>> good afternoon. and welcome to the transbay joint powers authority board of directors' meeting for friday, january 16th. i wanted to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv who make each of our meetings available to the public online and also transcribe our meeting. and recognized jessie harlan and egan. >> do we have any announcements. >> ly call roll. director lee. >> here. >> lee present. >> director nuru. >> present. director reiskin present. >> director harper present. >> i will note for the record that director sartipi will not

by able to join us today due to scheduling conflict. >> do we have any communication or board of directors old or new business? seeing none we'll move to the executive director's report. >> good afternoon everyone and happy new year. we start with some good news today, having to do with our bridge loan that we reported on last moment we will be closing next week, that is a great achievement. also we had reported to the board that we're looking at syndicating the loan. it turns out that we no longer have to do that. golden and wells fargo have committed to fund the entire $171 million, $86 million and $85 million respected [sp*-ebgt/]ively and that is very good news and we're closing next week. i can't tell you what a testament it is to our organizion and the growth of our organization to apply for $171 million loan and close on it. it's a good achievement and i want to thank our ffo and staff

for their work. the groundbreak of january 6th in fresno was attended by the governor, labor leaders and business, small businesses, and student leaders. it was a really inspiring event. the governor gave a really good speech. i attended along with our board member sartipi. it was really great to see. just as a reminder, the first session is 19-miles in length and stretchs from madero to fresno county. more good news on tuesday of this we're the board of supervisors unanimously approved the legislation to declare the election results, levy and special tax and i again want to thank mayor lee and the board of supervisors and our chairperson kim for her steadfast support of the cfd.

we're beginning to solicit applications for the citizens advisory committee for the transbay joint powers authority and the applications will also are on our website. in particular, i want to mention that this year we have a daily cal train raider opening, as well as a daily ac transit rider opening. so always look forward to your recommendations. and now i would like to move on to our annual program status report. every year we give an annual status of what we did and what our accomplishments were the prior year in 2014. what the plan is for 2015, and where we expect to be by january of 2016. we will be reporting on accomplishments, our dbes program and public outreach as well. the members of our staff will give this report, starting with our program manager mark sabani. >> good morning, board members

and happy new year. as nila mentioned the annual presentation, the program milestones and accomplishments will be done jointly by myself, as well as manager dennis, cfo sarah and manager scott and will include the milestone accomplishments for 2014 and the funding report, our community outreach efforts as , as well as our plans for 2014. 2014 marks the fourth year of successful operation of the temporary terminal and continues to operated and maintain the terminal with the level of [str-efrs/] or service that exceed ours customer's expectations. in 2014 we upgraded some of the cameras that have reached the service life with high-definition cameras and also endered into a lease agreement with amtrak to bring

amtrak service to the temporary terminal this spring and we extended the facilities management contract with abm to spring of 2018 in order to provide sufficient time for a smooth transition from the temporary terminal to the transit center when it's opened in late 2017. for the design effort in 2014 we completed the construction cost update for phase 1. this update was a joint firefighter between the design team and c & g reflecting current market companins in san francisco and took into account changes in costs and cost pressures for construction and completed phase 1 issued for construction documents for the design in april. and we commissioned a survey that was presented to you in may, that was done by leland filler associates to attract more bidders and retain them

and thereby reducing bid costs. as a result of the bidder sauri have an update to the general requirements and streamlined the bidding manual and revised the contract specifications and to make sure that the scope is aligned with the groups. in 2014 we also continued development of the value engineering and secondary mitigation measures to reduce cost. in december we issued a conform set for the issue for construction to the contractors and future bidders to make sure that the contractors on-board have the latest plans and that the future bidders have clear scope in the documents. in middle 2014 we also began the final effort for the ip network and completed our negotiations with the sfpuc to provide power to the transit center and continue our coordination with adjacent properties for the design of

pedestrian bridges and gondola and work around the transit center. the board award 15 construction contracts in 2014 totaling $293 million. this brought the amount of phase 1 direct costs construction awarded to about $900 million. for the storan we submitted the final report to caltranss for approval and expect approval in the next few weeks. we also received approval from caltrans for the bridge impact assessment report and the geometrical design exceptions. we also received comments from caltrans and ac transit on the 65% plans estimate, and we have initiated 95% effort for the ps & e. we also explored potential delivery options for --

