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 and happy to see

themselves on tv. and we have 13 of them, and they were from various different high schools, and various different universities, and a good chunk of the universities from california, but we did have from oregon and colorado, and it was, we had them spread out throughout, urs and our pmp c and turner, wew corp and they all had interns working the summer interns and they were very helpful. and they got a lot out of it and this shows the mentor ship and got them out in the field a lot and we wanted to show them what it is like to work but also wanted to get something back from them to show what it means to be coming to work every day and what you do. and they were excited to see our project which is the iconic nature of it, and it is just the kids got so excited just to be on the site and i think that we really planted a great seed with all of them, even though

not all of them were interested in construction specifically but i think that they may be thinking about it. after their very fun summer, but everyone throughout the whole team was mentors. and a few of them stood out and they have one guy zach who has been helping us with claims and been doing good claims analysis and we had our own vif an allow that and helping myself with a lot of the equipment and identification and we got out to the field a lot and so vivian was appreciative of that. in the end they had to give the presentations weekly which i think was a fantastic at and you know kind of exposure that you can't have enough exposure to public speaking but this one, particularly stood out, and jessica lee i believe she is from george washington high and she gave an analysis on our

shoring system and how it relates to the train box which went so far beyond a lot of the other ones and so it shared a level of who we had this summer and so it was exciting to see how the kids really engaged in that and so now i will move on to veterans and the progress with that and we do track veteran hours, and we absolutely keep track of it, but, the challenge that we have with the veterans is that it is only voluntary to acknowledge that they are veteran and to a lot of them, our, guys and gals who are working out there sometimes may be on the jobs but already don't acknowledge that they are veterans and until they say that we can't track it and so with that, i am going to turn it over to ted because ted and eddie that is really what their goals are is to let the veterans know their benefits and it is okay, raise your hand, yes, you will be counted and we will definitely want the veterans on the project and so with that i am

going to turn it over to ted and eddie and then i will come back to speak on the adults. >> good morning, board members, my name is ted wo ng with web corp and i presented once before and it has been two years that i have been working on this, it was on behalf of this project and veterans hiring and the goal is a two-pronged approach to look to it, and the veterans hired into the trade positions as well as or existing veterans in trade positions hired on a project as well as salary positions and i am not differentiating between our company and the next construction company and it is for the whole regionally. >> and what i found is that we have been able to inspire other organizations you other than united contractors and a contract association of mostly infrastructure to develop their

own veteran's hiring programs for their members. and we are hoping to collaborate closely and cross poll enate and use the resources as well. and we are working closely on the local hiring sigh with the additional high and city build and i was able to through the mayor's office send a message to the mayor's office and it got channeled to pat and there is an official city build and veteran's liaison who identifies veterans, local hire, or local residents and veterans and can refer them to all employers throughout the city. and to me that is a fairly big milestone. and we also are working with mission hiring hall on identifying the veterans early on to steer them toward the trades and in addition we are also working very closely with the on the speaker series, and

with the sf state university as well as city college of san francisco to have actual veterans who are either in salary positions or in the trades present to the veteran students, what it is like to be in that or in those positions what it took to get there and more importantly, what skills that they took with them, and they could translate that to into real world jobs and that is now developing and it is going to be in construction with city college of san francisco and sf state and i now want to not take me more of your time but i have the pleasure of introducing master sergeant eddie ramerez who wears many hats and he has done a great amount of work for this region's veterans and it is my pleasure to introduce ramerez. >> supervisor kim, and board members, thank you for the opportunity to come up and

speak, i am a native san franciscan and i served 22 years active duty, united states air force and lived all over the world and i am a home owner here in the city, and i wear a lot of hats. supervisor kim nominated me for the va commission and my whole life, resolves around my fellow veterans, and making sure that my fellow veterans get what they are entitled and they served our country. and they need to be successful. and with that said. that is called one vet, one voice, we have two entities out there that work in silos one person does not know what the other person is doing, so by creating one vet one voice under the umbrella under one vet one voice, and we bring all

of these entities together into a one stop shop into eventually. and which will be the veteran's building and the veterans don't just need a job, and we need to look at the total person. the whole concept. and the veteran may have a job, and if he does not have the mental state ready to work. and he is not going to be successful. and so we look at, and housing and employment. and healthcare, and education. but that is a model that the state of california is doing under the inner agency on veterans san francisco can take the lead. if we do it right, under the one vet one voice concept, we could copy this county by county, and throughout the state. and so my pledge is to make sure that one vet and one voice is successful and i am doing

