you have the ability to have 15, i personally would have 15. it's your choice but i don't know why you would limit yourself to 10. if you have more people that want to be involved. the more people that are involved, the better it is for the organization. that's just simple me thinking. i just want to put that out there because i don't understand how that happens. >> i understand. >> supervisor wiener? >> thank you. i'm not going to express a view on the side of the board. i think there are boards of 10 or 12 or 14 that just function 15. but i do want to say that some of the issues that we heard today and this is general comment, you don't need to -- thank you. in terms of that there are outdated bylaws

and procedures that should have apparently been updated a long time ago, haven't been. we have the situation which has been resolved thanks to a lot of hard work but probably shouldn't have happened in the first place to have significant turnovers of executive directors which is not just recent thing but happened in the past as well. we see problems and apparent low moral among contractors who make the actual parade and festival work every year. and to me whether the comments whether the structure, it's a challenging organization. whether you talk

about an organization that is responsible for really this public trust, ensuring the pride parade and festival happen every year. i respectfully disagree with miss oliver in terms of anyone's role in commenting on it and having a strong view on the governance structure. this isn't just a private thing. it's not about a private entity and how dare you suggest that they should merge or a different group should be responsible for the parade. this is a concern and should be a concern of the elected representative of the community as well as the community itself. i think it is an open question in terms of the governance structure because we want to make sure that this parade and this festival

continue to get strong and are not jeopardized or weaken the structure that are some of the problems that i have outlined and outlined during the hearing. i will say, i know there is an election coming up and that will be conducted pursuant to the organization's rules. i have no idea what the result will be. that is what it is. i actual low don't know that even if there is some sort of change of leadership in the board, m in my mind i'm not convinced that it will address any of the governmental situations that exist. for me whether i or anyone else favors the incumbent director, this is about structure of this organization which i think a

reasonable argument can be made does not necessarily serve the critical need of -- insuring the parade. we need to continue to have this amazing iconic and unique institution in our city. >> thank you. supervisor wiener and again i want to thank all the members of the public who have come out to speak about this item. i also want to thank the members of the pride board, president of the board, the general council and their acting executive director for being here today and i want to thank the members of the public, of our community who are involved in doing this and

i also appreciate from the vendors who shared their experiences. what i want to say to be completely fair what we heard here was in many respects was a mixed bag in the sense that there was the positive development on the issue of the finances of the organization and i think we need to give credit where credit is due and we are grateful to the board and the staff that worked so hard to make that happen. i think it's something we should be very proud of and lisa williams who made that happen. but there are comments that i heard that there are issues that remain around governance, around transparency and around accountability and when you hear from these vendors that are largely responsible for the success of this event when those concerns are raised. it is very troubling to me. it's

very troubling to me that it seems that it took this forum for these concerns to come out. i think that's a scene of something. -- sign of something. i don't know what exactly. with thatten mind is what i would ask that we continue this dialogue. my hope is by the time we have a follow up hearing that we can get more specifics about some of the things in the report that unfortunately i know for a lot of reasons we couldn't get today that will provide that opportunity. i hope there are other things we can discuss including some of the issues that were raised today by the vendors and also some of the issues raised by other members whether you agree with the comments or not. that there is even an impression that there is still compliance with rules and regulations and that there is no accountability or

transparency. whether it's true or not, the impression itself is a problem. i think we owe it to ourselves and to the community to get to the bottom of it. i'm a big fan of brook oliver and i believe a lot of the stuff he said especially around the city to providing more resources for this event. i agree with you professor wiener that we have a responsibility in city government to get this right. it not just criticizing but also putting our money where our mouth is and i'm committed to making this happen. thanks everyone and thanks supervisor wiener. can we make a motion to call this to continue to the call of the chair. we'll let you know when the next hearing takes place.

