francisco? the ta is lower than the other agencies? >> correct. but we decided then that we were going to separate out, the benefit and base salary and just make any recommendation to the structure to be based on benefits only. so with that, we went ahead and created a salary structure, ranges that are two and a half percent apart and 35 percent wide and we inserted all of the classifications system into the system. which is what is being presented to you today. i think that structure is on page 79. in your packet. so, we are showing you here is what the current maximum monthly salary is, what the market placement, and the market median is what we use to make the recommendation and we feel that this best represents the labor market that it is not

undually influenced by the very, very high and low salaries like the average would be. so this gives you information for each of the classifications. and there are four benchmarks, or four classifications that were not bench marked. we felt like we had enough market data to internally align them, based on common market differentials that we will see in the class series. for instance, the planners, the planner and the principle planner were not surveyed but we got the information on the senior planner and we could apply differentials between, the senior planner to make a recommendation for the principal and the planner. any questions on the information or? ... >> any comments or questions? >> so just to go over this chart on page 79, the left side is what is the current maximum monthly salary within the transportation authority for these positions?

>> exactly. >> the next column is the median for the market. and all of these agencies that you mentioned which in most cases is higher, except for the first, right? >> right. >> and the proposed minimum salary is actually the minimum so it is lower than what we see with the current maximum. >> yes that is the minimum of the range that we created. >> then for the max um is what is correct and then you have the next column is the difference between the current maximum and... >> the proposed maximum and the current, yes. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >> okay. no other questions or comments from the committee, we can continue with mr. kevin torer. >> thank you for your presentation and your work on this. >> in terms of fiscal impact, the revised salary structure does not have an immediate budget impact.

because they are granted for performance not for inflation or cost of living adjustments. we are seeking a recommendation to adopt the revised structure on page 79 and we are more than happy to answer any of your questions. >> okay, thank you. let's go into public comment. any member of the public who would like to comment on this item please come forward? >> and seeing none, we will close public comment. >> okay, colleagues this item is lie before us. i actually appreciate the work of the group that you have provided to us in terms of a new structure and that would be supportive of that in light of that we have had any adjustments since 2007, and it seems that it is time and we are seeing numbers that are well below what other agencies in the surrounding market provide in terms of salaries. so i would be supportive of that. commissioner campos? >> thank you, mr. chairman. just a quick question, and i

too support the proposal. what is the over all financial impact on the authority? >> for fiscal year, 13, 14, we have not anticipated any fiscal impact. as i mention it is performance based. we typically don't see any adjustments more than 5 percent. okay >> of the salaries, right now the salaris for 13, 14 budget which the finance committee will see this month is approximately $5 million and that represents 2.2 percent of our budget. and it is hard to say how much it would actually be right now. and until we have the reviews and evaluations, great. thank you and i appreciate the work. thank you very much. >> thank you. commissioner cohen? >> thank you very much. i think that this is just a clarifying question. you see, you don't have an idea how it will impact the budget for this year and which means that i would assume that you don't know how it will be for

the future years to come, correct? and it is performance base? >> yes. >> and am i making an assumption that you have a set of criteria that you used to determine whether an employee is meeting their performance? >> right. there is a system for our evaluations and it is on a scale from one to five, based on how well they do. that is where the assessments for their own job performance salary increases would come from. >> you said that this is just salary based and it is also does not factor into the health benefits or anything like that? >> no, we are just bringing a recommendation for just increasing the salary range up and instead of adjusting any of the benefits. we are leaving the benefits alone, we feel like that is not just the right climate right now to take a look and ask for and increase of the benefits especially what is going on with the other agencies right now. >> great, that is going to be my next question, if there were

any plans to pay or to review benefits in the future? contributions, and employee contributions? >> right now, we are going for a pension reform, and we would like to wait until that is settled down before we take a look at the benefits. health premiums, of course, have been increasing over the past years. and we just like to wait and see what the new rates will become before we bring anything before you. i would rather have more information, that way when i come back before the board i can really recommend a solid number. you also will see just recommendations to the increase in benefits in our annual budget. right now, for fringe benefits, we are slightly increasing it less than 15 percent, just to accommodate for that range. but, that is not very much compared to our total budgets. again that is just 2.2 percent in totals just no salaries. >> one more final question. do you have an idea of the time

line of that of which you will be bringing the benefits? >> if there is, if it increased in that, it narrows us to bring it forward it would not be until later on this calendar, or later on during the year, maybe around september or october. we are on a calendar basis for our medical premiums. and so the new rates would not show up until about september or october and that is when the staff will sign up for the benefit plan that they would like and that way i can take a look at how much it will cost us from the next calendar year, our budget is on a fiscal year and at mid year we will take a look to see how much difference it is from what we have originally budgeted to what the actual cost s and within the year of budget amendment, i would bring any adjustments to you for your approvele. >> thank you. >> okay. and if no other comments or questions, from the panel? so we have this item before us, could we remain a motion?

