for march 8, 2018. >> clerk: yes, and vice chair gee is running late and director harper. harper present. director kim. kim present. and director reiskin, present. and device chair as i stated is expected shortly and chair, you have a quorum. next item 3, communications.

>> chair nuru: thank you, nila, the ball is in my court. >> i want to take a minute to make a brief announcement. i, sadly, will no longer be serving as the authorities representative on the transbay joint powers authority board because i am leaving the california high-speed rail authority. i have been offered an opportunity in the private sector and i will be taking that up later this month. but i wanted to take a minute to thank the board and the board members for the opportunity to be the high-speed rail authority's first representative on the board and it's been my honor to serve however briefly and, certainly, we have had relationships in the past, in my role as regional director for the high-speed rail authority. i have appreciated your support for the high-speed rail project and our work together to move the high-speed rail project forward, to get it here to the transit center and we still very

much look forward to having that happen and as much as we can organize i want to especially thank the tjpa staff, mark and his team, megan murphy, and dennis and ron and skip soko, who have been extraordinary in the work that we have been able to do to support the development of the transit center and in their support of the planning for bringing high-speed rail and cal train into the train box here at the transit center. so the authority remains firmly committed to getting our trains into the sales force transit center. i will be succeeded immediately by -- i want to introduce mr. bruce armstead, our chief of rail operations for the authority. bruce is well versed in the issues that are associated with

the transit center and with the importance of getting high-speed rail in cal train into the transit center as quickly as possible. so he'll be taking over this seat in april and he is -- his skills far exceed my own so you'll be well served by his participation with the board and his representation of the high-speed rail authority. so i wanted to just thank you all for the opportunity to be here and thank you to nila for her tremendous support for the short time that i have been on the board and i look forward to continuing to support the project as it moves forward and the operation of the system as it continues and the opening of the center later this year. and i look forward to working with all of you in the future. so thank you very much. >> clerk: that concludes the communications as i'm aware. >> on behalf of the board i want to thank you for the time that you have served here and we look forward to bruce armstead

joining us,. >> clerk: next item, board of directors new and old business. none? item 5 is the executive directors report. >> good morning, directors. i would like to take the opportunity to thank the director tripousis for his work on the board and to wish him the best of luck and to welcome bruce armstead to the board and i worked with bruce in developing phase two and welcome his participation on the board. on february 27th, the board of supervisors appointed the representative for the tjpa board and with the office of community and investments and infrastructure. and she will assume her role -- at the april board meeting. and they appointed chang, with the san francisco transportation authority as an alternate and i would like to welcome both to

the tjpa boards. and on february 13th, the tjpa and supervisors kim's office received a letter from the community district encouraging the tjpa and the city to develop a proactive plan for addressing potential quality of life issues in the transit center and adjacent neighborhood in preparation for the opening of the sales force transit center later this year. we have issued a response to the letter which you were copied on. and also supervisor kim has arranged for a community meeting on march 16th to address the community needs and concerns which we will participate in. the tjpa is committed to continuing to enhance its coordination with the community members, stakeholders, service providers and local agencies having jurisdiction in regard to planning and imelementation of the programs to address the potential quality of life issues in the transit center and the surrounding neighborhoods. the tjpa is also prepared to participate in any monitoring and any valuation programs to measure the quality of such

programs and efforts. while the tjpa defers to the city leadership for setting priorities for and directing city resources to particular programs and activities to address quality of life issues in the community and provide services to those in need, we are prepared to offer at no cost administrative office space within the transit center for staff for the homeless, outreach team programs, subject to tjpa approval, with the department of homelessness and supportive housing program. this office will act as administrative function and will help to have timely responses to -- as the community needs. moving on to d.t.x., at the last board meeting i reported that the san francisco transportation authority has initiated a peer review of the operational analysis prepared on october 2017. which concluded the alignment is

required to operate the trains from the future for the townsend station to the transit station. the period also included an evaluation and an engineers study prepared on behalf of the property owner on second street and the operational materials from the r.a.b. study. and the peer review is expected to be completed later this month and presented to the board on april 10th. and a presentation of the results of the peer review will be presented to the tjpa board at the april board meeting on april 12th. and also at the april board meeting it's expected that the environmental document will be presented to the tjpa board for consideration. following approval of this document we will present it to the board at the june or july board meeting and update the delivery plan showing where we go from this point to the delivery of the d.t.x. and bringing the trains into the transit center. this year is our 10th year of

