fellow commissioners some what disappointment that it was not appreciated that it is a denovo and that there was an opportunity to present the case better. not just the break down of communication but i would like to have known the promises that were made and why they were not kept and that might have made an impact on me and i did have this thought why am i hearing so much about and i sympathize that she did not get a chance to speak, but there was present of time to speak and i join the fellow commissioners and i don't see any reason to over turn. >> move to up hold on the basis that this is code compliant. >> we have a motion from commissioner fung. to deny both appeals, and up hold this permit, on the basis that it is cold compliant. on that motion, president lazarus? >> aye.

>> commissioner honda >> aye. >> commissioner wilson. >> aye. >> and thank you. >> the vote is 4-0 and this permit is upheld. >> there is no other business before the board tonight and we are adjourned. >> good morning, and welcome to the transbay joint power authority board of director's meeting for thursday october ninth and i want to recognize the staff at sfgov tv who make the meetings available to the

public and on-line. >> >> reiskin. >> present. >> harper. >> present. >> kim. >> present. >> and madam chair you do have a quorum. >> thank you. are there any communications today? or, old or new business for the board of directors? >> seeing none, we will move on toit em five, executive director's report. >> good morning, members of the public we have a number of construction milestones that you will hear about today but i want to highlight the above ground construction and last night the first of the two large cranes arrived and it is located in the access just west of the street and it weighs 2,000 pounds and has 240 feet of boom length and takes 20 truckloads to deliver it and it is going to take three days to assemble and a second crane will arrive in february of 2015, and they will be in

operation for 18 months and lifting over 22,000 tons of steel and you are going to hear more about this from steve in a moment. but now that this month marks the completing of the final slab poor for the foundation, and it clears the way for us to start the above ground steel and so we are excited about that and as such, we are going to be hosting the event, on november 7th at 10:30 in the morning and sending out invitations later today and the event will commemorate and after years of successful excavation, and as well as completing the rail levels it will be the first element of the transit center that will be available to the public we will be sending out invitations later, i want like to ask our chief financial operator to give a bridge financing that we have been mentioning to the board in the past.

>> good morning, directors, sarah, and as you know, that we have a 171 million dollar loan, and we anticipate being able to draw down on that loan late next year, 2015, and just as a reminder of the loan is secured by and will be repaid with the net tax increment that is of course, the property tax revenue that generated by the cal transparcel, that are being transferred to the city and tjpa, and sold for redevelopment under the transbay redevelopment plan. and as you know, of course, two of those parcels have already sold and the sales force tower and block six and three are in the negotiation stages, and block five, 8 and 9 and then once we have completed phase one, two additional parcels will be available on parcel f and block four and we have started to receive the increment from those sold parcels and received our first

payment from ocii earlier this summer, for parcel t. and the net tax increment is fully committed to tjpa under the various agreement and there are no further approvals and there are authorizations required for the revenue to flow for the project, and the total revenue that we expect to receive and this is a conservative number but over the 45-year life of the pledge is on the order of about 950 million dollars. and however, as we have previously discussed we do need a cash flow, and so it is a revenue for the early part of 2015, before we can draw down on the tifia loan and so we have been negotiating the financing solution, and we expect that it will be secured by the tax increment as well as some of tjpa real estate, of course, and we anticipate that we will be paying back the financing with the proceeds of the loan when we are able to

draw down on that at the end of next year, and we have been working with usdot, cal trans, and ocii and the city and mtc, to make sure that all of the collateral can be made available in a timely manner and we will be coming back to you, in the near future, with final transaction, and or a form of transaction for you to approve and i am happy to answer any questions. >> are there any questions from board members? >> thank you. >> i would like to ask steve to provide the construction update. good morning, directors, turner construction, providing services for the tjpa and as the executive director pointed out, there are good progress this month and we did, put in place about 28,000 craft hours, and as of last night, all but

striping and paving is left on the awss work and so we are out of the water there on mission street. and as far as the schedule, we are still tracking towards the end of 2017, and as we discussed before, we are looking forward to the start of the structural steel here shortly and work on mitigation activities to speed up the election if we can. and consider what we have discussed before down the road. and this is the slide that we show you each month, and you will see that the trade packages that were approved in last month's meeting on the eleventh of september and representing the mechanical and plumbing, and fire protection, and in there as well as the small change orders, and there is one credit back into the construction as we work on closing out the bse contract. and some changes there, and that worked and did not need to perform.

