000 yards of concrete any from where 400

to 600 separate delivers and that has gone really well and our next pour is november 23rd. and one final pour on december 7th. >> and the next step that after we get the concrete into the excavation is to start removing the bracing that we install last year and the concrete supports the wall, and we were able to remove the bracing and start to form the vertical walls and columns and that has started to level, debracing, has started the removal on october 28th and we are in the middle of the third section. and the wall forming is started and the next 30 days. and expected to complete the excavation in zone four down to level cand the third level, and started to level four. and bracing, and that will not company pleat in november but

it will complete in the next 60 days. >> and that will be completed in the next 30 days. by next period we should be reporting how many walls will be poured. >> and we will be installing the water proofing and in the mud slabs this period and we started the casting, and kansas and louisiana right now is doing our future steel structure and that is ongoing. we will continue for the next period on mission street. and down by main and working our way towards first street and we will remobilize the micropile contractor. in 60 days we should have all of the bracing in zone four through the final level d.

and the demolition should be complete. and which is the final level. and continuing the reinforcing steel and water proofing and construction in zone three and continue in the west and central zones, and the next 90 days we should complete the excavation and maria touched on it and we have the bids out now and we should be receiving the back up bids for the structural concrete, at street level and the glazing packages and the other large packages are out to bid now and we should have those back in the next 90 days. >> and the time line of construction, we are well through the excavation and almost done, and the low grade structure and in the middle of pouring walls and the super structure is coming up in the near future and there are key mild stone dates for construction and no real change here. it just walks you through the

utility and the slab pures and begins in nine months from now we will have the first piece of steel erected and the bus ramp is one of the packages that is out to bid and it should start in 2014. and final completing is on track for 2014. >> and the fbe time line, and we are practically through that and we through the bid package. and the rebracing is part of the package has started. and i have gotten, two and a half sections removed on level d. and low great concrete has gone really well. as you can see, we are three quauters of the way through the grounding and the geo thermal and the water proofing is crack slab and the mat slab has just started but we are about two-thirds of the way done by the end of this, by we will be

two-thirds of the mat slab. by the bottom of the train box, here is the graphic that shows where we are at a couple of weeks old now or ten days old now and it shows the green area is where we had the mat slab poured and if you look closely you can see the yellow where we are starting to remove some of the bracing and we have a lot further advanced now since this graphic was up and published ten days ago. there is the arial views of the central and west section and progress. here is some close up views of the slab foundation being poured. and you will see the rebar down there. very robust, structure. the top of the mat slab and you can see the bracing and once that was poured we were able to remove that bracing out and start forming the walls. this is just more photos of the

progress. and that slab foundation pours and bracing the removal status it was a couple of weeks old. and yellow there has been removed and that is progressing now where we are actually down here in the northwest corner and this is some up close photos of the up close removal and the storage of the bracing, and it will be reused to rebrace the walls as we work our ways up and some of the bracing gets reused. and we have the walls as we are rebuilding. >> and this is the close up shots. and the d section progress where this is still excavation and that has gone well and it just about pulling all of the piles, and some even from the cold miner ra and the excavation bracing and there is

up close photos that was going well and, no fabric indication and a new m trick for the board and we will continue to. and we will probably add more metrics and we have the different steel castings that were in progress and right now we have 12 that are complete and four of those 12 are in the machining process. and the transbay team is flying to kansas next week to do the architectal review and look at these first four and the first article of the first four that are ready. and there is a good photo of the louisiana foundry, and for it was a contractor working for web core and this is in the rough form and it will get cleaned up and the machine and .

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