free parking is what he asked for. of all things. and of course, with this opportunity that we could not pass up, where would a 100-share birthday bash the without the official birthday song? i'm going to ask liang-liang to get on the piano. and i'm going to have ask all of you to sing in your loudest voice. he would like to have his friends in china hear this. let's go with have a birthday, everybody.

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>> i'm your host of "culturewire," and today, here at electric works in san francisco. nice to see you today. thanks for inviting us in and showing us your amazing facility today. >> my pleasure. >> how long has electric works been around? >> electric works has been in san francisco since the beginning of 2007. we moved here from brisbane from our old innovation. we do printmaking, gallery shows, and we have a fabulous retail store where there are lots of fun things to find. >> we will look at all of that as we walk around. it is incredible to me how many different things you do. how is it you identify that san francisco was in need of all these different services? >> it came from stepping out of graduate school in 1972.

i wrote a little thing about how this is an idea, how our world should work. it should have printmaking, archiving, a gallery. it should have a retail store. in 1972, i wanted to have art sales, point-of-sale at the grocery store. >> so you go through the manifesto. with the bay area should have. you are making art incredibly accessible in so many different ways, so that is a good segue. let's take a walk around the facilities. here we are in your gallery space. can you tell me about the current show? >> the current show is jeff chadsey. he is working on mylar velum, a smooth, beautiful drawing surface. i do not know anyone that draws as well as he does.

it is perfect, following the contours and making the shape of the body. >> your gallery represents artists from all over, not just the bay area, an artist that work in a lot of different media. how to use some of what you look for in artists you represent? >> it is dependent on people are confident with their materials. that is a really important thing. there is enough stuff in the world already. >> you also have in his current show an artist who makes sculpture out of some really interesting types of materials. let's go over and take a look at that. here we are in a smaller space. project gallery. >> artists used the parameters of this space to find relationships between the work that is not out in the big gallery. >> i noticed a lot of artists doing really site-specific work. >> this is a pile of balloons,

something that is so familiar, like a child's balloon. in this proportion, suddenly, it becomes something out of a dream. >> or a nightmare. >> may be a nightmare. >> this one over here is even harder to figure out what the initial material is. >> this is made out of puffy paint. often, kids use it to decorate their clothes. she has made all these lines of paint. >> for the pieces we are looking at, is there a core of foam or something in the middle of these pieces that she built on top of? >> i'm not telling. >> ah, a secret. >> this silver is aluminum foil, crumbled of aluminum foil. her aesthetic is very much that quiet, japanese spatial thing that i really admire. their attention to the

materiality of the things of the world. >> this is a nice juxtaposition you have going on right now. you have a more established artists alongside and emerging artists. is that something important to you as well? >> very important in this space, to have artists who really have not shown much. now let's look at other aspects of electric works operation. let's go to the bookstore. >> ok. >> in all seriousness, here we are in your store. this is the first space you encounter when you come in off the street. it has evolved since you open here into the most amazingly curious selection of things. >> this was the project for the berkeley art museum. it was -- this is from william wiley's retrospective, when he got up onstage to sing a song,

270 people put on the cat. >> it is not just a bookstore. it is a store. can you talk us through some of your favorites? >> these are made in china, but they are made out of cattails. >> these pieces of here, you have a whale head and various animals and their health over there, and they are jewelry. >> we do fund raisers for nonprofits, so we are doing a project for the magic theater, so there are some pretty funny cartoons. they are probably not for prime time. >> you sort of have a kind of holistic relationship where you might do merchandise in the store that promotes their work and practice, and also, prince for them. maybe we should go back and look at the print operation now. >> let's go. >> before we go into the print shop, i noticed some incredible

items you have talked back here. what are we standing in front of? >> this is william wiley, only one earth. this is a print edition. there are only eight total, and what we wanted to do was expand the idea of printmaking. this is really an art object. there we go. >> besides the punball machine, what do you produce in limited edition? >> there is the slot machine. if you win the super jackpot, you have saved the world. >> what about work? >> the right design, it was three volumes with lithographs in each volume. the cab of count dracula with 20

lithographs inside and lined with beaver fur. really special. >> let's move on to the print shop. >> ok. the core of what we do is making things. this is an example. this is a print project that will be a fund-raiser for the contemporary music players. we decided to put it in the portfolio so you could either frame at or have it on your bookshelf. >> so nonprofits can come to you, not just visual are nonprofits, but just nonprofits can come to you, and you will produce prints for them to sell, and the profits, they can keep. >> the return on investment is usually four times to 10 times the amount of investment. this is for the bio reserve in mexico, and this is one of the artists we represent. >> you also make prints for the

artists that you represent. over here are some large prints by a phenomenal artist. >> he writes these beautiful things. anyone who has told you paradise is a book of rules is -- has only appeared through the windows. this is from all over coffee. we are contract printers for all kinds of organizations all across the country. >> thank you very much for showing us around today. i really appreciate you taking the time to let me get better acquainted with the operation and also to share with our "culturewire" team.

