existing home. this means that if your existing home is worth $1 million in market value, your new home must be $1 million or below. if you're looking to purchase and sell within a year, were you nur home must not be at a value that is worth more than 105% of your exist egging home. which means if you sell your old home for $1 million, and you buy a home within one year, your new home should not be worth more than $1.15 million. if you sell your existing home at $1 million and buy a replacement between year one and two, it should be no more than $1.1 million. know that your ability to

participate in this program expires after two years. you will not be able to receive prop 60 tax benefits if you cannot make the purchase within two years. so benefit from this tax savings program, you have to apply. just download the prop 60 form from our website and submit it to our office. for more, visit our website, sfassessor.org, there any announcements? >> clerk: silence all electronic devices. complete speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon will be on the september 18th board of supervisors agenda. >> supervisor tang: thank you. call items one through five together. >> clerk: yes. [reading agenda item]

>> supervisor tang: thank you very much. at this point i'm going to turn it over to supervisor jane kim. >> supervisor kim: thank you, chair tang. this item is going to be heard at the full board tomorrow.

i'm sorry. let me rephrase that. tomorrow at the full board, we will be hearing the appeal of to see what determination for the central soma plan. because we cannot hear anything approvals before them, the planning commission is waiting to hear amendments, which is set to be heard this thursday. so, i have asked through the noticing process that we set the continuance to the date of monday, october 1st. but i know that before we do that, we have to open up for public comment on all these items. >> supervisor tang: i will open up items one through for for comment? any members of the public that want to speak? public comment is closed. as supervisor kim stated, i would like to entertain a motion to continue items one through five to the october 1st land use meeting. >> supervisor kim: i will make that motion. >> supervisor tang: we will do that without objection. item six.

[reading agenda item] >> supervisor tang: thank you. we have jen low from supervisor yee's office who is a son spore of this item and a representative from the planning department. >> good afternoon, chair tang, supervisors kim and safai. ocean avenue is one of our merchant corridors in district seven and has a very active community benefits district organized by the ocean avenue association. the association came to us with this idea because we were getting concerned that medical uses were taking up a lot of the retail spaces on the ground floor along ocean avenue. so, we shared that concern and came up with a solution

requiring a conditional use so that appropriate and necessary and desirable uses could be maintained on the corridor without taking away from active retail space. so, we have audrey here from the planning department to share a little more about this. we would love to have your support. we understand when we have further restrictions on corridors that it can do the opposite effect, which is increasing vacancies and we are working with the ocean avenue association to look into a pilot that was started by chair tang and supervisor safai. but streamlining permitting processes for desirable businesses on the ground floor so we are attracting businesses we want to see. i will hand this over to the planning department. >> supervisor tang: thank you. i'm glad to hear that. did you, supervisor safai, have a question? >> supervisor safai: i will make a comment after she speaks. >> afternoon. audrey from the planning department.

the planning commission heard this. the background on our recommendation is threefold. health service uses do not foster an active store front to the extent many eating establishments attract at the street level. and it has struggled to maintain an active pedestrian commercial corridor and overkon investigation of these type of uses -- overconcentration can serve to disrupt the uses. it can be relied upon to ensure appropriate uses are appropriate. the second reason is the conditional use authorization process also keeps the path clear to establishing a new health service use in the ocean avenue ntd. in our case report, when restricting currently permitted uses on the ground floor, caution should be exercised in order to prevent a stifling of the vibrancy and diversity in

uses. as ms. low suggested, they are going to work on program to establish uses on the ground floor that are desirable for this neighborhood. the third reason is that many of the new health service uses that would be subject to the cu authorization process would be eligible for our department's community business priority processing program so long as that business doesn't possess more than 20 other locations and not seeking to expand allowed operation or store fronts. this program requires the cu authorization application to be heard by the planning commission within 90 days of complete application submittal. again, that program will assist in ensuring new proposed limitations on health service uses in this district do not overly restrict these businesses from establishing themselves without extensive delays so long as they are appropriate. that concludes our court. if you have any questions yible

