already looked into it. >> we have. >> just another question. i just know that initially. we will be running ac transit and golden gate and etc.. and then down the line, we will have dtx and down the line we will have high speed rail and so i know the numbers that were put before the board were kind of what we expect the maximum usage to be. but i am not sure that if the cameras could be phased over time.. >> we certainly are going to... we have phased out everything that we can for phase two, absolutely director kim. >> and one other, there is another element, i mean in terms of phasing. we could phase the park in later. that would save costs. we want to phase the bus storage, but we could phase that as well. >> there is just some other elements that we could phase. >> okay, as well >> and we could present that all to you at the next board meeting. absolutely. >> so bob? >> it is to build on what you said about the implementation

of the rba criteria, and design guidance criteria and we have attempted to explore all of the opportunities for phasing there and there are elements that we have built into the plans for phase two but certain things like the perimeter protection. and that ended up being built into the structure from the beginning. it is very difficult to retrofit later. >> but others are more amenable to that. >> so just building on what maria said. we are looking at the... we have tasked the design team with taking another look at the w, or called a w1, the awning system that encloses the buildings and that has a potential to bring down the rva impacts by as maria mentioned roughly $7.5 million or 12 percent of the total rva impact if we go to a different

solution there. and so, we are actively explore thating and look forward to bringing that to you next month. the other thing that is a component of the recommendations for budget adjustment that we are bringing to you or presenting to you, is an examination of the over all budget contingentcies in reserve and where they stand and if we are to make a budget adjustment, assuring that we are putting in place the contingentcies and reserves that will allow us to complete the delivery of the phase one program. and so, within the budget today. there are a number of components of contingentcies and reserves within the budget and the first is the design contingentcy. >> it is embedded within the

construction costs budgets and it represents a reserve for unknowns in the design at any status and any point in the design process. so that the typical expectation is that as you move through the design process, those design contingentcies, are reduced to 0. but at the same time, additional detail comes in to the design and is reflected in the design documents that off-sets that contingentcy. our contingentcies are not currently at 0 as we have not completed the design. but, we are carrying roughly $8 million in the design contingentcy bucket at this point. the second category again is within the construction budget

is the construction contingentcy and that is a reserve that is held for the course of construction, unforeseen conditions and other change ts in the scope or construction requirements. and the reserve, against those for those changes and claims. the cmg ccontingentcy, is what we established it is some what unique to the construction manager general contractor approach to construction that we are employing on our project. >> that is a reserve to handle coordination between trade subcontractors and provide for a level of schedule recovery if the contractor falls behind schedule and needs to accelerate to stay on the

schedule for october 2017 completion and related issues to the over all excuse of the work and finally the program reserve which is its own budget category and is a reserve against all other program budgetary requirements. so, in bringing an assessment in the recommendation to the board, we reviewed the status of all of the existing reserves, and in addition our recommending two additional components of contingentcy being incorporated into the budget. >> the first is a schedule contingentcy and as i mentioned there is a wide range of costs associated with managing and

delivering a program of this nature that our time-dependant. and if we for some reason do not meet the october 2017 completion date, those costs will continue to be encured and we will believe that it is prudent to recommend that we have some reserve for those time dependant costs as we move forward. >> the second is a market recovery adjustment. and this is a significant recommendation that we are making. it is on par with the cost impacts of the rva. and it is reflective of what we are seeing in the current market place construction market place. and it is consequences for our estimates and for our construction budget moving forward. i know that the big indicator

that we are seeing a shift here was with the substructure bids that came in and what we are seeing is an increase in activity in the construction market in the bay area, particularly around issues of steel and concrete. that is having a consequence for us of fewer contractors pursuing some of these packages. and where two and three years ago, contractors were pursuing work at little or no profit margin. in order to maintain a deployment of capitol resource and personnel. now, there is more of a return to normalcy in the margins that subcontractors are pursuing. and those are having consequences for us in terms of decreased competitions and higher bids going forward.

