thank you, we will agendize it. >> that's cautiously good news. okay. excellent. any other old or new business? seeing none, next item. >> alright, item 5 is the executive director's report. >> good morning, everyone. i understood today was walk to work day, so that's why we started our meeting a little late today and a number of our board members, supervisor and chairperson kim and directors nuru and reiskin were walk to work today, today's another special day because today's nasal american transportation stand up for transportation today, today at 1:00 at the temporary terminal, we'll be hosting an event with all of our raoen nam partners to reauthorize map 21, we need public infrahave you beening khur and projects like the transbay center to provide access and jobs that are sorrow

needed in the united states, that will be happening at 1:00, i'll be there and director reiskin will be there as well as the south day and north bay partners, and speaking of jobs and economic opportunities, i did want to remind everyone of our policies to give back to the community as everyone knows, that's something that's personally very important to me to give back to our community with our project and one of the things we've been doing is working closely with john o'connell and tech 21's program, we got 3 students with us here today, they're going to be presenting in a moment, the good work they ao*f been doing. we've been donating equipment, we've been participating through our turner contraction manager, through webcor, our general manager, and we started an internship that runs through may 7th with three of the students, [inaudible] i'm proud of the work they do and justin is also here today with jvs,

justin brown, jvs works closely with the tech 21 bram and i'm going the ask him if he can come up to say a few words about the program and introduce the students who have a special presentation prepared for the board. justin? >> hi, good morning. my name is justin brown, i'm here with jvs and i work closely with john o'connell high school, and some of our incredible students. i want to quickly give you an opportunity to see some of the work we're doing at john o'connell, i'm groining to introduce you to some of the great work that's going on and hope to continue moving forward. john o'connell for many of you may know that john o'connell used to be a trade school, this has been a great opportunity when we look at our work base learning and how to approach some of these industries to set up working on a

precedencebacker dent of what we had before, what we're looking at doing in the future. this year, we are able to develop integrated labs, they put three hour blocks of time either in the beginning first three periods of the day or at the back end of the day to focus on that industry and what those give you are three components of one hour each, every lab has an english component, every lab has one of your subjects so you're looking at your [inaudible] when we're looking at our building and construction trades lab, tla's your geometry, one hour of geometry, english and they all work with a trade teacher, at our site today, we have chris wood who is the building and construction trades teacher who has 30 years of experience who has worked in the field and are going to give the skills these students need and to know what to look for with that. with the [inaudible] we're able

to have, this gave us an opportunity to put what's called work base learning opportunity for these students, they can use those three hour blocks once a week which we started this year to go out into the field and really discover what they're interested in and maybe opportunities also what we say is what they're not interested in, so some students who are in these labs may need that for credit needs, the good majority of them are looking at these classes with opportunities of what is the next step, could i really do this and we get to sort of cultivate that relationship and see where that goes. so, with that, we've been working closely with partners throughout the city, we've had edward senior of john o'connell high school had an opportunity and still are going out to the different sites to explore and all these students are part of that program where they go to york with jtpa and turner and

different partners throughout the city to give them an idea of what the city wants and what they want to do with their lives. the question is what does this mean for our local workforce and for you all here today. we've been able to identify students this year as the first year we've been able to rev up this program and what we call the trade track program, put these students in a trade track program, students who have identified what they're interested in and what they want to do. as of this year, we are looking at several students who are going straight into local 21, jvs has an mou with the carpenter's union and as of this week, we spoke about which students those are, what they're doing to look at the excitement on their face to be able to go into this is a huge fete in itself and for myself personally looking at giving students for them to get a minimum wage, we work closely

with the puc and lock at loss medanos and their instrumentation tech program, these students will go through that program and have -- we have an agreement where those students will graduate out and come and work with the puc. we are looking at expanding obviously through that and seeing what partnerships can we continue to build, how can we identify and let everyone know that john o'connell is the place where we are cultivating students to have these skills, these on the job skills for these after school components the students learn carpenter curriculum, math, they're learning specific trade skills working on the skill saw, working on these different tools and getting a real feel for that. we believe this is extremely unique and a great opportunity to look at what these students are doing. as you can see, they're learning framing and this is in that building and construction trades class, this is part of the three our block where you

