service agency, certainly the transit agencies have security chiefs that they would want to provide us as part of peer review, the various consultants that work with denise and others, maybe we can have other people. i think it's a great idea. >> i just have to, we are already reaching out to all of these people via this. the peer review committee should be other entities similar to a terminal. the security shouldn't be the peer review team, it should be other securities like this that are providing peer review on how they do security. as director harper already mentioned, of course sfpd is going to tell us to do the maximum security. that's in their interest, also they want to make sure that they are providing the most careful advice. we should be asking other entities that have similar facilities to advise us on what they do. >> we could do that, that's also a good suggestion. the heads of grand central and

other places on the east coast, the west coast, we will look at that. >> as well as you probably reach uet to apta and ask them for a peer review panel, which is the american transit center. >> no member s of the public wishing to address you. 16 is a resolution to enter into a enter governmental agreement with the city and county of san francisco. >> there is no intergovernmental agreement attached to this resolution. this item was put on the agenda by director reiskin. i've always been about protecting the public interests and the tjpa and it would have been better if there was an intergovernmental agreement attached to this and i wanted

to mention the importance of this agreement which will be a construction intergovernmental agreement between public works and tjpa so that it ensures consistency with existing laws and regulations, existing contracts, tjpa policies, procedures, good government practices, making sure there are controls on any decision making authority delegated to public works, control relating to compensation of public works, ensuring this is allocation for risks for acting and officials of public works, ensuring protection of the tjpa's existing rights relative to confidential information and attorney-client privilege. this is all just government practice. i understand the city attorney is looking at a draft of a construction upb ter governmental agreement and i've been told i'll be getting comments back on what was provided. that's all i wanted to say. >> so i appreciate that and i presume that the executive

director concurs that everyone sitting up here believes in transparency and guarding the public interest, which is the purpose of bringing this resolution forward. it is now 4 months ago back in november when this board indicated a sdair desire to bring in resources to ensure this project here will have seen an almost 40 percent increase in costs can be delivered at this new higher, greater than 2 billion dollar price tag that we are now contemplating when we approve a final budget. i think there was unanimous concurrence from the board that wae do so. i think there's been some efforts and some progress so far but 4 months later, i don't get the sense that the board is positioned to have the kind of oversight that we all agreed we needed back in november and it was brought

forth in november with some sense of urgency since we are in the peak of construction, now another 4 months has gone by. while i think the intergovernmental agreement will certainly be helpful and i'm trusting that the staff will be able to work in good faith and constructively to get to an agreement, i believe putting forward this resolution now is important so that the board's will as expressed back in november can, 4 months later, start to be realized and i believe there are some amendments that will be offered for consideration. >> okay. yeah, i think that this is something that we definitely have been moving to a long time. speaking of conflict of interest, one of the things i want to get from this board tonight is i have

mentioned in some email to ed that i sent to ed, i'm not sure that the executive director is not in a conflict of interest in doing the negotiations. and that's one of the things i'll take, you know, feedback from the board members individually on, but i said that to ed and it's obviously a concern of mine. i basically think that the general counsel and one or two board members should be probably doing this with the city. the other thing i would like to basically indicate from the city is that ed and i were meeting a couple of days ago with the controller on the financing thing and he mentioned that the degree of -- he had his own interests, non-construction wise, in terms

of ensuring that the city of san francisco would be taken care of and repaid given the amount of money they were putting in and it would go beyond the existing mou as i have seen it. so i would just ask the city of san francisco when they come with this mou, come with an mou as complete as they want it to be and that the city coordinate and say, okay, each department and whatever comes up so we'd have an mou that -- i don't want to have this board approve an mou and then have the next month or two months come in and city says, well, here are some other things we'd like to do. i think we need to look at this as a bundle, one time. i think the city has everything it thinks, everything it wants to do. that's my sense about it. so do we have the resolution before we have an mou, right?

that's all it does. >> i'm going to, i've said this before, i'm going to milk this as long as i can. i don't have the same history as my colleagues up here do. this is a major change, it is a major project. what is missing for me when i read this, and maybe it's going to be in the intergovernment relations or whatever it's called, agreement, is this change is being made for a reason. but i don't understand what the metrics are going to be for dpw in terms of how we know they are going to be successful. there's an implied, we're going to complete this project on budget, whatever that budget is, we're going to complete this project on schedule, whatever that schedule is. if we're going to evaluate success, what does success look

like? and for me this is more of a preamble that leads into those metrics and those agreements and it's hard for me to understand as the new guy what those metrics are because they are not spelled out here. i mean, what is the number? if we're going to manage this to the budget, what's that budget number? i mean i don't know. it's not in here. and hopefully an intergovernment agreement it is spelled out so that we will know as we move forward every three months or six months we're tracking to that. because my sense is the board and everybody involved has been surprised throughout the period of this project, this effort is to mitt dwait any future surprises, get this project done, whatever done means and that won helpful is to have a definition of what done is, so that we can all agree in 2017 it was a great project and we achieved a, b, c and d by doing this.

and for me not having a history that many of you have and just reading these three pages there's a part missing about what success looks like, how we're going to measure it, what the arguments are and things like that. i don't even know if this is a cost neutral agreement. is it going to cost more, cost less, cost the same, so i would hope some of this would be spelled out in that next agreement or next document. >> that's precisely why director gee had -- director rice we're a victim of our own success. it has nothing to do with any mismanagement or

malfeasance on anybody's part, but everybody just wanted to be near the center and the first big hit came in when we put out the s for steel and that was by far one of the biggest line items and that is purely market driven. i think it's important to clear that up for the record. you also indicated this was approved, the first step in the process was approved in december and now we're 4 months later. at your request we transmitted an intergovernmental agreement a long time ago. we received no comments from anyone. we have been waiting for comments from the city attorney so it's not being held up on our end. i just think it's important we are clear, we're transparent and i respond for the record. >> i agree, director gee, i think we know what the budget numbers will be because we have to go and ask someone else to provide us money for that project we haven't been able to approve one yet. but based on

mjta's recommendation and staff's concurrence we know what the target budget is, we know what the target completion is and those are the primary metrics i think we should be evaluating ourselves and any agreement or anything else that we do on. for the record we can bring back the mtc report, i think there were other factors at play other than the market and i think our getting to the market when we did, which was much later than what was originally anticipated, is a large part of the issue. so i don't know that it's constructive to debate that here. we can certainly re-review that report if we thi record. i'm sure there will continue to be a lot of analysis of this project. i think that all that we were trying to do as a board and it was in november, i believe, not december, was to bring in any resource we could that would

