it is somewhat of a broad net. we are looking for people who potentially have an interest. supervisor kim: who are you working with dspecifically in the district? >> doug holly is the point person for the veteran's component in the school district. he has been for the last number of years. doug, why don't you answer the questions. supervisor kim: who are you working with specifically at the school district? >> james coal. when we went to get the presentations, we did work directly with the read of the high school teachers. >>supervisor kim: i am curious s

to -- it is already march, and usually internships in turn have been in march and april. i am worried if we do not have a specific plan -- i would love to see the application, i just want a sense of how the out reach will happen. when the net is too broad, you often do not get students to apply. it is not really clear who this is being directed to and what the students need. it is usually helpful to target specific academies. it does not sound like there is an actual plan. >> there is in a plan. why don't you give the plan. >> in working with the sacramento unified school district, they -- san francisco unified school district, they provide candidates who are

interested. obviously the teachers' work directly with the students. the candidates are interviewed, and they interestingly enough, they go through a hiring process -- supervisor kim: i am curious about this today even gets there. the interview point. clearly you have a selection process laid out. and >> >> we do. the program has three different elements to it. reaching out to the ninth graders, we do not try to get them interested in math and science, because 10th and 11th grade will be the times when that will come math will come i. the presentations are part of the process.

i did have a note on that. athis summer interns is the second part i just described to you. we have them for six weeks on the job. then we have office and job site tours for the glasses. essentially what we are doing is something that georgetown university, george washington university as a classroom. so we do start with ninth graders to try to get them interested in math and science. we to invite them to the office to see a real time at what engineers to come architects as well. >> you present to the ninth graders and take the same

group on tours? >> that is up to them. one of the things about taking them on tours, is a bit overwhelming. also, at the age of the students. ninth graders are typically 13 and 14. when we get into the intern program, it is for seniors. the students have already had math and science, and we do take them on to the job site. supervisor kim: may be at the next board meeting we can get a more detailed presentation. i appreciate what you're trying to say. and >> i think the question is the following, how is it the are the students

selected? how does the school make the determination as to what students to recommend to the transbay authority. >> typically at the academy at burton. i think they may have something out washington as well. i will check which aims to see what criteria he does use. >> basically through james we have cast a wide net to all the schools in san francisco. the transbay authority is looking for in terms. james has looked around the schools, and he has recommended students for us to interview. my policy in the office has been to primarily target students that are minorities. women and minorities. for the most part that is what we have had in our offices. that is that criteria.

it is really coming from the school district here agaict. supervisor kim: it would be great to get up from james. i would be were read to say any student can apply. you have to be very targeted to students because it is a very specific type of internship. if i hear you are targeting academies and how our reach is happening and how you are getting students incentivize to come in, i think that is really important. and our school district is 90% students of color, so i do not think minority applicants will be an issue. that is something we're trying to do. we want more women and people of color in this industry. i think it is helpful to see what the plan is. also, we're just coming into ninth grade class ises, it is jt not as meaningful. telling students to take math and science is not going to be

as effective. if you decide burton is the school you want to partner with, which i think is great, because i know they have the design academy that does work in engineering, then there should be a concerted effort to follow the students as they rise in order to release support them through that process. in two years you can get an internship. just some sort of continuing. maybe james can provide that report. it can be written. >> we will. i do want to say over the past five years we have had numerous students come to the transbay offices here and a number of them have ended up being interested in engineering and architecture and moving on in college pursuing the career. we have had a very successful internship program over the past five years. we have been interviewing

students the school has been giving us. we will ask james to present how they are choosing the students. supervisor kim: it would be great to me some of the students. >> we will bring them out. they are great. last summer they came. supervisor kim: thank you. now we of steve rowland on the construction update. -- we have steve rowland on the construction update. >> good morning. construction management oversight. a quick update on the activities of the past period. 230,000 craft hours over the complete transit on the transit side. 20,000 in the month of february. the buttress work continues with 10 shops completed in the last period. down on the west end they

started the piles that will support this service trestle, we spoke about at the last board meeting. pg&e is working on the infrastructure on fremont street. finished first read already. we're focusing on getting the traffic bridge in over the memorial day weekend. as bob reported, there was one recordable incident on the project. to clarify, it was not a serious incident, but what made it recordable is the individual was given a prescription pain medication, versus just over the counter bad bill or tylenol. and-- over the counter advil or tylenol. it was just an ankle sprain. that is the first recordable incident since last july. to give you an update on the

timeline, you have seen this before. we have the exception of crossing first in fremont street. prior to the traffic bridges we're well into the excavation and the butchers work, and the traffic bridges will be starting memorial day with first street. i have added the red line on the west and that indicates where the pin piles are being placed to support this service trestle where the greens will be future of excavation that is well under way, as well as some of the bracing for that and across lot bracing beginnings we saw last period. zone four, it does not look like much is changing, but they are getting them in as quickly as they can. good progress on that. 50 of them completed through the end of last week, with 157 left to go.

