opportunity for bringing in major contractors and small businesses to work arrangements among themselves. it led to what constitutes from an extraordinary participation by small disadvantaged businesses to a tune of more than $30 million which is 3 times that is typical for a project of this size. under the phase two private partnership we were be able to bring some partnership to bear. the air is to create a work plan for not only small disadvantaged businesses but ignore employment. we've entered into a memoranda of understanding of city billed it is underway. this is the golds of 5 periods

of time disadvantaged plaintiff's businesses and 5 percent so to 0 come of the local market and 24 had been replaced >> so it's a 50 percent local hiring. >> 50 percent of all imply hires is to be for this project. i'm happy to a answer any questions >> colleague any questions and the public, private partnership this is the first time we've used this and it streamlines and moves it forward quickly. >> it's the first time we've fuse in california. i'd say from the right project the ppp can be both efficient and provided early capital funding that might not be otherwise available. their track intensive and not

appropriate for smaller projects >> thank you and we have the gentleman from the mta that seems the biggest project here. >> good morning commissioners. sherman i'm the program director and pleased to report its subway is fully funded and under construction >> before you this slide is basically depicting the existing t line. introducing much faster traffic time through the downtown corridor and the capacity along the obsolete corridors in the city. in terms of provided you with a brief project update. the first tunnel machine is in the phase and the tunnel

construction is estimated to be this friday. the second machine has arrived and being currently assembled in the lunch box. the bids have been opened on the 21st of may and those precede so all the contracts that will construct the central subway have been award and those have been award for all construction work necessary to bring the project to service. to provide you with some updates regarding some future work if we go to palace work we have a new retrieve process to begin shortly within the next week. it's currently going through the permitting phase. the station construction the

contractor is currently assembling all of his presubmittal construction. the first two phases are the chinatown station and the moscone station. the stations take about 5 years to construct with and they'll be completed in the year of 2018 and revenue service will begin in 20019. similar to other projects we've got a number of small business outreach meeting too many for me to count with the consent of bringing small businesses and introducing them to the community. i'm pleased to report that over half of the work that was done in the area has gone to small

businesses. and on the construction side approximately 25 percent of the hard construction work has gone to the small business community. showing an overall percentage about thirty percent of all the work that is necessary to design and construct the central project has been awarded to small business entities. and that completes my presentation. thank you >> thank you questions colleagues? thank you. and next, we have casey from cal train >> hi i'm here to provide a brief overview of the cal train station.

the cal train corridor involves converting 0 our system to diesel. this slide highlights some of our key partnership details. in order to have a successful partnership we had to share with the corridor we can articulate what that vision is it's not a 4 separated project its a two-track position and we're share the corridor. this reduce costs and community impact. our commitment to the system has been captured in several eardrums. you'll see we're with the resemble funding and that's supports the blended system. it recreational mo u adopted the

incremental process there are 3 components there are the advanced signal system and electric indication is the poles and the electronic trains. it's a $5 billion project and we have a d b e s b e goal we have just recently given the ss c a. we expect to have the rails in service by 20019 and all future investments are yet to be determined we still have needs. this slide highlights some of the key benefits. a couple of of things of note the environmental impacts with electrical systems will reduce

greenhouse gas and other eagles with the electric indication we'll reduce the substance. here's a couple of pictures of the electrical if i did system and finally here's at the timeline so show you where we're at. it's birth control down in the signal we hope to have it finished in a few years. we're in the environmental process and we expect to have a draft out in the wurnt with a final approved in fall of 2018. we expect to have the project approved. that's a short overview of the project >> thank you very much for the presentation. >> you're welcome.