help deliver this great project on time and on budget. and there was unanimous or there was at least majority support of the board to do that. just really want to consumate that and make sure we're getting the value so that we can all share in that success at the end of the 2017 that we have a good project that was opened on time and at what will be a revised budget. perhaps it would be helpful if we asked the public works folks to come up. >> are they here? >> they might be able to speak to some of this, they may also be able to speak to amendments they want to suggest. >> good morning, board members, director, my name is edgar lopez, i am the city architect and director of public works. i want to comment on an item being discussed at the moment and recommend an amendment to the resolution that is before you

that would give public works the authority to manage the construction now rather than defering it to a future time when we have a construction intergovernmental agreement. the resolution as it is presented to you this morning defers the authority public works needs in order to be involved in reviewing change orders and reviewing scheduled changes and providing guidance to the design team so it will come in on budget and on schedule. last month you met director ron. ron's role is fairly limited and he has no authority to make decisions on this project. we believe the amendments that we're proposing this morning will clarify public works' role and would also give ron the tools that are needed to perform the role that was contemplated in the

resolution you approved in december of last year. we have copies of the red lined version of the resolution and would be happy to answer questions that you may have. >> one of the things that i have been trying to figure out, i sort of understand what you are saying but i sort of have the opposite impression. the resolution that we passed in november i thought gave san francisco, i thought it was done then and what we were waiting for was an mou which basically said, which i looked at basically saying this is what we're going to expect in consideration for exercising the powers you have given us. but that's not your impression, apparently, and that's not the impression given from this so i apparently was taiblging this wrong. we haven't already done

this. i thought san francisco had been working free for the past 3 months. >> for the past 4 months while we have been attending -- we don't have the authority, what you did was consider giving authority to public works but you didn't really take the action. >> so we do need to do that. ti understand. >> you can appreciate that the dilemma that we're in, while we're participating in meetings and all that we don't have the tools to really provide any level of authority and it's confusing our role because the design team and others don't have an understand of what is the purpose of public works, are we serving, or do we get involved and solve problems. >> this is essentially what you are saying, that the time for consideration is now. >> correct. >> chair harper, can i direct the excellents -- so is it the

goal of this change to make sure we complete at the targeted budget and the target schedule and is there a reason that that's not in the resolution? >> yes, that's the not intent and there's no reason not to include that if that would provide comfort. >> put it in. >> it begins to provide to provide some metrics then. is it the intent this change is neutral, cost more, cost less, in terms of dpw staff costs? i don't know. >> i think the intent of that would be within the overall budget that we anticipate approving at some point soon once we have fond *r funding source i went to approve the budget. >> would the budget be updated within the target budget so we can see and measure? >> i don't know what the

mechanics of the budget would be. but it's the whole purpose of the board bringing on this resource would be to make sure that we could get to the end of this project within --. >> the target budget. >> if i can give you some element of comfort, director gee, all the risky elements have been done. what's left is really the interiors, the rest of the mep's, the windows, the park components, plus the city's financial is looking to have a pretty large line item to draw in from the event of unforeseen circumstances so there's no reason why that a we wouldn't finish at the end of 2017 as originally contemplated and within the draw down credit line item that's an

anticipated being drawn down. i would anticipate that would bring more comfort. >> i would move we adopt the item as red lined and perhaps amend it. >> be it resolved. >> a resolved clause that would indicate the board's intent to complete the project on the anticipated budget and schedule. >> i think that's a good one. supervisor, what do you think? jeff? >> i'm still trying to get my head around all this and catch up. i'm okay with budget addition. >> oopbd this sort of brings me to, i don't know what -- how san francisco does its whereasing but every time we

put something, we've got whereases that just run and run and run and run and i presume that the board or whoever looks at these things doesn't look at these where as clauses and see if that has any legal implication on what we're dog. is there any legal implication from all these whereas clauses that's added too everything we do. >> that wasn't added by the city, that was added by tjpa >> it's the resolve clauses that is legal. >> some of the stuff in the whereas clauses i can't testify to or testify truthfully. they are okay for pretty, that's fine. >> whereas closet? >> in this one there's --.

>> all of them? >> whereas clauses. it's now me. none of the agencies i've been on the boards of did that sort of thing. you have a where as clause they want to enter into the deal, resolved, let's enter the agreement. here we have a history starting in 201, it helps jeff. >> it really helps jeff. >> all you have to do is real the whereases. >> he's the new guy on the block so it helps him. >> it's not the first time, it just seems to be a habit wear getting into it and an ever-growing -- every time we want to make a resolution. but i agree about the importance of this resolution. this is why i've been saying up

until this point in my opinion san francisco is working for nothing because we don't have an mou because only with that mou can we look at it an say, yes, we're in budget, nothing is going out. i think that's an important decision that supervisor gee have added to. >> (inaudible) the resitals are context, to the extent you see something you disagree with i would recommend that you point it out but they don't have, they are not action items. >> well, if they have no consequence i don't, i've got to the point i don't read through them so much. it's the hyperbole, highly successful. the way i draft whereas clauses in contracts there's no

hyperbole, it's pretty much this is a fact, this is a fact, this is the background to what we're doing. i don't want to get into this. for the future, just want to, you know, unless it's important to the resolution why put it in? >> director yee had another comment. >> just from a process standpoint, if the board acts on this, does the construction intergovernmental agreement come back for future action at a fuer tour date? >> the resolution posted on the web site said it would come at the april board meeting. >> and does the board if it sees something it doesn't like have an opportunity to change it? >> yes. >> and if i could offer some language specific to director res kin's proposed amendments to the resolution that was presented, i could suggest in the first resolved clause after the end of the first sentence

adding, for the purpose of meeting the tjpa's approved budget and project schedule for phase i. then to director gee's comment, this is part of the motion, i would suggest adding to the end of the third resolved clause with the expectation that compensation to purks would be consistent with the board's approve the program budget. >> i think those are great additions. modify my addition amending it. >> as long as everyone knows what those numbers are. >> includes board discussion, we do have members of the public. >> let's have some comment. >> we have mr. finebaum, followed by mr. kaufman.

