a.l.t., i think is a travesty. you can walk up and down the street and see hundreds of people who could potentially benefit from this. i was at an event over the lunchtime and had referrals, one from the department of public works and another from the park rangers. and, you know, what this would allow them to do is actually contact our office and allow us to step in and prepare these petitions. the petitions don't get prepared by themselves. they have to get prepared. usually the person is too mentally ill to show up to court. so somebody has to get the petition and then serve it and then hand walk them into treatment, which is what we did on the case of the woman that we have now brought into permanent

housing. jeff kaczynski thinks it's a good idea. barbara garcia thinks it's a good idea. they've grappled with this over a period of time. the mayor thinks it's a good idea. >> supervisor cohen: which mayor? i'm kidding. >> mark farrell. he included this in his budget. if i'm wrong, i'm sure the budget analyst will point that out in a hot second next year, but i'm hoping that i can come back and say, you know what, we've gotten 25 to 50 people into assisted outpatient treatment rather than 6. right now, the director is out on leave, so they have one person and two staff members working on these petitions. they would very much benefit from our office having this

collaborative relationship with them and referring dlients for this service. i'm here not because i want to build f.t.e.s in my department, but it's a real way to make change. we have people on the streets who need this help. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. i'm going to move the conversation a little further along. supervisor sheehy wants to speak and then supervisor yee. >> supervisor sheehy: i have a fundamental problem with this because i don't see behavioral health belongs in the justice system. that's your role. muddying that water -- if there's lack of capacity, we'll talk to department of health. it's a health issue, not criminal justice issue. it's a civil matter, not criminal matter. so if it needs legal assistance, we just talked about doing conservativeships in the city attorney's office. i'm reluctant to put the

criminal justice on behavioral health issues and that's what we'll be doing. i admire your humanity and the way you do your work, but you will not be there forever. the stigmata of criminal justice on behavioral health is something that bedevils society and the city. i think there should be a bright line. if there's capacity that needs to be developed, if it is starting down the process of civil conservativeships, if it's healthcare-related, which is what i personally believe, it needs to be in the department of public health. >> if i could just respond -- perhaps i was not clear. our office handles all the civil matters. we handle the conservativeships for the city. all the 3,000 cases i mentioned are civil cases, not criminal. >> supervisor sheehy: but you

handle them as advocating for those individuals. so you are trying to keep them from being conner sener i sene. this is like a dead skunk. are you trying to keep people from being treated or the person that has to be treated? i don't see where your advocacy role lies here. you are saying that you will cover both ends of the dialogue and that's not justice. you get to make decisions independently without the adversarial relationship on which our justice system relies. so you are reworking it so you are saying this individual will be the decision maker. unless you are not going to play your adversarial role, which as public defender, you are supposed to do. so, again, i don't see what role this plays. it feels muddy to me. >> it would be correct if the person absolutely did not want

to engage in assisted outpatient treatment, then we would not represent that. however, we have individuals who are resistant to treatment, that are not engaging in treatment or services, but, again, through our council, are agreeing to assisted outpatient treatment. why? because they can get access to services and to housing. what jeff ca kaczynski has said he will work to assist with housing. so the client would get those services if they agree. in the case of this woman, she agreed because she wanted housing and that's what we were able to get her. >> supervisor cohen: supervisor yee? >> supervisor yee: i came into the conversation mixed. there's part of me that wants to

say, what we're doing now isn't working, let's try something new. and now after hearing supervisor sheehy's argument, i think i have the mixed feeling but dragging me towards his argument. i understand his argument and support his argument and it has nothing to do with your intent. i think it's admirable that you want to do this. so i'm going to make a motion that we accept the b.l.a.s recommendation and not put this in the budget. >> supervisor cohen: and we need to add baseline cuts accepting that. is there a second? seconded by supervisor sheehy. are we in agreement or do we need to take a roll call. we're in agreement. thank you. the vote is unanimous. thank you. thank you. okay.

michelle, come on down. we're almost there. will you be back? >> good afternoon. >> supervisor cohen: good afternoon. >> we agree with the recommendations and there's just a policy recommendation for this committee. >> supervisor cohen: thank you very much. b.l.a.? >> i just wanted to make sure that members of the committee have the updated version passed out this morning. it includes the policy recommendation for $250,000 for both years. >> supervisor cohen: does that conclude your presentation?

