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local schools, nonprofits and community members to ensure this yields opportunities for jobs, for contracts, for public art and for a new southeast center that will serve the community well. we support this project, the environmental justice recommendations for both this and the new facility, 1550 ech evans. thank you very much. >> good afternoon. thank you, steve. my name is la vonne kelley king, and i am the past immediate chair person of the southeast facility. i want to stress the importance of the environmental justice analysis recommendations and providing healthier, cleaner, and safer out comes for the southeast community. as a bayview resident for over 50-plus years, i have seen the impact of southeast treatment plant's operation. this project provides a new opportunity to make things
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right. i encourage the puc to continue to directly work with the southeast community facility commission as the biosolids digesters facilities projects unfold -- facilities unfold, sorry. lastly, we're very excited about the construction of the new community center at 1550 evans. [applause]. >> we uplift the community's vision for this space and reject any efforts to delay a new community center. thank you. [applause]. and i want to thank the commission who so eloquently pointed out the need for jobs for older people and young people that want to work and not to delay that process. if they're going to live there, they need to work there, and we want them to have good, safe, clean housing and a space for
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their education. thank you. [applause] [please stand by for captioner switch]
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>> is part of the integration of what is going on, and i can say that -- congratulations to karen cubic and carolyn, and julia ellis and carrie grace. they are constantly in the community on the ground because you have to really see the work on the ground. your general manager makes sure you have a community facility for the 1,000 or 2,000 times actual work. bayview is very important because not only do we have the waste water quality decades, the community benefits --
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[ inaudible ] the -- that said go ahead and implement the community center. do not build any housing in there. it is irresponsible. that site is not conducive, the zoning. i sat on the bayview-hunters point community advisory community for several years. we mapped out the bayview and hunters point. we mapped out where the digesters were going to be. that area for the community center, we'd like to maximize that with community space, with community based organizations. for someone to have the audacity at the 11th hour, so trying to usurp that, it is not going to happen. so we are here to support you
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all the way now because a lot of work needs to be done on the ground continually, we have the -- [ inaudible ] >> -- and we dedicated time to be here. you see all these people? you see the changing people, but we do not have to be here every day because these plans are in place. we want to give you the power to move forward, allocating the resources we need to move this. you have excellent staff, they know what they are doing. they are engaging at the ground level, which you do not see. all we need to do is help us to move the agenda forward and standup. you're commissioners out here. standup to anyone that want to youture yo usurp your ability, your authority here. that's right, and when you need us, we'll be right here for you. thank you for your time here,
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sir. >> thank you very much.
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next is kim better letter carter. miss carter? welcome. hi. my name is kimberley carter and i'm very excited that we are moving forward on this. also let me start by saying that only in san francisco, my mother, my grandmother. my father. all this in the bayview. i am extremely happy that this is going forward. but with that being said, i'm also want to make sure that the puc keep their commitment on what has already been done and plans that have been made up to people before me. i want to make sure that our children -- like as of me, when i was a kid, have that support.
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have opportunities. for us to be able to walk and have clean air. because at the end of the deities about the children and i want to honor what they have said they are going to do and what our ancestors plan to do and the fight they have fought. miss jackson and many before her. if it don't we are just going to fight. >> thank you. welcome. >> good afternoon, commissioner, my name is dorre nikkel i will and i've been a bayview resident for over 30 years and these improvements are long-time coming and we can't stress enough how important it is for our bayview community to get this done, because it's just too much. the smell.
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the dust. everything. we need to get this project done. thank you. [ applause ] next we have mr. moore. welcome. >> my name is mr. moore. i will speak up on behalf of rodney hampton, one of my good guys there. every time i'm driving to the freeway i can smell this. i can go to any community and i can smell the shipyard and the stench. and the puc, they are letting us go into construction and beyond. and what they are going do with the jobs. i'm a worker so i'm going to need that job when they come through. i need you all to push it. so that's a few years for me, you know what i mean.