just a couple of pictures of the work going in. the drilling contractor did get a new rotator. started work on it in the first full tuesday, and is making great progress. they plan to pour that this afternoon, if not tomorrow morning. that has added help to that. the west end photograph on there, the right-hand picture, the progress is made with the trestle pleyel's. the pen piles for the future crustal going in. that is just looking back towards the east giving you a better idea of the work going on in support of what will eventually be the trestle bridge as the excavation goes down to the next level. the pan am pilot placement operation -- the pin pile

placement operation. we continue to work on the final relocation utility package, which is the a.w.s.s. due to the congestion of mission street, but there has been an additional amount up pot holing required. we have a plan in place, or pretty close to it. there is the redesign effort going on. we have completed pg&e infrastructure. it has completed on fremont street that is getting repaved and cleaned up. the verizon work under way on first-rate in anticipation of completing the shoring wall and installing traffic bridges. the budget from a construction point of view has not changed. still running with the same construction budget. this comes from the january report. the schedule is still on track.

the critical path is still true trying to get to buttress work done in zone four. 233,000 craft hours with 153,000 being a local bay area of labor. it is holding the same as we have seen before. there is a breakdown by county. san francisco continues to contribute 25% of the local labor. i will do this on a monthly basis. it gives you an idea of how the trades are spread out. the trades and crafts being used on the project to date. from the inspectors who were part of the operating engineers union come on down through the teams and so forth. i will try to summarize that for you on each report in the future, as well as the apprentice. the apprentice members are hoping to improve. the first time we've tried to

record them to you. there are lots of different ways to look at the apprentices and the requirements. basically the 20% or 1-5 roll that comes with the prevailing wage that can be manipulated. we have to look at each craft working for each company, and look at their practice participation. an overview like this will try to break down in the future and get better detail on it. any questions? >> i walked by this couple of weeks ago, and it is impressive to see the progress moving forward the way it is supposed to. i did notice -- it was very encouraging to hear the presentation on the apprenticeships efforts and the fact that the unions and the contractor seemed to be really stepping up the support of it.

this is the issue we talked about when it came forward. state law says 20 percent, so we do not need any requirements now that we have data to demonstrate we are not getting 20, not even close. aside from this, what specific steps will we take to get these numbers up to where they need to be? >> on the lowest level, it is a topic for discussion at the subcontractor meetings. we discuss it at the weekly meeting right now the largest contractor is balfor. they have their largest subcontractor it they were to employ two operating engineers,

there would not be a requirement for an apprentice. they would not necessarily have an apprentice. you would have eight operating engineers with no apprentices. that is why until we pull it apart, which i plan to do for the next report, planned to observe which -- with each company is doing with each craft come and then you will probably see, and we have seen some of the utility relocation work that we're getting close to the 20% requirement, and can achieve it in some areas. it needs to be broken down to a finer level. i apologize we did not get to it this month we are getting to it. there is a gentleman dedicated almost entirely to looking at the apprentice and trying to follow that with a follow on trades.

it is a topic that gets discussed and subs are aware of the requirement. operating engineers have been made aware -- i call it an exemption, but it makes a greater participation level. we're looking into that as well. operating engineers have an arrangement for-1. -- 4-1. the fifth one has to be an apprentice, were as the general one there can be five and the sixth one has to be an apprentice. >> that is where the biggest opportunity is. >> it is. we may be achieving when we dig down into the operating engineers apprentice ratio and pull that information out of the prevailing wage tracking system, we may actually see significant improvement. when you roll it up into the top level, it does not report the way you want to see it. that is what we need to dig

into. that is not to say we will back off it, but what it does say is it makes it necessary for us to think a lot about it and keep it as a topic of discussion, and that is what we are doing. thank you. >> that concludes my report, directors. >> i am really sorry i was late. in the financial review, it seemed like for the project budget and operating budget for being 50 percent through the fiscal year, the spending levels, expenditures and revenues were less than 50%, and i was wondering why that is. project budget was third, and operating budget was like 15 percent, and the fact that it is a problem.