providing student internship and we are reaching out to students through the san francisco school district program, and the community-based organizations. we encourage students interested in doing architecture and finance and public service to participate in our program. the summer internship program runs from june 11-august 10th. if you would like more information visit our announcement on our tjpa website, and we look forward to introducing this year's intern class at the board meeting later this summer. this year we'll re-double our efforts to attract more students to the program. the engineering and architectural industry is a much-needed for talented young women, and i speak from experience as i had trouble convincing my daughter to go into engineering. at this time i ask erica elliott to provide an update on the lease and efforts for the sales

force transit center. and please note, directors, that on today's agenda we have a closed session item to present in detail of the progress that we made in the price and terms of payment with the various parties interested in leasing space in the transit center. >> good morning, erica elliott from colliers. in today's report you will notice a continued movement towards more tours and more offers, our prospects are being called and brought to the center for tours. the response has continued to be very positive and interested, so you'll notice that the touring and letter of intent columns are getting larger by the month. in our status, you will notice at the far right that we have 35 spaces and we have 24 offers as

of to date. our schedule we were supposed to by this time -- by the end of first quarter, which we haven't reached just yet -- we were supposed to have 13. we are at 24. so we are well on our way to making our schedule. in doing that our continued efforts prompting, campaigning and touring, obviously, in full swing. and tenant placement and making sure that it complies with our co-tenancy that you have all approved and working with our partners to make sure that the mechanical requirements fit each space and our budget. and negotiating letters of intent with all of those points. thank you. >> board member... >> yes, the same question that i had asked last month which was about the pop-ups in the bus plaza which still don't seem to be shown in the plans.

>> i'm going to address that during my update but the answer is, yes. >> okay, good, thank you. >> directors, before you have the quarterly financial reports and with this concludes my presentation. >> seeing no questions, item 6. >> construction update. >> good morning, directors. this morning i'll be presenting the urge construction progress slides and then ron almeda will come up as part of the presentation and do the budget and risks and then jes peterson will talk to the schedule. so with that it's a very active site out there today. we still have over 700 workers, at this point probably within a few days here about half of

those will be electricians. so a lot of activity is still going on at this point out on site. this is our regular graphic that i show. the item to really denote is that the park is going very well. some activities at the far west end where the effort is around the amphitheater area and you still see that pink. that pink area in the graphic shows a lot of ceiling tiles that are still needed to be installed, not only at the bus deck level but at the ground level as well too. and then at the level 2, i will talk to that, there is turnover that's happening for that level. and then at the ground level a lot of sidewalk work is happening. so i have some pictures to that. moving below ground, the activity continues at that upper left area of the lower concourse where it is a lot of buildout such as carpet, paint, fixtures, those kinds of things are all happening, continuing at the upper left level of the upper concourse and then concrete

signoffs. and clean up at the train box level. there is -- you know -- this is my summary slide that really shows how much activity is currently happening and then from the rooftop, but really the main focus has been electrical, and in general but i mean electrical specifically. and then we will continue to focus that on the risk and the schedule parts of this presentation. and the landscaping is really coming together well and there's now plants and the park has 16,000 plants to put in the ground. most of the 600 trees are already in there but that's happening so there's a lot to do with that. and all of the foam is in and that geostructural build-up of the mounds and a lot of dirt. the dirt, by the time we report in april, and all of the soil is in place by next time. and so there's -- that's wrapping up and then also with the landscaping mounds and the

fountain will be operational here and testing in about a month or so at this point. with really the main effort is the amphitheater area and also all of the lighting which is an electrical element that is hopefully that we'll see our first lighting assembly this week and we'll show you a picture of it because it's been taking a long time to get one of those on the park. moving down to the bus deck, this shows the picture where the ceiling is specifically. there's actually a lot of ceiling that still has to be installed but at least the majority of what is above that ceiling has been signed off. we're actively in the middle of testing and we did have one very successful testing of the westerly part of the bus deck and we're testing the easterly portion, half next week on march 13th which includes the transit because there's two bays that are at the far east end. and then with the anticipation,