>> hi, i oppose this resolution. i think you cannot pass this today. i want to commend ed iskin on artfully combining the most favorable management strategies of jimmy hoffa and stalin. mr. murrow, you are head of the public works. you must recuse yourself. this is an organizational change you cannot participate in or vote it. if there's any doubt i ask the tjpa attorney to make a ruling on that. secondly, there is no contract here. there is a contract somewhere in ether. this does not meet any rules of public

disclosure, none. you can't act on this today until you have an actual contract or an actual agreement that people can look at. no. 3, this whole arrangement of bridges, an existing contract you have with turner construction. they are the contract managers. what you are doing is either forcing an employee on turner construction -- and incidentally as a member of the cac i heard the gentleman's presentation, he took a portion of what turner construction has bpb presenting to the cac for many months. you are bridging a turner contract, how have you changed the contract of turner to diminish their scope? and i ask the tjpa attorney to rule on that. 4, this is unnecessary

interference and mr. riskin you are totally incorrect in your assertion about costs. yes, i don't know where you are getting the 40 percent, it's been booted around between 25 and 35 percent, but that is irrelevant if you ever took a course in statistics you should know that correlation does not equal causation and you are saying it's the fault of the management here and you have no evidence whatsoever. what you need to do, sir, is produce information from every other large construction project in this time to see what their cost increase were and then you might have more than one leg to stand on. finally, i'm going to say that this stinks to such high heaven i'm surprised all of you up there don't have your gas masks on. thank you.

>> further? >> actually, mr. kaufman is next. >> my name is gerald kaufman, i am representing the bay area transit working group this morning. i didn't hear this covered and i'm not casting aspersions on anybody but i want to point out another extremely unattractive and unsatisfactory arrangement you are talking about. you have a member sitting on the board that is both head of a san francisco city department and the supervisor of staff that's going to be added to this study. now, i am not a lawyer but i'm pretty sure that recent cases have said that recusing one's self from an existing situation isn't always adequate for the simple reason that as members

of a board you can influence one another. let's assume a member of the public works department made a big mistake. mistakes on complicated projects do happen. i'm not saying it will happen, but it could happen. let's say that mistake is so serious it reflects on not only the public works department but also mr. nuru. >> i am jim patrick with jim patrick and company. i agree substantially with waufs just said. these are expensive people, now we have two people running the show rather than one. as you know, i spoke against this by law when it was instituted, this very poes. i

speak, i think you ought to take the thing and throw it away. it is of no value. now we're asked to have two people to run the show. we have an elevator and we have two operators. it's not going to work. or like the russian model you have a political officer and you have a chief officer. that model doesn't work. what in the world are you people thinking about doing something like this? this is a mistake, a basic organizational mistake. i think maria has done a great job, the board has supported her, i've watched this for a long period of time. we all take credit or non-credit for whatever reasons that happened to say, well, we're going to hire an expert so they solve the problem. that is nonsense. asthma reastated most of the construction is done. this is a mistake, i think it was done

in a smoke-filled room in the back, all of a sudden it appeared on this board, i suggest the board amend the bylaws and make it go away. rob did a nice job, i saw his presentation two nights ago and he's a very capable guy. i'm not taking it away from anyone, i am placing it on the board to say this is a lousy, lousy organizational decision and it's not going to work. >> move the resolution as amended. >> as amended in both senses. >> you should read it into the record. i don't think the public knows what was amended because the red line wasn't included. >> just changes to the resolved. >> changes in the addition. >> resolved that the tjpa board of directors appoints sf public works with xlus sieve authority with exclusive

oversight to oversigh all aspects of construction of the transbay project, including design and project controls related to construction, for the purpose of meeting the tjpa's board's schedule for phase i. this authority includes the supervision and direction of the contractors and the tjpa engineers directly overseeing construction as it relates to construction of the transbay project and be it further resolved that sf public works will take direction directly from the board and shall have a mutual obl gaigts with the board to work closely and collaboratively together and be it further resolved the tjpa board of directors authorizes the tjpa to negotiate dregtly with the city with the objective of presenting this agreement to the tjpa for approval as soon as practical with the expectation that compensation

to sf public works would be consistent with the board's program budget. >> okay, very good. so we have a motion. >> i have recuse myself. >> no, ed made the phoes, right? is there a second to the motion? we have a second to the motion and we've already heard from the public so would you call the roll, please? >> sure, director gee, abstain. director kim, aye. director rees rees, aye. vice chair harper, aye. it's three ayes and the item is (inaudible). >> next item, please. >> item 17 is the executive director's report. >> well, good afternoon, everyone. i did want to report that on monday we had our very last construction milestone where we unveiled the beautiful

awning that's going to grace the entire center, it will provide shade, allow for diffuse light into the station, but most importantly the awning whose pattern was donated to us because he liked the project so much will provide general races of visitors to the transit center information on math and science and it will be an educational opportunity because we're in the heart of the silicon valley it was onlifitting to have a component of the station that involved math and science. so i wanted to express our appreciation to dr. penrose for allowing us to use his design at no cost. also i wanted to thank leader pilosi who attended the event, she has been a strong leader of the project, 400 million that came from the president's

american recovery reinvestment act to build the train levels, the 171 million dollar titfield loan and many other federal grants, i want to thank her for joining us and of course thank chairman burton tofs responsible for the 35 percent affordable housing in the transbay area also joined us and thanks to him a lot of the affordable housing that's going to be built, over 1,400 units, will be taking place. we were also joined by vice chair, director riskin and director sartipi. that's the last construction milestone celebration we will have before ribbon cutting at the end of next year. i also wanted to remind everyone we released the rfp for the master lessee on march 4, we expect to have proposals

come in on may 26 by 5:00 pm and we will be bringing this to the board sometime end of, sometime in the summer of 2016. now i'd like to ask sarah to give an update on our quarterly financial reports. >> directors, you have in front of you your standard quarterly reports. the first is the fiscal year budget to tuel, shows expenditures for the capital side as well as the operating budget are within budget for the year. these reports are through second quarter, so through end of december 31. the second report is contract status report. it shows contract amounts authorized, spent and disadvantaged and small business enterprise participation. we are still

tracking over the life of the program 20 percent small business enterprise participation. the third report is the investment and earnings report, about 15 million we hold in the city treasurer's equity and pool and at the end of december just under 360 million in the trust account, which is a combination of land sales proceeds and (inaudible) proceeds. the fourth report shows through december 1 just under 1.4 billion spent since the inception of the program over a decade ago. and the final report is just a summary of the contingency draws that you see in the monthly construction update and i'm happy to answer any questions. you also have as part of the packet the monthly investment transaction report for february, which shows purchases and maturities