wondering what it means. the second question is on the contract report, it looked like there were quite a number of contracts where we were either not meeting the dbe goals or had none. i was wondering what the story was behind those. >> i will have the chief financial officer respond to those questions. i>> on the budget report, we are typically very aggressive when we're putting together the budget. the budgets are on the high end come and that is why typically in each fiscal year you will see us coming in under. on the operation's budget in particular we have not received a transgendered invoice for operational expenditures through the first two quarters. that is why it looks quite low. we just got your invoice a couple of weeks ago for the first two quarters. you'll notice a difference in the first quarterly report. on the contract status report, if you have questions about

particular contracts, -- >> i did not bring it with me. i just noticed there are quite a few where we are under on goals, and quite a few that said na. i was wondering why we would not have goals on some contracts. >> the ones noted as not applicable are the artists, as well as our lease. we would not have a goal on police, and of course all of intergovernment agreement with the city agencies do not have told on them. i>> for the ones that have goals that are not being met, -- >> the urs has a 30% goal. actuals are 15%. there is a person transportation project. there are some of those numbers that look like utility

relocation. six% actual. those are on the d be side. >> those are availability advisory's we put out with the rfp. we cannot have goals on the dbe side. where we are only up 15%, they are at 44% on that side, once you look at folks they are employing from the certifications. parsons is really just on a task quarter basis supporting the designs and the dtx design is on hold while we pursue funding. they are not subcontracting out any work right now, which is why there was not a cold place on term at 3. the availability on the dbe side

is an advisory, and they are much higher on the sbe side. >> if you can refresh my memory, can you explain of what dbe advisory is, and what is the goal. >> because of the western states decision, we raised a completely neutral program, as i believe mta does as well. we cannot place contra rebels on dbe participation. >> why are there zero goals? >> those were all in place before we implemented the program. we started placing tolls on contracts would be implemented the sbe program in 2009. and all of these contracts are in place before the sbe program

was implemented. there was not the way to go back and put vocal on contracts already in place >> why weren't they included in the original contract? take a we did not have a contract when they were originally entered into. we implemented the program in 2009, after we brought the contract to the board. that is when we implemented the program. >> no. i am surprised. >> that is correct. >> i understand, but i am surprised we did not ask for that in the beginning. >> we did not have a program before 2009. >> the numbers from this project have been really good it throughout the whole thing, but i was surprised there was no program before 2009.

>> you are right, our numbers have been really good. when you look at the overall numbers, we're doing tremendously well on the project. even with othe dbe's. >> you will see in the next quarterly report, the percentages awarded will go up, because on the regular calendar you have items for the construction management for best storage, and they will be achieving 74% sbe. any other questions? >> that concludes my report. supervisor kim: item number six, public comment. >> we have todd williams. >supervisor kim: any other members of the public, please do come up. >> good morning.

todd williams, a representative of local 22. i wanted to inform the public of what carpenters are doing with the partnership and john o'connell high school has a carpentry program class, and that we have had contractors and donate materials and machinery to get more exposure to students and use hands-on tools, and we are are reaching to other contractors to get a little bit more. the class is well-grounded. one thing we're very excited about is i have contacted the manager at the apprenticeships school, and we have been meeting next week with john o'connell to see about getting a direct entry program once they graduate the class to go into carpentry and would have a direct entry into the carpenter ship program.

it is something we're starting with this task will come and we want to see if we can start it with others. -- it is something we're starting with at this high school, and we want to see if we can start it with others. speaking with our manager -- we're hoping to get direct management for those interested in the project. in speaking with the manager, the apprenticeships who does the direct entry project, she is working with transportation and just gave me a little bit of information about the grant that would work very well. and so we can bring more females in and hopefully get them onto the transbay project. a lot of good things we're trying to do with carpenter local 22. the director, which most of you might be familiar with, she is

spearheading this with my guidance and the apprenticeship school. hopefully we can come back in the next meeting to see if we can say we have a direct entry program through the high school into the partners apprenticeship program. things we're working on, and hopefully to make this project very successful. supervisor kim: any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is now closed. please move to item no. 7. >> we will move to the consent calendar worked all items will be considered routine and acted upon by a single vote. there will be no separate discussion of those items and was a member of the board or the public's request. your items are 7.1, proving that minutes of february 9, 2012 meeting. 7.2, approving a resolution

stating that the calpers normal member contributions are repaid by the employer shall be reported to the calpers as additional compensation. 7.3, approving the second them into the interim agreement with the san francisco planning department to increase the compensation. supervisor kim: thank you. two board members want to sever any of these items? -- do for members want to sever any of these items? we will take a roll call vote. [calling roll] >5 ayes. the consent calendar is approved. item #8, authorizing the executive director to execute a professional services agreement with the towns and management to provide construction management

services for the bus storage facility for an amount not to exceed 1,250,000 and at three- year term, with the option to extend the term for an additional two years. supervisor kim: we have a representative from towns and management here as well -- townsend management here as well. in >> we have gone through a very lengthy process to get our cm for the bus storage. it is three parts, pre- construction services, the services, and construction management services. we have representatives of townsend management to help answer any questions. i am available if you have any. we have a 74% sbe goal for this contract that is in the agreement. supervisor kim: any questions on