in closing, the central line will become the most active in the system, providing an active downtown link with downtown growth and $1 billion introduced into the local economy, representing an unprecedented return of federal dollars in federal investment. a big thank-you goes out for working with us. thank you. >> -- supervisor campos: if i may, there are certain conditions that staff is recommending on page 186 where the mta would respect those conditions.

>> my recollection of the board action today is that they are included in the reference and foliate knowledge by the program, which fully intends to comply with the proposed conditions. as we have shown through the prior conditions imposed. >> one of the conditions is the same schedule and cost funding plan adopted by the authority board. is that an action that needs to be taken by the board? >> that action will be taken this afternoon. supervisor campos: rate. thank you very much. supervisor chu: i was surprised to see in camp -- condition no. 2 the delegation of staff. again, i want to understand,

did management not understand who was responsible for these management pieces? is there a reason that needs to be called out here? >> the agency has resources that have been edified and have been working on the program, dealing with everything from grant applications to collaborations with authority. while i cannot speak to why it was placed on to read, i can assure this body that we will work in collaboration with transportation authority to provide it by weekly briefings with a more active outreach. stepping back, this program has been managed in compliance with

the process that provides a very structured program in dealing with risk management. the transportation authority is a part of that process. that umbrella also includes financial management, posted with biweekly meetings to address financial issues on the program. supervisor chu: i know that last november it looked like there were differences between the agencies and in the funding agreement. can you talk about the working relationship between your agencies? are we comfortable that the relationship is working out and that these conditions and a grammar rules will take care of the conditions as raised in the

past? >> on my behalf, i believe that the program has an outstanding relationship with the transportation authority. these ground rules will simply continue to enhance that. turning financial management into a more transparent process and transparently structured process. while in any relationship there is always room for improvement, we will continue to strive to improve the relationship of the transportation authority through these ground rules. supervisor chu: supervisor campos: thank youcampos -- thank you. supervisor campos: great. let's open it up to public comment. seeing no one, public comment is closed. this is an action item. we will take that without

objection. colleagues, the item passes. colleagues, given the time, i am wondering if with respect to items 7 and 9, i am wondering if we can come back to that or if they can be presented again at the entire transportation authority meeting. >> i can cover both in my report. if there are questions, we can have them then. supervisor campos: let's move away from these items. would anyone like to speak on items 7 and 9? seeing no one, public comment is closed. item number 10? >> new items. supervisor campos: introduction of new items? is there any member of the public that would like to speak? seeing no one, public comment is closed. item number 11? >> public comment.

supervisor campos: would any member of the audience like to speak on anything within the jurisdiction of this committee? seeing no one, public comment is closed. next item? >> adjournment. supervisor campos: we are adjourned. have a good tuesday.

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. there is that first woodpile extracted from the project as we move into a completely new phase with the excavation contractor. the archaeologists are at the far east and of the project, finishing up. they have backfill that hold out and have one more test to do up on the west end, which will start after some building demolition on that and -- end. just under 90% on the demolition side, and on the utility side, they are tracking at almost 99% local labor with 11,000 hours

completed to date. are there any questions? >> on this last two pieces, you include kraft hours -- craft hours and number of bay area labor. can you include also the number of, i guess -- i'm looking for information on small business, local businesses. why we do not include back. >> the small business -- right now, the utility packages, each of those are small business entities, and then, there are some on the team, and that is sort of a company entity. we can either track that here, or i think there is another report we use for that. the mas, we report on that regularly. as a reminder, all of the utility location work is 100% small business. >> any other questions?

thank you very much. >> thank you, directors. that concludes my report. >> will go ahead and look to item six. this is an opportunity for members of the public to address the committee on matters that are not on the calendar. >> good morning. i am a resident in the rincon hill neighborhood, a block away from the temporary terminal. i wanted to take this opportunity to compliment the tjpa on a fine job. as jim lazarus said, it is pretty amazing that such a large demolition project has taken place with so little -- whatever -- with so little negative feedback. i think the transbay jpa has done an excellent job. the contractors have done an excellent job. just wanted to give you some

