said about truck design i would like to see if it's possible for newer trucks to have some sort of censors so the drivers will be able to tell if there's you know somebody in the area like either a camera or motion. i know there's some new cars that have cameras and they can tell if there's people behind them like when they are backing up and stuff like that so i'd like to see not only large trucks but also newer muni vehicles or light rails to have some sort of censor to let them

know that they are there so they can slow down or stop if it's possible so i really like to see that in the future. thank you. >> thank you. seeing no further public comment on this item public comment on this item is now closed. >> any further comments from colleagues? okay seeing none thank you everyone for everyone's participation and actually i'm i'm sorry we have

two more items. will you please call the next 2 items. introduction of new items 7 and 8. >> thank you seeing none we will open up for general public comment on general items. >> i had done so much work with so many groups and i switched over to keep my attention on things but i noticed when i

have to drive i know it's easier with the improvements down certain corridors but i've noticed all of the constructions which is good for business but they are tearing up all of the streets and when you do a -- if you are going down a corridor like geary it makes it cleaner to keep your attention to the street corn ers where pedestrians are coming in. the car services, the buses, people unloaded goods and services to to restaurants makes for hard to maneuver and hard to drive environments

especially friday and saturday nights so i commend you very much and i hope the things that i suggested that you will be able to maybe legislate and bring some of things into fruition and i think you will see a dramatic drop i think you will see a dramatic lowering of fatalities and injuries so thank you very much again and congratulations on the good work you have done so far. >> thank you. >> i'm howard bloom berg i think a general thing that should be looked at is the effective crossing time of pedestrians. it turns out that in fact the pedestrian transit times are being compressed and one of the major reasons for that is large vehicles tend to

drive slowly through intersections and they can enter the intersection at the end of the yellow and in fact by the time they cross all of the crosswalks there's about 2 or so seconds often taken off the time that a pedestrian can cross and i've noticed that perhaps one of the reasons that or one of the evidences really that pedestrians are having a difficult time is in 2014 looking at the traffic fatalities over half of them were considered the fault of the pedestrian themselves and all of the bicycle fatalities were considered the fault of the bicyclists and all of the motorcycle fatalities were considered the fault of the motorcycle so i think i'm not trying to blame things this is going against the usual concept

that two-thirds of the accidents are due to drivers but we seemed to have a a shift last year and i don't know the reason but i think it should should be investigated and look at the effective times for pedestrians to cross intersections and i think it's been reduced and also by cars with the yellow concept cars can enter the intersection right at the beginning of a red light thank you. >> thank you for being here today. >> first request is that there be some justification given for why the -- this being a data driven plan we know also that there is a lot of data that

talks about economic vitality let alone safety and health issues and there's reams and reams of information about that and that's what we're working on so the reason for part of that initial plan being changed in the 11th hour isn't clear and we'd like to see the data on that. failing adequate data we'd really like to see that block rein-stated in the plan for a raised cycle way thank you. >> thank you and congratulations . >> okay seeing no further general public comment general public comment is now closed. >> just finishing what i said -- i think that there's a lot that has happened over the last year and i think i'm really proud of what we've accomplished so far and i know that we have much more work to do but we have a dedicated group of folks to make this happen and we'll make sure to

schedule our next meeting in a relevant fashion and we need the resources to make it reality and seeing no further announcements our meeting is adjourned.

>> [gavel] i call this meeting to order. -- oh i see. sorry about that. i call this meeting of the transbay joint powers authority board of directors for thursday march 12 to order. would you call the roll. >> sure. i will note for the record that director sartipi will not be present and

director kim is on her way. >> director. >> present. >> director. >> present. >> director. >> present. >> mr. chair you have a quorum. >> next item. >> item 3 is communications and i wanted to note that the board will meet on 10:00 a.m. on april 9 versus the normal start time and we will send an official notice later this week. >> thank you. go ahead. >> just an announcement from the san mateo transit district. some press went out yesterday. some of you know we were in search for a new general manager for our district and jim harnet is our new general manager and hired by the board, and his responsibility will not -- only

be on managing that business, but also executive director for caltrain as well as the san mateo transportation authority. >> harket. >> yes. he has history with us. he has been on our boards for several years. he's known locally as well as regionally and he has been serving on the high speed rail board as well, and so he's familiar to many of us, so we're very anxious for him to start will be towards the end of this month, and looking forward to some stability with the transition of the you new general manager. >> so he's been at the center of a lot of issues. okay good. any other communications? >> okay. i wish to thank

sfgtv for broadcasting us worldwide and board of directors old business. i have some. i think we will be getting in april but maybe in may a presentation -- i don't know if it's by mtc but sponsored by them. they have been doing a study much major corridors for the last several months and one thing in the study is an idea of a contraflow lane on the eastbound level of the bridge that would be dedicated for a.m. commute and restricted to buses and perhaps trucks and commercial trucks, and vehicles with more than "x" number of people or something like that. that's just being looked at, and some of the