aspiration of starting the bus deck in may at this point. and moving down to the street level, a lot of sidewalk is -- and curb and gutter has been been poured. we still have about another month of sidewalk and clean-up, but that is starting to wrap itself up. and you can't really tell when you walk by because it's under a lot of protection at this point bawlz there's a lot of overhead work where there's ceiling panels that need to be installed. and the same at the cross streets, and fairmount street has the ceiling panels and a lot of o.c.s. poles and traffic signal poles are all now starting to show up. no signalheads yet but we have a lot of poles installed at this point. in anticipation, whether it's the midway crosswalks or the signalization to get out of the bus plaza. and eastern zone also, the southside of the bus plaza is coming together well with a

testing operation on the southside with muni and i believe that it's the 21st or so of march so that's coming along well with the testing. and there's still -- the o.c.s. connections will not be until may in the bus plaza area. and then operations, the number 5 continues without -- i haven't heard a single complaint. so that's fantastic. this is really the effort now, systems, start-up, commissioning, testing, that is really where the effort will be going forward all the way to substantial completion. and then the other element that is happening, tenant improvement has -- there's turnover for the amtrak and greyhound on level 2. it is in progress where webcore is doing those final punch out items and turner special projects division is taking the handoff so they can build out the greyhound and amtrak and

other areas will follow suit and that's happening within the next few days. over to the bus storage facility, that is progressing very well. they have all of their bridges in and the barrier rail just needs to be poured and a lot of sound wall is in place now and there's the sound absorb panels that have all been installed and that's a very important element that is on the inside to reduce the noise reflection for the neighbors in that particular area on stillman and perry. and also with the anticipation of modular a.c. transit admin is being fabricated and it show up by may first. and that is on potential completion still by june 1st and we anticipate the bus training and testing of that area by the end of may. so actually we'll get some of the pavement down and anticipating that starting in about, you know, about six weeks. quick update on the on-ramp merge efforts, the actual design of the flash and beacons and the

striping and the barrier are at a point where it's all comments have been incorporated by caltrans right now and there's an effort to wrap up the design elements in that particular area. there's a meeting with a.c. transit, myself, and caltrans to anticipate to close that out and the anticipation is that this work will be constructed in april at this point. that's the plan at least at this point, assuming all goes well with the -- with the process. and one very big good news is that there's a lot of zeros at the top, no recordables and no lost times at all this year. and with that i turn it over to ron to continue on. >> thank you, dennis. ron alameda. it's always good to see dennis' portion of the presentation to see the work in place, to hear that transfer of space is happening for tenant improvement. and then we come to budget and schedule.

in terms of budget no changes as of yet. and since last month about $19 million of work in place and bringing us to an expenditure level of $1.98 billion. it's pretty much pacing as it has been, although short of meeting scheduled needs and work in place needs. the e.a.c. at $2.15 remains the same. and i do want to give you a heads up that mark and i are discussing that given the extended schedule that will be next month addressing the needs of contractors as it relates to construction support, as it relates to pmpc and turner, the c.m. p.m.o., and we anticipate adjusting the e.a.c. to be

reflective of that. and in a conservative manner, of course. this extension of time and this expansion of expenditure we anticipate holding responsible parties to account, however, we do need to continue to pay individuals and make sure that we have the appropriate resources available when needed to advance and close out the projects. so that's just a heads up for next month as mark and i develop what that all means. contingency -- it continues to be relatively healthy at $135 million remaining and overall contingency with construction and contingency at 16.2, and cmgc contingency sitting at 27, so it's

relatively comfortable given that we've accounted for the known and anticipated risks to the project as well as acknowledging that we're about 96%, 97% complete on the project. so it's just the last push on it. moving on to the schedule, here's the latest update. last month we had forecasted substantial completion at june 1st. you may notice that conspicuously absent is the forecast for substantial completion for this report. and that's a reflection of what i've been saying my frustration on and the erosion of confidence and what we've been tracking on the schedule. and it's prompted us to -- and also to recognizing that in the