and as far as safety, statistics, i have yet and i have found out now that officially the state and the feds don't actually update the previous years, until the end of the next year. later in this year and early 2015, but relative to safety, there were unfortunately two first aid incident and one last time incident, and this yes, working for the reinforcing steel contractor tripped and while, trying to catch himself, went down on his wrists and broke his wrist. and so that became a lost time accident and they worked on ways to correct that, and the access makes it difficult to walk on the concourse deck, and they are working so close underneath the bracing and so they worked on ways to distribute the reinforcing steal to direct that. and again, 100,000 hours with 28,000 in the last bit here, another milestone is the lower concourse project and pouring

those slabs on tuesday morning of this coming week we will complete all of the lower concourse slabs, through the lessened, and in the course of the director pointed out and the upcoming slab, and the final foundation, and the five foot thick foundation and in the director

mentioned earlier and where you see here in this picture and the pick-uper left-hand corner and the top level of bracing, and the closest to the surface is being moved and rebraced with the third wall, and the third lift wall, and that is where it will remain, until the box is completed and that reinforcing can come out and there is another picture of the train box area also in the central that is being cleaned out and all of the left overs from the shoring and everything, being removed from

the walls, and that is a great progress there as the lower concourse and moves, west and east from that location. and that is just, one, ten to 15 foot length, will install, but if you look really carefully, you can see the very first rail, operation in the transbay center there in the upper left-hand picture and they actually created a set of tracks to run a dolly across the reinforcing steel to move that seismic joint and several hundred points there.

and you can see the column above the tressel and the crane is certainly and moving from the first street through to freemont will begin in february and we believe that the section will begin in october of next year. >> and the construction on the left there and to actually get a picture of the cast nodes that will be up at the park level connected to the two steel columns and ground smoothed and primes and so that looks like a seamless connection and like it was always meant to be that way and that is the way that a lot of the steel will come out, unless

there is a lot of steel weld that needs to be completed and just another example of the steel, and you can physically see the sign-off of the inspectors on that one beam and that happens on every piece of steel that has a significant weld. and you need the inspection, process and the column on the lower left is up in (inaudible) and the cast nodes, we are over 50 percent, and with the expectations to complete, close to the original schedule of one year of foundry work and that will be next march or april and the final nodes will shift and so that is great progress there. and as i mentioned the utility relocation, and sorry i jumped ahead there and the bus ramps starting up and we talked about this the last meeting and the piles and up on the via duct section will begin around the

13th, with the installation of the casings and we also expect the work to begin on the pile on nine which supports the bridge over howard street to start also on the 13th and two different contractors doing the work. and then some of the preparation for that, and the demolition on the right and the set up to guide the pile, completing of the pile on nine. and utility relocation, and we mentioned that the work is behind us and everybody is happy about that, and no more work on mission street and the plan is to pave it out this weekend and all things working in our favor, it should get down, in the next 30 years, the lower concourse decking and continue the foundation walls and the third left walls and that rebracing and continued the bus, ramp work and the pile and nine work started and of course, the steel erection, and by the end of october, and in the november and on through the next 90 days that will be on the list for a long time.

as far as the labor, we remain of 63 percent is considered local labor. and the numbers have not changed much and we still get the great coverage at 18 percent of the labor force from san francisco. and the aprin tris, and the 33 percent of the hours coming from san francisco. and over all, about 2139 total people hitting the project through the payroll system. and that is the end of the conclusion update, and steve, is from the web course and is going to come out and talk about the bidding process and the survey that we conducted, and if there are any questions, i will be happy to answer those now. >> if not... >> thank you, steve. >> no problem.