everything that i can to bring and unite all of the resources and veterans in the city of san francisco. on october fifth i am having the second film festival at the mission cultural center to invite the community to learn about what is facing the men and women and i invite you to that as well. and one of the inspirations of this one vet one voice is ted and because when i found out what ted was doing, you know, dad and you are doing this and so why not get this all under our umbrella and so i have chase bank on board and hilton hotel on board and many other agencies that are on board to help with this initiative and i do a monthly town hall to bring the partners together, and to provide and i would love to see a veteran's cafe opening up at the new terminal and one

possible. and the experience that they need with the boots on the ground in running a business and with that, i thank you for your service. >> thank you, master sergeant. >> thank you very much. >> and thank you, ted and eddie, and i could not get that like they could and i felt that their spacing was better than i could. so thank you to you both. >> and moving on to the progress regarding adult and talking about web corp they do the work directly with mission hiring haul and city build with the adult and not just veterans as well and they have continued to work on that mission hiring hall for a lot of the administrative components and city build for trades and they have been successful connection there. and now as i wrap it up with basically some reporting trends. and all of the trends and they

do have a one to five ratio apprentice to the journey man and we are getting the goals in all of the trades besides the laborers and the operators and that is such as the electricians and the cement masons and everything that is outside of those two, pile drivers and surveyer and welders which we have a lot of, with all of that shoring out there. so we are definitely exceeding our goal of the 16 and 2 thirds percent with those trades. and this is a chart that specific to laborers and operators combined. and that is what we are looking at is the green line is what you have to hit. and what we are filling in, you know, from a graphic cal standpoint, if you fill in under the green line you are meeting your goals and so if you could see, very for at least the last year, they have done very well with hitting

their goals with laborers and operators and each are tracked a little differently and the operators have a one to four ratio and laborers have a sliding scale that is roughly one to five. and but, that and they continue the commitment by all of the trades and you know, all of the subtrade contractors, you know, from web corp to skanska and also to meet these goals. so there is labor harmony and so if there are any questions for this quarterly, review i will ted and eddie and myself for them. >> any questions? >> director reiskin? >> i just want to i guess comment first that i think that the pla seems to be really working very well and i want to commend you all on that and particularly what the apprenticeship numbers are better than i think, many of us thought that they could have been, and i would like to see, i think that we get over all

labor hours by county and it would be great to see the apprentice numbers by county as well. and the work on the veterans, is great, and i don't know that it really relates to the pla, but the intern program is really phenomenal and for the agency and by the us and web corp and it seems like everyone took it seriously and a lot of mutual benefit came out of this. and not really maybe, part of the pla, but, the bus ramps and i noticed the qualifications were done back in february. and it is just, and it is not until october that we are putting them out to bid and i know that you have been reporting and monthly, there have been some issues and is everything resolved on the bus ramps? i bet that that is moving forward and are there any schedule impacts to the delay

in being able to advertise for the construction? >> no, there is absolutely, no issues at this point, and there was a non-linear analysis and it will be presented to the ssrc and that is one component in the difference in time wrapping up all of the reviews with cal transat this point and the time line of the schedule is on tract and it is not on a critical path to schedule at this point, but it does have a fair amount of float, and so, and also, one of the things that actually has helped it as well is that we have been able to pull back the duration of the schedule of the construction as well. but at this point there is no limit on the schedule. >> thanks. >> well, thank you and welcome to the staff and i also do appreciate the time that you spent ongoing over our different programs, particularly the student internship program, i know that it is something that i have asked a lot of questions about in the past and i am glad to see that our young folks are

getting a subnative experience learning about issues and areas that i did not have exposure to in high school and so it is exciting to see that occurring. >> thank you for your comments. thank you and, now we have steve giving the update on the construction progress. >> good morning, directors, steve rule with construction and doing the cmo work for the tjpa and as everyone has pointed out it has been quite a successful couple of months since we last reported. as dennis mentioned we did have one, a minor recordable incident, a gentleman cut his arm while installing reinforcing steel and he did not want to leave the job and wrapped it up in duct tape and kept working and noticed that the blood was still dripping and so his foreman did send him in to get a few stitches, but minor only 12 stitches and he

