through the beginning carefully and most of it, you know in a (inaudible) fashion once, because that is the hard part is that there are a lot of things on there that we just don't have at all. and i have asked the staff to do another pass through this and to give us a recommendation about if they believe that we should have those policies, why they think that we should. and too, because i don't think that what we want to do is just have lots and lots of policies that we don't think are necessarily relevant because other people have them or somebody wants to say, well, you should have that just because it is generalized. and so, we have not taken action on those. and there is going to be do we pass the one? >> at the last board meeting? no. it is coming to us. we have one policy that needs to be... we would have liked we thought that we were going to finish this section and then we would do that altogether but since we are not to, we have one that is time sensitive that needs to be update that had

will come to us and we will bring this back, but we are going to ask the staff to work with us closely to actually do a review at this committee that they can now look at where we evaluate where we want to recommend to the board that we have the policies at all and trying to keep to integrate all of the policies that we have and the policies that have been created by the board resolution into the proposal. that is where we are and one last thing, you know, there are other whole sections of policies that we have asked be referred to other committees that we don't think that the rules commission. so there is a section of policies on facilities that goes to the buildings and grounds there is a section on finance that should go to the budget committee and so we would like the leadership to make those reference and to work with our staff and to refer those sections of the policy to other committee to do the same kind of, i know, tough and complex and detailed work that we are doing. so that is the report, thank you very much. >> thank you.

>> commissioner? >> yes, i wanted to add to that. what she is talking about and it is just tedious to go to the committee wheres that work is appropriate. i would like them to add this on as an information item that you take a piece of it every meeting. so you can get through it and not expected to get through the whole thing in one of your committee meetings and just take a bit at a time so you can get through it and you can get that work back to the board. >> i could just say one thing. i think that we need to, you know, officially it needs to be referred by the board through or by the board leadership to a committee. actually it should go first to the staff liaison of those committees because you will have the same issue. everything that we have and everything that everybody else has and see how they can be integrated and what we want to have and what... and i actually think that is a mistake that we made is that we said, okay, let's just try to integrate what we have and then we have a

huge amount of stuff and we are unable to make a huge amount of judgments i think that you need the staff work first. >> i think that we will as the chair or the present request that staffing of chose committees look at those particular policies. so, are there any other standing members report? >> i don't think so. >> if you have a date of your next meeting, please announce it. >> so, personnel labor will meet on the 26th of september. starting at 6:00 p.m. >> anybody else? >> commissioner? >> september 17th meeting of building and grounds has been canceled due to rosh hashana and so we will convene on october 15th. >> commissioner? >> yes, the curriculum program

committee met yesterday and we got an update on the athrough g and how many of our students are on track and how many are off track for the 2014 class, is the first class that will have to graduate with the new graduation requirements and we received rather disturbing news, high percentages of african americans, upwards of 80 percent and latinos almost 80 percent are off track to graduate. the 2015 class is projected to be about the same numbers at this time next year. so we are looking at ways to do interventions. we are tweaking the numbers and making sure that they are correct, before we absolutely publish these numbers to the public. even though we had great gains this year, just a reminder that we have a great gap and a lot of work to do. having said that, our next curriculum meeting is october first. >> at 5:00. >> thank you. >> are there any board delegates to the membership organization report?

>> if i see none, are there any other reports? >> commissioner? >> thank you, president. >> i want to report quickly, about the consideration and defer deportation for childhood arrivals at mission high school this past friday and saturday was so well supported by our staff and volunteers from the community. i just want to thank everyone, everyone that came with honest and true and direct information for those people who were eligible so that they could be educated and find out how to apply and really how to avoid folks who are putting out fraudulent information are trying to take advantage of eligible participants. we really did note that there is even though there is such a great opportunity here, there is still quite a bit of fear surrounding this process. and i believe that we along with those partners will continue to work to bring this