>> yes. >> supervisor cohen: ben, anything to add? no? seeing there are no discussions, and the policy matter, supervisor sheehy, anything you want to say or we can move forward? all right. i will make a motion to accept the policy recommendations that are before us. and also make a motion to accept the -- i see a bunch of nodding, but i don't know what you are nodding to. [laughter] i think you are excited to get out of here. i'm making a motion to accept the baseline cuts to the budget, legislative analyst to this department that they suggested. is there a second? seconded by supervisor sheehy. and we take that without objection. thank you. motion passes. all right. any other business before this

body? >> clerk: madam chair, can we continue these two items? >> supervisor cohen: i will make a motion to continue items 1 and 2 until tomorrow's meeting tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. seconded by supervisor yee and without objection. ladies and gentlemen, we're adjourned.

>> hi everybody, we down here at the /ep is a center which is our pop up space down here in san francisco where we operate a store front to educate the policy from the home owner who has center which is our pop up space down here in san francisco where we operate a store front to educate the policy from the home owner who has never done anything in the house to the most advanced structure engineers we have working around here. we we're going to here from kelly to talk a little bit about san francisco. how are you doing kelly? >> very well, thank you for having us here. >> in front of us, we have a typical soft story building. when i see this,

i think this is some of the most beautiful architecture our city has. a lot of people don't know these are problematic buildings. why don't you tell us about some of the risks he we have in these buildings? >> soft stories are vulnerable in past earthquakes and the northridge earthquake to this type of building and character of building. when we talk about the soft story, what we're talking about is generally a ground story that has less wall or other /pwraeugs to resist the lateral forces that might be imposed by the earthquake. so we're looking for something that is particularly weak or soft in this ground story. now, this is a wonderful example of what some of the residential buildings that are soft stories in san francisco look like. and the 1 thing that i would point out here is that the upper force of this building have residential units. they have not only a

fair amount of wall around the exterior of the building but they also have very extensive walls in the interior and bathrooms and bedrooms and corridors and everything that has a certificate amount of brazing yea it's significantly less country /srabl in those stories. now very often, we get even a garage or storage or sometimes commercial occupancy in this ground story. that very often not only has a whole lot less perimeter wall but it often has little or no wall on the interior. that wall is the earthquake bracing and so he see very significant bracing in the top floor and very little on the bottom. when the earthquake comes and hits, it tries to push that ground floor over and there's very little that keeps it from moving and degrading and eventually /paoerblly keeping it from a collapse occurring.

so we know they're vulnerable because of this ground story collapsing >> is this only a problem we see in sentence france? san francisco? >> no, this is certainly a national problem. more acute in western but more up to california, washington, moving out into other states. this kind of building exist and this kind of building is vulnerable. >> when you're involved with the community safety, this is a different way of thinking about these types of things. we had a community group of over 100 people involved and upper 1 of them. tell us about * how that conversation went. why did we decide as a city or a community to start fixing these types of buildings? >> there were a lot of aspects that were considered well beyond just the engineering answer that these are vulnerable. and that effort brought in a lot of people from different

aspects of the community that looked at the importance of these buildings to the housing stock and the possible ramifications of losing this /houbgs in the case of an earthquake. the financial implications, the historic preserve vacation s implication as you mentioned, these are very handsome looking buildings that are importance to the tourist city ask which make san francisco something that people are interested from outside in coming and visiting. >> it's such animation story when you think about the 10 years that the community spent talking about this /seurb but we actually did something about it. now we have an order unanimouses put in place to protect 100,000 residents in san francisco and retrospective in 2020. so on behalf of residents and employees in san francisco, we want to say thank you for the work you've done in pushing this forward and making people more

aware of these issues. >> and it was a fantastic community effort. >> so in an earth quake, what happens in these kinds of buildings? >> what happens when an earthquake comes along is it moves the ground both horizontally and vertically. it's mostly the horizontal that we're worried about. it starts moving the building back and forth and pushing on it. when you see i'm pushing on it, the upper stiff of the wall stay straight up but the lower floors, they actually collapse just like i did there. >> luckily, we can put this building right back up where it came from so it's a lot easier. now kelly, obviously these aren't real frame walls here but when you talk about buildings, what makes the property for stiff? >> the easiest and most cost-effective type of bracing

