on the part connector because i'm not convinced it is needed. and bart can't figure out how they will incorporate it. >> let me answer. one of the things is we have been working with bart. they haven't said no. we are proceeding. the big thing is we met with n.t.c. and the $325 million we are getting from the fund is conditioned on providing that tunnel. >> i have not seen that condition. >> he is very clear -- >> commissioner harper: i have not seen that condition. >> anyway, they made it very clear to us. >> commissioner harper: you know, i have checked on that too and i have not seen that condition. spending this money back when i can't even figure out who is going to use this tunnel. it might be fine for residents who want to stay out of the ra rain, into the tunnel, get through a couple of blocks without being in the rain. that is not the point for us. the point for us is to serve

passengers. and i still need to find out who that passenger is. why they don't, you know, get on the bart at mill bright and why if they are coming from the east bay, where bart is everywhere, why they haven't found barred by the time they got to san francisco on our buses. so -- even though n.t.c., i have been in those meetings. a lot of the commissioners love bart. they think everything needs to connect to bart. but we need to figure out, for ourselves, if we are spending money that would otherwise go do dt x. and pennsylvania avenue, whicwhich is all critical. instead going to something that no one can tell me why it is needed or how it can be incorporated. i've got that problem. i would encourage, for the initial stock, that we add these people -- have these people focus on what we really have to have as soon as possible.

and not worry so much about getting to bart. >> may be i can respond to a little piece of that. i think there are passengers coming up in the south on high speed and on caltrain, who for them, the fastest trip would be through taking one of the train services to the centre and transferring to bart to go to the east bay. i think there is a viable business model there. i do not know what the numbers is of those passengers but i think it is something people would do. i do have a question on the recompete. and from what i understood from your slides, is the work, -- i'm trying to figure out how the timing lines up. in september of you coming back and taking on the pennsylvania avenue alignment, but then there would not be work happening on it until the recompete for this contract under the existing contract. >> chair nuru: th the scope of this contract is limited to face two. >> ok.

>> and the idea is that we will release a fee at the end of this month or early next month to continue face two services and once we get a team on board will transition the new team to do face two. that team, the new team, can do project management as well for the pennsylvania avenue extension should the board approve the inclusion of the pennsylvania avenue in the transbay programs and allow us to do the work. the new team will do that. >> but the new team is not the existing team queen. >> no. we reduce the scope and it allows us to continue with a 30% as little as possible. and team -- time to transition a new team in. >> so we are trying to make a reasonable break. the break is around the 30%. we are trying to have this team carry that 30% through and bring on a new team and engage them with possibly a future rabb and

transitioned them over to pick up the others? all the new projects going forward, we want them associated with the new team. it is a handoff. there has to be a systematic handoff. >> the procurement studies, all that would be the new team. we just need the existing team to carry on the 30% design drawings. so we can find an opportune time for a transition. >> ok. >> chair nuru: director sesay? >> commissioner sesay: i appreciate there is an r.f.p. going out but i'm thinking through this transition, how does the funding, the federal grant funding seems very important. how do we ensure that that actually gets delivered on with this flip or change in teams? >> we are looking for a smooth

transition. the two g.p.a. is a small staff. the institution is largely with the consultant team right now. we need to get a new team on board and transitioned that knowledge and have the new team pick up all the tasks that we can do right now with the 30% design and find a transition point between now and several months from now to transition over. it will not be, you know, it will not be a cutoff process. we need a transition time. >> chair nuru: it will be helpful for the sport understand how you think this transition will happen. it sounds like you are committing us to 30% but it may consist -- discourage people from coming in on new projects. i have said this to you. i think that should be clear on what that process is as opposed to inching and inching and then we are stuck with certain peop people.

>> that's not the intent. the intent is, and the scope is to cut that. but like i said, and you feel my pain. there is a continuing. you have to cut this but you cannot leave -- you have to allow that transition to happen. this is the best time to do it. and so we are trying to do it systematically and make it all work. >> commissioner sesay: i also want to acknowledge that this started in 2,004. over a decade. th.the opportunity to have somee come and create a competitive process is helpful, because i want to understand also, in terms of -- i know you are not the city, but in terms of the city contract and policy requirements, to what extent that would be embraced if possible as you are doing it. >> the current contract we have for the project management and project control services was done in 2014.

so it has been since 2014 with this particular contract. we went for recompete in 2014 and there was a selected team that submitted at the time. >> so the r.f.p. that is coming, the extent is to embrace the contracting requirement? >> i'm sorry let me ask sarah. let me ask the experts on the procurement. >> commissioner sesay: what is that process? >> we include all of the city requirements that are included by our federal requirement. for instance, local hiring, we can't include that -- those clauses in our contract because of federal prohibitions against geographic preferences. but we do include all of the other clauses an and yes. some are very easy for us to monitor compliance and minimum compensation ordinance, for

example. we see timesheets and hours. i can tell you that minimal compensation ordinance is not usually an issue on this proje project. since compensation is lower than you will see on consultant charges. we also keep track of city changes. so 12 acts, no travel. that became law after this contract was entered into. it is not part of this contract, but would be included in the contract entered into for the next team. thank you. >> clerk: we have one other member of the public who would like to comment on this item. >> chair nuru: ok. >> hello. thank you very much. now that we just have one

