applications. have2 pe on the enforcement team. let's see. the number of ftes budgeted for 18-19 is about 237. that's about 4.7 more than this year, due to the office of short term rental. one new position that we are requesting for that. we have approved the order of 1280 units. we need a permit because we are working with use with fire on these adus but we are getting a pace of about 500 a year.

that ccludes my presentation. i probably didn't beat him but i bet i came close. >> you came close, within a minute. so there's an application. >> that's right. >> people work on the historic preservation side, how many people? >> there's a historic preservation staff that's split into two categories, one group, i'm not familiar with the number is the environmental planning group. you think it's six people who work on sequa related to historic preservation and then another group about the same side who works on preservation issues related to the historic preservation commission landmark, survey work, that sort of thing. >> how do we measure the out put of that fund? how do we measure it? >> let's b clear, it's not a set fund.

>> okay. >> it's a preservation fund of the department. decribed, i'm hoping to just increase sufficiency for that group of people. >> thank you. i have no questions. i see no one has any questions. let's keep vinmo >> great. >> appreciation your presentation. next elizabeth marie from the war memorial. the war memorial has a budget of $27.5 million. they are asking for increase of .06 million. just give me a second. please have a seat. did we call item 6? >> no, we have not. >> we are going to call item 6. >> item number 6 to allow the planning department to use proceeds for the enforcement

fund for activities. >> thank you. i believe we've already heard the presentation on item 6 from director ram's presentation. we'll go to public comment. anyone who would liko t comment on item number 6? all right. seeing there is none, public comment is closed. moon to approve with a make a positive recommendation and send it to the full board. a second? seconded. we'll take that without objection. thank you. all right. now we are ready for you miss murray. >> i have this. >> thank you so much. welcome. >> thank you chair cohn and members of the committee. first of course i'd like to thank the mayor's budget office and the budget aid.

i would like to start out with some photos. i'm elizabeth murray and i'm the managing director of the historic buildings across the street, the opera house. next of course is to operate and maintain buildings for the city and for the trust beneficiaries of those buildings. i listed our strategic goals here. let me go to the second page. our highest -- or our most important goal is to provide the highest level of services to the visitors and to the public and to maintain an upgrade and preserve our historic facilities to increase our partnerships and collaborations and make good of today without compromising the future. on the third page is photographs

of the veteran's building. the board of supervisors and the mayor's office made a very large investment in the seismic upgrade of that building. that improvement has been overwhelmingly received in a positive way by the public and by the users. certainly the veterans organizatio organizations, about 400%, since they returned to the building. we have venues which are pictures on this page which has now allowed us to offer appropriate sized performance space for organizations who in the past haven't had an appropriate sized base to perform at the performing arts center. we are very glad to welcome the african-american shakespeare who is now presenting three series in the veteran's building and the dance company.

with this increase in performances we've had the increase in revenue which i'll get to shortly. on the next page,we are hosting nniversary nexth.nt we have a new food and beverage provider effective august 1, 2018. this is going to change, including food and beverage service in 21 years. this is going to be a big change. we are welcoming veterans in the spring of 2019. i've listed some of our capital projects including installing a solar system on the opera house flat roof. we will be doing the design

phase to replace the slant of the opera house and we are continuing with our modernizatio modernizations. on the next page i've listed our performance activity, which is not really representative of the growth we've had. since we reopened the veteran's building in july of 2015 our 15-16 performance activity was 780 performances. so there's a total 16% growth in performance activity and we are still on target to have a 1 or 2% growth in the next two years. the next slide shows the corresponding earned revenue since we moved back 15-16.

particularly this revenue is from our veteran building facilities. on the next page is a summary of the budget position. we look to grow about 3 to 4% in 18-1 18-19. that budget of $16.3 million or $16.4 million 60% is benefits. i'm requesting one position and that is an 18-22 administrative analyst.

it will be increased in the department for the first time in 38 years. it reflects our growth over the past three decades in physical rental properties, our activities and our earned revenues. so i wld be happy to answer any questions. i do want to add that new position is fully funded by growth and earned revenue. so thank you. >> thank you very much for your presentation. our colleagues, do you have any questions for her? come on down. >> just a real quick comment. the situation with the dance festival, hopefully it will be a permanent annual event. >> on the slide number 6.