initial stuff has been done and i thought because that contra-flow lane as least as it pertains to the buses would be tied into our terminal in some manner it would be good to get an early indication of the issues around that and probably coming to us next month. we will see when it's ready. it's an interesting study. it has been used in washington, d.c. -- those that have been there have seen it there and some other things and the idea is it might work on the bay bridge. okay. next item. >> all right. item 5 is the executive director's report. >> good morning everyone and happy year of the ram. we had our chinese new parade last weekend and our own supervisor kim was there as well as our vice chair nuru who was the grand marshal. of course it was always a wonderful event and

wanted to make sure they mentioned that. now as we start our year of the ram i am pleased to report that we continue to make good progress on our jobs. we have 9,000 men and women working in 20 states in the united states in the construction area with our project from california, nevada all the way to pennsylvania, delaware, texas, florida. we're proud of the numbers so i wanted to make sure that the board had the recent update. we were honored by a visit from president obama's cabinet from sba and secretary sweet and heard a lot about our project and wanted to know what we were doing as well as our outreach for veterans businesses and women owned and lgbt businesses and we have paul here, the lead

team member to give an update. >> thank you very much. i want to quickly go through a powerpoint presentation and nila will you put that up there? we will go through basically a program update tond what the initiatives are that we're employing in this project and why it's a national model for other agencies to model themselves after and take a look at what are the brass tacks? where we are with measurable results? we have a large project with this construction package. you need mack sure you're innovative and engaging with the communities and the minority women perspective and local and regional and we have the program from the department of the transportation we accept the certification from all 50 states in the united states, so that represents those three

certifications so the lbe, the sbe at california and national level at the do t. we want to be innovative and the bottom line people want to do business with who they go and we try to cut through the noise to make sure that the small businesses build relationships with the larger contractors and we do it with an online tool and small businesses can use this form about their projects and bond and client history so that way we start the relationship off with the small and large companies. another tool that has been great -- in fact this is the [inaudible] line car but we sent outreach events. don't give people a lot of time to interact and we have these cards to help people tell their stories and you have done great work in the past and this cuts to the chase and tells the larger businesses why they should be employing small

businesses. we continue to work with 72 chamber of commerces throughout san francisco and the bay area and some of the california based organizations because we know that information is best received when it comes directly from the source of the san francisco african-american chamber of commerce, the asian american contractors association and so forth so the bottom line we don't leave any stone unturned regarding those 72 chamber of commerces. we wanted to be innovative and we know needs and technical assistance are needed on small business. one of the programs that we have been successful with is the mental program and if bijan sartipi was here he would talk about this and we took the model and with women owned businesses in construction and steel. we're working with a wonderful african-american business and right now she's seeing great results as communicating her value to large businesses so

this long-term six month and one year relationship and the mentor program has been really successful. we worked with a lot of the organizations in the city to kind of up line cards, and help with the interest and so forth and working with them on the local level as well. veterans really are a key component and we have been successful with the number of veteran owned firms. in fact one of our veteran owned businesses,an vil builders which received one of the large contracts of their history to the tune of $10 million was recently recognized by e and r magazine on a national level as one of the top 25 firms to watch in the united states so they started out with a $10 million and received another contract for $15 million so bottom line their business as grown because of this project. they went from 10 employees to now 83 employees and located here in san francisco. they're also a

minority and veteran owned business so it's a triple win. they have been able to parlay the success on this to working on the lenar program at the shipyard and they can grow here and take success in other projects. lgbt. this is the first project in the history of the united states that recognized there were lgbt owned businesses that could provide value to a public works project, so two years ago on september 26 2013 thanks to the leadership of maria ayerdi-kaplan and it was so successful and one year later that governor brown signed a new letter into order that recognized that lgbt businesses shall be in the procurement process of the 41 public utilities company throughout california so what started here is creating jobs across california in a new and

innovative way. and as the director said we are proud to be recognized by president obama's cabinet member maria contierra sweet and worked with the department of transportation and housing under the gray davis administration and a key part of making this project happen. she has been in washington, d.c. and tracking the project and wanted to know what is going on and how we're so successful with small business in regards to this project and it was fantastic. it was spent with eight firms and they got to talk directly to the cabinet member to say this is what is working with the project, here's the challenges and here's what we can do better so it was unvarnished input. as you know we track on a monthly basis the participation so we know it's not just promises. the process that we have seer points out the fact that we