have your english teacher there, your construction teacher present and jour geometry teacher to help build this out and how can we integrate angles and area and perimeter into this unit. >> can i ask what they're building? >> absolutely. there it is, this is the tiny house, this is actually my work encompasses both our building and construction trades and environmental technology lab which is where we bring students sort of together and figure out where they want to go and what the next step is this was a collaboration between both of those labs, you have the building and construction trades lab and they frame this out and focus on different installation, each side of this house is built differently and they get to test which is the most effective way in different parts of that unit, the second is the environmental technology students to come in and make this a greenhouse, we have the solar panels ready the trades, into

the carpenter's union, we want to expand that and look at local 39 and get them into stationary engineering, the labor's union to continue to get students who are getting these skills that cannot be found elsewhere in high schools and get them out. i want to introduce our three students who are here with tjpa

and turner and have them share with you some f the opportunities they had and what they do at john o'connell. >> i just want to add, it's a really great problem. at public works, we have three or four students who are in the program and they come once a week and they work in the shops and learn trades also. >> absolutely, they're there today. >> hello, my name's tala, i attend john o'connell high school and i've been in the construction lab for about two years now and work witching the bct lab and turner, i've come to raeltz that safety is a very important concept and we feel that it is very important for the people to get back home safely and also because lives do matter. thank you.

>> hello, my name is defany and i'm part of the building and construction trades lab and working with turner has helped me because i've met a lot of great new people there and it also has helped me experience a lot of new job opportunities for myself and as well as my classmates. thank you. >> hi, my name is joanna, i'm currently in john o'connell high school, the building and construction trades lab and this is my second year. this program has allowed me to be open about the trades and see how much -- how many trades are in the building of a project. i've been working with turner on the transbay center and i've seen a lot of trades that go in

rades classrooms from the schools because we were worried about creating kind of tracking in our public school system and then hearing that it's coming back, which is great because these are real living wage jobs here in san francisco. i was curious about the gender breakdown of the program and it's great to see three young women here representing for the class, so i'm curious kind of who the class and programs attract and i'm curious about the budget because you had mentioned that you might have

three instructors in a class, so geometry teacher, a trades teacher, i'm just wondering how all of that gets funded. >> so, for the trades specifically, that's funded through ct career technical education, those teachers are part of that so that includes our culinary, we have a chef who's on-site and school teaching, that includes our business trades and our environmental tech who teaches our electronics program and the teachers thermoses, the class sizes are expanded to accommodate the needs but when you have three teachers, that becomes, you know, a feasible and workable scenario in order to make that work. in regards to your comments about sort of tracking and gender breakdown, right now, we would say this is the first year that we've set up complete integrated labs meaning these three hour blocks. the labs themselves reflect in

many ways the breakdown of the industry, especially when we're looking at who's actually going into working with us after school and looking to go straight into the trades or looking to go into these programs, so it does reflect that. the next step is working how do you even that out, when you walk into the classrooms, you will see that there is a decent breakdown right now between the two, and that's for again, some of them are credit needs, if a student identifies they need to go to -- they need a geometry credit, they'll be put in that building and construction trades lab. >> and are they a-g eligible, all the classes? >> yes. >> can i ask the students why you decided to join or what intrigued you about joining the program, and that's my last question. >> i decided to join the program because honestly, i love seeing how things start off small and then like grow and expand and i thought what better than joining the

construction program, like, i think it's just beautiful to see all these people come together and they have different interests and then they all make this little tiny house. >> well, i started last year and then we had two classes together combined which were geometry and construction, and construction helped me understand geometry a lot easier because i can work with the tools and i could see angles and see how geometry helps like in real life situations and how we see it every day, and then that's why i continued second year which is currently now. and they have more -- i have more experiences this year and then more opportunities to see real life situations like the internship we're currently having. >> thank you. >> this is my second year also

and i've joined it again because i really liked it and because it's given me a lot of opportunities as well and i've learned a lot working with new people and like touching a lot of machines that i never really thought i would touch and stuff. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >> it's really exciting to hear about and i wish i learned how to build a house when i was in school, but it's really great that this program is under way and i look forward to the outcomes and the date that move forward as the program grows. thank you so much. >> yes, thank you very much, i'm really proud of the girls and they were very articulate and they're intelligent and i look on having them on many more projects in san francisco. speaking of construction, we have steve rules who will give us our update. >> good morning, director, steve rule with turner construction. another good month progress for