>> so it's beautiful to watch a trend where you've got revenue coming in over time and you have an increased projected revenue. are you one of the new executive directors of this war memorial? are you increased? >> i would say that is -- there are a couple of factors. first of all, we have one of the most outstanding booking staff in the nation.

i will have to say that our facilities, especially the veteran's building facility since we have opened there's probably an 89% capacity, which is almost unheard of. we have people in line f t different dates, in the theater and the new eve spaces on the fourth floor. so we are very fortunate to be able to book as much as we do because of the arts activity in the city. >> tha beautiful. i was just in the green room yesterday. >> uh-huh. >> in the new art gallery on the first floor last month, just incredible what we are doing. thank you for your shi are there any other -- talking about your revenue stream, when you get a portion that comes from the city budget and how much does the city contribute to your budget? >> the city contributes

operating support of about $12 million and thennds our facilities and maintenance and capital improvement projects. >> so $12 million is oximtely what fraction of your total budget? >> it's probably two-thirds. >> two-thirds. okay. it's a little bit more than i thought. and then the remaining is through -- >> the remaining is earned receive -- revenue and then we have a fund balance. >> thank you. i don't think that we have any other questions. we are thankful for your time. that's it. >> thank you very much. >> see you next week. >> all right. >> so next we are going to hear from homeless and supportive housing, jeff. call items 10 and 11 with this hsh budget. >> item number 10, the

administrative code to permit the accumulation of interest with resolution approving the fiscal year 2018-19 and 19-20 expenditure plans. >> thank you mu so homelessnend sportive housing. i have a t budget of $271.4 million looki $271.4 million lo $271.4 million looking to increase by $121 million and you are looking to increase personnel by 10. you're welcome to comment. >> okay. >> or present. >> i'll do the p presentation. >> great. >> thank you so much for all of your work on the budget committee. we are the last so i'll make it quickly. thank you to all of the board of

supervisors who worked with us to address homelessness. i want to thank you our deputy director and all of the staff for their hard work every day and also their extra work they have done in preparing this budget.

all of our new investments this year are related to those goals. you will see we have a modest increase in new housing which will help reduce both family and adult homelessness, as we are opening 197 new units of housing, as well as rapid rehousing to reduce homelessness. a larger investment in temporary shelter to help address street homelessness and reduce the number of unsheltered individuals on our streets. we have three new navigation centers opening. transitional site for women who are pregnant and we are looking

to replace two shelters in the basements or church facilities not open 24/7. we can both expand those shelters and have facilities open 24/7. we will be expanding the number of access points we have. which is a new part of our system, anyone experiencing homelessness could go to a central location, be assessed once, get into our system and doubling the homeward bound budget. you will see our fiscal year 2018 to 2020 budgets here. the dark green is the general funds allocation, which is 78%. federal and state investments and the light shaded green funding held in reserve, approximately $40 million dependent on measure d. i should point out without measure d, we are looking at roughly a 3% increase in our

budget. in fiscal year 2018-2019 and actual decrease in fiscal year 2019-2020 by 2.5%. i should also point out we have a lot of great partnerships with philanthropy. we are working closely with salesforce, with tipping point, many other companies on philanthropic. this was funded through measure d. without that funding, we were hoping to have 100 slots of rapid rehousing for adults. tay navigation center, and rapid rehousing for tay. we will have a gap of $14

million just to keep the new investments that i spoke about earlier that are currently funded in fiscal year, '18-'19 funded in 2020. we are working with the mayor's budget office on a rebudgeting plan i'm sure they will present to you next week and keeping an eye on opportunis for state fundi'm sure you all have heard about. you will see this slide shows our alignment with your priorities, the resolution you passed at the april hearing spoke about additional prevention, or additional problem-solvg investments. we are expanding homeward bound, one of our main problem solving investments a quick way to get people off the streets and into housing. you had called for a tay navigation center. targeted for opening with funding for measure d we will

have to consider during -- we are opening funding new access points to help people get quickly and effnto using. you asked we expand shelter and work on street homelessness. we are adding a position for healthy streets operation center and lastly we had in the measure d additional funding for tay rapid rehousing and do hope we will find a way to expand that funding during rebalancing process. the next slide at your request is explanation of budget by your use. a couple things worth pointing out, our administrative or overhead costs are less than 7% and actually go down between '17-'18 and '18-'19 as a percentage of our budget. one thing that is very noticeable here in '17-'18 almost 66% of our budget went