so we are expecting, we are looking at the super structure package where we anticipate receiving bids next week. and we are actively evaluating our engineer's estimate for that package at this time. >> mr. beck, if i may just ask, how much is the market recovery adjustment roughly of the increased budgetary costs? >> it is a good segway. >> this slide, we are recommended an adjustment of 55.4 million in basically escalate in market reserve against the remainder of the construction budget. and the program reserve today stands at 20, the balance in our program reserve line item stands at 21.4 million. and recommending restoring that to a level on par with when we set the 1589 budget by adding $25 million to the program

reserve account. a slight increase in the construction contingentcy equivalent of 8 percent of the to-be-built work by increasing that by $25 million and by introducing the schedule category as a reserve against time dependant costs on a level of $5 million. >> could i ask a question? >> yeah, director reiskin? >> i think that restoring and adding to these contingentcies make sense. i think that this is the right path forward. i am interested in the market adjustment and how you arrived at that number. have you all looked at when we awarded the last package, you had indicated that even for this next coming package we may see higher bids, we are all seeing these cost escalations happening. do we know what our packages

are and we have budgets for each package and we know the timing of each? so have we kind of revised our estimates for each one and is that where this 55 came from and how does that relate to that? why are we doing that separate from a construction? or just revising the budget for each? >> yeah, it, we have kind of taken a couple of that is that we are asking that we are projecting, both long term and their own indexes and other markets eand r and others going forward. to see if we are seeing an adjustment in pricing, and we have reviewed the current schedule as for the various trades to see if we are seeing any trends on the labor side of things. there is a significant portion of this which we believe is

exposure on the structural steel package right now. you have asked in the past about the number of prequalified bidders that we have had and we have had four on the steel package but two of those firms have indicated that they are not going to pursue it as a prime but going to submit the bids to the other bidders, so we are seeing the consolidation and what we are hearing there is that it is a level of resources a contractor want to commit to a single pursuit as opposed to a diversity of pursuits and us being such a large project. whereas some of the later packages that are more ubiqitous drywall contractors we are not seeing shifts in those market places at this time. and we are quite frankly, the number of firms in the market

place give us a level of confidence that some of those later packages will not be as impacted. but, because it is such a fluid situation right now, we are recommended this as a reserve against these exposures rather than it is very difficult because we are just in the midst of a transition of how it should be allocated against the packages. >> i observed that the increased construction costs from being almost exactly matches the increased land sales, we think that we might get on the revenue side from being in the boom. so that is nice. those are in a sense canceling each other out tl. is a chance that you could get more money out of the land and control the construction bids and come out ahead. there is also a chance that the

reverse could happen and that the land is not as good. it seems like this is going to be fluid. but maybe we could hope that those kind of balance each other as we have here in this document. >> yeah. that is coincidencal but you are right. the forces that are effecting our costs also fortunately are effecting something of our others. >> mr. beck, a poll guys, we have been ten minutes remaining before at least two of the board members need to leave. so i think that clearly this is of great interest to everyone in this room. both staff and the board. i think that we will need to continue the discussion until march. i actually feel like we need to just talk about the budget in a meeting and so, normally you have subcommittee and all that have and we will talk with the director about how we might have a workshop just on the budget so that we can ask all of the questions to the members of the public can have an

understanding of where these increases are coming in, some of which of course, make a lot of sense. we are seeing all of the projects costs go up currently because the economy is doing well, which is a positive thing for the city, but it also means that our cost increase particularly on the public projects and this is not exception from that. so if it is okay, with members of the board, i would like to also continue this item. and i will work with the director to see maybe the best way for us to have a more robust discussion just around the budget. and it is good that it is coming to us now, before we have to approve the budget in may. >> we are looking at march. >> approving the budget in march >> because we are finalizing the construction documents in may. >> when will the bids be in for the big package? >> march 7th. >> director. >> when we open them on march