the project, just right off the top, we had no recordable incident, no lost time incidents, no major incidents at all this month, this period. again, the overview shot, the schedule milestones websinger have a slight change here that you'll notice in the structural steel, we're running a couple of weeks behind which pushes us into second quarter 2016 from first quarter, the issue is based on supply fabrication. the initial columns and the initial transfer girders are taking longer to fabricate than previously envisioned. just this week, we're moving some of that material, webcor is taking a proactive approach to it and we're going to ask to move some of that material in stockton, so we're nr the process of doing that so it will hopefully speed that delivery up and they're going to work with the follow-up

trades to pick that time back up, so just a warning right now in terms of that slipping, otherwise, everything's on track and that's one of the milestones we've talked about, we're now into april, 2016 and we're in march, 2016, so we're working hard to catch that up and i think there's lots of opportunities. >> that's just -- >> pardon? >> that's the fabrication, not the nodes? >> no it's not the nodes, the nodes were all but four have shipped, so we got through what we thought was going to be a critical issue, there was a critical issue obviously and with great project management by the team, the nodes have been delivered on time. i wanted to put this slide in, i know it's difficult to see, but it's no major

contingency, it looks odd, there's a 0.0 spend, [inaudible] for a small change order, that's why it even shows up on the form, but no major spends in the last period. the safety numbers i mentioned before were up to 77 thousand hours this period alone with no incidents this last period. again, no recordable, 1.4 million hours almost on craft hours since it started at the transit center, most of this information is similar to past reports of recent months with the steel progressing in the central area, the western zone,

we're focusing on, we've gotten all the bracing out, we're established at the final locations, the big news there is continuing that pedestrian and vehicle ramp and going from there also into the fourth lift walls in the west, that's part of the recovery from the steel situation is originally the fourth lift, the final lift of walls for the train box who's going to follow the steel, we're getting it out in front of the steel because it doesn't interrupt the steel structure, so that can be done ahead of time, they're move ining the opposite direction of that to help pick up that activity. and again in the east end, it's all about finishing up the lower portion under the lower concourse with columns and walls, and then moving on to the final lower concourse pores, we have one, the final one should be in june, we have the next one here friday or monday coming up here in april.

the percentages you've seen before, almost all the work remaining is in the eastern section as well as columns, walls and final concourse, we'll keep tracking the fourth lift walls here shortly. some of the activities in this first slide, that first picture up on the left is that fourth lift wall getting started in the western section of the project, you can see if you look carefully, this is where all the utilities penetrations will start coming through nr the street, when it's sewer, water, power, telephone and connectivity. there's the bus ramp -- not the bus ramp, the pedestrian ramp still under correction in the southwestern sx*ex the final area in the northwest corner was cleared of all bracing allowing for steel and fourth walls to begin, this shows the progress of the structural steel from a couple of views, you don't normally get to see

this at the street level, that intersection is completely getting filled in by steel, they did this last wednesday night start, tuesday niekts, i'm sorry, start taking apart the trestle on the east side of first street below the grade structural steel that comes up from the lower concourse, come up the steel and they can start crossing the street with steel, those columns and girders are supposed to be delivered tonight as i understand, in the central zone, there are a couple of pictures of the steel connections. that lower hand photo, we talked about the level of welding that goes on and that's starting to ramp up and they're picking up time on that, it was a slow start-up, that's an orbital welder that they can strap to the pipe columns and goes around in the weld joint and completes it automatically instead of a welder sitting there for hours trying to fill that joint. i believe they have 12 of these

orbital welders on the job and starting to pick up the pace on the weltering the raising gang or connectors is the other picture. on the eastern zone columns, final second lift walls below the lower concourse and it continues. this is just some shot from the structural steel fab shots, in southern california, up in the upper left, you can see -- up in oregon, you can see the pipe columns and cast nodes and some of the other beams being worked on. this will be the last time we'll talk about cast node fabrication, the final four should ship the month of april, those are the four corners or the two corners of the b street of the project, the heaviest cast nodes, they'll be moving on the the steel fabricators shortly, on the bus ramp, you can see in this shot and a couple of otheress, the work is starting to progress above

ground, this month will complete the cdih piles which the support of the piles, they did pour the pile cap for the pile lon number 9 this month, so they're reinforcing and the pylon will start appearing above grade. you can see on the left there, you can see some of the columns sticking up on the bus ramp route from the bay bridge and that's just more reinforcing steel for a column in the lower right and the right side of that. so, pretty much the same progress for the next 90 days, as you heard before, we're going the continue the structural steel erection in the central heading east, they're starting to head west with the second crane in the next 30, 40 days, you'll see us crossing 4th street which needs to be done at night, that will be continual night closures to get that work completed.

