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public. i don't like paying higher fees to it and no, thank you to this please. >> colleagues, any questions or comments? . last speaker berry toronto >> hi, good afternoon. i don't want to be the last one to get the last word. anyway, i'm here bus i want to address several issues first, i think it's important to eliminate the meters on sunday and the staff should do better enforcement in the latter afternoons. i see thousands of parking violations that interfere with munoz ability in the evening to react quickly that when i reported a taxi violation it
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took 4 two minutes to get to the taxi zone to issue a violation i called it in at 7 o'clock and it took moo minutes i always changed my behavior on sundays i don't go out and eat anywhere on sunday's until after 6 o'clock at night people are getting tickets but they say i'm going to spend money. until the rest of the bay area is issued violations you should focus on the violations t interfere with muni. we're not getting the information of the
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accountability that is helping to cab drivers there's millions of app based ride services interfering with our ability to do our jobs google is blocking our cabstand and that's not employment. make them piano pay us for pickup and drop of or charge them a lot of - >> anyone else wants to address the board. first of all, i want to thank you for your report. it's a good fouling follow-up from the february 4th meeting and to folks who that this is the only opportunity to weigh in on this this is not. >> for the t e p we're having meeting in every supervisorial district but also budget town
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hall meetings the slides weren't working but it will be posted on our website there's tall town hall meetings and other ways through contacting us dribble for feedback through the public. >> i know we're here to hear from the public. one of the issues to the members of the board i personally want to know about how it would be administered and from the difference of the cable car line that's quite a large jump you've heard from several folks who worked at fisherman's wharf but i'd like to know more about it. i couldn't agree more with the hope and goals we could possibly do free muni with protecting persons and seniors. every time i ride the bus how
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many people on this who could be a real help for them. other members of board questions or comments >> thank you, chairman nolan i'm particularly interested in changing the price of the f line. anytime i ride that it's like riding from a museum we employ people to quiche it in beautiful conditions it's a work of art and i think it's an idea worth imploring. i want to address or look at the idea of making the free muni for the low commuters permanent that point when your 8 and still in school some of us who turned 18 before i got out of high school i have a birthday in february i
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turned 18 when i was in high school i like to be able to see that made permanent. and i think that at this point the only other thing i think it worth pursing if director heinecke was here he'd obeying be talking about the cash fair and the addressing the cash fair issue. we're getting to a place we're moving so many people we need to be more efficient and some soft of an initiative. mr. the gentleman's letter the nuance of the increases much more easily through a card is good so thank you >> i'd like to hear more from the public to hear more public
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input. >> okay. just two other things there are a couple of big unknowns here that are put in here by hopefully the ballot issues but also the employee negotiations i'd like to know more about the citywide and the agency itself. >> unfortunately, the way the timelines are set up in the chart we won't complete negotiations before you need to adapt a budget so we'll be taking every opportunity we can to up to date you on process of the negotiationss but not ultimately will we know what they cost and the budget impact. we have this last time around we had to make some adjustments
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after the fact we know one-on-one of the things to consider to what extent do we hold money back in the program motorbikes that we expect might be needed but the timing is such this is known after we submit our budget >> it will be helpful h helpful and we've got meetings scheduled. if this happens this has happened what are the choices within that depending upon the amount of money we're talking about. in the city >> sure. >> anything else to come before the board. >> no mr. speaker, item 12 is to conduct a closed session. >> okay going into closed session all in discussion okay..
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mr. chairman the mta board of directors met in closed session to discussing discuss keeping you informed supple and the board of directors voted to smelt the case and there was no anticipated litigation and directors that would be appropriate to disclose or not includes close >> not disclose. all in favor, say i. opposed? directors that concludes the business. we'll begin the meeting we'll adjourn in memory the stu smith >> thank you all. thank you, mr. chairman
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>> bonnie banks. bonnie banks. my definition of noise is uncontrolled music. without format. pretty simple affair. pancakes, and you're -- people get up on sundays around noon, weekends or whatever. should not be too hard to walk into place. have your audio alarm clock go
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off for two hours waking your up while you are eating breakfast with many interesting visuals once in a while. improvisation. listening or not to the person you're playing up against or people or machines. trying to get as many different people in as possible. different genres, experimental noise, electronics, dissonance some drums.a tiny bit of ambient -- the first noise pancake shows, 1999, the first waffle noise, 2001.