to light and much of the attendance was word of mouth. as much as we did publicly here and through those organizations, our community-based partners, still this was really attended the word of mouth so that so important that we continue to talk with our cbo partners and let them know that if we are able to host another event, that we get the word of mouth out to schools so they can pass it to those families who are eligible. and i want to thank the deputy's support, part don me, superintendent, i got used to say the long intro. for showing up and really being so supportive of families and staff. and i so much praise for you and i was so surprised to see you there and they were really thrilled and thank you for coming and anderson also for coming on friday evening. and just to really, show more support for this action and thank the mission high school

community for being such leaders around this endeavor. >> thank you superintendent. >> thank you, president lee. >> thank you. so item t, report of closed session actions? >> for september 4th, 2012, the board of education by the vote of 6 ayes and one absent approved the contract for one director. in the matter of zo verses sfusd case 2012070067 the board of education by a vote of six ayes and one absent approved the settlement of $31,100. item u, other informational items. no other staff reports tonight. wendy lee, i do not want you to get used to this. we end this meeting a little after 7:00 every time. >> meeting adjourned.

>> there are kids and families ever were. it is really an extraordinary playground. it has got a little something for everyone. it is aesthetically billion. it is completely accessible. you can see how excited people are for this playground. it is very special.

>> on opening day in the brand- new helen diller playground at north park, children can be seen swinging, gliding, swinging, exploring, digging, hanging, jumping, and even making drumming sounds. this major renovation was possible with the generous donation of more than $1.5 million from the mercer fund in honor of san francisco bay area philanthropist helen diller. together with the clean and safe neighborhood parks fund and the city's general fund. >> 4. 3. 2. 1. [applause] >> the playground is broken into three general areas. one for the preschool set, another for older children, and a sand area designed for kids of all ages. unlike the old playground, the new one is accessible to people with disabilities.

this brand-new playground has several unique and exciting features. two slides, including one 45- foot super slide with an elevation change of nearly 30 feet. climbing ropes and walls, including one made of granite. 88 suspension bridge. recycling, traditional swing, plus a therapeutics win for children with disabilities, and even a sand garden with chines and drums. >> it is a visionary $3.5 million world class playground in the heart of san francisco. this is just really a big, community win and a celebration for us all. >> to learn more about the helen diller playground in dolores park, go to sfrecpark.org.

good morning. welcome to the transbay joint powers authority meeting for thursday september 13th. may we do roller coaster, please. >> i would like to announce the record directors metcalf and sartipi will not be. (roll call) >> madam chair, you do have a quorum. >> thank you. are there any communications from board members today? seeing none, let's move to item four, which is also -- sorry, the board of directors old and new business, which there is none. item five, the executive director's report. >> good morning, directors. good morning, members of the public. we have tremendous news. many of you may have read about this in the paper and the news last night, but one of our construction crew members found a woolly

mammoth tooth on our construction site. very exciting news. tremendously amazing. he, as you know for many years, have had an archaeologist on site looking for artifacts and so forth. we have a number of exhibits that have displayed the items, from homes to schools to chinese businesses and so forth. people living in san francisco area at the turn of the last century. we never expected a find like this. we have a paleontologist who is here who will show you pictures and tell you about it. so jim? >> ready? >> yes.

>> i'm jim allen, i'm a registered state of california geologist and a paleontologist. what this picture is of is the mammoth tooth and a fragment of the mammoth tooth that came out of the otter hole, about ten feet from the surface. that is a side view of it. the thing is preserved just by burial, which means it is not replaced by minerals. it is basically the mammoth tooth, calcium phosphate. it was over laid by sand. the environment changed from a lake to a lagoon to all of a sudden a stream system. so the sediment came in either after the mammoth

lost his tooth or passed on. elephants like to lose their teeth. so it is overlaid by capping sand. >> i have a question -- >> question from the director. >> can you tell us what size you are talking about with your fingers? oh really? >> how about showing the picture. we have a picture that will show -- >> it is that big. >> not this? >> no, it is giant. >> jim, if you could address the board when you speak. >> sorry, board. >> if you could speak into the mic because the meeting is recorded. >> that is me holding the tooth, so that is the relative scale. again, that is the side view. >> pretty big. >> there you go. the grinding surface is at the bottom, where they grind leaves and individual table. it is an exciting find for