for the month. >> if there are no questions under quarterly financials or the monthly investment report, i did forget to mention senator burton also got us the land that allowed us to build the land, 19 acres, 12 of which are developable and as everyone knows we've sold pretty much all the property now, 60 million land sales to fund the transit center as well and i want to thank him for all his hard work. that concludes my report. >> call your next item, item 18, next construction update. >> good morning, board members and staff and public. my name is ron alameda with public works, the guy kind of placed in the milds -- milgtds middle of all this. i will not

presenting the construction update, i have restructured the report to reply to some earlier concerns about the amount of data and the flow of the data. it will take on a different look than you are used to. hopefully it will facilitate a more easily understood or digestable data. it will include essentially 6 sections starting with recent activity, running through safety and i'm going to ask steve rule with turner construction to address those being the boots on the ground i think in the future i may be taking more of these topics but for now i wanted to hand over to steve sections 1 through 5 and then i will close out this section with challenges that i've observed on the project and then speak to overall observations and strategies. so, with that, i will hand over to steve to speak to the

kind of boots on the ground activity. >> thank you, steve rule with turner construction. so we started this graphic last month. it's a replacement for the graphic we used to show of the elevation of the project. the darker areas are concrete slabs completed, the lighter grays are 10 inch concrete stabs which are basically the main project. this is the main work going on is continuation of the concrete replacement going on, on all the deck levels. two more specifics. in the western zone this past period in february the structural steel contractor was able to complete all the welding and all the decking and turn over everything in the western zone from lines 1 to 10 to follow on trades which primarily right now were the concrete trades,

start working on the eyebrows which are the ground level on the sides and also the columns and we'll start filling in the eyebrows on the north, one pour was completed on the north sigh and also in the middle where the south side is. work continues interior on the fire proofing, mechanical electrical rough in, waterproofing started this land period at the ground level slab, that will be the train box, stairs installation continues completing 6 out of 24 stairs to date. in the eastern zone it's all about continuing the welding with an anticipation of completion in april. as we reported last meeting, we did complete all the construction steel erection ahead of the superbowl event and that january on january 28. we are

pouring concrete decks and have progressed on the ground letter dupbld neath premaupbt street and continues to head east. just a few graphic to give you fan idea of the project being made on the bus ramp and stable street bridge project. you see the various color codes, happy to answer that, there's work continuing up at the bridge enter section, harrison street there's no work across folsum harrison vie adeck false work was completed over that last weekend in february. concrete placement has been continuing, structural reinforcement steel placement over the howard bridge and replacing pylon 9, that's the main support for the cable state bridge.

there's some upcoming activities, starting with the director zone, i always mentioned the bus deck perimeter, concrete, the crash rail continues, waterproofing will continue. in the eastern zone, as i said, we'll continue the welling with completion anticipated in april, continue concrete deck pours. in the western end and tying into the bus ramps and bridge work, western end with the welding, the last bit of structural steel there, the completion of the restaurant steel up on the roof park and that will be done shortly, continue the concrete work followed by the rough in trade and the bus ramp work you will ti starting to take down some

false work and continuing to false work continuely at clementina we will continue to follow, ron will talk momentarily about some current issues with the schedule but we are still trying to mitigate to and plan for that end of 2017 completion. the contingency slide that we've used before with some additional information about future upcoming items and then in particular -- so there are very minor spends, in fact they don't even register to the list here. there were some minor change orders as part of the bus ramp but the volume was such that it doesn't show up on this and the pending change orders in the works right now are about 1.6 million, coming up in a few weeks, the largest

of which was con crete work that wasn't in the original package. we believe it's important to talk about safety every month. through february there were no recordable or lost time incidents on the project. you see there that the web core average recordable incident rate across the entire project since the inception of the transit center work by them has been about 4.35 with the national average 3.4. it's important to know there was quite a wlip of recordable incidents in the previous year, not 2015 but 2014 and that still burdens the overall average. the lost claim incident rate, though, is extremely low compared to the national average there. and in the last period we increased the number of craft on the project by nearly 65,000 and a

total of 144,000 from the beginning of the year. i'm going to turn it back over it ron for some final comments and if there's any questions i'll be happy to i'll be happy to come back . >> thank you, steve. it wouldn't be construction without issues and challenges, most of which are dealt with day in and day out, but i did want to highlight some of the larger concerns and challenges and elaborate a bit on strategies to deal with those. first of all, the schedule, we are contracted to be finished by december of 2017. none of that has changed. however, we do so in the web core forecast as it stands now a two to four month slippage on the schedule.

contractually they are obligated to mitigate so that begs to ask what strategies can be put into place. initially we've implemented some strategic overtime work and trying to carefully implement that to watch the critical path and make some gains so that's beginning to be implemented. we've also initiated team meetings to focus on some of the end of project concerns, commissioning and close out, often a lot of issues are daylighted at the very end of the project and there's no way to recover so i've put great emphasis on the commissioning team to advance that thinking so we can daylight whatever issues may come out from that exercise. we are also on board in a

number of subcontractors currently, so we're enlisting input from the various subcontractors as well as a way to work out workable ways to maintain the schedule. i want to point out it's a forecasted schedule, it's a living document and it will continue to be updated and it will be used as a tool to know where we stand relative to the target and start bringing things in. that is to say to bring in some certainty of schedule outcome. the next issue that i wanted to bring to light is the issue around buy america, since we have federal dollars there are some requirements around buy america. compliance efforts have been a major topic of discussion and some concern, some ambiguity on how compliance is met. some

strategies that we've employed to address these ambiguities is first have extensive effort with the design team and the construction team to validate the subcontractor certification. at middate they were to certify they would be in come mraipbs to buy america and we want to continue to validate that so we have the appropriate documentation in place. kind of a back stop, if you will. we're also making a concerted effort with the design and construction team to identify and address any items specified that need resolution regarding buy america. things may have been produced when they speccked them in america and now they are off sourced and now now in compliance, or it may have been just a miss otd speck so we want to take a dive in there and make sure we're correctly aligned with the buy

america requirements in that respect as well. the next issue i want to bring delight is the multi trade-in flux on side. it brings under its own challenges. to date there's only been a handful of trades on site, we're going to have 20-odd trades entering the site and we want to make sure our processes are sharpened to address the communication needs and the coordination of orchestrating those forces. the mitigation employed there include design and construction team members focusing on this, on continual communication improvements in the meetings, as well as we have recently established a project leadership team which will