coming online in the next 90 days is stairs and ladders as well as transitioning from just doing mep coordination to start doing lay out in the field and with luck and everything goes according to mrab, we'll start pouring train box lid decks and then upper level decks as we go forward on and in there the summer. labor breakdown continues to be consistent, percentages we've seen for the project and same with the percentage of apprentices, and again just the ongoing continual count of number of people that have come on to the project as crafts people, 2500 alone just in the transit center. i was asked recently about the number of women that might have touched the project and that is about 3%, that's a pretty good number considering the overall number of women in the construction trades is 2.5 to 3 percent now, i guess that

question came up for a presentation you're doing later on today. are there any questions? >> i have one, steve. that was a great adjustment with your schedule on the construction of doing the west wall. how are those decisions between webcor and turner, how does that go in terms of okay, this is an issue, so what can we do to help things? >> well, there's a lot of good team work there, we let webcor take the lead and they do and that was part of their decision-making process with their subcontractors, we thought it was a great idea and tried to support it every way we can. i think we'll probably also see some of that ahead of the steel in the eastern zones, maybe zone 4 if they can start getting -- it's just a piece of work that needs to get out of the way, the logical thing would be after steel, what they found with the quantity of welding on the steel, there's a lot of time spent on those upper pipe come lum to bus deck and park level connections

which would then rain sparks down on carpenters trying to build the forms for the wall, so it was a pretty easy once you see it visually, it was pretty easy adjustment for them to make and made a lot of sense because we did have delays on the fabrication of steel. >> they had to clear that with you? >> yeah, we all discussed it, we tried hard to stay out of their means and methods and let them work their way through their own schedule, i think that's what our true role is to help them with that, it's really their means and methods. anything else? >> great. and now i would like to ask dennis to provide the pla update. >> thank you, maria. good morning, board members, i'm here for the first squatter 2015pla installment. i'm going to go through

administration and lay boxer go through the progress to date as i usually do, apprentice reporting trends and wrap with the trade package that will be pretend to be awarded over the next few months. . under m*intion ration, we did hold our 13th gac, it was well attended, i go through the construction progress with them, show the steve rule presentation to them as well, went through the upcoming trade packages and apprentice programs and veterans discussion and that's the normal trend for every one of those gac's, under the labor, there's been no issues. labor needs have been met, there's been no labor items that even need to be reported at all at this point relate today the pla, there was only during the period of january through end of march, there was one reportable for the first quarter so that's in the right direction. now, going on to the summer interns, looking forward to

this time of the year again, we're going through the process, applications have been coming in and the interviews will be at the latter part of april and i'm looking forward to a summer intern showing up on june 8th, that's on track at this point, it went well last year, i'm looking forward to it this year. in regards to the veterans, all of the trades are referencing how they wear helmets versus hard hats, the electricians and carpenters are doing, they have a direct entry kind of element now that they put into their process, they don't have to put in an application or they don't have to go through an interview process anymore, they're immediately into the apprentice program which is one way of helping with the veterans, to add to that, the outreach is continuing, webcor, ted hung who has come here and reported before are going down to port, down to the base to do outreach as veterans come back to expose

them to what the available resources are up here in the bay area, so it continues a tremendous effort out to veterans. in regards to what was reported from the individual unions, the electricians reported one of their best interview processes where over 600 new candidates came on board, they see no issues in keeping track of our labor needs that will be on our 10.4, the electrical package with fisc as that starts ramping up in the field in the next few months, the pipe trades also are thinking ahead and have been working with desert mechanical who is our mechanical and plumbing contracts, to work with them to see that they can meet our needs, and the carpenters, even to address all the concerns, not only at our facility but also all the way from san francisco to san jose, there are many pro