>> so i think we have one last printer. it's sarah >> good morning commissioners sarah with the t.j. pa i'll give you an overview. i'm sure your falling all familiar with the project building a new transit center downtown. and then phase two of our promise is expending cal train into fourth and king below level of the transit center and also buzz storage are part of phase one. the temporary terminal has been operating successfully including handling a large influx of people with the bart strike.

the preliminary engineering is at a 39 percent operating level and it's on hold pending full funding of this project but it's in the draft recreational transportation plan that's under review by the region now and brown will be in the new start pipeline and right now we're doing supplemental and environmental work to clarify the changes to some of the changes that were requested by high-speed rail. this is a cross section of the transit center two below levels of the ground and then the bus deck level is up to the roof. construction we are in

excavation and below work it's about 70 percent complete actually more than 70 percent. overall we're about 23 construction complete we're been awarded our construction contact next week and we'll move forward the blow grade work is well flaw we we're currently on schedule to begin the operation in the october 2017. and this is the - at any time probably hard to see but this shows color coding the the cross section of the excavation and craig's - the gray is the west side of the project and you work your way east that's the way

it's moving and this is what's been excavated currently. those are some progress photos if you ever come down to our office this is the view from our office building. >> d v e participation we have a d e program but we have a small business program that allows us to place the goals on our contracts and we sent the participation from other agencies. and our construction manager general contractor has a 17 percent s pe goal and they're currently meeting that goal. they're doing that by placing individual small business goals on each packet.

you can see by the numbers over the life of the program those dollars enemies work out for a participation for the life of our program since 2004. those are our prime contractors. we have 48 prime contractor we have 11 businesses and on the majority side is our small businesses and you can see some of the breaks down there. this slide show us our d b e trarths over the fiscal year sins we've gone the program and where we've come in every year and to the 708 we started tracking the awards as well. some of the highlights in our d b e and f b e programs as i

mentioned goals are put up each sub contract programs. there were an example of those set aside. we have some pretty good numbers on some of the contracts. and we're at the prime and we have some other primes and surveyors two >> thank you are there any questions. thank you very much. >> i thank the committee i know that's a lot of time it's important stuff just a reminded of the recap this is approving abeyance adopting the revised

capital projects and that's done and we will come back to you in the fall and those are big project head safety and a bike safety and we've come back in october and back in november. >> thank you for your information. as you said on the webbed for the public there's more details. let's open this up for the public. anyone want to speak? >> ms. jackie sax. >> having been familiar with the the parkway project i've been working on it since 2000 and since the central way since it's inception i strongly urge

you to have those items go forward i want i think i'll bring up some other things but i strongly ask you to consider those items additional takes into account and have all this as i've worked open prop k as well i helped write it i'm being familiar with the sales tax package you should let this all go forward. >> monthly in the public who wants to speak? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. so colleagues can we approve the adoption of the draft the strategic plan >> thank you without objection. >> ms. chang call the next item. >> call for 2 million plus in prop k fund and advance jerry

for the business rapid transit and all statements subject to the schedule an amendment of the transit muni metro program. before mr. fong gives the report this item came up last week and there were some frustrations expressed by the a number of the colleagues on the transportation authority. i totally agree i've been frustrated with the long process as the various bus rapid projects move forward. it's been basically 9 years in many ways and it's moving forward not fast enough. i know that sherry is in the back as well having have you

found b r tshlgss that are completed much more quickly so the frustration is there. and the b r t projects are really critical to the city i'm excited about now a projects that are coming up later. i said there are a new alternative for the b r t that my eliminate the parking situation and there's public outreach in an aggressive campaign that will get people more familiar with the promises. so i'm working with the mta to move the opening date much sovereign on the b r t project and i appreciate the concerns but i'm hoping we can move those items quickly >> thank you chester with the

authority. this item begins on 97 of your packet. it's a request for the fund for the gary project and that conceptual phrase manufacture i have a brief presentation about the remaining work to be done. the gary corridor is one of the busiest project in the city with the 38 limited bus lines. this project focuses on providingors bus riders with faster services and speeding up boarding and better conditions arrest this the the solution of the bus rapid transit as well as signal improvements to give the

buses the green light more of the time and streetscape improvements. this face was initialed in 2008. at that time, using the common industry methods for the cost phase of the project costs we estimated $60 million. we still had some uncertain about the scope and design so we've been requesting installments up to about $4 million. we've been pushing hard and we've made some tangible process as the chair has alluded to.