biological purposes, evolutionary purposes, for kids. it is also great for science. if we can get an age out of this mastadon, a mammoth columbi, we will get an age and plug the data into the paleoclimate graphs we have. we have a lot of sea level fluctuations already recorded that. gives us information. we can tie this into a sea level curve of sea level lows, which reflect ice cages and global warmings throughout 600 million years. we use those data to project to the future of what the earth has naturally been doing. it is also good for -- age dates are incredibly important for all walks of geology. we use them to figure out how old young units are. if they are cut by a fault,

we know the fault happened and the seismicity occurred after the unit was deposited. if we get an age we can say when. everyone is asking when the next big one will be. based on our recurrence interval based on earthquakes from ages of things like this, we can have a potential hypothesis when the next earthquake will be, based on the fossil finds. it is great for everybody. this is original so we can probably get a carbon 14, a radiometric date we can hang our hat on with confidence. >> what is the likelihood of finding more remains from many mammoth? >> it just went from low potential to high potential. there's a few mammoth localities in a two-mile, three-mile radius. this is the first in the heart of san francisco. the california academy of

sciences has collections from the outskirts. hunter's point, columbus, out west where construction of the bay bridge over by angel island. this is from the heart of the city. we are playing catch-up on the tarpits. my guess is there is most likely a high potential for more. all i can say is get back to work, because you found it, then let me know. >> you don't have to stop or slow down like with tribal remains? >> that would be closer to the surface. more feasible perhaps and safer to study if it is in sort of an open pit. once you get ground water level, we are below sea level so ground water is there. when we do down hole logging for landslides or to figure out the base of something that is moving to figure out the depth excavated out and put in a

safe building, you know, things are caged and shored. this thing is so sloppy down there, cave-in is like inevitable. 110 feet down is not feasible for lack of a better word and unsafe. it was found by the construction crew. i'm glad they are getting some attention. they are the heros. they should be grandfathered in as paleontologists. they have an eye for this stuff. working on caldecot and other things, construction guys -- they have an eye for it. it really lets you know they are paying attention. it is great. the best thing for me for the construction for the project is to get back to work. >> right. so we are going to continue work. one of the thing we are in discussions with is an exhibit for the kids at the california academy of sciences so we are looking to donate the tooth and have them exhibited and also house it. thank you, jim.

unless the board has any other questions. thank you, jim. thank you very much. directors, i would like to present our quarterly financial reports. to present that is sarah jalati. >> good morning, directors. sarah jalati. this will be boring after finding a woolly mammoth tooth. these are standard reports. the budget tax reports is through the end of the previous fiscal year. it shows we were within budget on the capital side. we are right now in the process of getting financial statements ready for year-end. the budget tax report does reflect operating budget is the subject of another item later on in the agenda. i will be happy to answer questions about that now or the time that item is called. the second report is the contract status report. the memo makes reference to another item we will talk

about in more detail later on the agenda, which is changes to the dbe and fbe programs. the proposed dbe goal. that shows contract activities are proceeding as planned and shows our payments for the federal fiscal year to dbe is 7.2 million and 36.3 million to sbe through the three-quarters of the federal fiscal year so far. the third report is our investment report. shows our position in our bank account, the city and county equity pool and our trust account which holds land fill proceeds and the final report is inception, expenditure and revenue for the capital project. i'm happy to answer any questions. >> thank you. directors, our next item is an update on the project labor agreement. bob is going to do the presentation. we also have ma with us from the carpenter's union,

who is also going to be reporting on the good work they are doing to get people into apprenticeship programs, specifically women, so they can ultimately work on our project. >> thank you, maria, directors. as maria mentioned we are giving an update on the project labor agreement. we had our third meeting with leadership from building trades council and labor unions in san francisco this month, just to get an update on where we stood with a number of things and to give them an update on what our upcoming labor needs are going to be. in terms of the labor uses on this job, we haven't had any work stoppages or shortages, something i hope to continue to report throughout the project. this last quarter we had no

