we have a 75-gallon tank that we used and we have someone take it from here to recycle. >> so far, we have 35 people. we have collected 78 gallons, if not more. these are other locations that you can go. it is absolutely free. you just need to have the location open. you are set to go.

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>> welcome to a special meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. it is friday, april 15, 2011. please call the roll. supervisor avalos: absent.

supervisor campos: present. supervisor chiu: present. supervisor chu: absent. supervisor cohen: present. supervisor farrell: present. supervisor mar: present. supervisor mirkarimi: present. supervisor chiu: this was a specially called meeting. some of our colleagues were able to be here. if we could have a motion to excuse them, without objection, they shall be excused. please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [no audio] supervisor chiu: are there any

communications? >> i have no communications. item # one is a motion nominating supervisor mirkarimi for a seat on the california coastal committee. supervisor chiu: without objection, he shall be excused. colleagues, could we take a roll-call vote on item number one? supervisor chiu: aye. supervisor cohen: aye. supervisor elsbernd: aye. supervisor kim: aye. supervisor mar: aye supervisor wiener: aye. supervisor chiu: this motion is approved. we can now move to general public comment. please read the instructions. >> public comment is an opportunity for the public to address the board. two minutes -- address the board

for two minutes. speakers using translation assistance shall be allowed twice the amount of time. members of the public may participate with the overhead projection. supervisor chiu: are there any members of the public will like to comment? see none, general public comment is closed. colleagues, thank you for taking part in this meeting. we want to make sure that our colleague is duly appointed back to the california coastal commission. congratulations, supervisor mirkarimi. >> that concludes our business. supervisor chiu: at this time, this meeting is adjourned. ♪

director ford: good morning. i would like to call to order the april meeting of the transjay joint powers authority. >> i would like to note that

director cohen will not be present. [roll call] mr. chairman, you do have a quorum. director ford: thank you. let's move on to the next item. >> item 3 is communications, and i know of none. director ford: ok, no communications. let's move on to the executive director's report, item five. >> should we call item four? director ford: new and old business. go ahead. >> any new or old business? none? >> good morning, directors, members of the public. we continue to make progress and i still on schedule on the construction document -- which are still slated to have those

100% completed by the end of this year. bus ramps -- design team is reviewing the structure. the design of the rams. on the bus storage, we had a public meeting with the community to present an update and get feedback and lay out on the sound walls. next month, we will be presenting to the board some images of what we're thinking about for the bus storage component of the program. temporary terminal is running well. operations are all in order. we are finishing the installation of the traffic signals requested by san francisco mta. we are working to finalize the system requirements on that here we continue our design review meetings, specifically looking at the lower levels, and i would like to have nancy give us an update on funding. >> good morning. this is a quick update on the

phase one and two funding plans. we have $880 million of the $1.589 billion in our funding plan. we have $880 million allocated today. the largest of those allocations is a $400 million grant. with that grand, we had an issue where we were going to have to use that grant in a traditional fashion where we would have to put money out first in regard to expenditures first and then get reimbursed, which we do not have much working capital. we were faced with the potential to have to seek outside funding in the form of a loan and pay interest and financing charges on that, but we were recently able to work with fra and get a procedure in place where we would not have to do that, so we have been able to avoid that possibility. it took us a while to get it in place, but they eventually agreed with our approach, and we were able to make the expenditures with the grant funds in hand. that was a big success for us.

on phase two, we continue to seek funding, of course. recently, we submitted a grant on april 4 for a preliminary engineering grant to continue the work for phase two. this is under the high-speed rail federal funds. we are looking for about $2 million. that concludes my report. director ford: quick question. go ahead, vice chair. director ortiz: how will the federal funds impact phase one and to a wheel? >> the $400 million grant is already in place, so it has been obligated, and we do not expect there will be any sort of impact from the budget discussions on that. on the future grants we have been applying for, it is not totally clear yet right now whether or not they will be impacted or not. all of that money -- it has not

been decided what will happen with the new money. the moneys applied most recently are the funds that were returned from other states for the high- speed rail. they made it available in grant form, so we do not have any further information on whether or not -- >> but it does look good? >> absolutely. director ortiz: refresh my memory -- what was the reason we extended the cowas it high-spee? we will continue with the extension of three years regardless of whether the money is there or not? >> that money is there. yes, we are continuing with that, drawing on the regularly. we are reducing the fund right now, and we will continue to do that. >> the extension was based on the box, correct? >> yes, and the box money is already executed and awarded. that is not in any jeopardy.