to permanent supportive housing and that's dropped to 56% as we have increased the spending on temporary shelters and street outreach. now broken down by type of expenditure you will see again, 2/3 of our budget goes to our non-profit partners who are delivering services in the community. important to note here is yes we are adding new positions but the percentage of our salaries to our budget has not changed at all. or very slightly. as we have expanded our budget and expanded our programs we have needed to expand our staff size in order to get contracts out the door and to get our work done but we have not changed proportionally the number of positions relative to the size of our budget. as you will see on the next slide, this lays that out in a little more detail. we are seeing a change of 9.8

new positions from fiscal year '17-'18. 1.8 are technical adjustments. it's actually 8 new positions we will be adding. an ordinance before you, one is the homelessness and supportive housing fund resolution. this was formally, i believe called the care fund and it's care not cash program we are required to present to you, i believe every other year to get your authorization to continue spending in that fund and that's primarily or exclusively for permanent supportive housing and adjustments to the mayor's fund for homelessness and the navigation center partnership ordinance that will allow us to continue and more efficiently to accept grants and funding from philanthropy and use those to advance our mission. hopefully that was brief. 5:00 on a friday. and happy to take any of your questions.

>> supervisor cohen: it was brief. thank you. technically only one minute over. that was good. i do have a couple questions and then we will get out of here. i would like you to tell me a little of the doubling of the homeward bound dollars. are these dollars for staff? for bus tickets? for services? is there a wait list of people who need this service? >> that's an excellent question. the homeward bound program currently has nine staff and we are spending about $900,000 for that. with this new funding. i wouldn't necessarily think we are going to expand new positions for that program. i think we have an adequate number of staff in that program. it would allow us to perhaps connect more people to this program, perhaps develop some better materials to promote the program and i would propose that if we are unable to increase the number of people

who are able to access that program we could also use that funding, it lives what we call our problem solving bucket of funds for things like flexible housing subsidy grants. a gentleman who was living on the streets because he was not able to pay his rent and s.r.o. because his car got damaged and not able to work for lyft. if we could help people solve problems, i think there's a limit of people who have family and friends we can reunify them to and we are very committed this is not what some call a greyhound therapy. in th progm we spend a lot of time making sure a family member or friend is financially and emotionally ready to take somebody back in their lives and we don't want to send people back home into a dangerous situation, or a situation they end up back on the streets again. we will continue to do our best to expand the number of people who access this great program

but i believe if we are not able to do that, the homeward bound team is also able to offer other types of solutions for folks, like these flexible grants. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. you over answered the question. is there an analysis, do we know if this program is meeting its mark? is there any data? is there anything that tells us we need to be investing in this program as opposed to -- >> well, the program has certainly been successful. we are on target to achieve our goal of 850 placements this year. the return rate, as best as we can tell, is less than 5%. we get stacks of letters almost every week gardinople o have been successful in the program. i think it's meeting its mark. i think what's more important is to remember that every week we help 50 people exit homelessness. anything we can do to find

short-term interventions, quickly, rapidly, and without a lot of money is important we look at expanding. >> supervisor cohen: thank you, i will move on. what increase in investments have been made specifically for tay youth? >> the only increase not reliant on measure d funding is $1 million for additional rapid rehousing. we do hope again in the rebalancing we will be able to expand that number to provide more than just $1 million a year in funding in that space and perhaps try to find a way to fund a tay navigation center. but i think we will know more next week as we work on the rebalancing program. >> supervisor cohen: you make an interesting point that triggers something in my mind. do we have enough housing available to employ our rapid rehousing subsidies? >> it's challenging in a market like the bay areas. but from my experience working

in hamilton and current experience, with hard work we are able to find housing in the private market. sometimes we have to look outside san francisco. we have open doors atlanta. they have helped 5,000 people in the past five years get access to private market housing. it's a different model. but we are looking for ways to use not only rapid rehousing, but housing vouch cash vouchers. >> supervisor cohen: thank you, i have no further questions. supervisor fewer. >> supervisor fewer: hello, jeff. i understand prop-d didn't pass but i understand from the state we will get $27 million if the governor signs it, or agrees to it, it's sort of in the budget. i'm thinking that would cover what actually was not covered that we weren't able to fund because prop d didn't pass. is that correct?

