commissioner kingsley: that's great. appreciate that. president mazzucco: what date do you think we should schedule this? commissioner chan, we were thinking maybe on the 24th -- excuse me. >> 24th of august? president mazzucco: no. >> what time are you talking about? commissioner chan: i think it's going to be -- >> commissioner turman: i'd like to get a priority list done first. because, you know, the whole thing is to figure out what we're going to do and if we keep usurping, then it become as moot point. so i just -- you know, let's decide kind of what we're going to do before we schedule it. that would be my concern, trying to follow protocol. commissioner chan: i have a suggestion because i knew that would come up and makes sense to organize our priorities.

and knowing the way c.i.t. worked and the way other things worked is that we should first get a presentation from the department, not a long one but a short one, where are we, how much staff do we have, what are the services, it can be a short presentation and after that we can discuss -- after our priorities we can discuss what we want to do knowing what the department status is. i think that's fine. we often ask about the status of various departments and procedures and that's not us taking action. it's just asking for a presentation as a part of the chief's report. commissioner turman: indeed it probably will be a priority because if you're going to put it on august 24 it will come after our august 10 meeting and be there anyway. i'm fine with that. i want to make sure we put it on the list. president mazzucco: i was thinking july 28. commissioner chan: prior to the chief's report. president mazzucco: give us a little background. let's do july 28. how does the commission feel about july 27th. july 27th.

nobody wants to come on the 28th. july 27. >> the 27th, commissioners? president mazzucco: the 27th. yes. ok. any public comment regarding line items 2, a, b, c or d? ms. grove. >> my concern is simple. i want my protection and to have my protection, that means my officers have to be protected. if you want to give them a presentation on how nut cakes act, habitually when trying to accost an officer, try to kill an officer, wound or maim an officer when an officer isn't supposed to respond because the nut cakes in control, i think you better think again. the officer's life is much more important than any twit that wants to be pretending he wasn't taking his very education -- his medication so

he can't be held responsible for any of his actions. that is the latest thing that is set forth here. there are so many false statements coming forth from the psychiatric profession, i consider them entirely fraud. the officers are to be protected, and i think the citizens are to be protected. they want to go around like last week with a broken bottle and knife and you get shot dead, well, too bad for him. there was an officer being buried over across the bay with on the same day they tried to have a nut cake routine on the freeway, gee, that didn't work either. he got shot dead. that's the way it should be handled if they want to attack an officer. thank you. president mazzucco: any further comment? hearing none, next item. item 3. >> item 3 is public comment on all matters pertaining to item 5 below, closed session disciplinary cases including public comment on the vote whethero hold item 5 in closed

session. president mazzucco: commissioner chan asked a question about a department bulletin. follow up? >> so the difference in the bulletin, if you look at the fourth paragraph, the district attorney -- we agreed with the district attorney's office that permission would be obtained in writing on the permission to search form prior to executing the search and that any oral permission would be audio taped. so in the past, sometimes permission would be given and then if you didn't have the form or you didn't have the tape recorder, when you got back to the station, you would ask the person to sign the format the time, no problem, or you would ask them, hey, i'm going to put you on tape, we're going to have a conversation, remember, you gave me permission to search and you do it after the fact. so now we're requiring it to be in writing on the form or orally and on tape beforehand. if you forgot the form, go get

the form. if you don't have the tape recorder, get the tape recorder and get it down before you go in. the final paragraph, the fifth paragraph is a reminder of the new requirement that came out in department bulletin 11077 where we've made so many great cases starting with the mrs. chin case at third and palu that the video we're requiring that the officers survey an area for any and all video even if it might be hand-held by a witness via cell phone and if you cannot find any video to actually put a line in the police report so that the officers know that they have to at least do everything they can do to find it. if they locate video they have to take all measures they can to secure the video as best evidence. otherwise the rest of the bulletin is pretty much just a reminder boilerplate language of our obligations. president mazzucco: commissioner turman? commissioner turman: thank you.