we've got conceptual xylophones. we've about that conducting sustained outreach a number of workshops and stakeholders meeting and patron surveys to reach out to the mentors in the corridor. as the chair mentioned we have in response to our technical analysis as well as the community input relating to street parking parking and the consolidating of the parking. we have other safety projects that are identified and looking at other ways to inclusive early improvements to the corridor. and finally we've been working to remove additional uncertain about the intersections. we've been doing some

preliminary work in those areas. as for remaining work the project team has all we need in order to complete the environmental impact report slash statement. now the team it is turning its attention to the various environmental technical studies working towards the release of that document and we're preparing for the locally alternatives that would include running the district vs. side returning in one segment. we're updating our funds and we're working towards completing that final environmental document responsive to comments. the schedule for this remaining

work includes focus on the alternatives this fall that would be accompanied by an outreach and working on the technical studies to release a document in the string of 2014 and follow-up with in the winter of 2014 >> yes last week the finance committee considered a related item to use many of the requested funds for the project. we've heard loud and clear not just about the planning phase but the future designing phrase. the authority staff are working with that in mind to finish this phase expeditiously as well as reaching out to the sfmta including chairman mary to work

with the committee to find other ways to expiate and insure timely delivery. back to the funding requests our $2.7 million in prop k funds that would fund xhoument work and the sfmta staff including legal. that concludes my presentation i'm happy to take presentations >> thank you for your slides and presentation. any commits colleagues. anyone from the public who wishes to speak. and a yes. i attended the finance committee last week and i spoke out against it this sort of thing for the simple reason

the buzz transit might sound all good but it is supposed to be rail ready that was grandfathered there is no funding. if you look at this the documents that maria that the executive director gave you regarding the strategic plan for the next 5 years there's no money for gary there's no money for gary light rail project and it's supposed to be light rail ready. and there you go building a space in the union square and there's supposed be space for this on gary boulevard so you've got to take into account before

you do minimal. i also brought up the point that the public works mentioned the only way to alleviate traffic back when prop b was passed quota light rail system but it went no where think about that. people want the light rail. by that's what the people are going for now think about all that >> thank you very much anyone else want to speak. seeing none, public comment closed >> mr. fong can you talk about the potential for light rail on gary. i know there's proposals for the beach that l have been talked about but there's no funding stream but i saw there's funding for gary light rail and i know

the bus system is going to be light rail ready supposedly >> we're going to get ready for the light rail knowing at the moment we don't have the fund in a reasonable amount of time to build the light rail but not discounting in the future that the light rail would be a nice step to get to. but in this way we're trying to get the bus lanes run in the center where we can be converted to light rail in the future when we get the funds >> i know that in discussions with the institute of the transportation policy in new york city and they're saying when looking at the b r ts whether they're in beijing or columbia or in mexico city their

achieve you much of the same of the light rail at a fraction of the costs. that's why within the prop k funds there's a significant focus and enlighteny focus where the east bay are looking at the and san francisco, california be a tremendous leader and i'm happy to see the progress therapists been made and this will help us move forward in a strategic way anything else you want to add? >> i want to acknowledge the comments about light rail and with respect to buses and we do think we'll be able to achieve a

lot of the performs we'll be able to get out of a rail system in terms of time and but true some people will feel like light rail is better but from the standpoint of liability we feel that buses can over the same opportunity and i as light rail. >> colleagues can we move this forward with a positive recommendation. >> thank you next item. >> introduction of new items this is an informational item. >> i want to say we've talked about transit systems there's the gary and fillmore intersection that has a tunnel in there and commissioner breed has raised a lot of great suggestions in the project like

supervisors before her and another supervisors in many ways the project has great profundities for better land use and entity and really addressing problems created by boulevards and freeways cars that cut different neighborhood in half like the fillmore district. commissioner breed couldn't be on meeting today but i suggest we start to develop a concept for the authority to discuss how the tradition inland use could be reimagined in that intersection for the city. i'm hoping we can move forward especially