i'm sure we will find a way to work that into our budget. >> super: isay, go because you could shift moneys around for the one time funding for the rapid rehousing. i'm just really concerned about the tay and navigation center, quite frankly. i think what we have seen, there aren't lot of resources satisfied for tay. i hope once we get that $27 million we can back fill the need that is happening in your department. there's such high need and i don't think this problem will go away without a significant investment here. >> we agree that's a very high priority and in our discussion with the mayor's budget office

make sure that's at the top of our list of priorities. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. >> supervisor cohen: thank you, supervisor yee. >> supervisor yee: yeah, thanks. i also want to put the tay navigation center at the top of the list of my priorities for your budget. i don't know why we keep doing this over and over again. where we try to balance our budget on propositions that the voters have to approve and even though we warn that we shouldn't be doing this regardless if there's state funding or rebalancing, i wou like to voice opini that's my top priority. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. jeff, could you talk about the homeless and supportive housing fund in the expenditure plan? it's actually item 11. >> yes. >> supervisor cohen: and then we will take public comment. if you want to comment on the

mayor's partnership fund. >> i will have gigi whitley answer that. >> supervisor cohen: no problem. >> gooafternoon, deputy director for administration and finance, h.s.h. this is the care fund that's funded through care-not-cash. we are required to report any expenditures over $12 million so the total investment is for permanent supportive housing, it totals over $17 million annually in both years of the budget. and the care [captioning made funds $15 million in each year. they continue to be funded

under this program and i expenditure list before you. >> supervisor cohen: we do, do you have remarks a item ? >> sure, this is a bit of a clean up from when the new department was started. because the visibility of homelessness. we have gotten a number of requests, especially from private companies. salesforce. because of the way it was written from an accounting perspective, we can't always, we can't accept private grants and many donors want a grant agreement to make sure the funding they allocate is allocated in a certain way. this is more of a technical clean up we discussed with the controller's office. the other piece of the fund is a fund we have never used. for donations to navigation center. had the mayor's office

administering, as part of the clean up we are moving it to our department to administer. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. i will go ahead and open public comment. if anyone would like to comment on items 10 and 11. items 10 and 11. has to do with the navigation partnership fund as well as expenditure plan. seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you. colleagues, i would like to make a motion to approve items 10 and 11 with a positive recommendation, send it to the full board, sending it to the july 17th meeting. is there a second? second by jeff sheehy, we will i would like to note that n. supervisor fewer is not in the chamber, please recognize that the house has changed and we will take that without objection. thank you. is there any other business before this body? >> madam chair, could we please continue item 1 and 2 to monday's meeting. >> supervisor cohen: yes i would like to make a motion to

continue items 1 and 2 to monday's budget hearing, 10:00 a.m. seconded by supervisor yee. without objection. thank you. any other business? okay, ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned.

good morning. thank you for joining us. >> [roll call] >> you are a quorum. call your next item? >> please. >> item 3 is communication. >> the acting regional director will be taking my place. >> i don't think your mic is on. >> sorry. i wanted to quickly introduce myself. i presented a couple of month ts ago in front of the board. that should be the new standard, making new board members present first for letting them on.

i'll continue as the alternate and will be taking over next month for the high speed rail. >> thank you. >> thank you. we look forward to having you join us. >> item 3. new business and old business. none that i'm aware of. being none your next item is item 5, the executive director's report. >> good morning, directors. as you all know, last week the area voters voted for passing [inaudible] ts is a great way for improvement in the bay area. it's expected to generate $4.5 for infrastructure improvement funding including $325 million for the downtown extension. this amount of funding is made available in time would allow us to take the downtown extension project to status in three to four years. we are updating our project

delivery plan for phase 2 and we present to the board next month. there will be three milestones we wish to achieve. the first milestone is a full design completion and complete required studies to enter the new program. the new starts program is the first step for us to be able to secure t $1 billion in funding for -- federal funding we have in the planned area. we are working with the san francisco transportation authority to secureunding for a portion of the design. we hope to receive our allocation in july. we are also working with mtc to secure is remaining funding for the design from region 3. second was to achieve status. that includes securing the build project and completing the construction and building documents. we have started the dialogue on the amount of funding we need to

