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agencies. there was a for free at staging at the shopping center and then deployment of resources as needed in an appropriate manner, and i think now, as we step back from the acute challenge to now their recovery challenge and mutual support and aid, that will serve us well, and i want to underscore that we will make ourselves available, every department, every member of our city team bureaucracy. our hearts go out to families and the gym is overwhelmed, but i told him to let the mayor know and the city manager's no that we are here to be supportive, and we will do everything in our power to encourage that. i want to encourage everyone we know to give back, to do so through the red cross or other agencies, and obviously, we have this great protocol that generated a lot of resources for shady -- haiti and for what
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occurred in the gulf, katrina. we make that available for all city employees and ask that to the extent that they are willing, that they make themselves available to help those that are in need. under the circumstances, again, i just want to tip my hat to all of your around this room, and thank you to pg&e. the big take away here is now we need to know our assets. we need to know about our infrastructure, and we need to work collaborative live together so that this never occurs anywhere else ever again. -- we need to work collaboratively so that this never happens again. i appreciate both of you willing to be here under this circumstance. >> [inaudible] mayor newsom:: thank you. 9/11 commemoration tomorrow. she's, you are doing a number of things.
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perhaps you could just let folks know. >> certainly. tomorrow is the day that none of us will forget and none of us should forget. at every fire station in the city, we have 43, including our station on treasure island. all of our members and the public are certainly welcome to for dissipate and observe a moment of silence and a special ceremony for those that lost their lives, whether it be at the pentagon in and sylvania or at the world trade center, and we will be reading of, as we have every year since 9/11, the names of the firefighters that paid the ultimate price and gave the ultimate sacrifice at the world trade center. all of our stations will be getting under way with the ceremony, and it will last probably 35 minutes or so. i believe there is a national order to have all the flags at
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half staff as well. >> i need to call for some public comment. is there any public comment at this time on this particular item? seeing none, i want to move on. basically, i would like to recommend, and i am planning on rescheduling item four, the summary of the after action reports, and item five, project cornerstone wireless broadband public safety initiatives until our next disaster council meeting. date and location to be announced. at that moment, at this time, i need to open it up to general public comment. seeing none, we are going to go ahead and i churn. thank you all very much for coming and for your patience today. -- seeing none, we are going to go ahead and add churn. thank you all for coming today and for your patience today.
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director ford: i would like to call to order the september 9 meeting of the tjpa. madam secretary, please call the roll. >> [inaudible] mr. chairman, you do have a quorum. item three is communications. director ford: are you aware of any communications? no communications. ok, with that, what is our next
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expect to be able to get the temporary terminal contractor, who has already received a notice to come back, finish of last third of their starting september 20. just a reminder on how the demolition phasing goes, the pink areas -- the southern pink area is the work behind the schwab building, and that is the work that is almost completed. we're starting to progress of northward across veal street. they are doing the abatement right now, and we will start taking the deal street crossing down a week after next. this is where it all began the night of the 13th with the hammering on the top of the debt 40 howard street crossing. they were ready to cut the dean's list by saturday morning. sunday, the street was reopened ahead of schedule in the late
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afternoon. if we can, the deal street cross -- the next weekend, the bill street crossing, as you know, that ralph was put in 10 or 15 years ago. both of those overpasses came down over that weekend. there was a removal of the overpass. by the end of the second week in, the notice to proceed, they have cleared the temporary terminal site as well as the two crossings. here they are working about two weeks ago. that work will be completed. as far as a time line, to give
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you an idea of what is coming next, the fremontó[ street, wee working northwest across veal street, so that will be the next street crossing. in two weeks, we will close that. about three weeks' worth of work. and then into the tempore terminal, starting at the east end and working across fremont by the end of october. utility relocation work, we hope to release that contract in october at the next board meeting, which will allow them to get started, and demolition will proceed through of the terminal. having to take any questions if there are any. >> i have a question. they may be covering it in the next couple killed leave. [inaudible] it was my understanding of those had been taken care of and those are fine now. >> if we will be giving an
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update on what we have been doing with public outrage, but steve can address what we did. >> there were complaints of the first weekend with the start of the camera, the large equipment in the hours of saturday morning -- the start of the equipment, the start of the hammering. the solution was to limit the use of heavy equipment between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., and we have been following that the last four weeks, and there has been basically a moratorium on that unless there is a safety issue or emergency situation. we will try to maintain that brought the rest of the project. we have not received any complaints since that first weekend. >> the second item, we met briefly yesterday and talked about the jobs that were being created and some of the can it go counters you had with some of
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the workers and how everyone is happy to be back at work in this economy. how many of these beliefs that are working on the job for our local hires? do we have any sense of that? >> we can get that information from the prevailing wage report. i would be happy to pass that along to read shortly. some of their flight thursday brought in for a fringes of work. their crew sizes -- tend to 15 -- some of their crews they brought in for apprentice work. their crew sizes, at 10 to 15. >> as you correctly pointed out, public out -- is an important component of construction or demolition activity, and we have been working closely with the community. >> good morning, directors.
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here we go. as the executive director, we have been ramping up our demolition support that transition into the construction phase -- our demolition outreach to support the transition into the construction phase. we are on the ground daily. we have ongoing communications with all the property managers. we have held community meetings each month on the debt militiamen -- we have. we do those meetings tjpa.
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we talk about street or later " if some people have an idea of what they cannot expect they feel very well involve -- to give some people an idea of what they could expect, and people have said that they feel very informed. >> there were some issues about the lack of restroom facilities at the temporary terminal. is there anything you for thinking about doing about that, or do you just think it works the way it is laid out? >> currently, the restaurants have been closed. in the post-9/11 world, they have decided to close the restrooms. the world we live in and out, post-9/11, so until we find
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providing that, we do not offer restroom facilities at this time -- until we find a way of providing that. thank you, directors. that concludes my report. >> thank you very much. >> public comment is an opportunity to address the authority on the items not on today's calendar. we have not received any indication that any member of the public wishes to address you. >> if a member of the public wishes to address the board. with that, public comment is closed. >> we will go ahead and move into your consent calendar work all the items are -- considered to be routine and will be acted upon by a single vote. mr. chairman, directors, i have not received any indication that any director or member of the
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public wish to have an eye and severed. director ford: i will entertain a motion. moved and properly second. all those in favor? opposed? motion carries. >> with that, your consent calendar is approved, and we can move into your regular calendar. item 8 is of a rise in the executive director to execute a special services agreement for legal services with a law firm for five years with an option to extend the term for an additional three years at a cost not to exceed $1 million. -- not to exceed $4 million. >> the selection committee report is included with your item. we received nine proposals and short list the two firms that were most responsive to what we were looking for. he held interviews, and shute
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mihaly and qeinberger was ranked highest. they have been providing services for five years, and staff is comfortable that the contract is beneficial, very reasonable rates to what we saw across other proposals, and a very well-rounded for that is responsive to our needs. director ortiz: this question does not have anything to do with the selection of shute, mihaly & weinberger. this is about the next paragraph where you said you had it was the -- you havenñ selected a proposal. please no i did not have left but the content of this firm. they are really well respected. it is the process. i was looking at the value wave of life, and those firms did not score as high as villains.
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allocation. >> i'm happy to second. >> this is good news. >> item ten is of the life of the executive director to execute a professional services agreement for level advocacy services. >> sarah will also report on the selection process for these items. >> we also received nine proposals for this rfp, and the selection committee matched and rank the two
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