praise. it is not often that public agencies here praise from neighbors, so good job. the other reason i'm here is with the work being done on utilities and streets being torn up a bit, i'm wondering if there may be an opportunity to paint in some crosswalks, you know, paid in the zebra stripes. pedestrian safety is one of the top concerns in south of market, and if this is an opportunity -- well, the streets are a little torn up, to paint crosswalks, so the drivers know that pedestrians are using the streets in addition to their cars, that would be very much appreciated. harrison street -- a lot of residents live along harrison street. there are about 300 children that live between fulsome and the bay bridge. with the use of second street. and in increasing population of

elderly folks. people moved into my building in 1991 and are retiring. any help that you can give for pedestrian safety. if there are any funds you are saving from bids that are lower than what was budgeted, if you could help us with painting in the stripes on the crosswalk, that will be great. harrison street is a little bit out of your purview, but the drivers -- once they get through some of the delays in construction traffic, they are shoving the gas pedal down, on their way up to the bay bridge. anything we can do to make the streets in my neighborhood, residential neighborhood, look a little less like freeways and more like residential streets would be appreciated. again, great job on the demolition, and thank you. >> that includes members of the public that wanted to address

you on that item. director ford: ok. let's close public, and moving -- move on to the next item. >> item 7, authorizing the executive director to execute a contract for additional construction services, increasing the contract by $223,800. >> directors, steve will report on this item. >> again, turner construction. this item is made up of five smaller changes, including one for existing conditions that were unknown. there's foundation law -- there is a foundation wall on the way to the shore in wall, so we needed to reengineer that and demolished part of this unknown wall, and forseen wall. there was also some diesel-

soaked asphalt planks and subsequent soil contamination that needed to be removed. some fence lines that were not in accordance with what the original bid documents had in, and at the beale street bar and grill, in order to maintain additional pedestrian access, we asked evans brothers to replace the paving that was not originally part of their contract. finally, we have asked evans brothers to pave a north/south side what -- sidewalk on the west side of fremont streets and both the west and east sides of remonstrate in order to maintain pedestrian traffic and save some issues there with taking up street space. are there any questions? thank you. director ford: all right, seeing none, can we have a motion?

>> no members of the public, i did not see that they wanted to address you on that item. director ford: ok, all those in favor? suppose? >> item 7 is approved. moving to item eight, presentation of the tjpa fiscal year 2011-2012 budget outlook. >> good morning, directors. this is the budget outlook under the tjpa budget policy. we do the fiscal year budget in a three-step process. we bring you the outlook, which is sort of a broad overview narrative. in may, we will bring you a draft budget. in june, we will bring you the final budget. we are really managing this project under the baseline budget that you have approved. the 1.589.

the fiscal year budget is really just a slice of that capital budget. each year, we aggressively estimate expenditures and bring to you what we believe is our best estimates of the slice of the overall capital project, but because we are funded by grants and those grants do not expire, if we were to excel expenditures, construction was occurring ahead of schedule, we could always of men the fiscal year budget to bring things forward as long as we are within our overall capital budget. as in years past, this fiscal year budget will look very much like previous fiscal year budgets, other than, of course, the construction line items will be much greater. the major expenditure categories are professional and specialized services, which includes our consultant services, and, of course, construction now

appeared right-of-way acquisition. although we will have completed phase one -- we are anticipating to have completed phase one by the beginning of this coming fiscal year, there will also be expenditures associated with that acquisition. the eminent domain actions will carry forward. there will be relocation assistance and other expenses associated. the other three major categories are salaries and benefits for tjpa staff, administrative costs, and also our reserve fund. the budget will come to you -- the revenue section will have two parts -- planned revenue and committed revenue, and the committed revenue will show what has actually been allocated in a grant, and planned revenue will be what we will be working with the funding partners to allocate throughout the year. then, for the second year, we will be bringing you an operating budget as well for the

temporary terminal, and that will cover expenditures associated with management for the temporary terminal, security, parking control, and the bridge toll funds that we receive are expected to cover all of those costs, and we also received some rent from greyhound and have an rfp for advertising on that, so we expect some revenue from that. are there any questions? director ford: any questions? ok, so you will be back before us? >> correct. director ford: that will give us a chance to digest staffs of metals, and we can go from there. all right. thank you. >> all right, moving to the next item, item 9 is approving an agreement to compensate the owners of certain property adjacent to the transit center for extraordinary waste disposal costs as a result of the impairment