achieve this milestone. if we get the money ready in time we could be red in three to four years. the next milestone is funding the proje and completing construction. in regards to the status of the environmental document, the office of the federal transit administi still reviewing the final supplemental environmental impact statement. we should be receiving that sometime this week. we may be able to bring the documents for the board's consideration next month. later on today's agen theda city and county of san francisco lanning director, john ram, will present the results of the study and input from the public meeting held last month. as you will hear, the results of the rap study supports the environmental clear alignment for the gtx. with the transit center nearing

completion, the completion of the lab study, our focus is shifting to operating the transit center and bringing the cal and high speed rail to the transit center in the shortest time possible. we will submit proposals to help accomplish our mission of operating the transit center in the most efficient manner and bringing the trains in the shortest time possible. we have an organizational assessment to best organize staff for operating the transit center and delivering the trains. this was something that was suggested. the purpose of the organization you -- assessment is to inform us if we have few staff members and relying on consultant help is most efficient given the amount of workload coming up. we will present the findings for you in the next few months. we are also releasing a request for proposal for project management and project control services.

our current contract ends this november, the focus of our current contract is one work. we would like to have a new contract for phase 2. we will need, however, to extend our current contract to allow us to continue at 30% development and to help us transition into a ew con we would bring that exsin the board next month. we are releasing a request for proposal for planning and acquisition services to help us mana manage the activities required for phase 2. we hope to bring you all these results for proposals for consideration in the next few months. at this time i would like to ask ann from collier to present the collier update. for the leasing. >> good morning, everyone. thank you for having me. i'm here to give a brief summary of our activity for the past month. we will be talking about it more

later on in the closed session. i'm happy to report that it's been another very busy and productive month for us at colliers as we continue to move and starack with our leasing goals for the project. as of right now, we have more than 20 loi's in negotiation and we are negotiating more leases with more expected to come online at the end of the month. we have been staying true to our merchandising plan and are also happy to report that our tenant mix is predominantly local tenants, several of whom this will be their first retail operation. we look forward to sharing more of those details as mauve -- we move through this session and also through the summer. also it continues to be strong. we are averaging anywhere between four to six tours a week.

a combination of tenants flying in to see us and architects and contractors getting ready to optimize once we get a delivery of the building and are able too start going on our landlords work and tenants work later this year. with that i'm happy to answer questions or we can talk more later in the ion. >> thank you. >> thank you, ann. at this time i would like to ask christine to provide us with an update on the preparation for the grand opening. >> good morning, directors. as i've been updating you in partnership with our transit operators and other partners we will be hosting and celebrating the opening of the south transit center and park, events are meant to give transit riders opportunities about the transit center and also the transportation features and also meant to attract visitors year round to the center by highli t

highlighting all the amenities from public art to the park to transit. before i start that i'll just let you know that sfmta has started this week with ambassadors on the week educating treducat educating transit riders at the terminal to let them know how to find the new bus stop. people are excited. they are happy to move over early. people can't wait for the transit center to open. we've gotten very positive feed back from them. the campaign and the transit ambassadors are doing a great job. we will do a similar campaign in august to transit from greyhound, amtrak and others so they know what is going on later this summer. while we are doing that we are planning for a series of opening events celebrating and commemorate that will include public tours, ceremonial ribbon cutting, neighborhood block parties. since i spoke last with you we gathered many, many more partners.

everyone we ask and ask is a resounding yes and people are excited. everyone from market railway and organizations that immediately surround the park and transit center are coming on board to help us promote the activities. so i think bev been very cost conscious as well. we have the -- for the neighborhood block party all the levels activated with our partners, brv is going to activate the park and the ground floor and the grand hall and we are going to have a pop up retail that will start on august 11th to welcome the public. a lot of our out reach is going to be through the neighborhood organizations, merchant organizations and hopefully with some paid advertising that we've raised money to do. i'll be happy to take any questions. >> at our next meet aring -- meeting are you going to present a calendar with all of this stuff so we can start planning?