address larger issues that seem to be bogged down and just get the leadership to hit it on point earlier rather than later. potential claims is another challenge that i want to keep an eye on. to date i'm pleased to say that the potential claims submitted to date have been rejected for lack of merit, although they have had lack of merit there are a number of concerns around structural steel interiors, electrical will engage to keep jpa and cmgc's legal representatives to stay apprised of those issues and keep us informed and be a partner in strategy as well as some of the topics around the electrical and the structure we're looking at advancing a design resolution advisor so we

can hit these things early on and resolve them so they don't fester. and then, lastly, the potential adverse impacts to construction work flow based on the earlier discussed issues of budget and financials. as you know, through the city there's a pursuit of additional funding to funding partners to address this. as well on the ground level i'm trying to implement close scrutiny to change orders and changes in scope to manage that to what we bought as well as to continue to seek ways to improve processes, to better

ensure outcomes. of all the challenges the lack of readily available funding to support the required and committed advancement of construction is the single largest threat to the transit center. if the advancement of work is required to slow down or stop at this stage of construction the results could be quite impactful. i'm looking forward to working with the team and helping manage the work flow and the cash flow as it relates to this potential additional funding. that leads me to kind of overall observations and assessment. i think the project has many challenges as noted in previous slides, as well as many to be expected routine coordination and communication concerns at all

levels of interaction among contractors and managers. i'd like to think that my investment and public works' involvement has already influenced some changes and has had some positive impact on the project by me interjecting into a lot of meetings at various levels trying to identify the issues at lowest level of operation so it doesn't elevate and get larger. in the future i see public works looking at review and consultant roles and responsibilities, evaluate contractor and subcontractor performance as it relates to contractual requirements and also want to put a greater emphasis on schedule adherence and mitigation. i would like to enhance change management processes as well as processes

related to change order review as well as schedule. it's been public works' objective to integrate with the tell, tell them the crate on a technical and review level, i was invited here to give some new leadership and i believe we have influenced in a positive way the management. much hard work and management ahead to deliver the transit center in the remaining 21 months of delivery of phase i, over and above, as mentioned earlier, there's a lot of operational concerns that need to be dovetailed in, in a very compressed time frame with only 21 months to go. so i look forward to working with the team and coordinating on that front as well. in many

respects phase i, the die is set to a certain degree, but i'm committed to drying it to the fullest and best realization of the project. with that, that kupb clods my presentation. if there's any questions i can address them. >> thank you, chair harper. welcome on board the team. just from a dashboard standpoint, just some quick questions and maybe boat of you between you and steve can address them. is the project fully bought out yet? >> there's one or two packages that are still out there. >> from a dollar standpoint there shouldn't be much left but you never know. >> want me to speak to the dollar amount? >> there were two packages remaining, mark, with 1.5 on the special systems. >> yeah, we have the it

packages with only one lift to deliver. with regard to the 20, we are breaking it up into two pablgages but in total there is $20 million for the transit center and there's the bus storage facility, another 20 million dollars. >> with regard to time duration of the facility, what percent are we at right now? >> 20 percent construction-wise. from a dollar perspective --. >> they are dwoiing -- going to be different. i always look at it with a big gap between completion of time and completion of money. >> this was a design completion gap, we started construction before we had a full design. >> okay, looking at completion of time and looking at percentage of money spent and if you can't answer that, next

month you can answer it. >> i can give you the exact figures next month but we're basically original schedule is 7 years, began basically in january of 2011 with notice to proceed for the first package the foundations and shoring wall parkage and as ron pointed out we're trying to mitigate back to our original completion date of december 2017, which would be the original completion date, so two years left. >> i was quoing going to say 5/7 of your time is gone and 60 percent is expended. >> we can add that kind of metric to the board in the future if you'd like. >> ron, have you gotten a

feeling on percentage of completion yet. >> i think it's in line with the earlier contemplated budget. >> well, you only have one number at the end you have to hit, but it would be helpful as you ramp up to get a forecast of completion, not including contingency. >> yeah, there's a lot of contingency layers based on the mtc report as well as prior to that so it gets a little fuzzy in that respect. >> just forecast a completion without contingency. thank you. ed? >> i think it was a great point, budget progress versus scheduled progress. we used to get monthly reports from the pmpc and i don't know if we get those any more. i think the value curve was maybe in those, that might be something good to

bring forward to these. if those are available those would be good to --. >> we're issuing quarterly reports on the progress of the project, including all the numbers that you have. we went to quarterly in order to include more progress and more information. frankly we were doing monthly but nothing was changing. by the time we issued the reports -- (inaudible) has that information. >> you have a similar question to director gee, not on budget but to schedule. you spoke to the contractor's forecast but between you and turn tour do you concur with that forecast, do you think it's too optimistic, not optimistic, right on track? >> we're looking for more formal presentations of their forecast in april. in the

schedule meetings i've been in, my personal sense is some of it is conditioned on a little bit of a fear factor with how all the trades are getting on berd and on board and how they are dovetailing in. i'm sensing there's a bit of that and i think some of the mitigation is going to be kind of dispaiting as it some of those activities of those other trades come into focus. >> my other question maybe would be for mark. with regard to the bay america come mraipbs, i would presume that the desire or professional services contracts for design services placed the burden of design on thab buy america compliant on the designer?

>> yes, our plans, we believe, are buy america compliant. we asked the business bidders to certify they are buy america compliant. frankly at this point we are just holding hands trying to make sure at the comply. if they bring up an item that they believe is not buy america compliant, designers can double check and if that is true we will offer a different item for them to incorporate. but a lot of this mass to do with the building mgtd system and the fire management system, a lot of them electronics and electron traik made it hard to design what component was made here, what component was made overseas. with buy america compliant,

if it's an end component it has to be made in the united states. if it's not, it doesn't have to be. now that it's become a challenge lately because a lot of the contractors are starting to submit that information and we're diving into it right away because we want to make sure it's properly managed. >> but our designs would have, based on what we believe to be a main system versus a subsystem and would have been certified the availability of american made. >> the intent of the design was to be buy america compliant but we are asking the contractor to certify, we are asking him to certify time of and we are holding him to that too. >> we're just about out of time, so ted, you want to -- is there any comments on any of this? >> just real quick, i show no members of the public that wanted to comment on the

construction update so i will go ahead and call 19, fred is here with us for the citizen advisory committee update. >> i just wanted to mention that the city's rab rail yard and boulevard study will be up next month for us because they have addressed the second public hearing since it was such a popular hearing the first time. so we'll hear from them and we're happy from the public reaction they have had. we also heard this week from john thomas and denise systems' reports we were very interested in all of that but we were really urging staff, we know they are already meating with all of these sister organizations, but to meet with the police, fire, emergency, as maria mentioned, but

