these projects over the next couple of months. we are really happy with this project because bridge has managed to complete the rehab work without any additional city financing. the redevelopment agency gave the project $1.5 million about 19 years ago to build of the building. they have done a wonderful job of owning and operating this building over the last 19 years. the building is on the corner, and it used to have the psychic as a commercial tenant. we are really happy that they are managing to do all this work without any new city money. we are getting another 55 years of affordability. >> i am a project manager at the

housing corporation. i think they have done an excellent job of summarizing the project. at this time, i would just like to express my thanks to the board of supervisors for helping us attain the that allocation for the bonds and the tax credit reservation for the project. i am happy to answer any other questions that may come out and i want to express gratitude to the mayor's office of housing and redevelopment agency for their incredible support of the project. supervisor mirkarimi: for this part of the area, what the area looked like 10 years ago, especially before the demolition of the central freeway, it is completely enjoying a renaissance and like it has been seen before, where this area of housing exists, especially for high percentage of low-income

housing. it is a pretty spectacular project, one that i think should make us all very proud. >> we do not have a budget analyst recommendation or report because this is an item that does not have an impact on the city general fund. why don't we open this item up for public comment? many members of the public at which to speak? >> i have a lot to speak of this, but not enough time. how to put on your mind, without a doubt, we are talking about fairness. i am here applauding bridge, mercy housing, catholic charities. we had all the big giant developers at one time come to

the west division. at one time, it was mandatory that developments like this -- right now, we are at a state of emergency. i have come to let you know how serious i am speaking to you, whether you want to hear it on not. without a doubt, it is a prime example of a big project, with no input. i remember 10 years ago, they come to the western addition to getting approval, and it was a rubber-stamp committee. the right now we don't even have a rubber stamp committee. the only part of the city that doesn't have a community organization that the city and county recognizes. i have to come here and raise my voice. i have to come here wounded, homeless, jobless. but not information less.

we are in a state of emergency. all of these contracts you're proven goes without no input for the community. i don't need no clown backing me to ok what i'm doing. i have been coming here 20 years to see how this process has failed us. not only african-american people, low income people. you're going on and rubber stamping, walking all over our community. i am here to say that you are in total violation. i can't go to the city attorney's office. who do i go to? do i have to go outside the boundary of the city and county to analyze what is going on here?

i am up here, my voice is louder. i want to speak loud and clear in your ear that you are in total violation of the community. approve everything you want to do, but i wanted to show for the record that there is no voice for the western addition. with a c.a. with a c.b.d. i wanted to let you know i am here in your ear. supervisor chu: any other member of the public wish to speak? public comment is closed. and on the item? supervisor mirkarimi: motion to approve with recommendation, i want to underscore that this has no impact to the general fund. as with most affordable housing agreements that come before us, it is 80% of the area median

income, and the retention of those that live in the building, make sure it is 100% protected. this is one of those that should give a thumbs up across the way. supervisor chu: there is a motion to send the item forward and we can do that without objection. do we have any other items before us? we are adjourned.

>> the public wants to access particular information about your house or neighborhood we point them to gis. gis is a combination of maps and data. not a graphic you see on a screen. you get the traffic for the streets the number of crimes for a police district in a period of time. if the idea of combining the different layerce of information and stacking them on top of each other to present to the public. >> other types of gis are web based mapping systems. like google earth, yahoo maps. microsoft. those are examples of on line mapping systems that can be used to find businesses or get driving directions or check on

traffic conditions. all digital maps. >> gis is used in the city of san francisco to better support what departments do. >> you imagine all the various elements of a city including parcels and the critical infrastructure where the storm drains are. the city access like the traffic lights and fire hydrants. anything you is represent in a geo graphic space with be stored for retrieval and analysis. >> the department of public works they maintain what goes on in the right-of-way, looking to dig up the streets to put in a pipe. with the permit. with mapping you click on the map, click on the street and up will come up the nchgz that will

help them make a decision. currently available is sf parcel the assessor's application. you can go to the assessor's website and bring up a map of san francisco you can search by address and get information about any place in san francisco. you can search by address and find incidents of crime in san francisco in the last 90 days. we have [inaudible] which allows you to click on a map and get nchldz like your supervisor or who your supervisor is. the nearest public facility. and through the sf applications we support from the mayor's office of neighborhood services. you can drill down in the neighborhood and get where the

