alone property. those are handsome buildings they represent part of the second he core district. we met with him and he printed some concepts and the director made it clear the department wouldn't be supportive of demolishing those buildings in the great are sxhoks of the district. that said mr. patrick has never submitted any applications to the department. so i'm happy to answer any other questions you have about the proprieties or the inspection >> we have a question from director metcalf. >> josh it's a clear

presentation. it strikes me that really the only problem i have is - >> yes, we have part of the district land including the tower we be looked at that and one of the solutions i think we've all embraced is the plazas west of howard they'll be requiring a number of properties and demolishing those properties south of this and howard would create some major visibility for the pedestrian. >> if that happens what's the entry experience like.

>> we do have a rendering of it. >> is that designed in the front. >> the consent is they'll be some time and pg a hadn't acquired those properties yet. >> but that won't be behind them i'm looking to the architecture it's been designed as a front door? okay. that's all i need to know. >> i would add as you're standing at the northeast corner of howard there would be the open space and the bus ramps which is a structure k a that's a vivid structure. and then you'll have this vista

but you'll have a similar vista looking east it will be a drastic scene from the center >> i wanted to follow up from that question. i'm not sure which parcel is this on second and howard? >> and so the buildings here in orange at the corner of second. >> howard the phase two the pg a will need to acquire those two buildings and dmooch them to bring the d t cross-examination into the center.

the area west of the bus ramps and north to this area will become aplasia. and those buildings are not contributey or - >> those are prop buildings were all evaluated and slated for acquisition but i don't know their historic significance. >> thank you josh and bob. now directors you know, we have a robust apprenticeship program. we believe in giving back to the community what we do every year for the summer is we hire ask the students and colleges to get

them involved in legislature matters and public outreach and engineering and infrastructure. i want to introduce the interims they come fray the east bay. if the students could please stand up. and you can see we have quite is a variety of them. i will defer to the chair. we'll start our interim. good morning. i'm a rising senior from the high school. i'm intirm for a pg a. i enjoy i'm getting insight into this city because i was born and

raised here >> thank you. >> good morning. i recently graduated from the cathedral and i'll be intirm for the pg a and i'm excited because i can be a part of this to learn more about the field of engineering thank you. >> thank you. >> i'm jessica i'm going to be a senior this year. i'm inner and i'm excited to be a part of the an innovative new project >> thank you and a morning i'm martin. i'm a rising senior and i internal in construction.

i'm excited that i'm going to be part of this project that's going to be impacting san francisco for years to come >> thank you. >> i'm going to be a senior of the university of berkley. i'm currently in construction. i want to thank you for giving you this opportunity. it's going to generate staff and give a lot to the bay area >> thank you and a thank you very much. >> my name is tracy. i'm a senior to be. i'm glad i get the chance to learn about this project and be a part of it

>> thank you. >> i'm going to be a second year at poly san francisco. and i like being such a dynamic part of this >> thank you. >> i'm going to be a junior in the fall studying civil engineering. i appreciate getting the insight into the construction industry and to learn about the technical technically oirntd project >> thank you. >> i'm brandon. i'm going to be a senior.

and i like this project because i can see how the projects built and how detailed planned it is before it's constructed >> thank you. >> morning i'm going to be graduating. i'm a project engineer. my farther part is being a part of a landmark and something that has such great influence on san francisco. also i love my coworkers we work hard. thank you >> thank you. >> good morning. i'm a project engineer in the web core. i'll be a senior and i'm - what

i like about this project is you don't get - not everyday you get to work on a $2. billion project and i appreciate it thank you very much and welcome to our project. i want to thank you for you coming to our board meeting. you can sit. i think we talked about what it means to open opportunity for young people in our bay area to learn about the engineering so it's great to meet you in person and hear about your experience. at the end of the summer i'd like to hear what you learned what you wouldn't have learned in a typical setting. thank you very much for coming here today

>> any other comments? >> thank you chairperson. >> so at this point we'll open up for public comment. >> we do have two members of the public that would to talk about item 6 and a thank you any other members of the public want to speak submit a card to our board secretary. >> thank you i'd like to touch today on the central subway. on the central subway i was delighted to join ed lee for the long ceremony for the project. so i hope you can see the potential for the d t cross-examination and if you can you might be interested next to the cal train tracks and you may

be interested in the easement between the potential bay station. so i'd really like to encourage you at some point to give you a presentation on the 12 miles on the high-speed line the project of 10 builds 10 years ago. you see or, see the impact that this can have on the city. it's not just a strike it's the collision between the two things it was a fire years ago. i hope you take into consideration when you look at the box and essentially to make it possible to have the extension across the bay. thank you >> thank you.

morning directors i'm jim with the patrick company thank you for your giving me the time. i will call a couple of of things to your attention. the b t x is a long way off before it's ready such got a 12 foot wide street there touch to get into. and number two i'd like to call your attention to those of none of those have a west side entrance because it's not designed very well. and number 3 we're going to plan a two-story restaurants on the

park level behind the theatre. that's a great spot to integrate a strategy right below it because that's where the people are going to be the majority of the light. thank you for the light you've given me and i'll continue to work on this for everyone >> thank you, mr. patrick any other members of the public wanting to speak. seeing none, we'll close public comment at this time. madam clerk please call consent calendar >> they're considered to be routine. there will be no separate discussion and the events can be removed and none of the public wishes to be removed and this is

the midnight's to be approved and item 7.2 authorizing the improved to expend the contract for 3 years for 75 thousand dollars >> members of the board want to sever any items seeing none, we have a motion by director lloyd and a second. >> with a first and a second (calling names) it's a 5 i's and the consent calendar is approved. >> can we go to the next item. >> item 8 is the design. >> i'm going to have bob and fred present this but before they do this presentation is going to include a number of

elements are that the first is we red our bids from the super structure and we had one bidder it came in an excess of 73.9 million and to alleviate that we had it rebid. the one passage it was approved and it came in a cost and we put out the remanding passages we got 4 bidders and there was a tight bidders process so the price is fair and a reasonable. in addition the bidder that came in the lowest and we'll be presenting more information and we've been bringing this up in the july meeting.