including the use of public-private partnership and we're present interesting that to the board in january. for the dtx we motfidthe structure design to maximize development potential on shared parcels. we closely worked with the city on the 4th and king railyard alignment feasibility study, and we continue ongoing close coordinatings with california hawai'i revised statutes and caltrain on various matters including platform heights for vehicle widths and to increase flexibility and maximize capacity in the transit center. with that, i would like to turn it over to the construction portion. >> thank you, mark. good afternoon, board members. i'm pleased to bring the construction-related accomplishments for 2014. starting with the archaeology. transit center we completed all archaeological findings that

were related to the transit center itself. and all analyses and reporting was done. fremont street, skeletor remains the very sensitive removal and handling of ournative american remains in 2014 was taken care of in a very expeditious manner work withing the city. it was a very, very smooth operation out of the site. bus ramp completed archaeological work well and block 9 track to completion all of its investigations for the developer as well were all completed. now construction directly: now this time last year, january, 2014, we were talking about almost completing excavation. we were still put something micro piles in. we were doing very different things and we had just put in our first lift of concrete in january of 2014. and we felt we got a lot then

but now at the end of the year, a tremendous amount of progress was made in the 12 months. especially with the bottom left-hand picture with the orange column there, showing that our steel coming out of the ground in 2014 was a very, very large accomplishment. and then you see in the top part of the graphic, the green is all of the walls that have been poured and the lower walls and the blue portion is actually showing you all of the above the lower concourse cal. wall a lot of wall and a lot of concrete. under the buttress, bracing system was 100% in 2014 excavcation was 100% complete. micro file 1s00% complete and rebracing was installed and coordinated with the low-grade concrete, all done in 2014. the .0 contract, slab

geothermal was completely intalented. the water photographing was completely installed as well. the slab foundation, the whole -- all 16 sections that the trains will run on some day was all poured out in 2014. train box lower walls below the lower concourse are 88% deplete as of the end of the year and lower slabs are 67%, basically two-thirds of our lower concourse were poured by the end of 2014 with over 80,000 cubic yards of concrete poured in 2014. it was a very active year for that particular trade. steel super structure. a lot of fabrication and cost notes delivered almost 80% them are in oregon and the shop steel fabrication, four separate

off-site locations has been ongoing. it started approximately during the summer and has been going very actively since then and will continue throughout the year with the steel, and of course, our steel in coming on-site is critical. this is a picture many of us were at the november 7th event. you see that first steel column go up. by the end of the year, we had basket -- column assembles in place. this picture was done somewhere around the first of the year and you can see the first steel column in two months and since then, even more has been installed which steve will show in his presentation, where we are at today. also the bus ramps commenced. the contractor was awarded to shimmick back in may. the dem mission of the underground structures are completed. we have drilled and poured out

10 of the 29cidh, those 29 range in size from smaller is 2', but all of the 9'ers are almost completed today. coordinated with caltrans for the sterling street substation and a lot of utilities at the bay bridge as part of this contract and we completed and installed and tested out our barrette piles for our pile finds and making sure those piles are behind us. utility relocation, completed construction of all six utility relocations. 100% sbe utilizization or participation and basically completed the awss system. finally. i know steve and i reported on that many, many times, but we finally got it by the end of the year. and also strengthened the pg&e conduits and duct banks and cleared block 5, which is of

the gas and primary electrical services. now the workforce itself, 160 construction workers on-site on average every day. that is growing and i will show that in the detail of the p & l quarterly. 375,000 construction relate trade hours, bringing us 1.3 million total and have surpused 8400 jobs in 20 states that have been completed because of this project. this graphic happens to be through the end of november and it shows the various locations throughout the country that we are and will continue to add states as more trade packages come online. and there has -- through the whole year there were no work stoppages or labor shortages at all encountered. the outreach to veterans has

been very rememberust and working with web core and we have about 90 veterans that are poised through vary suppliers and vendors for the transit center and anvil builders a dbe company received their second contract with the transit center for $15 million. that was their second one. very much a success story for dbe and our collaboration with the united cantractored for "united for veterans" group. 30 veterans alone have been secured through that united for veterans' effort alone. the contractor outreach was very robust, business committees and networking events continue. we really increased our pre-bid

meetings for every single package to provide as much networking opportunity to get the word out to get as much bidders as possible. it was ramped up in 2014 contract, we unbundled some contracts for small business to meet goals, outreach and certification assistance workshops continue and also the activitis we continue outreach for 72 chamber of commerces throughout the bay area to get the word out about our projects. with that i will turn it over to sarah. >> as maria also mentioned the legislation has been approved and in december you authorized the executive director to vote in favor of the cfd and that occurred. block 5 is our most recent bid