>> so moved. >> from commissioner campos and seconded by commissioner weiner and we will take that without objection. thank you, colleagues. >> our next item is closed session item, so we will be going into closed session. madam clerk if you could call it and make the adjustments. >> item four, closed session, and update on public employ appointment hiring, executive director this is an information item. >> thank you, i have also requested that our interim executive director remain with us during this closed session as well and i think that is appropriate. she can provide proper context for happenings within the ta. >> okay, so, we are now going... >> okay. okay.

>> i am seeing a black screen. >> okay, thank you. >> so we are live, now. so we are now back in open session. >> right. >> i will see the live feed. >> i don't see that. >> i do see the live feed. we are back in open session, we are. colleagues could we have a motion not to reveal the contents of our closed session? okay. that is a motion from

supervisor weiner and seconded by mar, and we will take that without objection. and then, we can have public comments on the closed session? >> we do. >> we open this item up for public comment. and seeing no member of the public come forward. we will close public comment. and this is an information item. so we can go on to our next item. >> item five, introduction of new items information item. >> any new item to introduce, any subject matters? >> none? we will go on to public comment. and we will close public comment. >> and our next item it >> item number 6, public comment. >> general public comment and the opportunity for any member of the public who is or is not in this room to come forward and to say or speak their minds. we will close public comment. >> next item? >> 7, adjournment. >> colleagues, we are adjourned. thank you very much.

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>> good morning and welcome to the transbay joint powers authority meeting -- special meeting for may 20. my name is jane kim and i will be chairing the meeting. could we take roll call. >> director harper. >> present. >> director lied. >> present. >> director metcalf. >> director sart art. >> present. >> and chair kim. >> here. >> kim present as well. madam chair you do have a quorum. >> thank you. are there communications from the board today? seeing none any old or new business? seeing none we move on to executive director's

report. >> good morning directors, members of the public. as you know we put out our seal bid that can be broken up into three packages recently and bids are due june 20 and after that he we expect to bring a board for your consideration to the july board meeting in order to stay on schedule so that's really the main item right now in addition to the 100% cd's minus the it component us due at the end of may and that is on back to be delivered to us and we will review that with our team members and turn the package over to webcor by the end of the year at the latest and i will have steve give your construction update. >> good morning directors. steve rule with turner construction providing cmo

services to the tjpa. the last month has been another good -- make good progress overall on the project and again no injuries or osha reportable accidents. we had one near miss accident involving a crane losing some sort of loss of power in the lifting and a piece of equipment falling back into the hole. no significant damage to the equipment and no injuries whatsoever. they were following all of the appropriate procedures keeping the hoisting area clear so there were no injuries and work is continuing in the area. the excavation is about 72% complete overall and the micro-piles are 50% complete and zone one and 50% overall. the demolition continues in zone four as they

start to work on actually demolishing the tops of the shafts and continue to work on finishing up the quality assurance coring of the piles. the geothermal installation started in earnest in last period with two sections installed and tested and covered up in prepareeration for of the mud slap and the water work continues along mission street particularly in the intersections at second and first street to finish those areas up. again the awss and a replacement or increase in size of the existing system which leads getting back into the other utilities around that one and that is slowing the process down a little lit but all of the other utilities are cooperating in moving their materials around in the layout. we will see the

completion of the micro-piles within 90 days and zones in one and two, but more significantly what we should see is the first foundation pour, the first map slap poured in zone one should occur in july. you will start seeing the reinforcing steel and the waterproofing. we first do a waterproofing layer and the protection and the reinforcing steel and the first pour should occur in july. overall all the timeline continues to zero in on the 2017 october date of operations with the below grade work starting up. super structure as the executive director mentioned we put the steel package out to bid. that will get that moving along. the exteriors and so on through the finishes. some milestone dates that we're tracking and continue to show you as they change or

improve. of course the final traffic bridge was installed in april and with some float left over. some of the other items the first map pour is on track in zone one completing the excavation in first quart of 2014 is still on track and so on through the activities. the bse timeline getting towards the end of that with the completion of the traffic binge bridges and the excavation is 70% complete on. >> >> and on track for the beginning of 2014. as we go into the below grade work and up through the lower concourse and the horizontal land improving and the foundation walls and slap and box walls and we're in the beginning here with the

and i will show you pictures and this will allow them to move into that waterproofing. the excavation status i know it's difficult to read, but it has the micro-piles which are in red if they're not completed and grayed out if completed. on the lower left hand side those are where the must be slabs are pored and turned over for the below grade work. the areas in the upper left hand corner is the next mud slap pours and that will be turned over to them by line five or six. give them about six bays to work on the first foundation pour. just some progress photos. again since everything is down below the level of the street it's

hard to tell that significant progress has been made but can you tell from the shadows the excavation is deeper than the previous month. here is the micro pile account and with all of these piles installed. almost completely tested in zone one. we are completely installed in zone one. to date we haven't had failures of the micro-piles and the graph from before and they're staying on schedule and not indicating any problems with maintaining that schedule and keeping up what is required for the below package to proceed. so those are shots of the micro-pile work in zones one and 2p and as i mentioned the geothermal got started in earnest