>> yes. absolutely. we've been producing save the dates now for the park and pending construction milestones being metver o the next week. in early july we are planning towards mid august and august 10, '11, 12 opening. >> everything over those three days? >> yes. but pending some construction milestones being met. >> okay. like i shared with you, the chief financial officer has decided to seek other opportunities. i would like to take this opportunity to thank sara for her many years of invaluable service to tgpa. sara has agreed to stay with us until the end of july. she managed to be able to negotiate something good for us with her new employer to help with transition. as you know, the cfo position is

a board officer appointed by the board. i will keep the board abreast throughout the recruitment process. i just want to say thank you so much for your many years of invaluable service. this concludes my report. >> i would join i think on behalf of the board to thank sara for all the great work, all the funding, times we tried to figure out how to make ends meet. i remember when we got word that we didn't have any funding for the rooftop and, you know, sara was there trying to figure it out, working with the city, rosenfeld. everybody. it's been a great asset to have. i want to thank you for all the great work to bring the station to fruition and hopefully you'll be at the event celebrating with us. thank you for your service. >> i would second that. when the san francisco people

came back when that was going on they said we can talk to sara. that was so reassuring to hear that. >> questions? >> just a couple of questions for you. i want to make sure i understand. we are getting a new pm on board in november you said? >> project manager, project control contracts. later this year. we are going to release it and bring it back. >> and then i didn't quite catch -- that was about the november time frame i think you said. >> in the fall. >> yeah. >> are you expanding the current cm contract? >> yeah. we need our contract to continue for phase 2. we need to have a seamless transition. >> thank you. >> call your next item, item 6

is the construction update. >> good morning directors. jeff peterson. right now we will present the june construction update. a lot of activity to present. a lot of pictures to show. ron will cover the schedule and budget and rifts as we get to the finish line and then jess will talk to the tco for substantial completion update. the picture here that we've been carrying for a long time continues to get groeener and greener. it's greener from this picture because they adde a lot of sod from a couple of days ago. all that sod is in place at the western end. so making some great progress. with our graphic here, that we'll probably pretty soon be retiring is. coming -- is coming along nicely. the main part left is building out the amphitheater area. once they finish out the sod

they are also doing the paving of the pathway which has been a major operation. half of the park now is closed off because the pathway, almost half of it, had been taped with the resident -- you know, the paving operation with the sod. there's a last bit of grass that will go on the great lawn. it's coming together well. moving down to the bus deck, we have a major clean up from the last month,getting ready for transit buses to come through with training. it's very clean. there's some pet island ceilings but for the most part things are coming online. beacons are flashing. it's all been very good to hear in the last couple days that ron and jess will talk to. the second level has been -- for the most part been turned over. i'll have a slide to talk to that. the ground level continues with

its -- the site work, the ground level where the bus plaza has been readied for saturday. the signal at fremont is ready. the paving has happened at 1st and fremont. the build out and final, the frontage roads, is happening in a timely manner for the summer clean up. then below ground the soc is an important one. that back of house. there's furniture being moved in. there's computers started to come in. we don't have any paint and driveway wall anymore to talk to because the actually furniture has been moved in. making some good progress at the tco. below at the train box there it's essentially complete at this point. we really the clean up is in process right now. there's a

lot of -- if you walked through that recently it looks a little like home depot and a lot of boxes and a lot of equipment and materials and stuff that is just gettilean c up. that's really the mode at these levels at this point. that's my words page here that's essentially what i've just said. it's in that particular page. on the left-hand side you have that first admission. you're looking south there is come -- completed. the one on the bus deck on the right is still going. we have that box, i like to call it is fridge box, is hiding and protecting one of the pylons on the bus deck that is being hooked up and is going to have data on it very soon. the ceilings and everything look very similar to the rendering. also at biel street, biel street

is all set as well. all the different elements that the bus plaza will activate fully in less than a couple of days. some of the grand hall pictures is now most of the -- even soth the -- even that was removed so that looks closer to the rendering that kelly made a long time ago. they have really proven to be exactly what it was going to be built out. i think it looks a lot better in person than the rendering themselves. similar here is a couple other shots oh of the grand hall, especially the one on the right, the lake home. it is just getting a final polishing and the big board is coming along really well as you can see a picture of the big board here and it is finalizing. it's all in prep.

it will get installed in the upper bus deck level. it's other work that web core had to do to appllow for it wil be installed mid to late july. popping up to the park, it's just sort of a neat element of the park that's coming together as the playground. it's a very spongy fund material that the director got to -- a couple days ago got to see. the underlying of it is aot of recycled materials and it's a very neat area to be up on the park. that will be very enjoyable for children and adult children as well. mau moving back down to the grand hall, we are putting kiosks, clipper, ticketing machines. that's the level that we are at right now of getting things readied for the public here

shortly. the sod is in. this is a picture of the progress. this is the big board. it really shows the video graphics that are possible on this dece. itery impressive and very proud to be part of instructing that. the tenant slide will be retired shortly. there's some things such as the mail room, the ground amtrak, the tgpa office on the seco level. at this point -- and martha's team will continue to report on the build out, the tentative improvement elements but i think this has been a seamless hand over from web core to the turner special projects division group.

