that is -- it is a very slow city. wax [inaudible] -- >> [inaudible] people in the department have had attitudes around night life, i felt they were counterproductive. when i worked for hours on a new leather bar on bolten street, they were trying to limit the hours to midnight for nights per week. a perfect way to close a

business. [laughter] i think they have done such a great job. this is just a commercial. an award is rent -- deserved for the people who are responsive, putting in a big picture. i really appreciate that you will be able to get it done for us. i appreciate that. >> so much of what she said resonated with me. i cannot say enough about david and his crew. they are so on top of things.

where are things on the process? give them a call and you will find a very open door. i lived in the city. i left for six months once that i could not stand it. i do take advantage of the night life. probably more restaurants these days. talking about job creation and economic vitality, we do not turn the lights off when the folks are gone. lots of people are out in the still thank you for -- in this. thank you. [applause] >> i wanted to explain a bit

about the break out. if you could say, i hope that you will. i think that this is one of the most important parts of this. one, getting you all in a room together. you are in your venue all of the time. when you are not there, you go home and are with your dog, or whenever. obviously, i want you to meet each other. breakouts, i will try to create four if we can. two groups. one will be in the small room. i was going to try to do two on

either side of this room. do your best. there will be someone in the group to redo what we can. this is great. thank you for coming. i really appreciate it. [applause] arewebcastinwe are webcasting . supercool, i think. to do that well, we need to be amplified a bit. i know that we lost some folks. nick, did you take notes?

what i wanted to do was have you come up here. we were all in different groups and hopefully we have things to learn from each group. quickly, because i know it is getting late, vaj, do you have your notes? did we wind up with four or three? this seemed like a great session. we do have another microphone, if there are questions that come up. but i think that these will be closing comments. >> you can correct me, if you heard something different, but i heard points one, too, and three were a more pro-active police presence.

proactive policing, instead of just responses to emergencies and deterrence. in general, there seemed to be a sentiment of a bid of nickel and dime business. whether through fees or regulations. or a sense that we have to do a better job to make sure that regulations are appropriate, fair, and balanced. one more, dealing with neighbors. we can do a better job of trying to address people's complaints in a constructive way. trying to figure out a way to deal with components that do not go away, even if other people do not think that there is a problem.

that is what i heard. anything else the to would like to that? -- that you would like to add? >> with my group, some of the three big points that were discussed, the first was uniform signs. right now a lot of venues have signs about being respectful to the neighbors. they will use certain code language, like no loitering. but those signs, in different shapes and colors. they are talking about making sure that every venue had the same language, looking venue. wd idea, it is uniform, people see it. not only in north beachx%gsj maybe city wide. the next is temporary taxis jones in and

around clubs on the weekends. it is 2:00 in the morning. it is hard to get a cab. if we could put in temporary tax rezones friday and saturday night, it would be easier for people to find cabs to and from then use. last, more light. i know we talked about cities, areas where there is a lot of venues packed into a few blocks. they will actually bring in temporary light towers. the

last thing is organization. as venues, it is really important that you come together, whether it be in cmac, or your smaller organizations, so you can work together, have one voice to work with city government. >> that is a perfect segue. i was in the group with south of market, bayview. we talked a lot about organization, communication with the police department's. something that i wrote down that i did not even know, if you feel like you need to call the police, you should.

if you do not feel at 911 is appropriate, use 553-0123. i did not know that. that is a direct line where you can get an ambulance. we also talked about -- the commander talked about -- your relationship with your police officer. the captain said he intends to start a monthly meeting with the nightclub owners at the station. he does not want security. he wants to meet with the owners of the night clubs once a month. that is a fantastic idea. i want to plug that around to all of the stations, certainly the ones that have a number of

night clubs in their area, so that that can become a routine relationship. if a capt. changes, which happens all the time, that can also continue, regardless of what capt. is there. those were the big ones. some discussion about risk-reward in using promoters. there was the resolution to this issue but it is something that you should leave here thinking about. some people chimed in to say that there is not a dime that they would not bother turning using a promoter if they thought there was some risk involved in that. obviously, other people feel differently. that risk- reward ratio is something that you need to think seriously about if you are going to continue to use promoters at your venue. at this point, certainly take

some questions. if you are done, it is 10:04. i appreciate you all coming. we have the bac cards. -- feedback cards. i would love to hear it in e-mail form or you can call me. please use the entertainment commission as a resource, but be nice. you saw all of us today. we are here to help you if we can. we do have to issue some permits that those of you -- that somebody do not like, but there is. thank you.

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 a