-- our report. if you have any questions i am available. >> supervisor tang: thank you. supervisor safai had a question or comment. >> supervisor safai: i just wanted to say the opportunity -- i'm glad that supervisor yee's office is going to be looking into our 312 reform. it gives you the opportunity to update your table in terms of what is permitted and not permitted and what is required on the second floor in general. i'm glad this conversation started on ocean avenue. it gives you the opportunity to mirror that and you can expand it across the board to cover many different areas. i'm glad you are taking this on. >> supervisor tang: great. and i join supervisor safai's comments and happy to help district seven with that legislation as well. okay. so, at this point we will open up item six to public comment? seeing none, public comment on item six is closed. i'm happy to chat with audrey on

the side later. colleagues, do we have a motion on item six, please? >> supervisor safai: i will make a motion to send this to the board with positive recommendation. >> supervisor tang: we can do that without objection. thank you very much. item seven, please. [reading agenda item] >> supervisor tang: great. we have a sponsor. supervisor fewer. >> thank you. colleagues, i'm delighted to have this follow up meeting from public works. my neighbors on the west side have been awaiting this infrastructure and have been and will be paying for this for the next 15 years. but have not yet benefited from having underground yutilities. having the wires underground is about safety.

pg&e and the police respond to keep the area safe. today we have debra and bernie from public works who will be presenting an update on their work and having reviewed the previous recommendations for utility underground task force and data from having underground 4.8 miles in the city. i'm eager to hear about their approach and developing a master work plan. thank you. >> good afternoon, chair tang, supervisors kim, safai and fewer. we are here on behalf of san francisco public works. since the last time we met with you, we have progressed on a number of items. we are refining undergrounding information and developing a mapper interface and we are working with i.t. and performing

qaqc and developing an accurate underground map. and we are working with utility companies to secure data on outstanding utilities to be undergrounded. we have been working with a team to refine a scope of work to develop a robust undergrounding master plan which i brought today as part of the scope of work we will be assessing san diego's utility underground program as a guide. identify data gaps and assessing tunt tuntdss -- opportunities to inform recommendations for the master plan. we are looking for funding opportunities, developing a staffing plan and budget plans and implementation strategy advised by the items i have just mentioned. as part of our strategy and collaboration, we will be including various critical stakeholders to provide input into this plan. i have bernie, our acting permit manager with me if you have any

additional questions. thank you. >> supervisor tang: thank you supervisor fewer. i embarked upon research on this topic a few years ago. i know it is a difficult one and i know it was mentioned we would study san diego's model and so forth. for me what i found throughout the years of the research, it was so cost prohibitive. millions of dollars per block or per mile. i can't remember what the most recent numbers are. but exorbitant. i guess my question is, even if we are going to embark upon sort of a planning phase of this work, if we don't have the dollars, how are we going to proceed and has there been any sort of advocacy around pg and e and i forget if it was the rule third year whatever that was called money we mortgaged a long time ago and when we are even

going to be able to see anymore of those funds for the city for undergrounding. >> you were correct. there's a tremendous challenge with funding. the rule 20 funds have been exhausted for about the next 17 years. i think a budget report came out from the mayor's office identifying that. in this master plan effort we are going to look into funding opportunities and seeing what is available and support to move forward with. we will come back to you with more information on what would be available and what would be of interest to proceed with. >> supervisor kim: how long do you think it would take to do this planning and to come back to us when you have something? >> we will keep you updated as we move forward. next step is to execute a contract with the consultant and then we would be happy to work with your offices and provide you updates along the way. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. i know it is challenging and really expensive. i realize that.

so, chair, i'm requesting that we would continue this item to the call of the chair since she said she could come back and update us. >> supervisor tang: all right. we will entertain a motion to continue this to the call of the chair then. sorry. public comment. yes, on item seven. any members of the public? okay. seeing none, public comment is closed. now we can entertain the motion to continue to the call of the chair. okay. we will do that without objection. madam clerk, any other items? >> clerk: no further business. >> supervisor tang: all right. we are now adjourned. [meeting adjourned]

>> okay, good morning, i'll call to order the september 13, transbay joint powers authority meeting. >> clerk: we have the caltran representative, and we have director chang. >> present. >> clerk: director harper. >> harper present. >> clerk: director safai. >> present. >> clerk: and mr. chairman you have a quorum. go ahead and call your next item. item 3 is communications, i'm not aware of any.