last couple months that have been striving to follow key milestones, particularly around electrical, many of which, or most of which in the last month have not been met. so that prompts me to pause and turn to webcore to come to our board today as well as working with us in the last week or so to regroup and to give a date certain for substantial completion and a believable and achievable plan to reach that date. so i'll be inviting jes peterson up shortly once i address the remainder of our slides. in the roof part a bit of a slide out and it's pacing well and there's the e2 pylons with

the low vol voltage systems wit. and the bus storage facilities, steady as she goes. and as we look at the streams of activity and they are all hovering in the april/may timeframe and all pushed out a bit again around electrical. and what has happened or what have we been doing, webcore in particular, to address this problem in the last month -- some positives, including an onboarding of i believe 30 rows of, leelectricians and mobilizeo get out there and to assess the state of completion to validate the as built as portrayed by the

electric and the increase and overlay of management to that body with respect to normal voltage. i mentioned last month that webcore took over entire the low voltage scope of work and since then they have enlisted a firm wpcs which had a smaller part of the project already and they are very well versed and knowledgeable in applying management layer to r.s.c. personally i have worked with wpcs and they delivered all low-voltage systems for the medical center in my last project so i have a high degree of confidence in their abilities to start -- put in a knowledgeable layer of management to those activities to put some momentum to placing

the equipment and to begin commissioning. our expectations -- and what jes will be speaking to -- is our urging and our stressing to them to develop an accurate state of completion assessment by way of wpcs and to have a schedule assigned by the field assessment and to get the sub-contractor by and to give us a date certain. so we can work with our partners in operations on a -- based on a reliable date. so we can have more re-- reliable confidence in establishing the start of operations and all of the activities that advance ahead of that without continuing to whip

saw all of our partners around because of dates being bumped around. so with that i'll invite jes peterson, the c.e.o. of webcore to articulate the date and the plan to move forward. >> good morning, board, jes peterson, representing the webcore joint venture. as you have heard the majority of the physical work is getting done, you know, we're 95%, 96% there and that includes, you know, everything at street level, bus ramp level and the park following right behind it. we did probably the best news is that we did receive power on monday which means that we can now start with all of the other issues around energizing and bringing up the fire life safety

systems which is the most critical element to actually getting t.c.o. or substantial completion. and it's the most highly technical part of the work and as ron also mentioned we have recognized that back in january and so what we did was to actually take back that scope from the electrician. it's a scope that comprises about 10 different sub-contractors, each with some component or part around low voltage and some around security, life safety, everything from all of the controls aspect of it to really just -- it's kind of the brain of the entire system. so we kind of have two paths. one is the power side which we have now got f.i.s. concentrating on and we're starting to bring up the rooms and there's a sequence in which that takes place to bring power to the entire station. as well as us now grabbing the low voltage and directly managing that with as ron said wpcs. and also rosentin. and what rosentin is doing for

us, we had about a hundred electricians and moving up to about 150 electricians come the end of this week and next, with the intent to stay out in front to make sure that the conduit, the wiring is being done and that we can now go ahead and successfully bring on the life safety system. what we have done is -- a couple things, i met with the principals of both r.s.c. and with their parent company stacy whitback and also with rosentin electric and really kind of trusted local contractors that we can have greater influence and work with to try and see where we're going. and so a large part of that is to sit with them and to really starting to map out the number of people that each of them will be providing and what we can do. so as i mentioned rosentin is stepping up and bringing on about another 50 electricians and working in a sequence from west-to-east and bringing the conduit up and bringing the life

and security systems onboard. on top of that r.s.c. has about nine different sub-contractors that are making commitments either in doubling crews or working shifts and/or overtime. and the main thing is to start looking at all of the devices that are set for each of these types of systems, where they go, how we bring them online, and then in order to get certainty and to look at our rate of production. i mean, many of these devices, we know that crews put in five or six an hour and so if you have eight hours a day and you can put in 40 devices and you need x amount of men to put in how many thousand devices that we have. so that's what we're doing is going through system-by-system and area-by-area and with the management and the support from both of these. we... we have then looked at -- with that manpower where that leads us to actually getting what we'll call being life safety ready which is a t.c.o. or temporary center of occupancy