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give me a house or something am i need it fast and in a hurry, you know. but it's a good thing to get that. because you can go to the sunset. you can go to philmore. to avenues. you don't smell that at all. you know, you are smelling restaurant. smelling food and walking down the street and having a good time but over there you are covering your nose up. but it is what it is. speed it up and -- how do they say it? rapido, you know, speed it up. conservative thank you. >> when the wind blows the wrong way, you smell it. so a little taste what have you go through. is there any other public comment? so two more? so why don't you come up first and state your name. and that young lady next. >> hi, good afternoon,
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commissioners my name is alex lanceberg. former chair of your citizens advisory committee, actually wrote the legislation and one of the arthurs of what ultimately became the environmental justice policy and community benefits policy. first of all, i want to commend you on moving this thing forward. this isn't exactly the plan that i had envisioned. i actually thought that putting these digestors out at the back lands would have been a smarter choice for the baby hunters point. it's not surprising that the designers think similarly but we are where we are and i between commend you by bringing it to this point. a second point i want to commend you on. i rode my bike on evans with my boys this weekend. and for the first time in -- i don't know how long i can remember, was we were riding and preparing to talk about the poo poo party, as we call it. we didn't smell anything. whole stretch of evans up until
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a 20-foot stretch of evans did not smell and i think we ought to commend the staff for that. but what i really want to make sure to bring up is this thing that is kind of been talked about. and i am the bad guy who has been pushing the idea that we should use four and a half acres of publicly owned land and a transit note to maximize public benefit from baby hunt's point and apparently some folks don't think we need to maximize that benefit. so i wrote a letter to general manager kelly and to all the folks who -- the southeast community commission, who wrote to in response and i just want to set the record straight. i'm a long-time baby hunters point residence. this has nothing to do with the private developer. i agree that 1515 evans or third street in general shouldn't become a catch basin for other affordable housing obligations and i don't think the indian
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basin project ought to off-load the housing project. i want an upgradeable community because that's the one i moved to. but when we talk about this site, let's think about what we are talking about here. four and a half acres at density we see in other affordable housing projects up the street. we are talking about 400 units of affordable housing on public hand. peoplery sag keep the land for the people. well what is building affordable housing on public land to house from baby hunter's point who will qualify because of certificate for preference or neighborhood preference. what is that expect building it for the people? -- except building is for the people. so while folks want to hurry up and make haste, haste makes waist waste. and we need to make sure we maximize the benefit and get that community centre but we don't blow an opportunity of 1,000 lifetimes because that's
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how many people would be housed at that site. thank you. conservative. thank you. >> i'm a former president. and i've been on the board in my community for three terms. i work with a lot of my residents. i've been a resident in my same community for over 40 years. so i'm like the baby of the bunch. and i know this, a lot of people that stay over there are older generation and they know me because i was a younger generation coming up. so i came here because i go to a lot of commission meetings, and what is important to me when i go to a commission meeting is that the commissioners work with the people.
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and that's all that i look forward to doing is working with the people. and so when you get a commission board that works closely with the people you get better communication. you get better people in the city with love. you don't get that if you work against us. and so i'm here today to talk about this power plant. yes, it's been there for years. my daughter used to work there. i used to pull up and pick her up from work and it was aterrible smell. it is a good thing that you are replacing it and rebuilding it, but the thing, is are the jobs going to be for our people? our low income people? is that going to be still there for our people to go there and have an opportunity in our community. because if we don't start now, guess what, it's a whole new generation in the bayview now. so that generation is going to benefit them, not us. so we need to make sure -- not only do they rebuild and replace
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it with jobs for low income and the people who have been staying there, who are stakeholders, that you all consider stakeholders because we put money into that community just as well as anybody else. and that they get the opportunity to get the jobs, that they get the opportunity to breathe better. that they get the opportunity to have a say on so of how and when it gets started and the time is now. you are pushing our people out of the city, so if we don't go forward now, we aren't going have a say-so to what goes on in that place. we can't wait five or six years down the line. you know how many people get killed from the toxins that is coming out from the shipyards, that has cancer. then won't be here. so we need to move forward now for the people who got effected by all of that waste, that is thick that won't be here to breathe, that the children have an opportunity. to live in the same community and have the same opportunity to