have a 17% goal on the construction phase and it's a robust goal for a mega project like this. currently we have $258 million that has gone to small firms. to date people have been paid in excess of $160 million. those dollars are going to creating jobs on the local and regional level so for that you can be very proud. what is exciting from our perspective as policy folks in small business we have 144 businesses, small businesses that are working on this project and some of them have multiple contracts so we have 167 contracts that have small businesses participating on them and what is more important -- you can't tell because of the line there but on the first tier subs and those operating as prime contractors there are 17 non sbes but we have 14 small

businesses acting as first tier subs which other contracts are called prime contracts and that is important because that's the part as a small business you could grow your business. as a small contract you're at the behest of the larger contract and having this is enormously helpful in designing their own destiny and we are providing beyond just promises and with that i ask if there is any questions. >> good news. >> thank you paul. this is a passion of mine working with small businesses and disadvantaged communities, disabled veterans as well as the lgbt community so i want to thank paul for the great work as well on this. we should be very proud for what we're doing. >> thank you for the leadership of webcor/obayashi and also turner. >> i would like to ask steve rule to come up and give our

construction update. >> good morning directors. i am with turner construction. great month. we had no recordable no loss incident this is month in the western area. the focus has been primarily on bracing removal and the bike and vehicle ramps. just quickly on the schedule the milestones remain the same. things are working according to plan right now. the key milestones we're tracking in the short term are the completion of the first below concrete package or the packages everything up to the 30 lift wall as we talked about. that's on track for a early finish from the november date to probably late summer and the structural steel erection a little slower than we anticipated at this point but catching up so we're looking for good things there. contingency slide that you have seen many

times before and there were a couple change orders out of this but no startling changes. as far as our safety statistics as i said before there were no reportables or loss time this period and up over 50000 hours for the year so far. again in the west progress has been primarily on rebracing, the bike and vehicle ramp. in the central section of the project the primary progress is obviously the structural steel. we're go to cross first street. you will see that in early april as a complete write up and move the crane to the other side and that's a bit of a dance with closing a lane during the day and doing most of the work at night and soo and in the eastern zone the focus is on the completion of the far east end walls and concourse work and rebracing and getting everything ready for steel and the projection being ready in summer for the final eastern zone. in the western zone the next step

is steel erection and the crane for that at the western side, at the backside of the steel that we call it as you look at it from our end of the project will start next month. that crane came in and erected last week so that is all ready to go. just some of the pictures here again is the vehicle ramp and the pedestrian ramp being placed, and the bracing removal in the southwest corner. we have the bracing left in the northwest corner. the white braces that you seen for so many years will come out shortly and the bracing be removed from that end. in this zone it's about structural steel. the wells are so great there is preheating going on and you can see that here for final welding here around the cast node and we're progressing the fourth lift wall now which is

separate contract with waterproofing and reinforced steel and you can see that here. in the zone here and concurse and walls going in and rebracing at the lowest level. structural steel fabrication continues. one of the important pieces is the light column we will be getting closer as the erection goes across first street and there are the cast nodes being welded together up in vallejo. as of the end of last week we were shipped 275 and so just a very few left to ship. they all have been cast. they're receiving the final machining and there is a picture of one of the largest cast nodes on the project getting ready to ship. those are 20 tons. on the bus ramp the work is we're above the ground on the viaduct poring the first column and getting ready to first the first stage of the

pylon for the cable state bridge and you will see steel going across first street. we will see more columns pored on the bus ramps and the standard walls and rebracing, much of what you have seen previously going forward for the next 90 days. we will see the start of the [inaudible] trades and with the structural steel as they follow that area. great numbers in addition to what paul brought up is good participation. we're still at 65% level of the local labor for the project. the apprentices are still doing well with 31 coming from san francisco alone and overall about 2400 workers have hit the site specific to the project. any questions? >> one quick question s there any risk that the east -- that

the concrete work on the east side won't get done on time that the steel folks will be waiting? >> webcor is working with the folks on that and we came up with a acceleration plan. this is a strategic use of that to make sure that the area is clear. we are confident the concrete was done. we wanted to make sure it was done far in advance for the rebracing to be done and it will be difficult as we get to the end of the trestle and more congested and need three cranes for the work to keep moving so getting the concrete done early we hope to avoid that. right now we're putting a lot of emphasis on the fabrication and watching the steel getting fabricated so there aren't any delivery hiccups there. >> thanks. >> anything else? >> thank you. i would like to

ask craig to present the quarterly financial reports. >> good morning. i am here to give the quarterly financial reports and five in the package and following is a brief summary. the first is the budget actual report and through the end of the second quarter of the fiscal year we were within budget. capital expenses were 36% of the capital budget. operating expenses were 27% of the operating budget of the second report is the contract status report and this shows amounts authorized and spent for tjpa contracts as well as sbe and dbe activity. tjpa has distributed 162 million to these groups over the life of the program. the third report is the investment report and we invest in a variety of different investments such as treasuries, commercial paper, certificates of deposits. some of our certificates of depoiseits and commercial paper matured since