and right now we can forecast kind of that mid-june, around june 15th date, to be able to go ahead and receive the life safety. we had a string of issues or i think that cooperative concerns that we had a chance to discuss wittjpa to get expectations with life safety and trying to collaboratively look to what we do to lay out to get a path for some of the things that they can help to bring into this that we don't necessarily control as well as the things that we do control. i would say that all directions point to that being very possible or -- i mean, certainly more than feasible and given a high likelihood of it occurring and as long as we're able to keep bringing to bear the forces, which we have been to date, both in directly managing the low-voltage sub-contract as well as bringing on the electrical systems that there's now a path forward with that in

place. and something that we are able to now with power on monday finalize the schedule and to be able to commit to. happy to take any questions regarding that. >> yes, directors. a couple, maybe a clarification, the achiefment o achievement ofn mid-june, does that equate with full completion? in june. >> basically yes and they finalize a punch list so it's more of a procedural issue after getting t.c.o. and the main thing is to just make sure that the building can be occupied by the public and once it's occupied by the public then substantial completion is finding the balance of work is done. and the physical work itself is

on track and it shouldn't be a problem. >> so if i were to try to fill in ron's conspicuously absent dot on the chart, what date would i put in? >> june 15th. >> okay, that's excellent. and with regard to the inspections are these inspections by the construction management team or by the city inspectors? >> mostly city inspectors. >> okay, well, i guess that i would just offer again if there's any assistance that the folks on the board can provide to accelerate that, i heard the point that slotting those in -- and i know that they're all very busy with the construction that is happening -- but if there's anything that we can do to make sure that doesn't become a problem. >> absolutely. and they've been there for us and it's primarily d.b.i. inspectors working on behalf of the tjpa who is the authority having jurisdiction, as well as some incidental special inspections and they've been at

the ready and they're out there pretty much every day. you know, incidentally there was -- i understand on sunday at midnight we got an email informing us of a concrete pour on monday morning and we had a special inspector there to support the activity. so we've got a solid commitment and team to respond and to support the plan that's rolled out by webcore to get us where we need to be by june 15th. >> okay. well, i appreciate both of your efforts on this. i think that you somewhat pointed it out but then there's the good, fun part of the presentation and you have the more challenging one and i appreciate as the c.e.o. of the company your direct involvement and engaging with the principals of the key subs. it sounds like that has been helpful and the numbers of bodies that you're getting on to the job sound like what's needed. so from -- we had tried to

create this -- this framework of the different major tasks to help us and the public to track progress and it's proved to be not so useful as with each month that goes by, two or three weeks of slippage seem to happen based on the schedule which suggests that in the month that goes by we're only getting a week or two of work done. now that we're getting closer to having a realistic schedule, what will we have more meaningful -- i guess transparency into how we're really tracking towards that june 15th date? >> my expectations is to get back on track with those milestones as it relates to power and enrich it a little bit more with low voltage. other activities are fairlily transparently tracking and by the end of march we should have all of the outside exterior concrete done by the end of

march. start seeing system components, pretty much peppering the whole site throughout april. and within the commissioning going on that latter part of april and may. so those are -- those are -- you know, aside from the drag point of electrical, those are tracking well and, you know, my expectation is to continue to monitor those established milestones, particularly the electrical. and to report back at those and track them a little closer. it's been a little hard to get the data in the last couple months. but i expect to elevate the knowledge base on that in the coming months' reports. >> thank you. other questions from directors? director harper. >> supervisor harper: well, i'm going back to the bus ramp

on merge. it said that there were caltrans had some exceptions for non-standard design elements, what are those? >> there's eight of those that range from a site distance element from an existing condition to the merge, you know, kind of width. and we're addressing each one of those one by one with caltrans next week to close out. in combination between those with me because this is a designer element that they need to close it out. so that's where we've got them on board and i have been talking with both within the last day or two to ensure that we can close those out next week. >> supervisor harper: i know how caltrans can be with its standards. so what happens if it says that it's not going to just close out these concerns but, i mean, can