chief, i've read the bulletin. in fact, you borrowed mine. but i just want to point out and be clear on this, that i think that obtaining a record of the actual consent is a very -- it's a good idea, it's a good practice. also, it is tempered, however, by practice considerations of circumstances, is it not because there may be circumstances we are not for one reason or another able to obtain the necessary writing or audio recording. i'm not saying we should excuse it in any way but we need to make sure that we understand that we're requiring this and that there might be circumstances in which this can't be practically accomplished. is that correct? >> yes, it is. but the district attorney wants us to understand that he is saying it's a requirement so we have to understand that if he decides not to proceed because

we didn't comply with this bulletin that that's an expense we may incur, however we would still try to make the case as best we can at the time. commissioner turman: thank you. president mazzucco: any follow-up public comment? hearing none, public comment is closed. we can move to line item 3 which was previously announced which is public comment regarding closed session matters. as we discussed earlier, these are disciplinary mattered protect bid copely versus strength decision and the police officers bill of rights s. there public comment regarding the closed session matters? hearing none, public comment is closed. please call line item 5. >> item 4 is a vote whether to hold item 4 in closed session. >> so moved. >> second. president mazzucco: all in favor. aye. ladies and gentlemen, we're now moving to closed sessi >> we are back in open session.

>> we have the same commissioners. we are going to item number six, a vote whether to disclose any or all discussions on item five held on closed session. "move not to disclose. >> second. >> excuse me, did we skip item 5 f on the agenda? >> that was a discussion that we pretty much already had earlier regarding the first matter. >> so those two things that i discussed will be in the close -- >> are we calendar in those now?

>> let's calendar the closed session item. this is for the 27th. >> the 27 of -- >> july. >> that is to discuss the disciplinary matters that the city attorney was going to present a couple of months ago but got deferred. we have already handled the second matter. >> without objection on the motion. >> we have a motion for nondisclosure regarding the closed session matter. >> second. >> all those in favor. >> public comment. >> item number7 is adjournment. >> do we have a motion? >> so moved.

director ortiz: regular meeting of the tjpa. ready to call order. madam secretary, please call the order. >> i would like to note that gabriel metcalf as honest as the mayor's appointees -- gabriel metcalf is joining us as the mayor's appointees. with that, [roll call]

vice chair, you do have a quorum. item three, communications. i know of none. item four, board of directors new and old business. director ortiz: new or old business for the board of directors? seeing none, let's look to the next one. >> item 5, executive director report. director ayerdi-kaplan: good morning. i would like to begin by welcoming the newest member of our board, director metcalf. welcome. he is the mayor's recent appointee. thank you for being with us. next, i would like to just said that as of june 2011, over 900,000 workers have been employed on the demolition and construction of the project, so that certainly shows stimulus is working. we are pleased to report that today. i also wanted to report that we are in our third year of our summer internship program,

working with high school students. we have three that were hired by urs to work with their program office as well as the tjpa office. two students are from the san francisco unified school district and one is from the high school. with the organization has six interns working on the project, and as you know, we require all of our contractors to work with interns from high school throughout the bay area as well as colleges. that has been working very well. in fact, one of our interns is here today with a spirit with respect to transit center design, we are moving forward, working on our 100% construction document, which we hope to have completed by the first quarter of 2012. most of our activities now are focusing on a construction, which we will report on momentarily. with respect to the temporary terminal, our link facilities manager continues to meet with greyhound on a regular basis to

ensure that operations are running smoothly. they did provide additional staffing and security for our san francisco pride parade on sunday, june 26, and everything went well. they are closing out -- mcgwire and hester will be closing their contract soon, and we did issue a letter authorizing final intention release. with respect to the wealth component of the program, we continue coordinating with caltrain, and i'm pleased to report that all the designs made by high-speed rail have been accepted by the rail authority. so that is good news. we did reach final comment resolution on the dual board report prepared by parsons. the final report was submitted on june 29. our station is designed to accommodate dual mode operations as well. now, i would like to have our

construction of date, but what we have been doing as well as what we plan to do over the next number of months. >> good morning, directors. i am with turner construction providing the construction management oversight. there it is. thank you. this morning, i would like to provide our normal construction of date and also give you more details about what is coming up the next couple of years, which is the majority of the buttress shoring and excavation work. on the demolition site, the contractor -- the contract was substantially complete in june, meeting the revised schedule of the demolition with the original terminal and the bus ramps all cleaned up, and they moved on to the demolition of the additional building. they are also working on abatement of two of the four