you can put in is either put in a brand new wall or to potentially go in and strengthen a wall that's already there where you don't need to have an opening is where you maybe have a garage door or access to commercial space, you might go to a steel frame or other types of bracing systems that provides the strength and stiff if necessary but at the same time, allows continued use of that area. but some combination of walls or frames or other tools that are in the tool kit that can bring the building up to the strength that's required in order to remove the vulnerability from the building so that when ground shaking comes, it in fact is a whole lot more resistant and less vulnerable. ideally, this story down here would be made as strong and stiff as the floors above. >> if i'm a property owner,

what is the first thing i should do? >> the first thing you should do is find professional that can come in and help you evaluate your building in order to, 1, figure out that indeed it does need to be retro fitted and 2, give you some idea of what that retro fit might look like. and third, evaluation and design to help you determine the retro fit requirement. >> well kelly, i can't thank you enough for being here today. thank you so much for your wealth of information on how we can take care of our soft story problem in san francisco. and you the viewer, if you have any questions, please feel free to visit our website >> it's great to see everyone kind of get together and prove, that you know, building our culture is something that can be reckoned with.

>> i am desi, chair of economic development for soma filipinos. so that -- [ inaudible ] know that soma filipino exists, and it's also our economic platform, so we can start to build filipino businesses so we can start to build the cultural district. >> i studied the bok chase choy her achbl heritage, and i discovered this awesome bok choy.

working at i-market is amazing. you've got all these amazing people coming out here to share one culture. >> when i heard that there was a market with, like, a lot of filipino food, it was like oh, wow, that's the closest thing i've got to home, so, like, i'm going to try everything. >> fried rice, and wings, and three different cliefz sliders. i haven't tried the adobe yet, but just smelling it yet brings back home and a ton of memories. >> the binca is made out of different ingredients, including cheese. but here, we put a twist on it. why not have nutella, rocky

road, we have blue berry. we're not just limiting it to just the classic with salted egg and cheese. >> we try to cook food that you don't normally find from filipino food vendors, like the lichon, for example. it's something that it took years to come up with, to perfect, to get the skin just right, the flavor, and it's one of our most popular dishes, and people love it. this, it's kind of me trying to chase a dream that i had for a long time. when i got tired of the corporate world, i decided that i wanted to give it a try and see if people would actually like our food. i think it's a wonderful opportunity for the filipino culture to shine.

everybody keeps saying filipino food is the next big thing. i think it's already big, and to have all of us here together, it's just -- it just blows my mind sometimes that there's so many of us bringing -- bringing filipino food to the city finally. >> i'm alex, the owner of the lumpia company. the food that i create is basically the filipino-american experience. i wasn't a chef to start with, but i literally love lumpia, but my food is my favorite foods i like to eat, put into my favorite filipino foods, put together. it's not based off of recipes i learned from my mom. maybe i learned the rolling technique from my mom, but the different things that i put in are just the different things

that i like, and i like to think that i have good taste. well, the very first lumpia that i came out with that really build the lumpia -- it wasn't the poerk and shrimp shanghai, but my favorite thing after partying is that bakon cheese burger lumpia. there was a time in our generation where we didn't have our own place, our own feed to eat. before, i used to promote filipino gatherings to share the love. now, i'm taking the most exciting filipino appetizer and

sharing it with other filipinos. >> it can happen in the san francisco mint, it can happen in a park, it can happen in a street park, it can happen in a tech campus. it's basically where we bring the hardware, the culture, the operating system. >> so right now, i'm eating something that brings me back to every filipino party from my childhood. it's really cool to be part of the community and reconnect with the neighborhood. >> one of our largest challenges in creating this cultural district when we compare ourselves to chinatown, japantown or little saigon, there's little communities there that act as place makers. when you enter into little

philippines, you're like where are the businesses, and that's one of the challenges we're trying to solve. >> undercover love wouldn't be possible without the help of the mayor and all of our community partnerships out there. it costs approximately $60,000

for every event. undiscovered is a great tool for the cultural district to bring awareness by bringing the best parts of our culture which is food, music, the arts and being ativism all under one roof, and by seeing it all in this way, what it allows san franciscans to see is the dynamics of the filipino-american culture. i think in san francisco, we've kind of lost track of one of our values that makes san francisco unique with just empathy, love, of being acceptable of different people, the out liers, the crazy ones.