>> good morning, and earlier this year, tjpa retained the associates to conduct the dinner out reach survey and that was presented to the board in may and is this a brief update and the findings of that report and the recommendation can have a recommendation, that have been implemented. there we go. i think that it is important to note that the recommendations that came from this report, were really are not confirming what we already knew. and the specific recommendations are that we actually implemented, were in the works prior to the report being issued. so there were really not any surprises for us and the first recommendation that came out of the report was that the construction estimate be updated at the time that the estimate was over 2 years old. and we received 100 percent construction drawings last

april and our 100 percent cd estimate was completed in february and reconciled with the other estimates of tjpa. and the second recommendation to review the construction documents and bit manual to eliminate the design build and response responsibility and that was really with the bid packages at the time that were originally issued, the documents were less than 100 percent complete and it was unclear as to what extent the bidders will be required to fill in the blanks and complete the documents as the things developed, the documents were completed by the engineer, and record and issued as aden um and were no longer necessary to carry the language in the packages and so it was deleted. and the next recommendation was to provide the flexibility for the use of the performance specification and this was really specific to the w1 awning system and the packages, and they were technically designed build, but the designs

were very per scriptive but there was little opportunity for the design build, to actually change the design, and that has sense been corrected and the w1 system is procured through a qualification based, selection process, and we received those proposals, and week and a half ago, we will be presenting those to the board next month and according to the packages they are off to bid as a true design build. >> review the packages to the scope of the trade and we have been careful to review each of our bid packages and to make sure that the scopes are comfortable to the bidders, clear and that we are not including the work that the bidders might otherwise not want to bid. and review general requirements, and we had large early bid packages and the bse, and the below grade concrete and the structural steel and if there were general requirements included in those packages

which was appropriate at that time and as we migrated to more specific trade and subcontractor bid package and those requirement haves been eliminated. and survey sbe available for trade packages. we have i have made the adjustments to the goals for the specific trade packages while maintaining the over all 17 percent goal. and additional bidder out reach, clarifies the scope of work for upcoming trade packages. we have done out reach to get the bidders qualified and keep them interested through the bid process and that has proven to be successful in some of the recent bids and stream line the bidding manual, with the entire team and made the recommendation to clarify the intent, of what was in that manual, and we made a number of changes that we think helped that along. and minimize the redesign you to incorporate the value and engineering; and that has been

done and some of these recent bid packages have included the documents that have allowed us to proceed with the bid while the design team is completing the changes in their construction documents. and subguard has been implemented and it does not tie up the bonders and the bidding capacity and the stream line pavement processing and we had a lot of improvement in working with tjpa and to obtain more payment and subcontractors and they are going aggressive sbe out reach and we have been successful, i think in maintaining our goals and getting the participation that we have targeted. questions? >> director reiskin? i think that it is excellent and i think that it is great that you have undertook this work and you have implemented the recommendations, you made the reference to seeing more bidders, i think, and the one that is before us today and it looks like we have a pretty

good sized number of bidders. looking forward, are you seeing the fruits of implementing these recommendations manifesting? and... >> i think that answer is clearly yes. and you know, we have had more success than others in trade packages in terms of getting bidders and some of the trades they are eliminated a number of bidders in the market place, that are interested in bidding the project, just given to the market conditions, but, in many cases we have had good success in the number of bidders as we did the packaging as we did today. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> okay. and now we have dennis, who is giving the quarterly project labor agreement update. >> thank you, good morning, directorers, i am here to report on the third quarter are of the pla report from july first to september 30th. and we are going to go through the update for operation and

labor and the trade packages that are upcoming and the progress for the students and veterans and adults and the aprin tanses that we have seen. >> on the administration component, we did have all reading august 28th with the trades. and it was very successful, and it was very full meeting, where i went through the construction progress, and upcoming trade packages and presented so they knew what was coming out on the streets soon and they talked about each of their updates and a lot of the discussion on the veterans which i will get to shortly. >> under labor, we had no work stoppages and that has not affected the work progress as well and all scale labor has been met. and there was an incident and i would say, an unsanctioned event that happened, pretty much a month ago, and with some members and part of the iron workers union that were outside of our party and they had nothing to do with the, and it was the iron worker union

itself and they took it upon themselves but to show the unity to the pla we actually had the president of the iron worker's local, out there at 3:00 in the morning insuring that it was not affected by any of these members that were not, and we are dealing with an unsanked event and so it actually through the event today the solidary to the project. and also, and it has been reported through the steve rules reports the last quarter we had two and the one lost time was that he referred to as a broken wrist. >> and so, our upcoming trade package and it will be present to the trades and also as a heads up to the board themselves we have over the fourth quarter here there are 12 package and one of them coming today and we have six for november that are slated as of web corp schedule just this past friday and the november one that totals about all of the packages total 130 million. and the december trade packages