caltrans really say that we can't get on the bridge? >> each one of the items that we're speaking to will have a mitigation to fix it, you know, and a recommendation. i mean, all of the recommendations for every one of those seven are not necessary, do nothing -- it's usually something that is a cross slope as a good example. a cross slope is supposed to be 2% and it's like 2.01% and you need a design exception. those are the level of tolerances that we're talking about with each one of these design exceptions. and with those it's -- working with caltrans right now it's more of how to package it and process it, sign it, and move forward. i believe that caltrans does not anticipate a mitigation for any one of those and we just have to close it out and to have documentation to why it was closed out. >> supervisor harper: okay. is a.c. transit going to be at

that meet something. >> yes, they are and the parsons team will be with us next week. we do have, you know, some preparation that is prior to that and if it doesn't happen on wednesday it will happen shortly thereafter if we're ready. we won't go in unless we are ready and we want to go in there once and have everything ready and presented. it's a presentation from identification to qualification to what is mitigation and ultimate recommendation for every one of those. >> supervisor harper: okay. >> chair nuru: director gee. >> vice-chair gee: thank you. sort of two buckets of topics similar to director reiskin. yes, thank you very much for coming in and to talking to us. the june 15th date is -- how can we -- can we tell everybody that we're going to commit to that date so that our retail leasing partners and everyone else can step up? because the financial consequences as ron alluded to

just magnify every time that this schedule moves. because the partners, the income or lack of income, we need to have a date certain. so how certain is june 15th? >> well, like i say, the biggest thing that changes is us actually getting electricity so now that we have that a whole lot more of our destiny is in our hands. the june 15th kind of t.c.o. date is when it's life safety ready and we have worked with ron -- i think that there was a couple months that we were bringing security on and getting ready all of the bus training that needed to take place. so i'm not sure what that means for actually use of the facility. i'm just looking at it from a contractor -- when we turn it over at that stage what that means for actual use -- >> vice-chair gee: am i hearing a commitment from the team to turn over t.c.o. on june 15th? >> yes, you are. >> so we'll proceed the meeting with our operational partners on the premise of june 15th as the t.c.o. date to regroup as

how it relates to rolling out operations for all of the parties. and then -- >> vice-chair gee: as time moves the time moves on and time is money. i know that there's a liquidated damages cause but is there actual damages or just one or the other? >> i believe that it's principally around liquidated damages. there are mechanisms for bad charge and what have you as well in terms of aligning the responsibilities. you know, amongst the different sub-contractors and webcore and stuff. so there's unpleasantries to sort out in the coming year. >> vice-chair gee: focus on the t.c.o. and we can always sort out the financial aspects -- >> that's exactly our priority. >> vice-chair gee: great.

thank you. >> and the date is still the same or did it move for start of service? >> the key points for -- in fact, i understand that there's a request for -- >> the c.o.o. has requested to speak on this matter. >> okay, he can answer my question. >> this may be a good time -- >> no more questions of the board. salvador? salvador lamas. >> good morning board of directors, i'm the chief operating officer at a.c. transit and i would like to thank you for the opportunity to speak this morning. i would like to reaffirm a.c. transit remains appreciative of our continued collaboration with

the transbay joint powers authority. in these final months of construction for the new transit center. we are excited to launch the service enhancements and the passenger improvements. this is world-class transit facility that will bring as we near the finish line and i want to reinforce a.c. transit is ready today to move in and to begin operator training and supervisor training. as you can imagine there are several activities required in preparation to begin full service operations of the transit center. this includes bus deck testing that we are doing now and we're collaborating with the tjpa staff to further continue that. and operator and supervisor training, operator sign-up preparation, and legally required public notification of service changes. planning the execution of these activities need to be aligned with a realistic and firm

construction completion date from tjpa. thus far the construction completion date continues to be a moving target, has not been realistic and lacks transparency. we believe that it's not in the best interest of the public and the tjpa partners and specifically a.c. transit. it's led to confusion between tjpa and a.c. transit staff. now that the construction completion date appears to be further delayed we are concerned with the timing of bus operator training without knowing exactly when the sales force transit center will open or will be ready and safe for the public. safety of our employees, customers and the public is paramount for a.c. transit, therefore, validation that all required life safety and occupational and health compliance has been achieved is necessary before we can begin revenue service.

