middle-class residents that are losing their housing so we have an exception of what some of the challenges maybe so really want to thank everyone for coming out the residents and mayor's office of housing and colleagues not sure if you have other questions or comments. >> didn't look that way so would you supervisor kim like to file this or continue to to the call of the chair. >> to continue to the call of the chair. >> so the motion to continue item 4 to the call of the chair we'll take that without objection. thank you madam clerk, any other business before this committee? >> there's no further business. then we're adjourned

>> well, good morning, everyone and well, to the sf food bank

(clapping) it's a great day to be here and kickoff the beginning of sf incubates 20th anniversary and love local sf (clapping) you know i can't think of a better place to celebrated the community of san francisco than right restore at the sf food bank people come here to lend a hand and volunteer to feed others from that forntd we get 47 thousand pounds of food to feed people if that's not a cross 0 roads of xhublt in san francisco i don't know what is i'd like to stereo san francisco's mayor, mayor ed lee (clapping.) well, good afternoon everyone. >> good morning arrest we're

loving san francisco all right. (clapping) well, that morning coming out and being hit by that the sun my first question was when is the first time pitch paul mccartney i want to congratulate you 23 years i know somebody else who has been working their love 32 thank you for the food bank and helping the needy in san francisco it's my delight so join the chronicle and sf to push this wonderful and depriving love of our city everything local it's a wonderful 0 movement they've started and we want to be a part of as well i also want to say thank you to everyone here that been volunteering with our food bank and sharing their love i know the success the food bank and so many other things to help

each other is do not on volunteers for the hours you've spent thank you very much for sharing this time this is a great time for the city not only because of the things we did tomorrow with our elections we can do better and more we can make our city successful for each other for years and decades to come and while it begins with things like food it can go to jobs and children and education and business to all kinds of things we're doing to make the city greater you i've had a chance to work and meet with jeff and with christine the head of chronicle and we're excited about building the movement of love local we're excited about the city having the paper starting the focus or making more focus on the locals manufacturing and the job

creation and the kids and spirit all the entertainment that is the vitality part of our business is right here kcmo kookiness and love go together with that, may i present to jeff and christine as mayors do declare today to be local love sf day here in san francisco (clapping) okay. i'll be looking forward to joining the lines and helping out. >> thank you, mayor ed lee and thank you all as we kickoff our love annual day love local is all about celebrating san francisco as the mayor said celebrating the differences and diversity of our neighborhood

the great food scene and the great shopping and manufacturing but what else can represent love local better than helping our neighborhood we start whereat food bank a strong connection with the neighborhood our sharing fund has given owning over a million dollars to the food bank so we appreciate (clapping) thank you. we appreciate everything they do for folks in need that's what love is all about this is the start of the celebration we're excited excited to built upon this let's go ahead and have love local thank you (clapping). >> basically this is how we box chairs and sf food bank i want

to get a box we're going to fill up it all the way to the top of boxes and like those folks are doing we fill this you will u up because we want to make sure the pat let didn't collapse that's one of our big deals to make sure the box is nice and fuel as folks are boxing the indicators most of these are good not in our supermarkets they do not have those folks those are the kinds of indicators it don't make it most of the carrots are good if it's militia i didn't or mold i didn't that's a bad scooter so urge you to put a box on the side our main goal is to box all the good indicators once your box is fuel fold the box

here's our finished a pallet folks not that mr. mayor is snolts strong enough to carry a box with you sometimes, we have 4 years we're we tell he folks if you can't carry a box ask for help so what we do is carry the box to the college we put it 4 layers high and bring it to the door and it is out in the cooler and then is to the pantry and it goes on the truck in san francisco so basically folks that's the whole process mr. mayor all i need to you do. >> when a how much do we get to eat (laughter). >> there's a quality control those carrots are washed anyone else want to jump in we can use

your help folks. >> thank you george let's start working. >> okay mr. mayor

>> good morning, would you call the roll? >> chair kim has a scheduling conflict with will not be prept, and therefore, harper will precede. >> director lee. >> here. >> nuru. >> present. >> reiskin. >> present. >> sartipi, present. >> and harper. >> you have a quorum, thank you very much. >> communications? >> we had technical things, and

stgtv and it is marvelous that they keep us rolling like they do and keep this rare as they do, any little, anyone who does not think that this terminal is necessary, should have been with me on bart, the trains were all off schedule and everything was totally rush loads and, cheek to cheek. it is really necessary >> any others? >> not that i am aware of. >> okay, old and new business? >> board of directors? >> anything? >> no? >> and then we will go right into the executive director's report. >> good morning, everyone. we will begin today by reporting on our most recent successful milestone that took place last friday on the site of our transit center construction area and we