second item is that what we did is we in response to questions some of the board members we had on third party reviews we have conducted assessment reports and we brought into another outside analyst to evaluate our resources. we conducted on assessment that was one tale methodology and the second methodology. we presented this rut and the results of the risk assessment to the san francisco community transportation authority and i want to thank for their continued support. the projects final cause provided by the assessment was

1.9 million which was in the information today. and thirdly, the schedule was brought what was the impact from the bids and the schedule we decorated web quarter they submitted a quarter that kept the date open october 1, '70 we're still on schedule. we'll be presenting more information. and in addition fred look ated the skin and to see if we could bring down the costs further. so we have the result of the steel bids and a scheduled that keeps us on track on october 17th. with that i'll have bob present.

please. >> thank you directors. i'll provided a little bit more details on the highlights we've gone throw in february and march. starting with a recap of the issues we're highlighting in this timeframe as well as the risk assessment process. the current revised budget assessment that we plan to make recommendations on and the fubtd opportunities to address that revised budget and the steps forward and fred will follow me with the design >> so in february coming in the budget discussion in february i have here the original 158 budget and a what the budget was. and i think the main thing to

note here we had seen a fairly significant draw down of the program resource in part toward the sub structure package. and in terms of the binged environment this fall we're starting to see a great deal of additional activity, you know, go back about 18 months there were no cranes downtown now you can not choose a prospective await seeing the cranes from other project as well as a great deal of activity in the region with google and apple and the 49ers stadium that has made great progress. we're seeing a lot more competition in the market and that was having an impact on the bidders but also the margins the

biz were pursuing in the, you know, several years ago three or four years you see projects being prude at cost with no profit there's a return to normal market continues that are effectively pricing. and in addition to that we had completed in 2012 an update that had resulted in design criteria that were estimated to have an associated cost of $57 million on the transit center. we have any program resources that were not going to be effective to the program. on the other side the design side of the effort through the

cows of the design and development we working with web core and the designers through conducive ability had identified opportunities to reduce the cost of construction through alternate materials by roughly a hundred million dollars including the alternates that were included in the passage. the scope beyond the steel we're engaged in provided limited opportunities for additional engineering so that for practical purposes to deal with the issues of the magnitude that we were looking at we essentially exhausted the cost reduction opportunities. so the recommendations

were brought in february were to provide for the he recreations and design recognized the recovery impacting correctly the construction you budget to increase the program resources and contingencys and to make some other program wide and a soft cost budgets to recognize current trends as well as to provide for additional services in the earth and engineering he realm. the recommendation that was tentative proposed in february was for $1.8 million. and see that their - so since that time we've gone through the process of rebidding the extremely.

as a reminder we had 5 prequality bidders won a general contractor and 4 that were still fab carts that do erection. the bidders were engaged in the preproposal process but we saw some signs of consolidation and ultimately got one bid from the general prequalified contractor among the 5. it was worth noting that all 4 firms provided prices but didn't pursue the project themselves. despite that so the market consolidation had some impact the single bid had some impact

on the value of this bid but the pricing was a different thing when it came to the productivity that they could achieve and the risks. so we did briefly negotiate with the sole bidder but we're unable to bring down the costs of the project. and ultimately concluded that revising some of the specifications was going to be the best approach to bringing down the cost of the bids. to the may board meeting we brought the most critical components of the passage to you which was to award the cash notes. that has been processing and the contractor has been in communication with our

consultants. we also engaged a consultant to the t gpa cast connects to provide additional coordination drawings between the cast notes supplier so although we're breaking it up we're providing enhanced coordination between those contractors to avoid any gaps or disputes between the packaging. our clear is providing other details for the shop process. in rebidding the structural steel itself the erection and fabrication we allowed the pricing to be put into the bid.

the transit center itself has two seismic joints so it's 3 structures. one of the feedback we had from the steel erectors that doesn't bid the scope with other obligations i'm bringing on line the scope woos was too much more them to bring into prime ultimately although we provided for this opportunity we didn't have any of the fab carts submit the bids. the thing we weren't sure was how many additional firms we could draw into prequalify and give bids. we were successful in the outreach to attract 3 additional

primes to prequalify and bid on the passage so when we did receive the bids we did receive 4 bids as maria mentioned the lowest two were in 1 percent of each other. a little bit over a 1 hundred and 93 million so we thought we had a clear understanding assessment of the work from the bidders. the low bid we received of 1 hundred and 89 million 1 hundred and 8 thousand represented a reduction from the bid that they submitted to us in march of over $50 million. and that's after taking into consideration the original

package. the strategy did result in significantly bringing down costs the scope still represents a cost of roughly $44 million which was considered in preparing the february recommendation. so in terms of the schedule and the steel schedule again is rebinged or bringing the cast notes forward for the regard was the first steps in the impact of the bid. web core is working with the contractors to keep that on schedule so it can start as anticipated. and the web core again working with our scheduleers on the program management and the turner staff have identified

ways in the schedule to break the dependent sister like allowing the shop system to start before the steel erection is complete and get out earlier. so that we can create more overlap between trade packages and not as more finish to start independencie independencies. we're going to continue to work with web copper to build more structure into the package so we can address those and keep the work on schedule of 2017. those are the current milestones as we p