>> good morning, and welcome to the transbay joint power authority board of director's meeting for thursday, november 14th. can we take roll call please? >> sure, i will note for the regard due to the scheduling conflicts, sartipi and lloyd are absent and lee will join us. >> harper, present. >> here. >> lee. >> present. >> metcalf. >> here. >> and director reiskin? >> present. >> and chair kim. >> here. >> madam chair you do have a quorum. >> thank you, are there any

communications today? seeing none, any board of director's new or old business? seeing none, we will move on to the executive director's report. >> good morning directors and members of the public, typically we don't hold a december meeting because of schedule travel and so forth and november is our last board meeting given that this is most likely our last meeting of the year i would like to report on the highlights, in particular since director lee is joining us today and has not been with us this last year. and the various things that we accomplished and with respect to the transbay project, beginning with the ground breaking and the sale of tea to hains, and that is how we started off the year and we then sold block six as well to gala for 30 million and entered into an agreement with havan and bridge housing to purchase, block nine for 43 million, this is working with the office of

community and structure and we have to thank them for the work and support throughout the year. in addition i want to let the board know that on november 20th, ocii will release the rfp for block 8 which will secretary the development teams for 540 market rate and 240 affordable units on november 20th. >> another major accomplishment this year was receiving the final and conclusive determination from the state department of finance, confirming that all of our redevelopment forces are available, and again, i thank ocii and tiffany and her team for working with us on that. and if you know we updated phase one this year and we included prudent, and also recommended by the department of homeland security and fema and it goes to the best practices that the project is enjoying in the process we vowed to engineer many of the key elements and the exterior

of the statement from glass to metal and incorporated the design which many people are excited about. and a number of elements saving millions of dollars for the project. next month, we are going to publish the statement and expect to receive an unqualified opinion which is the highest level of confidence that any public agency can receive on the financial records and books and so we continue to do good work on that front. i thank our cfo and her finance team for the good work that they are doing there, we started as you know permanent construction of the station by pouring the foundation at the rail levels and we are joined by the board by our chair person kim and mayor lee and leader pelosi., and so that was an mrirment and we also were awarded the steel contract and this month, we put out to bid, the current loft and skylights and so we are starting to move quickly now on all of the work that needs to happen to bring

the station above ground and i want to let the board and the public know that we received a complimentary report from the federal railroad administration and because we are receiveding 400 million from them, they over see the pro-yekt and came and reviewed all of our records and found that we were in compliance with all of the rewards, and we submit everything in a timely manner free of errors and moving forward on schedule as projected and they listed us as being a project that they want to hold up as a national standard and model and some of the things that they mentioned was the accident work that we do on the document control and the use of technology and ben 360 probably monitor the ground movement and how we out reach to students and veterans and all of the educational tours that we conduct and the quality assurance that gave us a great

deal of kutos for as well as the project labor agreement and work with doing to fund public art. and so those are just some of the highlights of the things they really noted as the best praks on the projects so i will have the report for the board in december. and finally i want the board to know that we have been working throughout the year as we have in years past on the rail extension on the project we have been working with the rail and the federal rail administration and we hear about the work and the advances on the engineering on the bath front and updated the cost and schedule and reviews the various delivery methods as a path forward to delivering the project. we have been asked, how can we deliver the extension and what are the options and you will be hearing about the various objections and sources later in the presentation. i should add that some time ago we briefed the board on a study that we asked sifel consulting

to conduct. what benefits will come as a result of having a new transit center with the buses and rail and marks and the report has been completed and i have a copy for the board and the bottom line is the summary is that as a result of building the public transportation infrastructure, the property values increased in a quarter of a mile of the station by 3.9 billion and for the property, both residential and commercial and this produces many benefits for the project and one of them is the ad dishing tax revenues that we can use for affordable housing and the infrastructure. and i did want to congratulate transit on the new fleet of buses and they held an event at the terminal last week and director harper was there along with the general manager and the ac transit staff and it was