12th. >> right >> we may want to it seems like we would want to look what that award value is. >> we could do that. >> we... >> based on where that is the biggest area. >> we could have a continuation of more information brought to you at the march board meeting and then have like a maybe a later meeting in march a special meeting. >> i think that might be a appropriate. we could call the team meetings in march. >> i think that this is incredibly important and i am happy to have two meetings. so we can continue this item to the call of the chair to give the flexibility. >> yes. >> we will have at the regular march board information more meeting that you requested and then at the special meet ng march we will bring you the information on the structure and the steel structure and the item for the budget and item. >> i want to thank the staff, i know that an incredible amount of work has gone to this and it

is clear and i know that the staff is working hard to contain as much as possible. with rising costs. i just want to appreciate that and i apologize that we were not able to make it through and to the rail presentation and i know that they worked hard to get that ready today as well. >> thank you for your comments. just as a final note. we are looking at additional $164.5 million for the budget which we will give you more information on in march >> i did ask for a motion if we could normally. >> motion. >> the motion to continue to the call of the chair. >> in the amount of $1 billion, will be continued and presented at a later. >> without opposition. >> okay. >> so we do have a member of the public? >> that would like to speak on this item? >> comment on this item. >> thank you, madam chair, briefly i am aware of the

constraints here. this was a very impressive presentation. but what impressed me even more is what was not there. there was no discussion of tunnel safety, in other words, the dtx. and the way that this starts is with our design and mr. reiskin is a very familiar with this. because this is the way that the central subway is designed. you use the tunnels with the cross passages and i will give you an example. people talked about the madrid bombings and london and they ever talked about the tunnel fires. and the third of them, at a reason was that there was no fatalities and i will give you the example. the 2008 fire was exactly on the 7th anniversary of 911. it was to the minute of when the first plane hit the first tower. that fire burned for 16 hours that tunnel was out of service

for nine months and cost $190 million to repair and no casualties and very briefly, the bonus that you get there, if you use the same tunnel design techniques as what you are using for central subway, the savings would be in the billions of dollars, mr. reiskin knows the subway tunnel of up to 253 million, in closing, with regards to the safety aspects of the glass, and the transbay term terminal you may want to look at other materials. plastic and another one is called etfe, thank you. >> okay with that said, that does include the members of the public that want to address you. as the board earlier approved to continue item eight we will move into item nine >> thank you. >> authority sizing the executive director to execute

the amendment number two to the agreement with the san francisco municipal transportation agency sfmta... >> i think that i need to recuse, myself. >> if you have any questions you could respond or a defer to you. >> second, apologize. >> we do have a motion, to move this item forward. with recommendation, i do believe do we have a take a motion to recuse director reiskin? >> no. we don't. >> the members of the public that wanted to address you under that item. >> and so with that director lloyd? >> aye. >> metcalf in >> aye. >> reiskin. >> abstain. >> we have one more. >> thank you. >> director ortiz. >> aye. and chair kim. >> aye. >> as well. that is 4 ayes and one abstain and item nine is approved. the final item for the vote today is excuse me, it is not

the final item. but number one is authorizing the payment of current and future eligible and approved relocation assistance claims over $100,000 in the ago go gate for wooden spoon and fork and members of the public have indicated that they want to address you on this item. >> thank you. >> is there a motion on this item. >> i am sorry. if you have any... >> you need to come up. >> if you have any questions. >> i know that we have three minutes. so. >> i guess that i want to make sure that i understand, we don't know what the final pay out is going to be in is just a preauthorization? >> correct. >> we have our internal estimates. relocation services consultant and they are still well under that estimate from the consultant, but we would be obligated under the relocation law to say whatever expenses are eligible and there is no cap in the relocation law at either the state or the relocation law. >> thank you. >> thank you, director.