the basic design and concept of the bus deck is that public transit buses enter the bus deck from the bay bridge, service the bus stops on the bus deck, and then exit the bus deck back on the bay bridge. access to and from the bus deck from the bay bridge needs to be safe and functional before we can begin full-service operations. and a.c. transit has fulfilled its commitment to tjpa on the bay bridge merge mitigations and requests that tjpa followthrough with the completion of this critical safety component in advance of the bus operator training. a. krmple transit has reiterated on several occasions that we can only cease operation in the terminal after the new terminal is safe, ready, and properly permitted for revenue service. and we have have had sufficient time to complete activities required for training and

start-up of operations. please know that a.c. transit remains committed to our partnership with the tjpa, more importantly, we cannot wait to celebrate the grand opening with you. and we thank you -- or i thank you for, again, for the opportunity to make comments. i hope that answers your questions, director. >> so when do you believe that the buses will start running at the station? >> the best way that i can answer is that when we get a confirmed date that the bus deck has met all of its requirements and it's ready for public -- for public occupancy that we need to back that with all of the activities that a.c. transit has to do to achieve that date. so we were informed that june was the date that it would be ready. so we started and within our staff to formulate plans to condense our training to look at the entry of our schedules into

our dispatching system, notifications to the public -- i mean, there's a whole team -- floors of teams of people that have to mobilize. so that is why it's frustrating and confusing to learn that june is not the date that we can start operations and we're looking for confirmed, realistic dates that we can rely on so that we can put all of our resources forward. we're ready to start in june. if june is the date that it will be ready. >> so i guess that i should ask the question to the construction team and jes if june 15th is substantial completion, when do you think -- >> so with the t.c.o. of mid-june and substantial completion towards the end of june, i know that there's still things around security and bringing teams in and starting them up. so relative -- i don't know as much about the start-up that takes place after those handoffs are done.

really, you know, ron has been helping to coordinate those as well and i'm -- i'm -- i don't know, quite honestly, what additional work takes place specifically to ready the terminal for other uses, whether they're retail or bus use. i don't know, ron, you could help? >> could you also clarify -- i thought that i had understood that the t.c.o. and substantial completion would be more or less coincidence and it seems that you just said it's end of june. so the substantial completion -- if you guys could just clarify for us -- for any future transit and anyone else when substantial completion is -- i believe that we should have beneficial use of the facility. >> we are looking at -- on june 15th to have the life safety systems done, ready, operational, and public able to use. however, just because it's up and running there's a paperwork

validation and everything that takes place so my comment around the june 15th was having life safety ready and, quite honestly, i'm not sure everything that it takes to get to substantial completion. it's probably more of a team aspect to understand because there's design team and engineering team to really come on and say, yes, everything that you say is right and we're ready to go. so that's why i put out -- >> maybe then to ron -- >> yeah, let me lend some clarity and i will speak directly to all of the questions. the emphasis on june 15th has been t.c.o. which is historically or traditionally the moment when the fire department and other life safety building department officials deem it safe enough and the systems associated with fire life safety are in place. and the public is welcomed to use the facility. so that's where the emphasis has been and that's kind of been the

trip wire for initiating training as well for kind of your john q bus driver as opposed to the others that are trained to work within a construction site. so that's where the emphasis has been. the subtly between t.c.o. and substantial completion is that substantial completion by definition in the contract is that the scope of work is ready for its intended use. so there's a slight subtly there and there may be some systems not associated with life safety that don't cripple or don't preclude the normal operations of the building, but still need some -- or are on the work-to-complete list. so there's a subtly there and what i understand from jes is that june 15th is his commitment for t.c.o. and a couple weeks after that, but

those other incidental systems to cross the threshold which we would call substantial completion. again, the entire facility ready for its intended use. what does that mean to us working with the operators on mapping out operations? you know, historically a.c. transit has, you know, some key moments in time aligned with sign-up and we were aiming for june. we tried very hard for march. that went away. the next natural one is august 12th as i understand. that introduces a bit of a pain point for muni because they have all right initiated some scheduling and activities around june. so i intend to regroup with all of the operators and fine tune when start of operations ought to be.