additional buildings. one of the additional buildings is actually down to the podium that today, and they will be finishing that up this week and next and starting on the next two buildings on howard street. in addition, they spent time this last month working with the artists on the sculpture, helping to do some of the initial shaping on those pieces that have been staged on the central area of the project. on the utility relocation site, a lot of information on this slide, but i have highlighted the dates of completion, as we reported before the initial five packages on the utility's should wind up before the end of the summer with most completing by the end of the month. we are still on track for that. that includes the water relocation on howard and beale, the store relocation, and 4.5.1 is just about done.

there are slides of them repaving. water and sewer location is well under way for the end of july finish. and the water and sewer on natoma and first streets is going into the middle of august. the final package, which will start next year, is water system on mission street. that was just released i believe last month or the month before, and they are working on some models and the long lead time for that. -- they're working on submittals. finally, the screen while we build to the north of the project, the eastern end in front of the 301 mission building is completed. they will be cleaned up this month, but the drive was reopened at the end of june, and a couple of modifications to it under way, but in general, it looks great, and they are

pleased with it. that opens the drive way back up and gives them back some of their valet parking area. on the transit center proper, the contractor continues to work on pre-trenching and getting set up to study buttress work in the eastern zone at the end of the month -- at the end of august, and the shoring wall. all of which i will explain a little bit more as we continue to go through. suggest -- so just some pictures to bring you up-to-date. the shop on the right is the end of june. the picture on the left is the end of may. the big thing to note is the contractor completed their drilling had. that is the concrete area filled in in the upper right hand corner of the right hand picture. that gives them a level, clean place to set up for their buttress drilling. that is the area of the buttress that will be going in. the equipment on site, talk about it in a minute. the rest of the site they

continue to put together shoring wall beams. they are about 1/3 of the way through with the number of beams. they need over 800 for the entire 30-foot shoring wall. they are about 1/3 of the way through putting this together. you can see the additional work at the far west end. they started doing pre-trenching on ministry and some work on anchor. you can see they are mobilizing their second shoring wall brick. they have started a test panel with that rig this past week. that is a shot clean out to the bay going south from the project where we remove all the ramps. really no change other than the demolition contract finished up by removing the tree, and now, the bse contractor has been able to relocate their office trailers out there and set up so they can work on the west end of the project.

as i said, there is some remaining demolition of the additional building. this slide shows the basic schedule of when those will all be done. we plan to have the final building them by the end of august. that will allow this area -- there is one archeology pit that needs to be completed in this area. for the most part, the bs &e contractor will be able to move in at the end of september. just some shots of natoma coming down. it ended up being more of a thick-frame building then we envision, but it came down rather easily in about four or five days, and they have been removing the debris pile for the past few days, and there is a one-story concrete deck they have been working on. shaping the piece is for the hawkins and artworks -- shaping the pieces for the hawkinson artwork. the utility location continues to work. these are some of the tougher

areas they continue to work this past month. that is beale and howard and the effort that goes into that. the work under second street at the end up -- of natoma. as i said, ministry repairs were completed this last june. there is a picture of the screen wall that was finished. as far as the bay area labor, we are still at over 80% coming from the bay area on the 52,000 hours that evans brothers has completed. about the same -- 84% on the 31,000 hours completed thus far by the trade contractors working for webcor/obayashi. this is where i want to move into a little description of what is happening over the next two or three years. bse stands for buttress, shoring, and excavation, and

that is what the scope of their work is. it really consists of four primary components. the pre-trenching component to clear away the shore wall itself. the buttressed in the eastern zone. and the actual excavation. in the process of doing the excavation, they will install traffic bridges, both to maintain the traffic on the three main streets -- fremont, first, and feel -- as well as a trestle bridge, which i will show you down in the middle of the site -- fremont, first, and beale. the first that is the pre- trenching. that has been going on since june. they are removing the top 10 to 15 feet of soil to remove any debris and soil that we suspect from previous construction and the earthquake debris and everything else that has been thrown in there, making sure that the utilities have been relocated as advertised and getting ready to place the shoring wall. here are some shots of some of