safety incidents or injuries, something i hope to continue to report. in terms of construction in the field, at our may board meeting the first two trade packages fully covered under the pla, those have not begun filled activity yet. they will be beginning in the november time frame, the geothermal and electrical grounding work and we will take bids on the substructure package, very large, $77 million is the estimate. very large package. that will be the below-grade concrete of the math slab, rail platform level and bringing the walls of the train box up to grade. in terms of student participation, we did have a total of nine interns this summer. six high school students

and three college students between ourselves. the program management team and web core aci. at the end of their internship students came together and gave a presentation on what they had been studying this summer, what they were going to go back and take back to school with them. it was a nice ceremony we had at the end of their time with us this year. this is something many reported at the pla, the carpenter's union and representatives from the trades have been continuing to work with john oconell high school. they have a new instructor for the tech 21 program, as well as the unions went and toured roosevelt middle school in the richmond district to take a look at what it would take to

reactivate the moth ball equipment, the moth ball shop program they have there. hopefully we will be able to report back in the future there are more shop programs coming forward. >> just wanted to speak on the challenges. the team has been working web corp. ted wang specifically with schwartz plowshares and other agencies, the veteran's administration and other agencies around the region doing outreach to veterans and trying to build an alliance of veteran's groups to really encourage placement of veterans into the trades. one of the big challenges they have seen is not just the collecting of

information but then the working actually more closely with veterans to make sure their interests and aptitudes are addressed so the resumes and information gets channeled to the right outlets and right placement for continuing opportunities. they are continuing to work on that. web corp also hosted a booth at an event hosted by the veteran's administration and military.com on the uss hornet in august. they invited representatives from the pmpc team, as well as from the -- their subcontractors to come and be present and distribute that information there. they did meet a few candidates who were interested in construction industry. more were interested in the

administrative and management side, so they are continuing to work and track those interests as well to get them to the right contacts. >> can i ask you something? what do you mean with agencies working in silence. >> silos. >> oh, yeah. there's not enough information. they are not working collaboratively so that information is being gathered but then it is not being shared and distributed so that the connections can be made to get the information about the veterans to the people who are doing the hiring. >> who are they? when you said they are not sharing the information? >> the agencies that web corp has been working with

include the va, the schwartz to plowshares program, then also some of the local employment outreach centers. >> helmets to hard hats. basically there are a lot of different veteran organizations in the bay area and state of california and nationwide. they don't always talk to each other. that is what bob is saying that. is one of the challenges, they are kind of working independently. what we are doing with web corp's assistant is taking the data, what are the challenges veterans are facing, the issues. we are putting that together so we can share it with the first lady's office on veteran hiring to help, provide suggestions. we are finding with the major infrastructure project as well as proposed solutions. >> are there anymore questions on this item?

i just had a quick one. have we been able to place veterans on some of the work projects and tgpa? >> yes. web corp has placed two on contracts. web corp are not themselves self-performing. they have placed veterans through their subcontractors. they have also identified and placed two veterans on ther projects they are working on as direct employees of web corp, where they are doing direct labor. web corp has really taken this on as an obligation not only of this project but of their company. that is where they have been really i think exceeding our expectations in trying to pull together some of the groups both on the governmental side, as well as the cvo side to form these alliances. >> i assume there is is a training program that comes

along with the outreach then hiring. >> yeah. most of the apprenticeship unions have programs for veterans where they get credit for their military experience that would be applicable, so they are not brought in at the lowest level of the apprenticeship program but placed in at a level that would recognize their prior experience. the other thing that is really important about identifying candidates is one employer knows a candidate by name, they can request that candidate, make a specific referral request to request a veteran and bring them to the job site and place them in the field. >> thank you. >> sure. a few words about apprenticeship. again, web corp has done