the bulk of our presentation, because now we are in the construction phase of the program, demolishing and moving utilities and starting the buttress excavation work shortly, will be presented by steve rowlings from charter. >> good morning. providing construction management oversight. quick update -- there is. quick update, some of the highlights. again, the demolition work is going along very well. over 42,000 craft hours again without any incidents, accidents, or injuries to the workers. big milestone in the demolition phase is early last month, we turned over the first zone to the buttress shoring and excavation package contractor, turn it over, so they could get

started and mobilized into that space. that is at the far east end of the project. and we are working our way south now towards the bay bridge and the freeway, removing the bus routes, as the final phase of the demolition. continue to recycle the concrete debris and use its backfill in the central and west ends, and we are actually starting to work to coordinate with webcor and obayashi to turn over those areas early. so things are progressing well for the demolition face. in addition, the utility relocation packages, things are going very well. lee silver insulation is not completed. just awaiting the main -- the tie-ins to the main store. 4.3, which is the water on howard, between first and main streets, is completed. sfwd will start making the tie-

ins to the properties there over the course of the next two weeks. that began this last week. 4.4, the water and sewer lines are in progress. 4.5.1, which was our first utility, and a lot of rough worked. the water was completed earlier. the store is about 75% complete, and the joy trench is about 60% complete -- the sewer is about 75%. this package, 4.6, is sort along beale street -- sewer along real street. they are starting to work on infrastructures now. the 301 mission will continue to progress. we had to put in some scaffolding for additional access due to the demolition project right next to it. they've made the first concrete pour.

the big package, the budget shoring and excavation is under way. woodpile extraction ashley started at the end of the month appear in march 31, we put the -- pulled the first woodpiles out. -- woodpile extraction actually started at the end of the month. the work is starting to progress quite quickly. take a look at a few photographs. again, there is the demolition. the blue area is just about complete. that is the transit center, and we are already working on turning over pieces of that. the orange area are the ramps. in fact, this weekend, we are doing the ramp over fulsome. we will have a folsom st. closure and do that. the overall time line is we are still on track to finish of the major demolition activities by june 6. and clean everything up by early july. that is the schedule.

i know it is hard to read, but that is the schedule of getting to the bus ramps by the beginning of june, beginning of may. so the picture on the left is from the end of february, and the one on the right is from the end of march. you can see how the contract were demobilized from the eastern end of the project, and the buttress shoring and excavation contractor mobilized and started getting ready to pull pile, which they did at the very end of the month. that is the center and western end. again, two comparison voters. you can see how the backfill progress. -- two comparison photographs. they are moving in to start staging their shoring wall operation. some progress on the ramps going up to the freeway. the picture on the left was the work completed through the end of february with just crossing howard st., and now, we are all

the way up and across clementine, and heading for a closure on fulsome this week and, to keep working south all the way through the freeway. this was one of the trickier pieces of work. the 235 second street building was constructed after the boss ramp was billed -- after the bus ramp was built, and part of the building projected in, so the contractor was careful to remove those sections and did it successfully without damage and allow the property owner to get in and do some temporary waterproofing until the entire structure is down later, and they can come in and catch their own wall. we were worried about that. it was touchy work, but the guys did a great job and got it down successfully. again, the 4.5.1 was the first package of bonn ministry. the latest package is the beale street package that routes

utilities around on main. here is some of the work that has been completed last month. the work behind howard is almost complete, all the way out to second street. the upper left photograph is at the corner of second and natoma. that is the joint french -- joint trench, and that continues well. continued progress on that work. pg&e is getting their work done as well. they had to install a large bowl on fremont street that had to be custom-made. that was installed this last month. the wall on mission, they've gotten that out and reported it, so they are ready to start working on the framing of the wall.