homelessness, we have a large problem with that as well as vision because the traffic intersected on two streets. we just want to make sure we lookedality all possible ways of hapblgtdsing and mitigating each of these situations in an innovative way. we don't want just a typical solution, wrie want to rethink the issues and the problems. we welcomed ron almeda particularly in draetsing -- addressing the milestones. i want to thank maria with this last project with the awning. i believe the project itself is a tremendous educational example and i hope that therefore wae work with the

school district to always use the project for this. that penrose awning is a graphic example of pi and i would suggest, you know, this week is coming up, 3-14, and i hear it's an opportunity for us to always make it current and relevant, as well as all of the engineering and design issues that come up in doing this, let alone a 30-year project and all of the work that each of you do on this. so i congratulate maria and her entire team for bringing this off. we're all very proud of you. >> okay, you are ready to go back into closed says, 54952b, we have not received any indicate any member of the public to address you on the item listed, they can do so now

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>> good morning everybody. and welcome to the hamilton family residents and emergency center. thank you jeff for hosting us today. i can't think of a better place to do the signic ceremony for our voter, but i want to say thank you to your and your staff for working with us to end homelessness for a lot of families and continue to doing that work. today we are here with a number of departments that includes

our obviously public health and fire department and emergency services, city administrator that helps me oversee the 10 year capital plan making sure our bonds are affordable, focused and do not raise property taxes as well as public works deapartment who helps oversee that very same goal and to a resident who lives right here who will talk about her experiences and the need for more healthcare and also more facilities in the city. as i said earlier, this today is a opportunity to sign legislation that the board has successfully passed with my support to place before the voters this june a $350,000,000 public health and safety bond for consideration. it is huge win for our residents because this

bond seeks to protect-to make sure we have necessary improvements to our infrastructure and healthcare and emergency medical services, it protects and expand melthal health suvs for those in need and particularly thoest on the streets. i will continue emphasizeing that we do this in a very responsible way. in all our bond and particularly the last decade we have been successful and made sure they do not raise property taxes while we do this and the reason we are able to do this is because we havetony year capital plan staff and assurance that we have sth facilities that we work together with the 10 year capital planning staff, that makes sure we only present bonds that reflect room in the bond capacity that don't raise

property tax squz fit into that. that st. the magic, but it isn't magic for finance people, it is magic we can present new thing for people to embrace in like the voter jz not have to raise property tax to get those new things mptd in this case i want to make sure people understand while we talk about the zuckerbering sf general facility we know we vanew facility that reflects the larger bond in the history of the city but we are also moving all those operations into the hospital as we speak, we are leaving a building that is not seismically safe and we are snot interested ichb demaunshing the bity. we are interested making sure the needs the public are reflected in the ongoing use of the 1970's era building

we have ajaistant to the new hospital and how do we do nat? we need to make it seismically safe, we need to invite the services that we don't have in a new hospital as much as we have and reflect the ongoing needs that we have while ongoing with the leadership of ourpublic health department has been the conversation we need more mental health facilities. this is where the judges are asking for more beds, the community asks us to take care of more of our mental health needs in the community and we want to use the facility we have and expand those services. at the same time, there is incredible need to make sure we work with our fire department because they are and continue to be the emergency response team that we have when ever something happens in the city. they have also informed us in addition to

supporting more mental health facilities in the city, we need a ambulance response facility to meet the demands we have. we find in the community based fire station squz the stations that house the ambulances not to have the facilities safe enough for the operation to expand and want you to know they are enthuse astic because more and more as our fire department and all of us are having a experience where knock on wood, we have less fires, we increase the calls for medical services and this is where i enjoyed work with our fire department to increase every facility that we have particularly the ambulance response and particularly the emt staffing that we increased over the last few years to respond to the ambulance calls and make sure we have that capacity. it

just so happens that many the fire stations we actually have over all most a $600,000,000 need to increase and make sure we have seismically safe fire hours and can't do tin just one bond and keep the promise of having the bond not increase property taxes so we do it in a way in which we can identify what is the most critical and respond tothat and this is what this particular $350,000,000 bond will do is help a number of critical fire stations particularly where we house ambulance squz make sure they are safe. we also want to make sure we respond to the ongoing need and i know media is here to talk about our ongoing efforts to house more homeless and make sure we have facilities that are transitional in nature as we struggle to

rebuild and rehabilitation permanent house frg the homeless. while we do that the navigation centers are very success ful and people want more of that and this is where we will take the opportunity to place another $20,000,000 of support effort here and know the voters get it when they see and have a opportunity to see our navigation centers that we know these are more than just shelters. they are gathering of all the support services we need to allow people to go back to their homes if that is their wishes so get the best service to transition them into permanent housing that we are building and we have places like hamilton and other places we are building but it takes time and a lot of money and we are do that bond after bond and done that with the

$350 mill ,000,000 bond to find the land and make sure we build in an affordable way. we have many more ideas but these are the at buttes of the $350,000,000 bond we place before the voters this june. we don't have a bond for november so this is critical to have it to the voter squz educate them on the bond. i'm happy to work with general hospital and public health department because they have #250i78 time and time again shown wrathe need is respond to need and authenthuse astic about the ways we built the navigation centers because pier 80 and 16th and mission are the examples of what woe can do more with

public private partnerships we engage in into help the navigation centers become more than [inaudible] they are life savingsenters for people who shouldn't be living on our streerts and shouldn't be in tent encampments. we want to take them out but want to do it the right way. we dont want to take people moving from corner to corner, we want to make sure they are taken care of and have long term solutions to them. even those that resist ourerts when they get into the the navigation centers they realize the humanity we do there is more than inviting in the long term. this is and will continue to say, this is the city of saint francis and never turn our backs in those in need. people come to our city or end up here for many different reasons without the social safetyinate

net we are used to. we have the robustness in the neighborhood clinics and response and navigation centers and want to make sure you know our neighborhood health clinics are touched strongly, all most $50,000,000 bond because the clinics need the capacity to help with mental illness as well and this is a theme that we are increasingly hearing and respawning effectively by talking with all the partners within the justice system or health system, the [inaudible] needs more facilities for this to happen, more beds and treatment centers and more professional care that our public health providers can provide, so i want to say thank you to the all the airjs that are here reflective of the bond program including the mayors office of