>> and thought to ask what all of this minority interest in a joint powers authority to order. we call the roll, please. >> i would like to note that vice chair ortiz as the conflict. we have the newly appointed representative with us. we have director kim. >> present. >> she has not been here for a while. >> director lloyd. >> present. >> director metcalf. >> present. >> director rohan. >> present. >> director harper. >> present. >> you do have a quorum. tony is expected. i think he is a little delayed. >> forgive me for my clumsiness in a chairing the meeting, since it i am not terribly used to doing that or being here.

communications first. do we have any? >> i know of none. >> ok. old and new business, board of directors? i am kind of old, but you know. >> so am i.. >> that is true. we're both old business here. >> the director's report. i know we have one of those. >> good morning. i would like to welcome our newest board member, representing the sentence is the municipal transportation agency. welcome, director. >> thank you. >> secondly, to those of you were not able to attend yesterday's event at noon at the transbay site in the zone 1, the first block of the four blocks reconstruction on, we were invited by merely to have an event celebrating the demolition of the old terminal. and where it we will have the new transbay transit center. and the soon-to-be released district plan you will hear more about later in the agenda.

we're joined by a number of our board members, including director kim and other dignitaries. and the men and women who have been working on the construction site and have been dedicated from the beginning, since august 7 when we started demolition. we had over 55,000 hours of labor on the demolition without any injury or accident. i want to point out that we were joined by the, -- carpenters in action. there also here joining us today. so it was a really good event, and nice turn out, and it was a good celebration with a number of key milestones. with respect to the construction documents, i want to report that we're making good progress. the early to low-grade documents were transmitted on august 29. we're at 90% cd's. we expect to have the full set transmitted to us on november 1. then on hit yuri 17, we're

expected to issue the early to low-grade package out to bid. as i indicated yesterday, we continue to be on schedule and within budget. that is good news. on the bus storage, we continue our cornyn nation with caltrans and transit on the design and other issues having to do it the fremont street off ramp and so forth. the bus runs we expect to bring, where about 35% for the design. hopefully more at the latter end of this year. with respect to the rail extension, we're working closely with caltrain and the rail authority. high-speed rail asked us to make some design changes to the rail component of phase one and two to accommodate high speed rail trains to a certain level. we have done that. they have approved a redesign variances. now i would like to have steve come in and give the bulk of the

presentation, since we're now in construction, on where we are with construction and utility work. >> good morning, directors. i am with turner construction management oversight. if we can shift that over to the presentation. as the executive director just pointed out, we are complete with the demolition, with 55,000 craft hours completed during that operation over the last year with no injuries to the workers, no accident, no injuries. it also culminated in about 92,000 cubic yards of concrete being recycled and used to back felt the site. that equates to about 28 olympic size swimming pools getting filled up with concrete. as we move into the olympic year. 50 million pounds of steel was recycled during the operation. that was all the dresses that crossed the street in the reinforcing steel.

during the operation, they took down over two miles of the overhead, overpasses and bus rams. that was pretty significant, and with no incidents or injuries to the workers. utility relocation package work is wrapping up rapidly. most of the streets will be repaired during this month, with the exception of the final package, which will be starting the first quarter of next year. that is the auxiliary water package on mission street. but the other packages are wrapping up quickly, and we just finished the phase 1 work with pg&e as well, so that released the final s your work on natoma. the first street to be completed, which allows the western end to be able to go in completely. as far as the transit center operation, the 301 mission was completed in july, since our last board meeting.

we're in the close-out progress there. trans world with the contractor, and they are submitting their documentation. the tjpa is reviewing a final change order request that has come in on that, and we will work through that this month and finalize that shortly. on the buttress shoring excavation package, the main package that is working, and we celebrating cent of the beginning of that yesterday at the event. the shoring walt is about 75% complete in the eastern zone. they're finishing up crossing field street and doing the far eastern wall, but the north and south walls of what we call a zone four. that shoring wall is complete so that the buttress shoring operation can begin. one of the machines as move down to the west end of the project and started the shoring while at first street yesterday. the day before yesterday. so that is rolling along. the second machine after this

week in, we have a complete street closure this weekend, which will allow them to cross the southern half of the southern crossing. next week, the machine will agree mobilize down to the west end, and the two of them will work together to finish that shoring also the excavation can begin in the western section. as far as his own four, were the buttress operation is taking place, the equipment mobilized over the last month, i have some pictures of that in a moment. that drilling operation began yesterday, and it there restoring some of the drilling mud that comes out of the hole and the water. the water treatment plant is nearly finished, and they should start production drilling next monday, september 12. that is the long ships we talked about yesterday in the board meeting. that is coming up. that will be for the next 18 months. we will be in a zone for drilling those shafts.