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work in the same community. >> president kwon: thank you. yes, sir. >> right. good afternoon, commissioners. thank you for having us. my name is rodney hampton jr. a live long resident of bayviewpoint and vice president of the consortium for partnership and the cofounder and president of the organization social group we help our people. three things, first of all our community, myself, we do not want alternative programming. secondly, my community and myself, we do not want housing there. and thirdly, it's shamely to say but when esponola was here, none of us was talking about this. and it's sad to say my sister, my elderly wisdom sister is gone, now you have some folks
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that has been in the community over -- you know several years along with outside contenders. very influential folks. and i consider that is just -- you know, part of front stage gentrification. that's a part of that. and when you have that type of group come together and start making recommendations on behalf of the communities and others that have been here over 40 years, 50 years, 60 years... and i've only been here for 44 and i'm tired of smelling the stuff too. so i mean, take that into consideration. i love alex. rest of the community members. but you got to talk with us and work with us so we can have a devised plan together and do not -- never disrespect the vision of a woman that set this platform for us to be here today
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and discourage her vision through a new -- up front i'm very upset with that. so our community would like you toronto move forward now. and do not wait. thank you. >> president kwon: thank you. one more public comment. steve good. did you have a comment? you have already spoken. okay. i'm sorry. >> can i say something? because i'm going to ask steve a question. because i know he wants to get up and talk. i just wanted to -- because i've heard a lot about the community concerns and i've heard alex's letter. and you know i've seen the renderings and stuff. so i wanted to give people my perspective. when i came on in 2002 with the water system improvement program, you know we were able to build an organization that can deliver capital programs.
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and then when we started to focus on the sewer system. you know we felt that was about time, and i worked with alex on identifying where the best place that we can place the digesters. and although we didn't agree exactly the location -- but i think we agreed to move them away from the community, which we are doing. and we are trying to move forth with in trying to execute that. but at that time -- you know our previous general manager wanted to identify a $10 million in the facelift of 1800 oak dale. so when i went down there with juliet and in talking with esponola, i just said we need something more than that. so fast forward when we actually purchased 1550, it was for our waste water folks who were living in trailers as an
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operational yard. so at that time, we actually had a construction contract to actually renovate that building and move staff there. and juliet said wait a minute. this could be a building to be proud. so we wanted to have a campus. so i went to the community and said, hey if you want to invest millions of dollars in the current building or do you want to campus? we went out and started this process for two and a half years. so i'm trying to do what the community wants because i know what they had to put up with for years. the only concern i have -- we went through this process and for someone who needs -- below market offsets because they don't want to put housing on the ocean front to put it into the
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community, where only 40% of all will be available for the community and 60% is outside. i just think that was short cited and i just want to do what the community wants. if they want housing. i don't know if i can do housing. because the reason we got the property is for a utility purpose for the puc. so it's not surplus property. like balboa reservior or francisco res for. if we are not going so build it, then we have options so i'm not planning it for housing. let me collar firm my mistake. this is not for public comment. had you a question.
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>> you want to add to that? >> yeah, a plan without a transparent process, like the puc put in place going back to 2011 when we first looked at renovating 1800 oa oakdale. now all of a sudden we have plans and process and ground breaking is scheduled to happen within a year. potentially now a developer wants to come in and say we don't want to put low income housing around the water front where it's nice and beautiful we want to put it on the island in the mill of an industrial zone basically red lining. this is completely unacceptable to us we have a beautiful plan for a new community benefits campus to benefit the entire south east part of the city with education and community service there is to do anything at this point would simply minimize that important work and minimize the significance of this program.
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those are housing proposals so when beam say no to a housing crisis. they don't get to build it. let alone live it in it. right. this was not a housing proposal. it was never a housing below proposal and i'm with the general manager on this. [ applause ] >> president kwon: any other public comment, who has not gone before? >> okay. so the role of commission is to
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support and direction staff but also to serve the community. so on that note, let's take a vote. all in favor? rolapproved. (calling of recorded vote) good job. so we are about to head into closed session. but before we do. the secretary will read item number 16. prior to public comment. >> item 16. david et al with the county of san francisco. property damage. carlos. 88,500. john and marie nanola.
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85,000. and 36,000. and the sf motorcycle club 140,000. thank you. is there any public comment that matters to be discussed during closed session? the attorney/client privilege. >> vote? >> second. >> president kwon: we will now enter closed session. >> all i
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joint powers authority meeting 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,
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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>> 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.
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 top