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 that is specialists from out 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 back? >> absolutely. and we can bring steve hump hreys up if he would like to join me, but in reality, the next great opportunity for picking up the float is once we get that particular contractor started on site, that is where we can use a judicious amount of over time and effect the critical path activity and the key right now is to get the decisions and the approvals made in the middle process, so we keep the mill order on track

for the structural steel and that is the zero float. and we have meeting with the team, and we will do on a beak wao*ekly basis and to make sure that the adviser responded too quickly and they have done in mot that scanka has been working on the project over a month, they have completed the initial stick frame model of the entire project, a stick model. and that gives them the ability to literally order the steel. and they will divide that order up between the three or four suppliesers. and that order should go out in the next couple of weeks and going through the final approvals of that. and they detail the connection and figure out the welding and bolting and getting all of that approved and that will happen with the mill order being run in the shop. and right now, and there is no, and we asked this question,

specifically, there is no, issue, that they are for, seeing, and we can see the we will see it going in the summer, and just like we are with shimic and they work on saturday and volunteer to get in sometimes and we will share in that cost and i think that is where you will effect the critical path. >> and so the steel delivery would happen in a way that will enable it. >> and we can look at the we would and how long the welding has taken and the duration is correct and do we update the duration in the schedule or do we make allowances and we can make those changes accordingly. >> but that is really when the rubber is going to meet the road. >> and i don't know if this is a construction issue that you have been reporting that the mission street sidewalk width,

and there is some issue, was between that and the awss. and i don't know, if that is an open issue. >> and or a schedule issue. and the time change. >> okay. >> and that has not hit my desk yet. but we can do the research and you can back it on that. >> and do you want to respond to that? >> i am steve humfrey and i believe that the tee is anticipating the width of the sidewalk that is going to effect the alignment and that lock, and that is worked on right now, is that awss that has already been constructed >> and it is the last block that remains to be installed. from the main street on up. and okay. >> could you talk a little bit about more what the change is?

>> i don't have all of the details on the specifics, but they intend to increase the width of the sidewalk. and the standards in the city, to keep the wws, on the streets and not on the sidewalk and so the current designed alignment of the awss is not in the sidewalk, but, the sidewalk is widened it would be. and the delays are being worked out. >> and is there a request to to widen it for pedestrian reasons or another reason? >> i think that it is the transit district plan. >> it is part of the plan, director. they want to have more room for pedestrians and does have to deal with the pedestrian and walkbility >> and better walkbility and any schedule cost to schedule the impact and it is not in the critical path and so it will not effect the schedule. and it is well off, and the

cost that i can't answer that question. and then my last question, and maybe just a construction question, and maybe the 100 percent construction documents were schedule to be done by about now. and they were delivered at the end of may and delivered on the first and we are in the common period where they are reviewing the documents as well as the team and our staff and what would we have the construction documents. >> and the entire main package delivered to web corp and excuse me the end of march 2014. and we should have all of that wrapped up by then. >> okay, fine. >> and are there any other questions? >> i did just have a minor question for mr. loti, about, about the accounts and reserves. and if you could explain the

different accounts that we have and the trust account. and the account that we have with the city treasurer and it looks like we are getting the good returns and the city is investing widely and we have the different rates of returns and why we can't put more money on one account and verses the other and just in the background on that. >> sure. >> we have had an account with the city treasurer since we have something close to ten years. and it is a better. and it is that a lot of local agencies that the city treasurer, and they do a good job of managing those investments. >> the proceeds on the other hand as a requirement of the cooperative agreement have to deal with the trust account for those and that is the reason for the separate accounts. >> thank you.