celebrated the aoe mer begans of the fissioner steel column above ground for the transit center and i was joined by over 100 people, including the chair of the california high authority and richard assembly woman nancy skinner and i was also joined by the board of directors greg harper and vice chair harper and director sartipi and many others. and i think that there is a slide or a picture that i want to show of the super hero who is holding up the steel column and i am not sure if it is going to show up. but that is the super hero holding up the column getting ready to put it on the sight and it was really a wopdful event and we are joined by james gordon and the san francisco ta and executive director change and of course, we had our chair, vice chair tedol enwith us as well. and as a reminder shs we will have over 22,000 tons of steel when we are done constructing

the transit center, everything will be supplied and fabric ated dow nestically we have everyone across 19 different states and i want to point out something that is very important and that is the column that was put in place, the column that you see there and all of the columns installed at the transit side have a unique and innovative seismic safety design and i thought that it was important that i asked sean mcneill to give a brief overview of what the design is and why it is so important. and so we could have sean, come up. >> good morning, board. >> this one right here. >> what? okay, great. >> where does it light up here? >> there it is. >> okay, fantastic, and so, the element that i am talking about is shown in the upper left-hand

and it is a plate that can be found at the topps of the columns and the bottoms of the columns at the ground floor level, all right? and so, the right photograph shows that the column that is above this transfer girter is offset from the column that is below the transfer girter and this is due to the functioning requirements as we move from the park level at the top down to a train platform down at the bottom. so, because of this offset, we need to make sure that the forces that originate in the upper make the way to the bottom part of the building in a completely reliable fashion, all right? and the kinds of things that we need to do is we need to protect that connection from little failure. and to that end, we decided to use a bolted connection, and so that it is a, you know any problems with we woulds do not

propagate into the transfer girter and the second thing that we wanted to do was to limit the amount of force that can go into this transfer girder and so we wanted to be sure that the column above and below connect and the forces are transferred and in a reliable fashion, all right? and so i am going to explain a little bit how it works. if you look at the plate in the upper left, you will see that there are two fraofs on either side of the column, and what they do, is that when the structure moves under a seismic event, that plate will yield or flex at those two groves. and this allows the column to remain elastic and allows the transfer girder to remain elastic and also puts a limit on the amount of force that can go into this transfer girder and the main goal is protecting the load path. and i think that the closest analogy would be the proverb

that says that the green reed sways in the wind, while the strong oak may break in the storm. so that is what we are trying to do with this connection. and this connection is unique, and innovative and it was conceived of and designed by thomas eddie and requires hundreds of hours of analysis and we are pleased to have this on our job, and does the board have any questions? >> excellent. thank you. >> so directors after over four years of working underground and building the rail foundations putting in the geo thermal piping and everything else that we are doing as well as the foundation and now the public will be able to see the station coming up above ground and so we are excited about that and this last slide sxit em that i wanted to mention was that last month we mentioned that we will be bringing to the boarded to ab update on the progress of common boarding heights. and at the request of the rail operators, we are going to be

putting this item off in terms of the update to december, because they are doing a lot of technical work and analysis and we thought that it would be best to give them the time to conclude or at least get that work under way before we brought them back, but nonetheless they are coming in december to give an update. and i would like steve to give the update on the construction work. >> good morning, directors, steve rul with turner construction, providing construction oversight services. as the executive director pointed out we had great milestones this month, not only the steel starting in october, and the ceremony last week, but also the final lab pour and just a reminder of how we break the project up and the over all schedule and we are still on track for that fall, 2017 date. and now with the steel starting we can start analyzing the

erection sequence and they are following what the plan was and they are always looking for ways to improve that and as that is a critical path item. and here is a tracker that we have discussed before. and the just a couple of minor spins on that it reflects the bid packages that were approved at the last board meeting and one small change order that was done in the last period to the bse contractor. and safety has been very good this past period over 50,000 crew hours, and no recordables or lost time incidents in the month of october. and we are hoping that trend holds. and so, 1.2 million craft hours to date, 50,000 more from the last period, and the steel trial assemblies are proceeding and we started the structural steel in the field and a lot of great and things like that going on. and down in the east end, we completed the final lab pour and we have additional pictures of that coming up.