disability too because they are out there helping us figure out not only facilities but services that we need along with public health. i have a special guest speaker today, someone who is living here at the hamilton family residence, her name is precious sharia, she a single mother of 3 children 8 years old, 5 years old and 2 years old and the sureara family stayed at the hamilton famry residences for the past 4 muchckt months and needed the service of the emergency care. the good example of the kind of families we want to help but not just help. i know at some point in time when she knows her family is being taken care of, i know mrs. sharia will want to be part of that work force, the incredible workforce we are training

people to get into the new economy on. let me introduce to you mrs. precious sharia. [applause] >> yes, sir. i lived here about 4 months. the shelter took me in when i was on the street and called every day to get in the emergency beds. i finally got in and then once i reached my room up stairs it gave me to about june. my kids live in the shelter but they don't realize it is a shelter because they have good programs such as the children program, helping with the homework, they give a dj party on the roof and make it so fun by kids dont know they are homeless sometimes. i like the-they feed us 3 times a day so don't have to worry about that. the shelter has ups and downs, but most of all it is a plus because if it

want fl the shelter i would be on the stroostreet and worry where my kids will eat or sleep or give them up. if i'm in the shelter my kids can stay with me. in the streets i wouldn't permit them to live on the streets so probably would have gave them up. i'm thankful and grateful. people have their different opinions about the shelters. some complain all day but at the end of the day you have a place to stay and sleep and it helps you. i'm starbting chef school tuesday so i'm doing something with my life. trying to make something better and the situation. this is my first time being homeless and from the experience it will be my last because this helped me but i am glad i was homeless because it showed a different side of me i didn't know, the strengths and dpoles goals and think it helped me a lot.

sorry. it had so many opportunities. they constantly post jobs or injrj you to do. you can only do so much. hamilton can only do so much if you dont want to do for yourself. me, i'm taking a stand and doing for myself so i won't be here and hopefully i will be a chef so i can cook for the shelter or homeless program. i will give back to the community as much as i can, i voluntary also. i don't have much to say, i thank god and the thank the people that donate and make this place possible because i see the ups and very grateful and thank you. >> [applause] >> thank you precious and thank you for everything you are doing to improve your life and also take care of the children that you have. as i said for this particular bond, i want to make sure you know if i can simplify

it it is 3 words, it about access to good care, it is about emergency response, and about navigating and 33 word i thipgs are reflective in this. i just 79 to say our public health department is incredible partner reponding to everything that happens in the city and next for tim episteen who is director of sf children youth and families community behavioral health at our public health department to say a few words about how important the bod is to the care we want and access that we want people to have to our healthcare facilities. ken. [applause] >> first i want to say before i start speaking precious told us her cheern use san francisco general

hospital mayor all 3 children use the hospital so the connections are clear between what we are doing today and our future and i want to thank the mayor and city for your support for this incredibly important bod for the residence of san francisco. today this bond will improve and expand access to services and medical care and mental hemth care in the community and community clinic squz san francisco general hospital. it will prurfb or 24 hour psychiatric care that is so critical to the citizens of the san francisco to have a place to go 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. 14 com clinics will be able to build access to behavioral and minuteal health and substance abuse services in the clinics so when you see your doctor in the same place you can

get the mental health and substance abuse. the funding will improve access and amountimately help us renovate and build a better and stronger system of care for the children, youth, families, adults and other adults in san francisco. we know that there is a tremendous need for healthal health and substance abuse care and the mayor mentioned. we also know folks will better utilize the services when it is isn't stigmatized where they have to go to a different place for it. we hope public helths can partner with the cities to build integrated care and using the bond to expand the services. thank the mayor again and the city for your support and public health department is ready to move forward this with initiative. thank you. >> [applause] >> okay, well like i usually said it is time to go to work everybody

and by signing this document it sigal ins we ready to talk to the public and got on with it. let's sign this so we can start work on it. everybody come on over. [applause] >> >> >>

>> [inaudible] public housing and public education. [inaudible] instructions [inaudible] thank you for your leadership, your support

and partnerships. [applause] congratulations [inaudible] for this amazing and beautiful building. i actually was here when it was a little less [inaudible] it is great to see the building up today. [inaudible] represent a dynamic and exciting part of san francisco. many probably heard we are building close to 80 percent of all the residential and commercial buildings in the city so this is a part of the city seeing tremendous growth so as we get the shape the future of what san francisco looks like, it is important to think about a balance and healthy neighborhoods include and with that [inaudible] medical care and that is why [inaudible] live a few

blocks away from [inaudible] so much to keep our community a healthier, stronger and safer. [inaudible] inpatient care kaiser has been a partner with our communities on the ground and that [inaudible] so much to our community members [inaudible] converting [inaudible] in the tenderloin into a healthy corner store and supporting the business owners to change their business model from making profits from cigarettes and tobacco and soda to healthy produce and changing what the businesses look like. working on helping build more open space and recreational activities in the neighborhood. this is part of how we keep our neighborhoods healthy on a daily basis not just when they

come in to see their doctor or [inaudible] also working close with us on the ground in the neighborhood so we can make the lives of the residence and families and seniors healthy every single day. thank you and congratulations. [applause] [inaudible] board of supervisors. [inaudible] of the mission bay medical offices today on february 25, 2016 signed by the entire board of supervisors. thank you. [applause]

>> we are just about ready for lunch, but before we do that i want to pick up on the [inaudible] >> hi mayor. [laughter]. thanks for coming. [applause] [inaudible] to introduce and welcome you here and thank you very much for coming in and being a part of it. [inaudible]