>> thank you, directors that concludes my report. >> thank you, so that concludes the report and we can move on to public comment. and it is an opportunity for the members of the public to address you, on items that are not listed on to these calendar and i have not received any indication that the member wants to do so. >> are there any members of the public that would like to speak that did not submit a card? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> moving on to the consent calendar, and there will be no discussion unless the board request and the matter will be removed and considered separate and i have not received any indication that a member of the board or public wish to discuss that. >> was there a wish to sever any of the items on the calendar? >> could i ask or could i ask a question on one? >> i think that we have to sever it. >> we can sever it, it is fine. >> which item was it? >> 7.4. >> okay. so, we would, we will sever,

7director lloyd. aye. >> reiskin. >> aye. >> kim. >> aye. >> and that is four aye and the consent calendar as read is approved. >> we can call 7.4.

and that is authorizing to extend the agreements for the services with manatt, phelps and phillips and chambers, for two years each. >> between these two contracts and the two state advocacy contracts that we separately, approved, it is not an insignificant amount of money that we are spending each year. for advocacy. and i think that the federal one, is about equivalent to what the city and county of san francisco spends on federal advocacy as a comparable. and i'm just, so i am just wondering how do we evaluate, or measure the value, that they get from these, are there reports that come back? how do we know kind of that were that this is a good investment of project resources. >> yeah, so they have been with us for a long time.

and these are just extending their contracts, the way that we measure, any contract is based on performance. and have they delivered? and mannet and chamber and conoln were able to help us get the 400 million, through the reeninvestment act and helped us to get the 171 million loan and they bring different expertise to the table and nanatt is more on the working more from the lobbying standpoint, and working with us with the various agents and the various congressional representatives whereas chamber and colon, and hartwell are more technical and they are know all of the federal loan instruments that are out there and how to draft the report and so they write the applications for us and whereas manatt drops the other application and most recently the tiger application and so they know that but

manatt is more skilled on tifia, are they delivering and are we getting what we need and we have to date so far. and it is, it is a huge project, and large project, that they are building and it involves, many stake holders and as you know, san francisco, the east bay, contra costa and counties and it involves the federal rail road administration and the federal transit administration and all of the development that we are doing and that is why necessitate this level of support and they have been really helpful to date. and our we have received, nothing but good words from our leader staff on the good job that they have been doing and so that is another measure to us is what do the congressional reps think. >> since you mentioned it, it might be helpful at whatever point to give us an update on where we are with tifia. >> yeah, i know. i can give you that now. >> we are still awaiting our

fitch rating and we were expecting to get it in mid august but they had some more information that they needed to look through and i think that really the holidays got in the way. but summer vacation but we are looking to get it in the end of september. so, that is the critical and we proceed with the formal application process. >> and i assume that these folks contracts will guarantee our success. >> they got us the 171 million last time. okay. >> thank you. >> director, metcalf? >> a question on these political consulting and lobbying contract and how do we know the advocacy positions that our staff and consultants are taking? >> we don't take any position and so if there is any measure that is going to the voters >> i don't mean on the voters. what are the advocated for by

the staff or consultants. >> and we don't advocate any positions we just apply for the grants and the various and whether it is at the there has not been a lot at the state level and. we don't advocate for anything other than federal grants and the tiger grants and. and so in terms of relationships with the ctc and mtc and cal train, and transportation built and any of these other government entity and some local and regional and state and some national. and we would be informed if the tjpa would be saying anything other than to get the money. >> and we are just out trying to get money and so we don't, you know, we don't take the positions we leave it up to the individual agencies. >> okay. >> we don't appear before bodies, and support the

positions. we do appear before bodies when it involves the transbay project. >> i know tha, is what i am asking. >> and ask, and we are asked to give the presentations on our projector we are asked to respond to the questions when most recently, we have received the funding from mtc and that is when we appear. >> if we are asked to appear and there is a funding element. and we have an update on the project to appear. >> okay. >> does that answer your question? >> sure does. >> okay. >> i wanted to just confirm that i understand this correctly. and and negotiated with the original amount so that amount has not changed. and on the $12,500 per month, originally it was 12,000 per month but it was negotiated at the time of the original contract, so there was 12,000