then moving south, that's another one that's going well. we had some buses that went in and did their initial testing about a week or two ago now. some feedback cameom that, moving those buses around. we have this on the list to try to accommodate those items when we run the tests, when we get buses in there. they say you got a model and then when you do the actual drive through there other things come out and we are in the process of getting those ready to ensure training start as soon as possible. the left-hand side is the admin building that's in place. it's getting built out. the team will be walking out there on monday actually, the ac transit team to see their new digs as they come together over there at the bus storage ility. another slide is this one.

i should have put the video showing the flashing beacons working. they got activated and much to linda's happiness, this has been an extremely long road that we've been on for this flashing beacon but it does flash and it does work. so it's been incorporated into the ac transit training program at this point. the last bit of good news before i turn it over to ron is we did not have any recordables or lost time, accidents as we are about to cross 5.2 craft hours on the project. so with that i will turn it over to ron for budget and schedule. thank you. >> thank you, dennis. good morning, directors. exciting time as you can see things are coming together, things are looking good. still a lot of activity out there. i'll go through my normal data

on budget and schedule. the question at the forefront of your mind, will we or will we not have tco on friday. the short answer is a yes and a no. i'll get into that just as soon as i get through the data. >> hear how quiet it is. >> in terms of budget, things are kind of streaming along as expected. or what has been forecasted. i misspoke, we went through 24.4 working place this month and we've committed an additional 9.2 million. that's trending as i mentioned. contingency spending is no surprises as well. about 3.8 million. most of it is catch up on -- as portraying a lot of old issues that have been going back and forth in terms of settling out

with the change orders or work. so no real big surprises there. i failed to mention on the last slide our eac is staying constant and that aicipating all the known and a good measure of what we can dream up in terms of unknowns, in terms of issues and contingency draw downs on potential claims. we are already in dsioiscus with web core on scheduling, discussions on how to navigate through the unpleasant potential claims and trying to off ward subcontractors. that will get a lot more legs once our focus is shifted away from delivering the project and starting operations. >> do those con -- there's

contracts around those things in terms of splits and stuff with web core. does that await full litigation? like everything is done, all the releases are in, everybody has settled everything and then we look at what's left or not? >> i need to revisit the fine print if you will on the cmgc. i think that's just a simple split to the remainder. once we come to rest. i don't think that it was contingent on a no claim situation, which was kind of what i had at my previous endeavor. >> yeah. it would be nice to know. i mean we don't have to do it at a board meeting but -- >> the presumption is it can be depleted by way of distribution or working through some of the scope or dealing with some of

the issues. >> that was my feeling as well. so the eac has that running presumption built into it. >> okay. >> in terms of le,scagain, no new real refresh here. it's been kind of holding steady. you'll see the substantial completion date shows july 9th rather than july 5th. i think we are still striving to beat the july 5th. july 9th is really a byproduct of punching in the data in the scheduling program and taking into account the holiday. no real mover or driver on that. the rough part as you can see has come along quite well. a lot of that schedule or tco has predicated on, you know, bringing up the emergency systems associated with the

infamous e2 pylons that we've talked about so much which incidentally have all arrived and are getting in place. there's a few pieces that are playing catch up. doing better on that front. >> i won't dwell on this too much but the strings of activity are pretty much moving along. a little bit of a late start on the bus plaza training but we still anticipate to get tco and have full operations by saturday. right after the 15th. the challenging piece or on going piece is the safety and easing out those pieces. we are actively trying to advance that i'll get into that

a little bit more once i get past the schedule slides. again, operations pretty much no real big change from last month in terms of the track. i think martha and her folks will be speaking to that a little bit more later in the presentation. the next go slides, the last slide is usually spoken by web core but this slide really has not changed. it's the same players. it's the building systems start up, the commissioning that needs to get teased out, the fire and life safety systems and security. as i mentioned a minute ago, the e2 pylons finally all arrived, they are all getting in place. the back fill activity around where they are put in place is happening. so that's all good news. so to take a slightly deeper dive on what is going on out