we've become so focused onic maing money that we forgot about those that make our city and community unique. when people come to discover, i want them to rediscover the magic of what diversity and empathy can create. when you're positive and committed to using that enerit >> shop & dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges resident to do their shop & dine in the 49 within the 49 square miles of san francisco by supporting local services in the neighborhood we help san francisco remain unique successful and vibrant so we're will you shop & dine in the 49 chinatown has to be one the best unique shopping areas in san francisco that is color fulfill and safe each vegetation and

seafood and find everything in chinatown the walk shop in chinatown welcome to jason dessert i'm the fifth generation of candy in san francisco still that serves 2000 district in the chinatown in the past it was the tradition and my family was the royal chef in the pot pals that's why we learned this stuff and moved from here to have dragon candy i want people to know that is art we will explain a walk and they can't walk in and out it is different techniques from stir frying to smoking to steaming and they do show of. >> beer a royalty for the age

berry up to now not people know that especially the toughest they think this is - i really appreciate they love this art. >> from the cantonese to the hypomania and we have hot pots we have all of the cuisines of china in our chinatown you don't have to go far. >> small business is important to our neighborhood because if we really make a lot of people lives better more people get a job here not just a big firm. >> you don't have to go anywhere else we have pocketed of great neighborhoods haul have all have their own uniqueness. >> san francisco has to all

sustainability mission, even though the bikes are very minimal energy use. it still matters where the energy comes from and also part of the mission in sustainability is how we run everything, run our business. so having the lights come on with clean energy is important to us as well. we heard about cleanpowersf and learned they had commercial rates and signed up for that. it was super easy to sign up. our bookkeeper signed up online, it was like 15 minutes. nothing has changed, except now we have cleaner energy. it's an easy way to align your environmental proclivities and goals around climate change and it's so easy that it's hard to not want to do it, and it doesn't really add anything to the bill.

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] this 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 the $1 billion in funding for -- federal funding we have in the planned area. we are working with the san francisco transportation authority to secure funding 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 project and completing construction. in regards to the status of the environmental document, the office of the federal transit administration is 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 agenda, the city and county of san francisco

planning 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 us 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 new contract. we would bring that extension to 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 stay on track 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 we 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 session. >> 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 their 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 street 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 met over 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 added 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 getting cleaned 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 are amazing on their comparisons that is now most of the -- even 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 a lot 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 device. it's very 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 second 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 came from 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 starts 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 facility. 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 anticipating 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 discussions 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 schedule, again, 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 teasing 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 there as it relates to temporary certificate of occupancy, completion and full operation by august, we are 100% confident for tco for the plaza on friday for full mta operations on the plaza. the sprinkler systems, fire alarm systems are all in place. i don't see any risk on that front. what we are wrestling with right

now is teasing out and getting the fire department conquering with us to grant tco for the security operations center as well as the bus deck. so we'll continue training with ac transit up on the bus deck. you may recall we had planned to start training starting july 1st, a little had of tco. we got a little bit done there and we had the fire marshall with us in terms of bringing up some buses and teasing out. we needed to have some buses exercise to look at the signals, make sure that they are aimed correctly, that that flow of traffic was going to go as planned. so we did perfect that test on june 1st as we had planned.

what came out of it is ac transit generated a list of about 14 items, mostly adjustments of signals, a little bit of add or moves. we are in the middle of advancing and implementing those tweaks over the last week or last couple of weeks. we are waiting on some parts and we'll see them arrive and get in place next week. so that was one element that was kind of pushing on us. or pushing us out. we had to accommodate those concerns coming out of the the testing. we are working closely with ac transit. we had planned to get fully engaged in training right at this tco. since we are in the middle of testing fire alarms, all the