and so the eastern zone is focused on what we used to call zone four, is focused on the first and second lift walls in the foundations and the rest of the projects are working on the lower concourse and we should actually get the final and i believe that the final central section, lower concourse pour was this week and we are almost to free mont street with that and the next pour. just, a progress chart and you can see 100 percent done in the lower concourse work in the west and 80 percent now, i believe that it is 100 percent as of this week and they will start, filling in to get some of that going in the east end and columns and walls are all up to date, and the progress is going quite well. so just some shots, that is the final pour down in the west end of the project. and basically, eight or nine hour pour to complete all of the lower concourse areas, down in the western zone. also in the western zone, that

third lift wall work and the rebracing that proceeding the structural erection and moving into the central zone it was all about the central steel erection and before we could have that ceremony was actually physically cutting a chunk out of the construction trussle that has been there for a couple of years now and at 9.5, they removed that and started putting in the columns that actually support the transfer girder that sean was just talking about. there is the lower concourse and the anchor bolts for the come ums and on the 29th of october, the first arrived in the morning and was erected that day and below grade and those columns were the first to come out and that supports the column that sean was talking about. there is that first column in place, being hoisted and set in place, on the base plates down the lower concourse. and the transfer girder going

in place. which led to that column ceremony that we had last week. and in the eastern zone it was all about getting that final slab in and that represents about 14 months worth of concrete work and foundation slab and 55,000 cubic yards and to date we have poured close to 90,000 cubic yards of concrete and the finished work and including the walls and columns and the lower concourse slabs. and also, in the eastern zone as i mentioned before they are working on columns in the first and second levels of the wall lift and starting to put in the deck for the lower concourse. structural steel fabrication continues, that is one of the ground level cast nodes being attached to the transfer girder and we have one on site now and the work is pro-guessing with these sections. and we will start to see more of these come to the site.

and as far as cast note, 181 out the door of the 304 and we still anticipate the completing of the casting or early and second quarter of next year. and the bus ramp work continues and we have actually poured a couple of the cidh piles up on the via duct section and the first of two deeper piles for the pile on nine which will support the main pile for the cable state bridge. and a couple. pictures of that. and in the lower left, there is the rebar cage being lowered into the cidh piles and the right picture is the equipment being used to excavate the pile and which is a rectangular pile that sets in to a rock socket and all the way to bed rock. and finally, just the next 30 or 90 days, and continue the lower concourse and moving that east as quickly as possible and the third lift walls and of course the second and third

lift walls in the east end and the bus ramp work will continue and 19 total cidh piles and one more pile to do. and we obviously we will continue structural steel, and starting this month, actually the mechanical and plumbing contractors had the first coordination meeting and now we will add it is on your agenda today to approve the electrical contract and we will add them to the coordination mix this month. and going on it is really going to all be about structural steel and trying to keep the concrete out ahead of the steel. and the labor break downs and the percentages are holding for our locals. and the still seeing 18 percent over all from san francisco. apprentices about the same number coming from san francisco, of all of the apprentices 32 percent from the city. and as far as total labor there is over 2,000 employees, and individual employees that have hit the work, here in at the transit center project. happy to answer any questions.

>> questions? >> i have one that is, when you stopped to talk about the steel arriving on the 29th and being erected that afternoon or something. it made me realize how important the just in time delivery is on this job and how critical that is and of course the streets and everything around it that has got to cooperate very well to do that and it is amazing that you know, the coordination. and is the plan to, when you, to do a full at grade slab at some point that might alleviate the tightness of that problem? >> well not during the steel erections. >> during any of the steel erections? >> not during any of the steel, will have that platform and they have to erect, the entire elevation of the project all the way to the roof deck in the sections we call that billboarding because it literally looks like a billboard instead of doing one floor of the whole length of the project and another floor, they will actually go to the full height and they will never

have the opportunity with a lot of the lay down space with the steel as i understand they do have the local property and they do have the steel arriving slightly ahead of schedule and keep it on the trailer and park the trailer in the storage lot and bring it out to the project as they need it. and obviously it is close timing between feeding the project with the steel arriving and because we don't have especially for the size of the elements we don't have the storage on site, later when the train gets poured and the floor slab for the finished trades there will be more room to stage the material on there and the bus deck and the roof deck for the specific activity and not for the structural steel. >> that is what makes it more complex, and a lot harder. >> any other questions? >> okay. >> directors that concludes my report. >> thank you very much. >> okay. >> next up on your agenda is your citizen's advisory