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god-waffle noise, noise pancake came out of cubist art, place on mission street, brutallo, where the church -- opened up his house and saturday morning cartoons. a big space. you can have everybody set up and barely move equipment around; small room for an audience to move around, walkover and get pancakes without getting burned up in the kitchen. there's like people in their hard-core gabber; people into really fast death metal; black metal. people who don't listen to music at all.
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guy like larnie bock (sounds like) set up huge, motor driven harp. i don't know how to explain it. 40 foot of motors that he had running over strings and wires. and then played each string individually with the mixer. there is a feeling of euphoria when somebody's really good at what they do. experiencing a buffer, pushing your bowels out your rear. different. a lot of noise. you don't play clubs with a
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cleaning schedule, a guy coming in the morning emptying the beer bottles. you play the warehouse. if you travel around you will see the exact same kind of weirdos doing their own thing. it is like in the bay area it's even more absurd. there seems to be more people that in a place like new york or tokyo. we did a show in new york, i didn't think that anyone was at hardly, and people come up and said i saw the show. i wish they had some kind of breakfast noise going on over there. i think a lot of people were being, walking out of the shows. that was incredible. i can't believe it's over
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already, after two hours. if you are reluctant to enjoy something like this it will probably take a mass of peers to sell you on it. it's fine if you stay away. most of the people that come to the shows are pretty happy to be here. you may not be one of them. which is fine. great good morni welcome to the transbay joint powers authority for thursday,
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february 14th i apologize we had a meeting reducing the pedestrian. >> due to scheduling conflict we'll have a whooet. pro tem lightner. consenting. sxhirp. sxhairp and chair kim. particular you have a quorum >> are there that i announcements from the board seeing none, can we please hopeful on to our are there any other matter. >> not that i'm aware of. >> executive director report. >> good morning we had a great milestone lastly friday we pled the 4 city blocks of the transit
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site and now, of course.org doing the foundation for the work and by the end of the summer we'll see the structural steel. thank you all our team members. we're one step closer opening the station at the end of 2017. steve will come up and give you our construction update >> good morning steve i'm providing the services for the tjpa. we did have great milestone i've got some facts and you all saw it open the press release a few articles and a radio spot as well. there was a lost time incident and i'll give you an update the injured individual is expected to return to work at the end of
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next week it was a malfunction are the crane equipment they call the headache ball crashed down on a platform and he subsequentially fell off the policeman had stitches and was released from the hospital we're thankful and it wasn't any more seriousthanasia than that. they're investigating the malfunctioned in the piece of the equipment. so we'll have a study in the near term. some last rated fingers that was a recordable it happened last november it was what kind last construction update it was in the facts and fingers. some of the other highlights since our last construction update we're up to 9 hundred and
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60 craft housed we do about thirty thousand plus a month. the mike piles have started in zone 3 and going into 4. and those are still being one hundred percent testing and coming out fine the work on admission street between main and a beale that will be going on for awhile we're going it on the night time to not disrupt the bus service and finding things in the new sf tjpa line it adds to the timing. the bragz and installation and mass excavation there's deep pits involving moving dirt around but out of the excavation
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service for good. we call sgoenz 1 a 2 that includes pulling the walls and columns down the grourn the water proofing that series of work is in section 3 with the excavation we expect our next foundation pour to move into march was we move on. and work continues to the mass excavation was noted and it was about see 6 hundred plus cubit materials enough to fill one hundred and 20 i was elliptic size pool the contractors includes the she or he wall to the excavation started in summary of 2011 and ran through
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january just the end of january just a little bit over 2 years and much of the soil was used in clean landfills here's a couple of pictures in the lower right hand picture is looking at east at the bottom of the pit that's where we wanted to get to. i wanted to change gears a little bit in future presentations and let you in 0 o on how we're monitoring we've collapsed from the 4 zones during in the eastern zones that's where the structural steel is going to come in the far west end gratitude lines it godmother's in that's line 10. the central section runs into