that are five of them and we anticipate, them coming in and this is approximately around 34 million and there is going to be some active board agendas here in the near future and the same with the first quarter of 2015 and we have another. and large group, january has five trade packages and only 6 million and so the smaller ones and february, it has nine trade packages at this point, coming, and totaling 90 million and in march has two trade packages of 25 million and so there is more of a heads up and it will be a busy five to six months and giving out mat jorty and there is still more after that, but, i just want to give you a heads up to that. >> and wrap up, since the summer internship program ended on this quarter, very successful and i think that we had a great, and showed the kids a lot of good experience, and it was a very successful with the ten interns that we had on the project. and property agrees to meet with the veterans there is and

the project team has been working with the city bill, and united contractors,? trying to place the veterans and there has been a fair amount of successes recently, and there has been effort to try to stream line the process. and hiring process, and the screening process to get as many veterans so there has been a lot of work on that, and i think that one of the biggest scream lining is going to the basis itself as to get to the veterans to come back and try to get them what is available to them. >> and regarding adults, the operating engineers and it was actually cat lityl and they refer to the apprentice program is active now and they have been placing them on the project, and to meet the needs and the carpenters and peter, and reported that he has been, and they have had a very successful program and the 2000 candidates applied in the last few years, and that they are starting to work with the veterans and so there is some

cross connection going with the carpenters and the plumbers presented that and he is placing the apprentices and they have a robust application process, and they have had 40 recently graduate from the program and then, have been hired right away. and then, city build was a part of our meeting as well. and they are going to continue the assistance and continue the laborers and of course, mike with the building and the construction and trade council is continuing with the program over at john oconnol and the

journey men and the program, and there are the percentage numbers for the non-labor and operators, all of the other trades have been clicking very well, and they are almost to 21 percent and so they are meeting the needs and exceeding on that. and our regional apprentice trends have continued as reported before san francisco in the lead with the 33 percent. and my last two slides, labor, and programs are continued to have the laborers, and now with their program and hopefully they will be able to bring the numbers up as other trades, you know, the other projects and bus ramp really start and bring up those laborer's numbers and our operators numbers for apprentices has been very good, for the last year, and so that trend continues. so, with that, are there any questions? >> director harper? >> well, most of the questions

is as it is a comment and we have got about 20 trade packages in the next few months, and i am really ignorant about what my discretion is, when i look at these things, i mean that i have had some legal practice and public contracting but not much. i know that there are some places where the legal requirements to add here to what is happen and then mr. are places where discretion exists i presume and why is it in front of us at all. and i need some education. and if i am going to really do some sort of public job, and say, here is a series of contractors. and now, here is the one that we are recommending and here is the one that was cheaper but we think that they are not conforming and that is happening today on this one that we have got. i don't know what my job is, supposed to be in over seing this.

i think, okay, well, there is this factor, but do i have any discretion to say, or did you have any discretion, when we see the report coming in like that, and it says, here, or, discrepancies and it would be good for me to at least see here is one in which we exercise the discretion. and then i could look at it and say, here is one, where no, we really got for discretion and this was just outside of the bounds of the... and of the rfb or whatever, and was out there. >> i don't know, it is not and i don't know where one begins and the other leaves off. and exactly, how it is that a board here, is supposed to look at these things and say, okay, let's ask some questions, i don't know what the questions should be, i got a couple on the next one. but i, and we need, maybe a session and maybe i will get it myself and maybe some time to come down but i need the education, about how to look at these contracts and these bids

when they come in, and decide for myself, what it is that i have some propriety in asking questions? and when, you know, i don't, and let's just and, let's just move on. and at this point, i feel like, you more of a rubber stamp than anything else because i don't have that education. >> we are happy to set up with the counsel. >> okay >> one question is the laborer numbers have recently been low over all to date, are they hitting the goal? >> over all, at this point, they are about 13 percent, and so, they are trending a little low at this point, but, you know, in fact if you look at the chart and it shows that they have had good spikes for a while and then the trades in the field and have changed and now that we have the various packages coming out and it has been discussed and