it's safe to say that it's hovering around august or between june and august as it relates to muni. if the -- if they want or can. and like i said there's certain things that they've already put in place in terms of scheduling and notifications that may support an earlier arrival for them. so i anticipate teasing that all out in the next couple weeks. >> okay, but -- so you're saying that the center will be ready for bus operations in june? >> they'll be -- >> or not? >> the fire life safety systems are in play. it's effectively at substantial completion -- i don't know what pieces that will be falling short then that don't fall under that umbrella of fire and life

safety, but in theory june would be ready. we do have some catch-up to do with training, testing has been going well and we have half of the deck tested and next week we test the other half of the deck. it's really, you know, getting the momentum on the deck in terms of training and i appreciate the volume of drivers that both m.t.a. and a.c. transit need to educate and frame and that's just -- you know, it's been around an eight to 10-week timeframe we have been trying to, you know, set you up on the front end of that a bit in terms of getting a raining start with training. we had some strategies to start in april and now well, we see where we are, you know, it looks like june is the start point for that. i'm hoping to put some interim

life safety measures in place that will allow us to get a running start on some of the training prior to june 15th but i still need to get by on all of the appropriate parties on that in terms of getting ahead of the june 15th on the training side. >> maybe if i could ask -- with the consent of the rest of the board, so that we don't lose another month before we as the board and the public get an understanding of a realistic start date is, if after you reconvening with the operators that you could communicate back to the board the status, because by the time that we next meet we're at least eight weeks out from at least t.c.o. so it would be helpful to know sooner than later. >> absolutely. >> just to pick it back on

director tripousis' question and responding to a.c.'s concerns and given the ballpark of especially completion that we're looking at, is there a relative date certain that you can say that you can realistically drive the team to and suggest that within this timeframe, certainly, by june 30th or whatever that date is, that -- that the a.c. team can have a reasonable expectation that all of their work that they need to complete leading up to operations can be done so they can plan a little more effectively and have a realistic ballpark and still give the construction team a reasonable opportunity to complete those responsibilities? >> yeah, and that pretty much brackets around the june 15th versus the august 12th date. >> okay.

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convergence is very similar. so i was very relieved to hear that they were enlisted recently to put a good management overlay on this next push. >> okay. just, again, as soon as things change or something has slipped, we need to know sooner rather than later. >> yeah. we're going to keep the communications. i've appreciated all your support thus far. the director has been very active in the last couple weeks as well to help bring us along where we need to be in terms of support, and we'll have some incide interim on how it's progressing working the next couple mondays with our operators and our partners. i do want to mention that come april board meeting, i have a

family commitment, so my expectation -- so i won't be here in april. however, it's my expectation that jess will return with dennis to report what's going on in april, and i'll be fully engaged before and after that meeting, as well. >> okay. thank you. all right. next item. >> go ahead and all your next item. item seven is the facility readiness update. >> this item is presented by martha velez, our facility manager. i'm going to ask martha to expedite her presentation. if she's going too fast, please stop her. >> good morning, directors. martha velez. as i go through each slide, i will highlight one or two key points. the contract for the greyhound

amtrak second floor has been finalized. the following slide provides further detail. staging work is this week staging closely with webcor, however final schedule is depending on their scheduling. at this point, it looks like early may. this slide shows the bid comparisons for the various trades. note that this price was developed prior to a conversation with capital corridors last week that amtrak will only be leasing its flosh of the second floor passenger area. finally, the sbe participation on this contract is 8.1%. perdirector harper's request last month, this slide is a first path at looking at the path of travel through the center while areas are under

construction, so i'm going to assume rise this rather than going through the detail that i was going to go through. in essence, we can program elevators to skip the second floor. we'll have areas blocked off where people can't walk onto the second floor. the retail areas are all interior, so those will be blocked off, and then, on the ground floor, we are looking at putting some sort of -- i'm going to call it a wrap, so that when you're looking at the retail storefronts, you don't see -- you don't see empty spaces. i'd be happy to go through this in more detail at next month's meeting. >> okay. i'm going to just pause and introduce maria michaud. she is replacing tony smith, and she joins the team at a director level. one of her first tasks was to re