project in the transbay terminal, we now have this unique opportunity to rethink the location of the townsend station. we suppose that we will relocate the station to seventh street. everything works. dot station location works with both. but what i would advise you to do is to connect both sides of mission creek. so now you are surveying not just southern soma but you are serving mission bay, you are surveying ucsf and you are serving the new arena. but when you think this forward, it is no cost to you. you can start engineering the future b.r.t. station that will be under high-speed rail. that will connect directly to alameda by the 16th street alignments. my suggestion for you to you is you spend your money there

instead of wasting this money near transbay and embarcadero. thank you. >> clerk: that includes -- that concludes members of the public would like to comment on this item. >> chair nuru: do we have a motion on this? >> clerk: we will move to item 16. >> chair nuru: second. >> clerk: item 15, -- i'm sorry, item 16. [roll call] item 16 is approved. >> chair nuru: next item, please. >> clerk: as i noted earlier under items three, item 17 has been posed on -- postponed at this time. we will move on to item 18.

>> chair nuru: i am looking for mike. i saw him earlier. come on down. [laughter] he has been an ironworker since 1985. he does not look like an ironworker. he is an ironworker. [laughter] in 2,005 he became the secretary and treasurer for the san francisco building and trades council. he helped us immensely for us to be able to come to excuse the projecproject liberty agreementr phase one and phase two. he helped us do that. that included 28 unions that benefited the contractor and benefited the g.d.p. and benefited the unions and nonmembers as well. he has been instrumental in leading the joint administrative committee that we meet quarterly on that was formed by the p.l.a. they were instrumental in

helping us get the workforce, skilled workforce that we need to build the project. he has been a great supporter of the project and he is retiring in august. i want to wish him thank you and happy retirement. >> i guess i will talk. [laughter] before you vote. one of the things -- i'm proud of my advocacy on behalf of working men and women in san francisco, but one of the other things i'm proud of his making things work in this town. making things work for the city i love and for the working men and women i left. and this particular project and the agreements are an instance of that. early on, we were able to enlist our national organization in advocacy for some of the funding decisions that help the project go forward. and as the project began to roll out, even though we are in the depths of a recession, we insisted on a close accounting

of the use of apprentices and a maximization of the use of apprentices so we were not just talking about getting journey level workers back to work. but in actually giving opportunities for new folks to get into our trades. and the transbay joint powers authority was cooperative with that. we had excellent results as a result. you have seen them reported in the reports here at your regular meetings. and in the course of the project, you know, there were various points were difficult situations arose. we managed to deal with that. there was one in particular that i will was one in particular that i will point out where my own local, we had a wildcat strike. the members were quite rightly upset about the lousy contract that was statewide but lousy for san francisco. we were in a difficult position. i was in a difficult position of telling our workers they had to go to work past the picket lines of ironworkers. that is not a statement and a push that will make you popular in the local that has to elect

you as a delegate to the building trades for me to keep my job. but i did that anyway. i've always taken the attitude, you know, look, i will stay in shape. i will keep my toolbelt and i was a damn good ironworker before. if you make me lose this job i will be a damn good ironworker again. we got some practical stuff do done. i want to thank the board for the opportunity to work with them and i think it has worked out well. >> i want to thank you for the leadership of the building and trades. i know we received many rooms. at least on this project, you know, the partnership as agreed with the numbers initially. thank you. >> thank you. >> clerk: with that, members of the public wanting to comment on the item. resolution? >> second. [roll call]

>> clerk: item 18 is approved. the next item i will not call. [laughter] she can't leave. [laughter] >> chair nuru: i would appreciate that. >> clerkb12 item 19 isapprovinga appreciation for the tjpa chief financial officer. >> chair nuru: as you learned last month, sarah is leaving the organization for another job and wanted to thank her again for her tremendous contribution to the transbay program. i would note she started in 2,004 and she took a year off in 2,005 and came back later in 2,007. there is an opportunity that she

came back -- that she may come back. [laughter] eric. >> clerk: for the time being we will assume she will not come back. she became a cfo in 2011 and she really drove the financials for the project. as you know, this was not an easy project financially. we had a lot of difficulties. she overcame every one of them in close partnership with the n.t.c. and our funding partners and the city of county of san francisco. it was a giant effort on her part to do it and she did an awesome job. i have to point out that part of the financing she did with some difficult time in medical conditions for her. she worked through it and did that. i do admire that part as well. sarah, thank you very much for everything you have done for us. if you change your mind, this board will listen carefully. [laughter]