was back to work and is still working as far asvy been told. >> we have hit over 835,000 craft hours on the transit center to date since web corp work started with the utility and the fall of excavation work and 80 percent complete on the over all excavation and some of the other highlights that really in zones one and two were completely into the water proofing and map slab installation and the director and the pour in zones one and two and in the second half of zone one and two and three. and the thermal and grounding and we have the pictures grounding and the excavation is in full zone. and also into zone four. and the utility work. and it remains, the water system. and we were able to

successfully repave it first and the intersections at first and second this period. and we are working closely with the water department as well as the other vendors that are in the street somewhere they are supposed to be and somewhere they are not. >> and and we are confident that we can get that done, before the end of the year and it is not a critical path item relative to the building itself. coming up in the next 30 days which is the month of september, obviously the first map pour and we are expecting the second, the second map pour on the 28th as maria pointed out. the goal there is a more, or a map pour every three weeks. >> and that will take us through the foundation, and the map foundation by next summer and october fifth is the next one after that. coming up in the far time, obviously, coming up in zone

four is critical. and we have the work to do under the bridge and so that we can take out the pg&e under the parcels that are coming up for the developers. and continuing to move in the excavation, and the third level down and in zone four and moving toward the completion of that excavation. and the over all time line, you have seen this before, were now into the below grade work with that first map pour and this the super structure and that is the steel and the target there and our milestone steel erection is next summer and you can see that, and five or six lines down and the 7 lines down and the july target and we are on track with that and we had a good meeting yesterday with the web corp folks and the first, sort of a less talked about

milestone and the first two cast nodes have been casted and they are going through the testing routines and to make sure that everything works for them and cast the rest in each one of those groups and that will continue to progress throughout the end of this year and next year and the other milestones are holding from what you have seen before and of course, the bus operations are still in the fall. and october of 2017. >> and the bse, time line and not much more to discuss there and the excavation is continuing in zone four. and a portion of zone three. and 80 percent over all and they will stay with us on the project as they work with the reshoring, taking out the bracing, and the main work is obviously getting all of the excavation completed on the track for next year. >> you can see the progress there under water proofing and the water progress under the mat slab and as we discussed

before, we went through a change of the product which say bet procedure duct and it seems to be working well and has allowed the contractor to pick up some time. and they will continue on these four or five major activities throughout the lifetime of their contract. just over all, i know that this is a difficult graphic to see, but the important part is in the left-hand corner of the lower graphic and the upper lower left-hand corn and her we will start to color in the rest of this green as we do it. the blue in the middle is as far geothey e thermal and the protection slab to the right of that is the mud slab, graphic of completion and you can see how the excavation is doing, in the upper right-hand corner, actually there is a better graphic, how far down we are on the excavation. and just the typical comparison picture and a little hard to

tell, the project being made and i can't wait for a year from now when we are talking about the steel going up and we can actually see the progress from the surface and so far everything has been below grade and we talked about micropiles last time and just wanted to update you on that and we demobilized the micropile rig, at 1259 micropiles about 66 percent and they have all been tested. and everything passed. and we are just waiting for the progress on the excavation so that we can remobilize and finish up the remaining. and if you are counting micropiles. and expected to restart in the first quarter, and if 2014 and just that there and we will move on to the early part of 2014. >> zones, 1 and 2 the start of water proofing, this material in there, preproof by dr grace

and it goes and creates it in the bathtub and that is to prevent the ground water from coming into the station, and it will seal the station from the ground water. >> and it will go up across the floor and underneath of the mat foundations. >> and getting laid out and, also it being detailed around each one of the micropiles and up on the walls it hands on the surface and coming off the material to allow the movement between the train box and the shoring wall as it will over time and raise and fall and it is anticipated up to five inches and it adheres fully to the foundation or the train box wall and able to slip between that and the shoring wall without damaging the water proofing or the structure and so that is going, very rapidly and there are about almost, all the way through, zone two, with

the water proofing now, and then gets covered up by four more inches of concrete called the protection slab and that is what it adheres to, and that creates the barrier underneath the foundation and there are the shots of replacing the protection slabs and the finished protection slab and of course in zooms one and two, and what we are proud of is getting and going with the map slab foundation and that map mound daysing slab and here is the iron going in and the rod busters or iron workers and they are actually standing up on top of the upper layer of the reinforcing steel and there is the night pour from last friday night. and we had four pumps and they had over 8 trucks in the cycle and they used the three different concrete plants and the method going forward to deliver over 4,000 cubic yards to the concrete in the project