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zone 3 short of fremont street from fremont street to the end of deal street we'll be e wrecking the first section and back to the eastern end and the west and the central will be e rek9d simultaneously. i wanted to give you that overview and again, this is the graphic that's created lots of information basically, the greenish area is all completed with the foundation slab and around the perimeters is elevations of the walls starting to go up that's the first one 8 to 12 feet up we've completed a lot of the walls in the western end which were previously sgoenz 1 and 2 we have one color in the
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eastern end it's the excavation is all complete. a couple of stockpiles of material and things like that but that is what the go showing you. the walls are being places is in the western end. the overview schedule we're starting to work on super structure work and steel i'll talk about in a moment. so we're into this super structure section the rest of the project is on schedule and doing well, actually with the completion of thees elevation in january we're about 4 weeks ahead of the excavation that's good news. some of the milestones we've been tracking it's the extremely steel in mid-july it's the zero float anything changes that
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activity changes our critical path that could change the end of the project, of course, we have time to work on that that's the next big million stone and, of course, the bus operations and final completion everything is running well. this the the timeline it's got most of the work the gap is where we stopped and started again and it will start up again in february and march and he's on schedule for the remainder of his work. we'll work by the end of the next meeting we're going to mutt put the next slab in plays. so working in the zones 1 and 2
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their rebracing operation is in full swing. you can see the brass in the upper picture attached to the wall and the brace being cut away from 9 she or he wall and, of course, the reinforcing wall is going in. in the upper corner you can see the reinforcing wall guys the white ask the water proofing that prevents the ground water from seeping into the station. that's what is going on in the western zone and we have pictures of columns in a moment. since the last update we've poured our final slab in december i included a picture of that you've seen that before. in the central zone and zone 2 a
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3 again she or he is happening you can see in the lower right hand picture the bracing and the crosswalk bracing is into the wall and the other material has about that removed. that's the process goen in those pictures. there's the foreperson of the walls that's a column form wrapped up around the form. in the eastern zone or that 3 and 4 the geothermalal the work you've seen before is now continuing it will be covered up by the slab and eventually, the protection slab pea foundations.
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we are in full production of the 3 add and cast needs 48 are in process of making the pattern and another 46 are the the my own and casting process. there is no nothing to worry about the shipping issue they'll be shipped n to portland, oregon they'll do a dry fit before it's brought n to the job site. the first wood template pattern and then further develop that pattern and create the mold in the sand. in the upper left hand it goes through a heat treatment process that's one of our cast needs and, of course, pouring or casting the material. our x a team the members of the
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contractors team are a all down in louisiana at the second of the two brad foundries so we'll have many more pictures next time. those are some of the finished cast needs you can see how massive there are in the 5 to 6 foot range and this is the machine cast we use an umentd marketplace. a w f f accommodates the traffic at the night time. they get that work done in difficult conditions. the next 90 days obviously we've got itself mike piles condition we'll continue the western work and in 60 days we'll be looking
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at the protection slab and with the met slab pour before the end of march and continuing the slab pours into 4 and continue the slab work in zones 1 and 2. the tracking the good news is some creditors i believe part of the puc yields some creditors back into the period. the labor breakdown we continue tracking at about 63 percent overall for the local labor san francisco is at 18 percent and 33 in the east bay and those are the total hours to date. this we added the accomplice hours breakdown in the graphic
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region a lot come from the san francisco. and the overall one thousand 52 craft jobs on the central project. happy to answer any questions >> directors are there any questions. >> i have a comment. and i'm on additional man with weak icing >> yes, sir. >> i don't know. i couldn't read a thing that came across my gene. >> we haven't changed the font but we'll work on that. >> the latin-american as well. maybe we can get some paper copies >> we can several do that. >> director edward reiskin.
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>> that was great to see the accomplice numbers and a lot of san francisco folks getting work. my question is more on the next phases of work. i think the last monthly report anticipated passage award in february i think this structural concrete and mayor glazing are those on track >> we just opened up the concrete and will be bringing information to the board. >> so they're off by a month. >> no, the concrete we opted what february 11th. >> this week; right? and the glazing we'll bring you some information in march. >> okay. thanks. >> and i also want to congratulate