newest hospital or police or fire station. >> we are positive about gis not only people access it in the office but from home because we use the internet. what we used to do was carry the large maps and it took a long time to find the information. >> it saves the city time and money. you are not taking up the time of a particular employee at the assessor's office. you might be doing things more efficient. >> they have it ready to go and say, this is what i want. >> they are finding the same things happening on the phone where people call in and ask, how do i find this information? we say, go to this website and they go and get the information easily. >> a picture tells a thousand

stories. some say a map >> good morning and welcome to the transbay joint powers authority board of directors meeting for thursday, october 13. madam secretary, can you please take roll-call? >> yes, and prior to taking role, notified that director ortiz has a conflict. [roll call] madame chair, you do have a quorum. director kim: 90. are there any communications today? >> not that i know. >> thank you. please call item four. >> item four is board of

directors meeting new business. i know of none. director kim: great. please call item 5. >> item 5, executive director's report. >> good morning. add this one report that we continue our outreach efforts to the community and organizations interested in learning about our projects and interested in internships opportunities. most recently, we presented,girls, inc., an organization that works with girls and they teach them about science and technology and ask them to come in. the girls were very interested and learned a lot. we have asked our contracting team to keep my mind for future internship opportunities. we continue to pursue the sides

of avarice. in addition, last night, we met with the association of women in construction, took them on an extensive tour of our construction site. tonight, we will be meeting with turner construction, a group of professional women in the construction group as well. we continue our outreach efforts as much as possible in these areas. also on the report that evers brothers has completed demolition. we are finalizing the close of the contract. they have worked over 54

we have done pretty much down on the west end next month. we will have the area. in zone 3, they are still using the area to build up the beams for the short wall.

the continued use of the staging area. they are ready for the shoring wall equipment to be there. in some of your, the milestone at the beginning of the month of september with the beginning of the buttress work -- in selling four -- zone four. some comparison voters, the photo on the left was the end of august, on the right, early october, september. that is the far east and. a lot more activity. that is the buttress operation with both rotators working. one crane each servicing each rotator and the third service crane, all heavy-duty large equipment. some slides of that in a second. in the central and west end of the project are zones three, two, and one. you can see it was just getting started back at the end of august, early september, and

now, both rigs are working successfully on the north and south sides of the project. to remind you, on the timeline, we are still at the end of the duchess activities. the cdsm should be complete by early next year with zones 1 and two complete by november. and also, obviously, the pre- trenching complete by the end of the year. nextel will be the start of the excavation, which we anticipate just around the first of the year. a low traffic, the -- a little graphic, cdsm is under way, both on the north and south sides of one and two. pre-trenching is complete in most areas with some left to do it in a coma and down on the west end or the throat with the

trains will enter, the train box. and then to buttress work in the corner of zone four. some of the various areas on the site. the cdsm operation -- did want to include that one picture on the right there. these guys definitely earned their money and probably pay a lot in washing clothes as well. it is a very muddy operation. we would like to point out that as of tomorrow, if all goes well, there's two yellow circles will be covered in green and completed and that will give us nine completed shafts to date. that is what we callc li -- call the c line on the left side and the m line on the right side. it is definitely an marathon and

not a sprint as this will be going on for the next year and half, but the equipment seems to be working well and the team seems to be coordinating well between all the cleanup operations, the concrete supply, etc., that has to go on. there is the equipment working on first holes. the rock crab bringing up some of the first rock we encountered. some of the shafts have gone deeper than originally planned, but the originally planned death was pretty much an average overall the 207 piles -- the originally planned depth. concord operation for one of the buttress installations. finally, the utility installations. we completed so were work on et al. last month and repaved and passed that sidewalk, completed natoma street. some restoration work at howard that was left to be done got finished this month. as many of you are aware and

some of you attended, we had a special event on site to commemorate the completion of the demolition and starting of the shoring wall and buttress work. appreciate everybody who was able to make that. and there are the hours to date with local labor running right around 70%. total labor being worked on in the transit center. happy to take any questions. thank you very much. >> just a few questions. this is a great report and looks like it is making good progress. how are we doing specifically relative to budget and schedule? >> still very well. there are still, as the executive director pointed out -- we are waiting for those 100% cd drawings that spring, and