that work going on this last month. the one on the left is behind natoma, where they are taking the asphalt off in preparation for the pre-printing. you can see the reason for doing this is to find the constructions in the picture -- you can see some old woodpiles that were not supposed to be there. as i said, the work began in june. it is a regular shift, working monday through friday. some we can work is necessary to keep up, and typical ours is a typical construction date. the next component is the shoring wall itself wallcdsm, which it -- or cdsm, which stands for cement deep shoring

mixing. about 3300 lineal feet of this, and this is where the beams getting put together get dropped vertically into it, about every four feet. what it allows us to do is then breaks off the bat. as we dig down, we will add across bracing, and it also holds back the water from entering the site, so we only have to do the local de-watering within the footprint of the excavation. some shots of them do in the test will section in order to convince us all that they have the right mix designed for both permeability of the water and the strength of the wall. they did a test wall section, completed that on june 18 in eastern zone. we are waiting for the 20-day care of that. that is this friday. it will start taking core samples and verify the strength of the wall and be able to move on to the production will shortly. you can see this moves on to

about the middle of next year. again, this work will be monday through friday for the most part. might be some we can work if we need to accelerate. it is atypical the ship, although the plan to work a long ship because once you get the equipment going, it is difficult to stop at any one point -- it is a typical day shift, although they plan to work a long shift. the buttresses are designed to protect the money and power during the excavation. it is made up of 207 interlocking 7-foot diameter 240-foot shafts. i want to show you pictures of how those get drilled. that is basically the layout. the top of the picture would be the millennium property, the 301 mission property, or the south wall of their property on the western side, on the fremont street side. just shows you how the math is

developed by the buttresses to support the millennium property next door. so the first 50 feet of the buttress is sort of the week concrete that gets dugout. so here is the equipment that is used. the item on the left is called the rotator. 2,200 millimeters. it allows them to do a seven- foot diameter bore straight down. the equipment on the right is what feeds into the casings of the rotator. the object that is hanging is literally called a grab. it goes down into the seven-foot casing, pulls out the mud and dirt and soil and eventually the rock at the bottom as it did down. how this process works is the rotator will set up in the location of the whole, and load

a 20-foot section of casing that has teeth on it into the rotator vertically. that is the picture on the left. the rotator will literally spend the casing and drilled it down into the ground with hydraulics. it pushes it as it drills until they reach the required debt, which, as i said, is about 240 feet, into bedrock. once the whole -- hole is cleaned out, they put concrete in for the entire length and pull the casing out as the concrete is that in. you can imagine, 240 feet down, there is a tremendous amount of pressure. during the drilling operation, even when they are not actually trying to drill further into the hole, they have to rotate the casing. whether it is every hour or every 15 minutes or a couple of times in the middle of the night, they will have to rotate the casing. we will talk about that in a minute, but that is due to the fact that they are 240 feet down

of a steel casing, and they cannot afford to have that lock up or freeze up because of the pressure. they will be using two rigs at the same time, two 10 or 12-hour shifts, and a swing shift that will go back and forth in an attempt to get back to -- we plan to have a production rate of 2.5 shafts completed per week, which runs the schedule out to 83 weeks. that is a total of 207 shafts in 83 weeks, which gets the work done in april 2013. we plan to start this on august 29 with the first hole getting started that day. again, as i said, the two shifts during the day, there will be a need to rotate the casings throughout the weekend. the drillers as if they are above the halfway mark, they can probably leave it and not turn

it in the middle of the night or on the weekend. if they are below the halfway mark, certainly, they will have to come in and rotate. whether it is every 15 minutes or once an hour or every other hour. another feature of the work is the traffic bridges and the trestle bridge that will run the length of the project. basically, the objective is to maintain traffic on first, fremont, and beale street, with a minimum of three lanes and the pedestrian lanes. in addition, in the east/west direction, there will be a 30- foot trestle bridge to allow them to have equipment operating to assist with the excavation process. this shows you the layout of the trestle bridge running the length of the project, and also, you can