>> mr. clerk, do we have any further business? >> that concludes the items on this agenda. >> meeting adjourned. >> >>

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walk away with a great feeling. for more opportunities we have volunteering every single day of the week. get in touch with the parks and recreation center so come >> okay. good morning, and welcome to the transbay joint authority board of directors meeting for september 12th. and take roll call. >> harper and metcalf and sartipi are expected and we will call the meeting to order. with director lloyd? >> here. >> reiskin. >> here. >> kim. >> are there anything for

today's meeting? >> if none, new or old business from the board of directors? >> seeing none, we will move on to the executive director's report. >> great, good morning, directorses and members of the public i would hope that you had a good summer, i would like to report on a milestone that we recently reached, since the ground break of the new station since august of 2010, we have been busy on the construction of the under grounder portions of the facility and we demolished and recycling 100 percent of the materials that were used to build it and the shoring wall and we excavated down to 65 feet and built trussles to put in the heavy equipment and cranes and we also built a vast internal bracing system and relocated the utilities and installed over, 129 micro piles. and we have layed in the

geothermal piping, poly ethalen that will use the constant temperature of the earth ocore which is around 50 degrees f and that will allow us to cool the buildings in the system and that is a contributor to the gold lead. and we have been putting in the water proofing and reinforced the steel and we recently and this is what we celebrated for the 4,000 cubic yard of concrete, in total we will pour 142 yards, every three weeks, we are going to come in on a friday night and start around midnight and then pour until the following day on saturday and in total we are going to pour 15, just for the slab foundation and that should be completed by summer of next year and the entire concrete pour, the 142,000 will be completed in two years and it was that event that we

celebrated and our special guest of honor was house leader pelosi and she was with us and gracious and lovely throughout the ceremony and also joined by mayor lee and we are appreciative of his leadership and support and chair person kim was present and at that ceremony we gave each of the spokers a token of our appreciation which i want to give to the board members and you can share this with your family and friends, and it is a sample of the clay that we collected 400 feet, and this is deposited before the last ice age, 100,000 members ago, maybe the kids can take it to show and tell in school and i will hand that out. so, what i did want to mention is that in addition to building for the future, we are also preserving the past as you know with the archaeological exhibits and the mammath tooth.

we had a successful summer with the interns, and i submitted to the board the write-up as has been submitted with what they learned as well as a video and it has been very rewarding to all of us to thank you for all of your support and i would like to ask sarah to present the quarterly's reports. >> good morning, directors, sarah, galati and these are your standard quarterly financial reports starting with the budget to actuals through the entire fiscal year, it shows that we were within budget for the fiscal year and right now we are working on the preparing the financial statements and the auditers will be in the last week of october so that we can present the financial statements to you for the end of the year. second report is the contract status report showing contracting activities proceeding as planned and showing our dbe and sbe

percentages and the third report is our investments and earnings report and we continue to have the land sales invested in the u.s. treasury notes that are coming due on a quarterly basis and we are using those to fund the cast notes package and contractor construction reimbursable expenses and the inception to date report shows that the capitol expenditures through the life of prament and then the final report, this is a new report that we have added and showing the draws on construction and any contingecy and since we were not processing trends and had the revised base line budget adopted from march to august there was about 2.2 million drawn down on the construction down on for change orders and if you have specific questions steve could come up and give you the details on those.

and as well, a 195,000 net draw from program reserves that is a combination of adding in a credit change order for kls out of utility packages that are complete and the cast connects amendment that you approved at the july board meeting and i am happy to answer any questions. >> steve? >> director reiskin? >> one question, on the budget, and it looked like a good chunk of the salary line item was expended and one thing that we look at in the heavy construction was the desire to staff up a little bit internally and i think that when we talked about that there was room in the budget to do that and to add the positions and i just wanted to get a confirmation that there is space and i do think that more agency staff, to over see the

work of all of the team would be helpful. >> absolutely, and actually director, i was just going to mention this as part of the next line item and that we have hired two people, and senior construction manager who you will meet today, dennis church who will report on the labor agreement and he comes to us with 26 years of experience from cal transand worked on the drive dwell project and a civil engineer and he will be working with brian dikes on the construction and a lot of experience on the dispute resolution work that we well be embarking on and also have hired a senior program manager that starts on december 16th also from cal transand he is also a civil engineer and both of the new team members are licensed civil engineers and his name is mark sabana with 27 years of experience at cal transand he will be joining us this coming monday and will be