the trip on the eline, i believe and the coaches are green colored and manufacturered locally and bringing jobs to the bay area and feature a number of amendies such as padded seats and overhead storage and reading lights, so congratulations a tasty transit and just that we have finished the celebrating veteran's day, i wanted to see if ted was here to give an update on the work that we have done with the veterans and given that we just remember the work that the veterans do, thank you. >> good morning. thanks for having me. i just wanted to give you an update on what has been happening in the last six months with respect to our work or veteran's hiring. as you know we have convened a number of roundtable kind of conferences working, leadings with different cvos and city agencies and veteran assist organizations as well as employers and the unions on

what to do towards bettering opportunity for the veterans in the industry of construction industry. and i am proud to announce that one of the contractors association united contract's this past cret veteran's day announced an initiative focused on construction and opportunities in construction, and so immediately, our ceo and signed off on the pledge, and i'm going to work with our affiliates team members on the transbay project as well, as the general construction and industry, locally to drive both veterans and sourcing veterans as well as the organization helping them toward this initiative. because as we know the initiative talk is cheap but the action speaks louder than words so what will be asked and actually be working actively with united contractors on driving the opportunities with

the veterans in the construction site and as an example on november 21st, we will have an luncheon and we will be describing to the students who are at the veteran's corn and her have this built, recently for a place for veterans to kind of have so to speak a hang out and a place to convene will be speaking on construction opportunities, whether it is going to be sfstate, university grad who is a web employee, to describe how he got from sfstate, to a project engineering position, as well as the operating engineers union, because as you know, the anvil builders is a disabled veteran's owned company that was on the manalit and the package has a 50 percent veterans or i think that is disabled veteran's goal for the labor and we are going to actually try to help them

achieve that to bring in the engineers at sfstate there are a lot of students who are enrolled and don't necessarily realize that it might not be the place for them and so we like to see whatever opportunities we can show them. in this single venue. so i will report back on that once we start this series of lectures, so that is my update for now, if you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. thank you. >> thank you. >> ted. >> and i appreciate the good work that ted does as well as web corps and now i would like to ask jack adams to present our construction update with turner and steve could not be here today and jack is with toner and so he will be giving us the regular construction update. i'm jack adams oversight for the project on transbay. there were no injuries to report since we last met. we did have one small fire

where one of the construction workers put a bag of trash in the bottom of a metal dumpster and i am sorry, yeah. and one of the other iron workers was cutting metal and caught the bag on fire and it was put out by the fire immediately. there are 885,000 hours of construction since we cited 23 years ago and 25 works hours since the last presentation. going down on mission street and it is the last that we have to upgrade on the water system for the fire department. and that is going at night now, and we are concentrating now down in the mid section of main and mission and working our way west. and the excavation work is really progressed. and it is 90 percent complete now and all of the bracing in.

and supporting the walls all the way into zone three. which is down to freemont street. it is between freemont and beal and we have bracing and the excavation has started and we also relocated some utility conduits underneath the bridge and that was completed by pgand e and that was in support of the block. and the grounding and the med slab and excavation and bracing is completed we can go up to zone three. and we are moving along with the excavation, and we can follow on the work of the micropiles and the thermal and micro piling will follow. the slab pours we have poured

over 28,000 cubic yards and so you may know that just about every saturday we start around midnight on friday and we pour between 4,000 and 6,000 yards of concrete any from where 400 to 600 separate delivers and that has gone really well and our next pour is november 23rd. and one final pour on december 7th. >> and the next step that after we get the concrete into the excavation is to start removing the bracing that we install last year and the concrete supports the wall, and we were able to remove the bracing and start to form the vertical walls and columns and that has started to level, debracing, has started the removal on october 28th and we are in the middle of the third section. and the wall forming is started and the next 30 days.

and expected to complete the excavation in zone four down to level cand the third level, and started to level four. and bracing, and that will not company pleat in november but it will complete in the next 60 days. >> and that will be completed in the next 30 days. by next period we should be reporting how many walls will be poured. >> and we will be installing the water proofing and in the mud slabs this period and we started the casting, and kansas and louisiana right now is doing our future steel structure and that is ongoing. we will continue for the next period on mission street. and down by main and working our way towards first street