that is more on the pre- construction site which turner is now working on. >> on the construction side, going well, there have been a few unknowns. we had it at the 72 shafts to the such as planned, so the change order was successfully negotiated, significantly less than the original request and also included some negotiation, so that has been a big, overall change. there continue to be minor unforeseen -- or not unforeseen, but changes the scope that were not covered during the additional utilities that were not planned on for rerouting and things like that. all fairly small in nature and well within expectations. >> when you said you had to go deeper on some of the shafts, is it because the bedrock is not where you expected? >> through the borings, they get to a certain death and find what they believe is a stable rock, and they start, and that is, of

course, very small gauge. when you start thinking of seven-foot shaft down there, you get a better idea of what the rock is consistent out. >> and we are more or less paid by the foot? >> yes, the original price was based on an overall lump-sum price, but it was worked out as a per-but cause. you think of rincon hill and the slope coming down the financial district, we expect the death of the shaft should shorten up and move away as far as the landmark moves away. >> we will wait until the end. >> yes, that is the current plan. that is the way we assumed we would end up saddling it up on the overall total length. >> the last question on the kraft hours, are you measuring trade by trade? do you have the ability to break out san francisco from the rest of the area? >> what we do is track it through the certified payroll.

there's a lot of different metrics that could be pulled out, including by a specific city if that is something that would be desirable. >> i think it would be instructive. it would be informative to the work that the rest of us are doing and the city in terms of on a big project, what kind of actuals you have and what trades have higher participation and what has lower. >> absolutely. one thing to keep in mind is right now, we have fantastic numbers from the work the evans brothers did relative to the local residents and county. we have seen a little bit of a taper off on that, and it is primarily because of the specialization of the drilling operation -- that is a lot of the work force right now. these people follow the drill rigs around the country. this is a larger project, and marathon, and there will be a lot more opportunity.

we can certainly get those numbers. >> we can certainly break it out, but because we are a regional project, we calculate everything on a nationwide basis because we are not subject to any of the usual local hire ordinances were so sure roger preferences are allowed. we can provide you with that, but i wanted to point out for the record. thank you. >> anything else? thank you very much. >> i guess that concludes my report. >> okay, we move to the next item appeared item 6 is public comment, an opportunity for the public to adjust -- address the board on items not on the agenda should it. we do have one member of the public that wanted to address you today. >> good morning, ladies and gentlemen. i am a property owner close by this tjpa project.

there's a proposal out to have a marijuana or canada's club build -- cannabis club built about 700 or 800 feet from the project. i believe you represent the ownership of that property, and i do not believe it is a good use in this area, and i encourage you -- and this was to go before the planning commission in november -- to take a position that this is a bad thing for this area. we do not want people taking the train from los angeles, san francisco, to get a joint and then leave. i would like you to take a position saying we are not in favor. thank you. >> thank you. ok, that does conclude that

item. director kim: thank you. could you please call item seven, please? >> yes, we will move into the regular calendar. item seven, presentation of the proposed project labor agreement with the unions, the san francisco building and construction trades council and the contractors with respect to the trans a transit center program construction project. >> we entered into a contract, being brought to you today for public comment and for your consideration. after about six months of negotiation, we are pleased to report that at the staff level, we have successfully negotiated the terms of the project labor agreement. as we will present momentarily, the agreements provide uniform

labor policy for our construction work involving specific projects. with respect to our project, we believe the pla is necessary, given the large number of trades that will be working on the project for many years. tla were both working on phase one and phase 2 to be of the project. pending funding, given how far advanced we are, construction of that in 2013, and that would be completed by about 2019 or 2020, or thereabouts. in addition, when you have a project of this magnitude with multiple contractors and workers both that our union and non- union on the job site, really, there's the potential for work disruption and with the tla, you avoid that. we believe the public, the unions would be better served if the construction proceeds in an orderly manner without

distraction to the czechs, offices, like cats, labor disputes, or any other interference of work. as you will hear in a moment, basically it is close cooperation and continued harmonious relationship between the tjpa and the contractors union. it establishes standard wages, hours, working conditions for all workers. in exchange for that, the workers agreed to use thepla -- the pla to resolve any issues that come up and forgo strikes. we will present the terms of the proposal to the board and the propriety of pla, and we will be hearing public comment on that. to get into more of the test, i am going to ask bob beckel --