that was my question, i was wondering why we were preauthorizing without know. >> we could of course come to the board with each claim, individually but that does make it hard for the business to move forward with moving and trying to pay the contractors >> okay. >> thank you. >> approval? >> resolution? >> so moved. >> and a second? >> the first and the second. director lloyd? >> aye. >> i will note for the record, metcalf has departed. >> director reiskin? >> aye. >> vice chair ortiz. >> aye. >> and kim. >> aye. >> that is 4 ayes and item ten is approved. do you have a motion to approve the minutes of the january 10th. >> so moved. >> first, second. >> and all of those in favors. >> aye. >> i will go ahead and note for the record that director metcalf was absent with that it is approved and that will conclude your agenda for today >> thank you, see no other items the meeting is adjourned.

.... >> >> i am here to tell you that one billion rising is the biggest global action on the planet for ending violence against women and girls. today in 203 country, one billion rising is dancing up the will of the world to end violence against women and girls once and for all.

we have expanded our list that the u.n. recognized of countries, and how your response has been through this call. together we will make it so that this issue is never marginalized again. san francisco, you have been rising all day long. from dancing across the golden gate bridge this morning. the dancers who were just here now at grace cathedral. and thank you grace cathedral for welcoming us. and elrio will be dancing all night long. what better place to rise and here at city hall on valentine's day and all the elected officials and leaders, all of the women of anti-violence leaders who are here, and are

doing this work everyday alongside of you. thank you, san francisco rising. v-day is a welcome place and i spoke to the representative from congo. and i want to thank every person in the mayor's office and the d.a.'s department and every single agency that works on this issue every day. from the bottom of my heart, and eve sends her love as well. you have made this happen. on that note i would like to welcome mayor edwin lee. thank you. >> all right, how are y'all doing? well, anita and i came together to join vascone and the fabulous

fablioa, isn't she fabulous. and david chu and all the board of supervisors are here, and the committee on the status of women. and the president and susan swan, give them a great hand for organizing v-day in san francisco. we support the one billion rising because it empowers the rise of women, girls and all the residents of san francisco to take a stand against violence in our home, in our city and throughout the world. and just think, if women were equally included in decision-making around the world, there would be no economic disaster throughout the world.

so today as part of dancing and part of celebrating, but the important message that we all stand united together. to take the pledge to end violence against women and girls for good. so let's do this together, are you ready for the pledge? all right. i just wanted to get you ready. we will be back in a very short second for this pledge. i have to listen to the women on this stage. >> you better, mr. mayor. san francisco are we ready? are we rising?

let's show the world that san francisco can be counted on. just think about it for a moment. one out of every three women will be sexually abused or assaulted in their lifetime. that has to stop. and we here in san francisco are going to show no tolerance for abuse against young girls and women. are we ready? are we rising? i have to take a moment to thank some people. first i want to thank my beautiful wife. who is just an incredible woman. she's the anchor in my life and someone that i appreciate so dearly. and i want to thank you very much for everything you do. and for your commitment to ending violence against women. i also want to thank mayor lee,

because when he was approached with the idea of doing this. he immediately said yes. thank you, mayor lee. and thank you to the lee family. i want to thank the organizers who very early on came together and said, san francisco will stand out and be counted. and i want to thank our board of supervisors. i want to thank people on my staff, specifically rebecca prozam. when i said rebecca, we have to help get this going, and she said no problem. where is rebecca? raise your hand. give her a round of applause. i guess we are ready to move on. and what i ask for all of you, when i dance, do not laugh. because i am a horrible dancer. let's go on with the program. david, i will ask the president of the board of supervisors,

david chui. >> we have anyone here ready to be a part of revolution? we have anyone ready to rise? are we here to say no to violence against women and children? on behalf of the board of supervisors, i want to say happy valentine's day and v-day. thank you for being a part of our city of love. in 1967 san francisco started the city of love. and in 2004 san francisco stood up and said that our couples lgbt should marry. and today we are saying it again, we are a city that shows we know how to love. and real love does not involve violence against women, and against girls or against children.