and we will remobilize the micropile contractor. in 60 days we should have all of the bracing in zone four through the final level d. and the demolition should be complete. and which is the final level. and continuing the reinforcing steel and water proofing and construction in zone three and continue in the west and central zones, and the next 90 days we should complete the excavation and maria touched on it and we have the bids out now and we should be receiving the back up bids for the structural concrete, at street level and the glazing packages and the other large packages are out to bid now and we should have those back in the next 90 days. >> and the time line of construction, we are well through the excavation and almost done, and the low grade structure and in the middle of

pouring walls and the super structure is coming up in the near future and there are key mild stone dates for construction and no real change here. it just walks you through the utility and the slab pures and begins in nine months from now we will have the first piece of steel erected and the bus ramp is one of the packages that is out to bid and it should start in 2014. and final completing is on track for 2014. >> and the fbe time line, and we are practically through that and we through the bid package. and the rebracing is part of the package has started. and i have gotten, two and a half sections removed on level d. and low great concrete has gone really well. as you can see, we are three quauters of the way through the grounding and the geo thermal

and the water proofing is crack slab and the mat slab has just started but we are about two-thirds of the way done by the end of this, by we will be two-thirds of the mat slab. by the bottom of the train box, here is the graphic that shows where we are at a couple of weeks old now or ten days old now and it shows the green area is where we had the mat slab poured and if you look closely you can see the yellow where we are starting to remove some of the bracing and we have a lot further advanced now since this graphic was up and published ten days ago. there is the arial views of the central and west section and progress. here is some close up views of the slab foundation being poured. and you will see the rebar down there.

very robust, structure. the top of the mat slab and you can see the bracing and once that was poured we were able to remove that bracing out and start forming the walls. this is just more photos of the progress. and that slab foundation pours and bracing the removal status it was a couple of weeks old. and yellow there has been removed and that is progressing now where we are actually down here in the northwest corner and this is some up close photos of the up close removal and the storage of the bracing, and it will be reused to rebrace the walls as we work our ways up and some of the bracing gets reused. and we have the walls as we are rebuilding. >> and this is the close up shots. and the d section progress where this is still excavation

and that has gone well and it just about pulling all of the piles, and some even from the cold miner ra and the excavation bracing and there is up close photos that was going well and, no fabric indication and a new m trick for the board and we will continue to. and we will probably add more metrics and we have the different steel castings that were in progress and right now we have 12 that are complete and four of those 12 are in the machining process. and the transbay team is flying to kansas next week to do the architectal review and look at these first four and the first article of the first four that are ready. and there is a good photo of the louisiana foundry, and for it was a contractor working for

web core and this is in the rough form and it will get cleaned up and the machine and . it gives you a good size of the cast notes and this is type 71 and 72 that are ready for us and these are the priority castings and all are schedule in a priority. utility relocation work ongoing on mission street and a very congestived street and we work closely with the pg&e and the contractors to overcome the challenges down there. and there is a continuous tracking, and not, much of a change since last met. remaining balance is still the same. the bay area regional labor

break down. you see the numbers? and then the labor break down to the october 20, 2013 and these are the break downs by classification. and are there any questions. >> are there any questions? >> director reiskin? >> i have a few questions, it is amazing to see the cast nodes already being constructed it seems like we were just recently awarding the contract. so it is amazing how quickly those have come. it is great. with regard to the schedule, that was still showing zero float. are you making any progress of building back in the schedule buffer? >> and yeah, that is something that we are working on right now and of course that is why we have created these metrics

and we are working to get these and work to see if we can create the float through >> in terms of the budget. >> we are waiting for the estimates from pella and web cor p and they are looking at aan and february and reconcile both and then come back to you. >> okay. >> and then the last question, we didn't see the apprentice numbers in today's report, are they still holding. >> yeah, i will make sure that those are in the next report and i am sure that they are still holding. >> they are still holding.

>> thank you. >> that concludes my report. >> and great, thank you. >> and so, we will now move on to public comment. >> if you have a member of the public that has submitted a speaker card and would like to address you, as a reminder for the members of the public to address you on today's calendar. and he is up. >> and good morning, members of the board. and i have attended the cac meeting two days ago on tuesday and the reason that i am addressing you is that the presentation even though, the substance is similar as to what will be presented to you on the next item, there are differences on the detail and i appreciate that if the staff could pose the presentations on the internet as soon as possible. and the specific issue that i want to focus on what happened to the tracks. >> thank you very much.