in about 14 hours and finished up at 2:30 on saturday afternoon. >> and during the day, there you can just tell from that picture that if you look closely they are just getting that 5-foot thick level up to the top in this area. in the other zones, the rest of zone go and into zone three we are working on the grounding system there on the left picture and the geothermal picture that you have seen before on the right. and that all gets recompacted and covered up. and you can see the geothermal header pipes going up the shoring wall and that goes on before the water proofing goes on and then there is the preparation of the subgrade itself and reinforcing the steel for the mud slab and this is still going on in zones two and three and the mud slab will go in. and, then, the water proofing and protection slab follows into zone three over the next couple of months, this is just a shot of the project at the east end and what we can call

zone four and we are into the second level of bracing since we were here in july when we were just starting the first level. and some shots of that excavation going on. and we continue to find, timber miles that were one piers because obviously the water line calm all the way up to freemont or beyond in some sections and so we continue to fine those wood piles in there and they get removed and set aside and trucked off separately. >> and it must be the bracing and the whalers going in the lower right-hand picture. >> and there has been work as i mentioned on the awss system and this is putting in the final touches, to replace, the two intersections, and of course, as our executive director mentioned we had a special event and director kim was able to get her hands dirty in the concrete and fortunately there was no mud slinging, and i just had to use that but it was a great event to celebrate

that first pour it was great to have leader pelosi join us for that. >> we added this slide and this information is also in a report, but as sarah mentioned i will be happy to mention the plans that we have to date and these are isolated into large category and represent the changes that occurred since the budget was first started working on in march i believe as sarah mentioned, and have been applied mostly to the construction, and this will be part of the presentation going forward and part of your monthly report as well with greater details, but i am happy to answer any questions about it now if you like. and think about that for a moment and we have the labor numbers, 837 hours, as far as san francisco, itself, we are holding at about 18 percent of the labor force is out of the city of san francisco.

we have come into the east, bay, and north bay and the numbers are consistent and we do have a lot of labor, 37 percent coming in from other areas and some of is spom t of state and central valley and sacramento and further out. a lot of the workers do live out in that area. >> over all, 1400, 1495 workers have as i say touched the job they have been reported in the system, and individual workers in these trade categories obviously laborer and operating engineers and are the greatest, and the pile drivers were part of the initial ramp up, and we will start seeing a rise in the roofer and water proofer numbers that are already up and those are the guys water proofing. and we will see more iron workers start to show up as we continue to work on the reinforcing steel and so forth. but i would be happy to answer any questions. director reiskin?

>> could you, i have a few questions, could you first, give us a brief description of what the 2 million dollar change order, the most recent one was, let me see how it is... the bse change order one on the slide, and yes, we had a couple of items there, and i have the full list it is in the report. i believe, actually the categorize these better. but i have this report, too. >> yeah, the same as this one, i just can't remember which ones were and the train platform pit changes were part and that is part of the contractor and that is where some of the pits had to be relocated through the final design process and that was 250,000 and a million dollars of this, change order was also an increase to the hazardous material, allowances. so that was the biggest part of

it, 250 as i said for the, and the muni and the allowance was increased by 250,000. >> and before the pit changes, and there are pile caps that were left after this demolition that were not part of the process and that was about 50,000 and those are the bulk of the, and about 300,000 for the additional 96 micropiles. >> okay. >> so, what rough, and what is the total contract amount and where are we in terms of total change orders so far. >> and i did not bring mine. >> the largest change order obviously to the bse contractor was in the beginning when we added the 72 additional piles. >> right. >> and that added another 25, plus a million dollars to their contract, beyond that, it has been a few million dollars and of course we are working on all of the claims and issues with

them right now. and so, their contract now is just over 200. and 200 million from the original bid of 189 or 187 where we started. >> okay. >> and unfortunate and i apologize that i did not bring our summary sheet but i think bring that next time. >> just curious. >> are we tracking the change orders are categorizing them and error and omissions and unforeseen conditions and changes? >> yes, we do that within the construction system and we can put a category on each type of change. >> okay. >> the next question, so now that we have the sailed contract executed, and so a lot of the unknowns are now kind of out of the way, and the schedules still shows the zero float, which better than the negative float, but do we think that there are opportunities, to tighten the schedule so that we can get some float