filling bob's shoes. so we do have the budget for that. >> so, the next line item is the quarterly project labor agreement report and we are going to have dennis present that but i also want to mention for the veteran's part, ted wang and you have met him before and he will be reporting on a few items and we have a special today, eddie ramerez who will be joining ted as well to give information on what we are doing with the veterans and so dennis, please? >> good morning good moments and i appreciate the opportunity to give me first presentation with this quarterly update i do have experience in the senior compliance fer and so it seemed like to be a good fit when bob used to do these position and

now me filling in those shoes and that is where i come in with that kind of a background to dive right in. and to the pla. so we had our first project labor agreement meeting on august 22 and i am going to go through the meeting update and what is current and in the near future and update and also will have an apprentice up to date update regarding students, veterans which ted and eddie will cover. and then i will wrap it up with the labor and operators the adults program. >> august, 22nd, when we met with the pla. we went over the construction progress and the upcoming trade package and a high school apprenticeship and veteran programs, and reported that the

work stoppages there is definitely harmony at this point and it has been a good quarter, so far to date all of the skills needs have been met, and on the job. we did have one minor reportable incident that one of the employees required some stitches on his arm, and one of the... it was iron worker gurdo and had scratched his arm and ultimately needed stitches and when you need the medical attention such as that it becomes reportable and then the, and we presented and how we are tracking all of the labor and one of the questions in one of the past board members is that are we tracking the local usage and also the veteran usage and both of these on the local component we also do track the local labor and steve and his presentation and construction will have the specific numbers but we track by county and we are able to track how much labor force is

from san francisco and i am going to go into and show in the veteran's component and they are also tracked very, very closely within our labor compliance system. so, an update on the trade packages, and 7.1, the structural steel, the super structure project was awarded on july 11th and scanska is well on the way to submitals and they are not on site yet, so a lot of these trades have not shown up yet, but we expect by definitely next summer when a lot of this steel that is starting to get fabricated soon will show up and there are many from the carpenters and masons. and the next, trade package, the tg8.5, and the walls and glass, that is coming out soon, but, we receive the qualifications from our rfq's two days ago. and we did receive four.

and those are under analysis and they are being reviewed at this point and so it was good that we have received four and that is a good number to receive at this stage, of the process. and there will be many different trades on that one, the curtain walls and glass are on all levels and a lot of them are at street level and a lot of the glass on the low end and the street level and on the bus level and even up on the roof top park as well and many different trades, on that. next one is the exterior awning and that is the metal skin or the painted aluminum with the pen rose design and we have already received and gone through the prequalification process and we do have four qualified bidders as of august 13th for that. and it is going to go out for bid on next month. and that one too as well, as the architectal sheet metals

they came in and showed what the design and the pen rose pattern to it. moving on to structural concrete super structure, the 7.2 package, another one that shows that we went through the prequalification stage, and we have now five qualified bidders for that and that is a very good pool at this point, and this one will go out to bid as well in october. and wids are accepted right around thanksgiving and in a similar kind of trade package here with iron workers and operators and carpenters and this is going to be the dove tail project with the super structure steel that scanka was just awarded and they will be doing concrete on top of the structural steel in conjunction with the bes deck and they will be pouring the package and the installs and so there is a connection between the two, throughout the next few years.

and trade group 18.1, the bus ramps. and this one has been a very large pool. and there is actually now, seven bidders, or qualified at this point, and that one, also goes out for bid, in october. and this is the one that includes the cable stay bridge and the connections to the free mo*nt off-ramp and the connections in and out of the bay bridge into the transit center and on to a, and in that particular one we are getting a lot of the traditional bridge builder, and that are going for this, and for this type of a project, and iron workers and carpenter and water proofers as well will all be on this project. and moving on to the aprenive ship and students specifically, initially, as part what was reported at our august 22nd jac and we had that the project

labor agreement between the unified school districts and the building and construction trades council was signed on june 24th, and they are moving forward with that, the multi craft, core, curriculum, which is, i guess, short, mc3, and i don't think that they are calling it mc cubed but three. but that is in conjunction for the trades other than carpenter and because they do and have been working directly with the unified school district and john oconnel tech 21 program and the one item that was reported and that they are looking at, and any additional equipment from roosevelt high school and the carpenters are refurbishing it and actually adding to the equipment over at john oconnel, and that was good news reported on both of those fronts. >> and the summer internship program, and it is very exciting to bring all of those interns in here and i believe that they were on the july first board. and they were excited and they are nervous