that came in 2014, 172.5 million for an office development behind the office building that tjpa is currently housed in. there is an exclusive negotiating agreement in place for that parcel and we expect to close escrow in fall of 2015. block 6/7 is in the photograph. there it's been an active construction site for the past year and construction should complete on that towards the end of 2015. block 8 is another residential development, $70 million expected to close at the end of this year. in 2014, we also had the exclusive negotiating agreement put in place and both the ena and dbe have been approved and we'll see that close next month in mid-february. on the procurement side, we put

out -- on the non-construction procurement and you authorized the award of that contract to ross & baruzzini. we continued working closely with our federal partners, fta and fra and they recognized several best practices that they asked for us to write up to share with other grantees and we're in the process of getting that information to them now. they love the job's map as do many of our funding partners. on the risk management side,

also with aft and fra, we did a refresh of our risk assessment and we were invited to present by fra at their first annual grantee conference on our risk assessment practices and we went to washington, d.c. in august to present on that and we continue to have our quarterly risk management meetings. disadvantaged business enterprise and small businesses we awarded $258 million in contracts to dbes and sbes to-date. on the professional services side, you can see that more than half of our subconsultants are sbes and about -- well, 13 of the primes are also sbes. and then on the construction side you see that the vast

majority of the lower tiered subcontractors are sbes and that is great and continue to encourage web corp. to keep those numbers up. this table is the year by year target that is reported to dbe, or to fta for dbee wards and we have exceeded those targets and now we report in groups of three years to fta. funding, ac transit passed through their annual security allocation of about $2.1 million. those grants are being used for construction, trade packaged and the most recent one on the steel package. we received $3.5 in bridge toll grants that are being used on the cmgc contract and $47.7

million from prop k that is funding a mix of administrative costs, professional services and a fair amount of construction as well. we we executed two tifia loan amendments and as maria mentioned we're targeting next week for the close of the bridge loan. moving forward into 2015, we'll continue to seek discretionary funding d.o.t., fema, any other opportunities that present themselves, including the state of california, with the cap and trade funds and other funds that may be available. we will continue to work towards the formation of the community business district, which will provide maintenance and operation funds for the rooftop park and we'll continue to seek full funding for phase 2 and considering the delivery methoded for methods for that project. with that, i will hand it over

to scott. >> hi, good afternoon, directors. we had good outcomes with our community outreich this year and i will give some specificks in a moment. just to start, we of course continued all of our regular ongoing outreach activities. we have monthly community meetings that we held at tjpa the third wednesday at every month at noon in our large conference room. we continue with our ten-day construction outlooks that we send out to nearly 2,000 recipients every week at this point. we of course continue to have a 24-hour hotline that any neighbor as round the site with questions can call and ask. we continue to do our quarterly newsletters which are a great opportunity to highlight not only our construction progress, but various program milestones. we're particularly proud of the

statistic that you see at the bottom of slide, continuing to have year over year reductions in compliants. that is just a six-month figure and each of the full-years of 2012, 2013 and into 2014 we continue to have reductions. this year that occurred in an environment where we had significant new work occurring. we began of course our steel construction and work on the bus ramp and the bus ramp in particular was in a new geographic area and we have new neighbors surrounding the bus ramp, but thanks to the strong work of our outreach team, particularly our pr consultants at singer associates and majority team at turner we were able to have these good outcomes and actually in the middle of the last year, mid-20 14 we were approached by the department of building inspection and they wanted to talk to us about our outreach effort because they have seen

the good results we have been having. we had had a similar meeting in mid-2013 where a representative from central subway talked to us how about we conduct our outreach and community relations because of the good outcomes that we produced? so in addition to continuing that work to educate our neighbors about the work that has been going on throughout the year, we of course look for opportunities for staff to give presentations and participate on panels. you see on this slide a list of examples of some of those presentations, including one of our former interns asking our executive director to come give the commencement address at her high school back in june, which was really exciting. we continue to conduct tours and 60 tours to various school groups, business groups, trade organizations, taking people down onto the site. we did targeted outreach to the businesses and residents that

are in the area, surrounding the bus ramps, because again that is a new geographic area outside of the footprint of the transit center. we continue to make our website as user-friendly as possible and components in particular the faces of transbay, where we do interviews with various member of our team working on aspects of the transit center. this past year we added interviews with two new members of our construction team, as well as a montage of interviews with our interns from this past summer. you may remember from our update last year in 2013, we put a lot of effort into really expanding our social media efforts. did a lot more postings and continued that through 2014. and had some good results. on facebook we more than doubled our number of likes and we now have more