if you have not been down there, this is a picture from the end of june, with the cdsm wall just getting going. you can see the equipment being mobilized for the badgers operation. that green and yellow piece of equipment side-by-side in the middle of the picture there are the two rotators that will be used to drill the 240-foot shafts. the green one is the new one that was bought specific for this project and was mobilized last month. the rest of the area, on the right, is the end of august. you can see the additional recycle concrete materials have been removed. the wall machine has moved down to the west end. they continue to fabricate the soldier beam files that will be used in the shoring wall. we have to make about 800 of those. we're about halfway through welding those together and getting them ready for the

shoring wall. the demolition is complete. the archaeology pit for the project is under way, on the left or the remaining buildings needed to be demolished, and on the right, they're all gone. the equipment has been demobilized, and the archaeology pit has begun. that is near natoma and howard. that pit should be finished on september 19, and that will allow the team to start their pre-trenching in assuring wall -- shoring wall. those are the final buildings coming down during july and august. 568 howard, 85 natoma had come down previously. just to revisit the timeline on the buttress shoring and excavation work, we're in the pre-trenching face right now. we have started the cdsm shoring wall.

the excavation and bracing work in the construction of bridges started in the first and second quarter of next year. that is the progress made so far on the area. the cdsm wall completed is the yellow area. the c blue the keydsm wall that is under way. the green is the pre trenching. and the buttress area is ready for the start of that work. these are some shots of the ongoing pre-trenching effort. piles that to be removed in front of the shoring wall installation. cdsm operation in his own four, which is now nearly complete, with just the beale street were to finished. it creates a lot of mud. and the equipment has been mobilized. there is the rotator on the right. one of the two rotators that will be on the project. and the crane setting them up

and assembling the equipment. as far as, to give you an update on quality control, the instrumentation has been put in place. the shoring wall, and that is the drill rig on the left. it is to monitor any potential for movement, as well as other instruments around the site. one of the things i forgot to mention is the during the month of august, we completed the test panels on the shoring wall system, and those came out of the test panels. they were then sent to the lab, a check for strengthened permeability. everything past. so we moved into the production phase last month. some general utility shots. this is just about complete, which will be a big phase to get behind this with the utility relocation. these of various sites around the project. and just an update on the craft hours, about 55,000 hours total

completed by the evidence brothers without accident or injury, and about 88% of that was bay area local craft labor. so far with the work packages, they are running about 71% of total local craft labor of the bay area's. that is my presentation. i would be happy to address any questions. >> the statistic of working 55,000 hours without an accident or injury is phenomenal. i am just wondering, with -- was this luck or were there specific strategies that use that for that these are to create an environment where you could have that kind of track record? >> there is some luck involved, obviously, but the evidence brothers teams retard at it. we work with them in some areas to remind them to keep their safety up, but there were very attuned to it with what they do today. the operators of very careful.

a lot of times in work like that, you get man versus operator injuries. there were very careful about that. and the standard of hard hats and i protection and proper clothing, you know, avoided the normal cuts and bruises that you might see. to the best of my knowledge, there were not even any recorded first aids. so we strongly believe that, you know, they did a phenomenal job. i was going to talk to the executive director about issuing a letter for the tjpa congratulating them for that if we can. it is thousand and that is normally seen to that level, especially something as difficult as a demolition. >> i would urge that we take the lessons learned from that and bring them to all of the subsequent trade packages and do other major construction work in the city. it is a great hallmark of this project. >> thank you, director. i should just add that the tjpa from the beginning has instituted strict quality-

control measures. we have an extensive construction management manual that we have. we require all of our subs to have specific safety features in place. i think it also helped a lot. >> absolutely. it is on everybody's mind. we will keep that up as we go forward. >> congratulations, good report. >> thank you. now i would like to ask phil to give an update on the terminal. >> thank you. good morning, directors but i am with the tjpa program team. i have a presentation this morning, just a few topics on the temporary terminal, to give you an update on how things are operating there. i have four key items i will speak to. one would be the shuttle bus relocation we're working on currently. i will touch on bicycle sharing, accessibility, and also

operations. for a shuttle bus operations, currently we have shuttle bus operators with -- who are stopping on beale street, between mission and howard. we need to relocate these stocks because they're basically over the point where we will be excavating. we need to relocate them to proceed with the excavation for the train bus. we have five key operators that we're working with. so we have been working with those operators, as well as the division of sustainable streets, to find an appropriate place to relocate these stops that are still convenient to the temporary terminal. and we have a proposal that we are working with right now, and that is to relocate these shuttles over to the northeast corner of howard and means

street -- main street. on howard street, we're proposing to designate 105 feet of curb during commute hours, morning at 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m., and in the afternoon 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., and we designate this as passenger loading zone. this would be on the north side of howard, just east of main street. during non-commute hours, this area would revert back to regular parking meters. there is a section of main street that we're going to designate as passenger-loading. the east side of mian street, just north of howard street. that would be all they. this is a graphic showing those two sections of curbs. you can see the 105 feet of passenger loading zone on howard

street and in the 40 feet of passenger loading on main street. we're working with the operators. they like this location. division of sustainable streets is on board with that. they are looking at a couple other options, but we think that this one probably holds the most promise. for bicycle sharing, the original design of a temporary terminal has 10 bicycle racks on the center island. this is a very well-used by the commuters. recently, we were approached by mta staff. we're working on a bicycle sharing pilot program. they had an interest in having a bicycle sharing site near the temporary terminal. so we are working with them. we have looked at some installation sites adjacent to the tiberi terminal, particularly looking at --a