>> would any of the member of the public like to speak at this time, if so, please step up. seeing none, we will close general public comment. >> we will move to item seven. >> before i have the staff and present on this, i did just briefly mentioned this as part of the report, we have been working hard over this year, with the various stake holders on not only advancing the rail extension as much as we can in the budget that we have but really looking to see how we can deliver it as you know, the report indicates bringing the rail into the transit center is going to make a difference in terms of the economic value of the transbay area. and so i wanted the board to know that we have met with mayor lee on this and we have met with the san francisco county transportation authority. and the metropol tan commission and cal train and high speed rail and as he correctly

pointed the citizen's advisory committee for the transbay and so the objective was to update our costs which we have to do because at some point, when it comes to the board of supervisors for their consideration, one of the questions that will be asked, is where are we with the calls, and where are we with the schedule? and so we have updated the costs based on the three, and the design and build, and the big build as well as build, finance and maintain. and so we have that is what we are presenting to you today, the updated cost and schedules, and the updated delivery methods as well as possible and these are just possible sources of funds, and but we really would require the support of everyone to get through as well as the possible passport on a pthree for your consideration and your comments. thank you, and now i will ask scott to begin the presentation. thank you. >> actually i am sorry, before we begin the presentation, i want to see if there are any comments from the board members

before we begin? >> okay, great. >> good morning, good morning, directors, scott, affairs and out reach manager and tjpa and she just described some of the significant benefits that will occur with completing of the transbay program, and as we work very, very hard to realize those benefit and bring the trains into downtown as quickly as possible. and we are on the verge of a significant milestone, in terms of putting in place, the first major component of our phase two funding plan and those are revenues that flow from the transit center and district plan as all of you recall it was enacted last august and as part of the plan it allows for the up zoning of certain parcels on the planning area and up zoning allows for the developers to build the taller buildings and they are worth more money and so that is a significant benefit to the developers and in exchange, the

developers are required to pay certain property taxes and impact fees. and so, the city is working to put in place, formation legislation, that will set the rate and method of aportion for the special property taxes and they are taking the lead on that and the plan is to introduce that legislation some time in the next few months, and in addition to the reasons that maria was mentioning we thought that now was an appropriate time to provide the. and the plan going forward, and potential revenue sources and the project delivery methods that we are looking at. we are going to run through the dtx and did a status update on the award that was so far and we talked about the delivery options and we will give a quick refresher of the

memorandum of understanding that was signed back in 2012 and because that is the basis for some of the revenue sources that potential revenue sources that you are going to see that could be used for a p3 and then will end with an overview of what our research has found so far in terms of the potential of the p3, for this project. and maria just ran through the list of the stake hold theirs we will be meeting with and providing the update that you are about to get. and to get impute prior to presenting to the board. and here you see a graphic that you have probably seen many times before, and it shows the 1.3 mile extension from the current terminal of the cal tran to the new transit center and you see on the graphic an outline of the downtown core

and we saw a circle showing the area that we are going to see the benefits that maria was describing that are outlined in the report that you just received and the new neighborhood that the transit center is helping to create. and one thing to note, about this graphic is that it provides a visual illustration of how necessary the dtx is and if you look at the census bureau figures, if the half mile radius, there are 180,000 jobs compared to if you look at the half mile radius in the current terminus, 19,000 jobs and it just speaks to the needs and getting people where they need to go. and so, in terms of the purpose of the dtx, this is all, information that you are well aware of. and extending the cal train and enter city rail and the high speed rail into the new transit center and you see two numbers there, 1.3 miles and 1.95 miles and i will explain the difference between the two

numbers, during the next slide and we want to enhance the connectivity of the cal trans and the other systems. and the other trail and the vehicle miles traveled. and the vehicle emissions and improved the air quality and the increase of property values that we were just discussing and it was also very important to us that the dtx be designed and constructed in a way that accommodates the city's future goals specifically reported to the interest that there is in eventually, bringing the tunnel that or the tracks that bring cal tran and high speed rail to the city are undergo on mission bay drive and 16th street and you will see in the present that ising that we have designed the dtx so that the goals be able to be accommodated when the funds are found. and so the new slide and this was referring earlier the difference between