>> chair nuru: yes, director sesay? >> commissioner sesay: i have known sarah and worked with her over the years. this is a big loss for the agency, as well as the city, the the authority. as well as the city. we got to work so closely together in the last three years on the refinancing of the cfd. and to have a partner who was thoughtful, problem solving oriented, and such a complicated finance and with multiple funding and finance partners, there is not any other project that i've worked on that has had that level of complication. you handled it with grace and you impress me. i am always in awe of you. i definitely will miss you and i

echo the director's. if you think about coming back, i'm sure there is a home for you. it does not have to be at tjpa. but somewhere in the city. [laughter] because -- >> chair nuru: ok. >> i want to echo our thanks from the tjpa but also from the agency of the transportation authority, sarah. you are sharp and thorough and on top of every nook and cranny of even the smallest details. i have to echo what nadia has said. from our policy and program funding team, we also want to wish you the best and thank you so much for your service to this project. >> chair nuru: i will do the same. you know, thank you so much for everything that you have done for us. we went through some very difficult times and we had to rebuild some of the trust that we had amongst the agencies. you were right there and, you know, thank you for everything. i wish you all the best as you

move on. >> i was glad i was not here in 2,004. [laughter] but i think i joined the agency about the time we were running out of money and had to refinance. >> which time? [laughter] >> the most recent time. i'm really glad i was not there. but sarah, you carried the ball through that very difficult time. you were the one that helped rebuild the trust on the confidence and get us through that last hurdle with the city and with all the different agencies in that last big chunk of money. thank you for that. thank you for your many, many years of service to this agency and the community and to the city. and best wishes on your next chapter. don't be a stranger. come back for the ribbon-cutting when the new high-speed rail train comes through. thank you and congratulations. >> chair nuru: you have to make. >> thank you to everybody for

your kind words. i'm very gratified that i've been here long enough to see the project in the first phase coming to fruition. i will of course, be at the ribbon-cutting event. and i couldn't be prouder of the fact that i have had a role on such a groundbreaking, in so many ways project. whether it was construction wise or financial -wise. you all have said very kind things but i really can't take credit for the different financing issues that we have dealt with. we have excellent financial advisors who are in the back of the room. thank you for extending their contracts. they will be of great help to mark and the board as you try to replace me. [laughter] i also have excellent financial accounting staff at the tjpa. i couldn't do anything without

them and folks wouldn't get paid without them. i want to recognize all of their hard work. they are not usually at the board meetings and you don't see them. it is definitely a team effort. and i don't think i'm coming back, but i will keep the invitation in mind. thank you very much. >> chair nuru: thank you again. our door is open. next item. >> clerk: what is next? move to resolution 18. no members of the public wanted to comment on the item. [roll call] item 19 is approved. at this time you are scheduled to go into closed session. if any member of the public

wishes to address you, they have an opportunity to do so now. or we will go

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back in '71, i wanted to do something with ritual, ceremony and history and you know i talked to my partner ross about the research and we opened and it hit a cord and people loved it. >> i think the line between engaging everyone with our culture and appropriating it. i think it goes back to asking people to bring their visions of what it means to honor the dead, and so for us it's not asking us to make mexican altars if they are not mexican, it's really to share and expand our vision of what it means to honor the dead. >> people are very respectful. i can show you this year alone of people who call tol ask is it

okay if we come, we are hawaii or asian or we are this. what should we wear? what do you recommend that we do? >> they say oh, you know, we want a four day of the dead and it's all hybrid in this country. what has happened are paper cuts, it's so hybrid. it has spread to mexico from the bay area. we have influence on a lot of people, and i'm proud of it. >> a lot of tim times they don't represent we represent a lot of cultures with a lot of different perspectives and beliefs. >> i can see the city changes and it's scary. >> when we first started a lot of people freaked out thinking

we were a cult and things like that, but we went out of our way to also make it educational through outreach and that is why we started doing the prosession in 1979. >> as someone who grew up attending the yearly processions and who has seen them change incrementally every year into kind of what they are now, i feel in many ways that the cat is out of the bag and there is no putting the genie back into the bottle in how the wider public accesses the day of the dead. >> i have been through three different generations of children who were brought to the procession when they were very young that are now bringing their children or grandchildren. >> in the '80s, the processions were just kind of electric.

families with their homemade visuals walking down the street in san francisco. service so much more intimate and personal and so much more rooted in kind of a family practice of a very strong cultural practice. it kind of is what it is now and it has gone off in many different directions but i will always love the early days in the '80s where it was so intimate and son sofa millial. >> our goal is to rescue a part of the culture that was a part that we could invite others to join in there there by where we invite the person to come help us rescue rescue it also. that's what makes it unique.

>> you have to know how to approach this changing situation, it's exhausting and i have seen how it has affected everybody. >> what's happening in mission and the relationship with the police, well it's relevant and it's relevant that people think about it that day of the dead is not just sugar skulls and paper flowers and candles, but it's become a nondenominational tradition that people celebrate. >> our culture is about color and family and if that is not present in your life, there is just no meaning to it you know? >> we have artists as black and brown people that are in direct danger of the direct policies of the trump a administration and i think how each of the artists has responsibilitie responded ss

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>> good morning, ladies and gentlemen and i want to welcome you to the budget and finance committee. i'm supervisor malia cohen and i'm the chairwoman. and to my right is sandra fewer and supervisor catherine steafani. and the broadcast on sfgov-tv and welcome miss linda wong who is the clerk of this committee. madam clerk, any announcements? >> clerk: please silence all