[applause] >> it is nice to be here. first of all, isn't this a beautiful place in mission bay? [applause] i want to follow up on supervisor kim's announcements and also i ran into supervisor cohen at the meeting as well and think everyone has smiles on their face that kaiser found [inaudible] mission bay that is one of the most exciting places that are happening in the city and i just wanted to clarify particularly for the employees

of kaiser that you don't automatically get giants and warriors tickets, but if you want to get them you have to talk to bernard later. anyway, i'm happy to be here to celebrate this great opening [inaudible] have that opportunity to serve probably 80,000 people that it is set up to do. i do know it will make members like myself have more time to go because the excellent services and support and access to healthcare. it is incredible that kaiser was able to find this site and choose it for their new clinical offices. i know you will have more than just happy employees, you will have a lot of happy customers that don't have to trek across

the city to get to the facilities they need. you will have a lot of city employees and will find it happy as well and many other employees who [inaudible] find a lot of great access. i tried out your new restrooms here and they work really well. pushing the [inaudible] and everything opens. great facility. i know it is [inaudible] because we have another lead goal designed building so people and your entire development team i have to say kudos to you because it is these buildings that we fiend more and more the energy efficient and modern and accessible and have tremendous value. being in mission bay is exciting too because as supervisor kim said things are happening. there thousands of residents are

finding their home here and [inaudible] by adding other things that make it a community, not just in addition to. [inaudible] the partnerships you see, the tremendous bio and life science s and technology [inaudible] to compliment the people living here and the really nice housing we are building and affordable housing and a few blocks down we will create the new veterans as well. [inaudible] i just want to say in addition to welcoming kaiser here, it is also to say thank you to ocii. maybe you and staff and commissioners that are all here celebrating because they also have to be very innovative in their apruch approach to make

sure [inaudible] like kaiser, so it is all working together very well and i know the future of mission bay wile always be [inaudible] we need another mission bay 2. we need areas like that that we reinvent itself. that take what used to be a block away my driving range and rail yard and have the city reinvent the area so people can [inaudible] but have medical facilities like this, they have invasion like this, they have it a few blocks away from the public safety headquarters and make sure we all work together in the healthcare environment that produces even more invasion. this is [inaudible] places like this causes people to be that much more

innovative and customer caring and that is what kaiser has done for me. great institution not only to see the invasion going on and down the road we will be anal to see how kaiser and other healthcare providers [inaudible] and serve better and that is what is happening with the environment we created here in mission bay. with that, i would like you to join me and bernard, if i can have you and your staff come up. [inaudible] the key words is ladies and gentlemen, today is kaiser perm nenta san francisco mission bay [inaudible] [applause]

>> i want to welcome everyone here today and today, we are signing this very important piece of legislation and let me

begin by thanking supervisor wiener so far his instead of leadership the sponsoring the legislation that will raise the minimum angle for anyone purchasing tobacco products and e cigarettes to the average 24 and that will take effect on july 1st of this year i know that supervisor wiener along with his co-sponsors supervisor mar and supervisor cowen and supervisor farrell and ultimately the entire board had a adopted this and this i know that the supervisors with working closely with our duty 0 who has been documenting why it is showing so important to continue our efforts as a city if not as a state to continue be rooiktd the access to cigarettes particularly at journeying or younger ages that is advocated by the groups like the tobacco

free coalition i want to thank them they're not just here in san francisco but the entire region and all over the country working with the health department making sure that supervisor wiener and not only pay attention it the science and data it is going on but that we do our best to end the suffering that is brought by by long-term smoking that obviously is the cause of cancer and asthma and heart disease we do our best to educate the public in doing so if not the industry that sells overseeing products and ultimate our kids are your family when in their 18 and 19 is shown that the coalition has shown over and

over you're putting that some 95 percent of long term smokers had begun smoking at the age of 18 perhaps younger and as certain under the age of 21 those habit are so hard to end voluntarily so that's why we have to go to many other front to try to do this and that's why i think that the supervisor wiener has found a person cause and public health health cause if the violation kriebs the department of health to make sure that we do what we can to end our these diseases as much as we can to make sure that we also reflect as the mayor of the city if we can save a lot of money if we are able the medical systems we have to have in place

it treat cancer and asthma with smoking is an incredible experience to the public safety the cleaner air with the coalition work on families that second-hand smoke impacts this has another critical reason why we want to do as much as we can and i think we're on the overview we know that supervisor wiener is already in contact with the governor's office as we are and with his the 1184 particularly senator leno and senator henry's to insure that the state which maybe hopefully in our minds the second to join hawaii to end the sales of tobacco products and less people under 9 age of 21 it doesn't

make it right because your 21 you buy tobacco products wild to end it. everyone hopefully with the adult level of age 21 that people make better health decision tore themselves and their family so i take this opportunity to thank the coalition i know that in looking at the data as they have done in working with us this year was a strong sense interest the data it the smoking rates are higher amongst people of closer and amongst the let the record reflect community and other xhucht we rank it with a hard impact sales work that is done by tobacco industry the may or may not lgbt community that's where we really have good data to show that the more we do to

educate your communities be about this the better off we'll be so with all that background i want to say to supervisor wiener you have again showing the good leadership i'm going to give the pen avenue we sign this your accumulate more pens than anyone but thank you for your leadership and also working with such important groups like the tobacco free coalition supervisor wiener i'd like to invite you up here to say a few words >> thank you, mayor ed lee i'll give that pen to the advocates and the district for they're really horroric work tutor sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us; 24 legislation in a way that highlights this critically important issue san francisco for many years has

been on the cutting-edge of public safety whether around hiv or led pant and sugar sweetened beverage whatever the case weave been from the forefront and once again we are in the fire hydrant of what i hope will be a tile waive of proving health legislation that eliminates tobacco use in this country this is a huge problem we've been involved in a 50-year struggle but with the tobacco city that produces a product with no benefit whatsoever that kills a half a million people every year 34 is a serious issue and serious punting kiss i'm proud we live in a city where we

can be on the cutting-edge where the politics of this city allows us at city hall to make good progressive policy i also want to say we know we're up against a very well financed component the tobacco destroy for decades has fought ever effort to try to control tobacco use and enemy linkage between their pursuit and the health we know that hillsborough tried to do that they have spent their legislation after an expensive lawsuit by the tobacco industry we in san francisco are willing to fight that fight that is amount about our city thank you to the department of public health we sometimes don't roles e releases how lucky with the best putting department that

supports our efforts to make good laws that vascular critical exercise an amazing agency and our advocates for give us the political spouse space to to be able to do this and as the mayor adu u. >> you allowed we passed that legislation a week and a half good and the law jam the state assembly broke we that republicans willing to raise the tobacco age to 21 to pass senator leno's forward-looking bill to make sure that cigarettes are tobacco are still a way to get addicted to nicotine and will you the tobacco tax it is a huge step forward i hope goes to the

governors desk thank you, everyone (clapping.) so are we ready to safe so far lives i'll add one mount reason not in my notes or the legislation but it is about my history about 10 years ago a mayor asked me to pick up cigarette butts as a public works decorator i say to all the public works staff that work hard if there was less settings that's another reason to sign on the legislation; right? yes all right. (clapping.) (laughter). >> today's date is -

>> 16. >> that's it all right.

>> i called the particular meeting of health commission to order please stapled for the pledge of allegiance and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all do we have roll call please. roll call commissioner scott excused co