>> i will call this meeting on thursday april 9, 2015 to

order, the transbay joint powers authority. [inaudible]. i want to thank sf gov tv staff, jennifer and jessie for the broadcasting of this. >> thank you. >> i'll go ahead and note for the record, director [inaudible] has a scheduling conflict and will not, with that, director kim? >> here. >> director lee? >> here. >> director riz kin? >> here. >> (roll call). . you do have a quorum. >> thank you. next item, please. >> item 3 is communications and i'm not aware of any. >> okay. and we'll move on to item 4. >> item 4, board of director's new and old business. >> director lee? >> thank you for a few minutes. i wanted to report out from the jpb on an item that's up i

think several months ago, cal train is continuing to move forward with this lek ri fi kaition project, and one of the challenges we are working on was whether or not it made sense to have compatible boarding heights, similar to that of high speed rail, so that we could have shared platforms at shared stations along our corridor, and the technical team has been hard at work, the technical team being a combination of cal train and high speed rail staffing consultant and is the team reported out to the jpb at last week's meeting and it's part 1 of part 2, it's literally a technical analysis on what is feasible and what is not. the message at the board meeting was cautious optimism.

the team has completed interviewing several vehicle makers who have stated that they are able to modify vehicles that they have previously made to allow for double sets of doors that could accommodate the lower boarding heights which can be compatible with our existing platform heights as well as the higher boarding heights which would be compatible with that of the high speed rail is planning for their vehicles. the other good news was that the vehicle makers also said they could do this in a timeframe that meeting our targeted goal of having electrified service by 2020, so this was good news and it was a little bit of a surprise, we thought our schedule would be impacted and we weren't sure if it would require complete customization which would be a pretty intense effort, so we

found information that was actually counter to that. we will have a second information item at our next jpb board meeting and that one will focus on, okay, if we were to operate these double sets of doors at different boarding heights, what are the operational assumptions and parameters that our cal train operators would deal with and how would that work with our customers would would be interfacing with those vehicles, so that information will be presented next month, and so i wanted to take this time to report out because this was a topic of interest to this board and i had also wanted to ask with the jpb's goal of taking action on the vehicle procurement in july, that it would be timely for the technical team to come and present to this board either in may or june and so i wanted to

make -- ask for that as an agenda item. >> 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