seeing none, item four, new and old business. seeing none, item five, the executive director's report. >> good morning, directors. i'd like to start by welcoming director tavares to the board as well. >> thank you very much. >> i'd like to start by also thanking the board for providing the leadership that enabled us to successfully open the center to the public and to have operations last month. the success that we have had in opening and operating the transit center could not have helped without the strong support of each one of you. and to thank the management and staff as well as the staff for working very closely with us to make sure that we have a smooth successful transition from the old temporary terminal. and later on today we will provide you with the report on

the operations much the transit city with the pop-ups since we have opened. and at this time i'd like to ask, christine to report out on the opening events and activities that is part of the grand opening celebration and the commission of operations and other recent activities. christine? >> good morning. reporting out for tjpa. and thank you for taking the time to listen. i know that you all lived through august but we had a very successful opening. if i could -- our goal as stated a few months ago were first and foremost to educate our writers and our customers and to have a transition from the temporary terminal to the transit center. we did that in two phases in june and again in august. we used our own ambassadors and it was a great opportunity to provide them with some training. and their ambassador duties eventually at the transit center. so they took on that at the temporary terminal to put people over. it was multilingual and a social

media campaign to do that. so we thought that was fairly smooth. and to build awareness and excitement about the opening and really showcase the center's year-round opportunities for transit, and public art, the park, and retail opportunities. and our deliverables as i said as a writer transition program, we had a series of public tours that featured the history of transportation in the bay area and sustainability and the park. and those were soldout and waiting list only but they're very popular and the tours continue to be popular even with the centers open to the public. so we're continuing that as we have staff available. and the ribbon cutting ceremony that you all attended, thank you very much for your support and making that event a success. we had local, state and federal leaders attend. showed great support for the project. and a real big focus on the operations in phase two which is where we wanted the focus to be. our neighborhood block party which was on a saturday, was a great opportunity. it felt like the entire bay area came out.

we had a great turnout, thousands of people came through the center that day. and we could not have done it without our transit partners, the bus deck was a great opportunity, once-in had a-a-lie to learn about transportation and it was a great opportunity to promote transit and the transit center. it's a new opportunity to by-pass six lanes of busy traffic, to get from the east bay to san francisco, right into the heart of san francisco. we think that outreach by the transit operators and sfmta, and the bus deck was programmed all day and very popular. and equally popular was the park. and people really came out for the free activities and the family-friendly events and they continue to do so. so we think that the neighborhood block party set the right tone for what is available at the park and how people should treat it. and we were happy with the outcome of that. we did go through -- i have gone in front of our branding and markets for events and so i won't do that. but we had a social media

campaign, both paid and unpaid and our earned media earned i think that at least 75 stories in the lead-up to the week before the event and publications, local and national. very happy with that as well. and we hosted a series of tours as i said and the ribbon cutting, i want to share a few photos with you, though you lived it. we activated the big board and really welcomed people to the transit center. and just wanted to share a few photos of the ribbon-cutting ceremony. here's the bus deck. this is my bus, the 38 express from many years ago. and the double-decker bus and the staff. and it just shows the crowds on the bus deck and people came out to learn about transit. and one of my favorites is the overhead looking down and we have been looking down at the park for so long but to have it filled with people is a completely new experience that we're all happy about. and that's it, i'm happy to take any questions. and actually before i do that, if i could mention one more thing. as you all know the global climate action summit is

happening this week in san francisco and the transit center are participating by highlighting the environmental features of the transit center to delegates. so we're hosting tour this is week to participate as an affiliate event for this summit and we're proud to do that. now i'm happy to take any questions. >> no questions. just a great job by you and your team and all of the tjpa and the whole broader team, it was such a great, positive, opening and it has been positive since be. since. and after so many years of work to get to this point, i think that it was really well done. great. >> i came in at the tailend so it was really so much work here. >> you were the closer. [laughter] well, thank you, christine. directors, now we have the transit center open for full bus operations we have started working with caltrans on the right-of-way process. and it has the financing and

construction of the transit center, and caltrans will relinquish the parks sold for private development with the gross sale proceeds to be positive for costs related to the project. or when the transit center is open for bus operations for buses that we use for the construction of the transit center. caltrans has relinquished their power of termination for those opened and they have parcels that we utilized for the construction of the transit center. however, we have four more parcels that have yet to be developed or utilized for their final purpose. they include portions of blocks two and three in the former temporary terminal that has been used as 100% affordable housing and park respectively. and also parcel of what we call high double crime, that is used

for the park, that is on full some street. and we have a parcel q. at the corner of harrison and second street that is used for phase two is subsequently affordable housing. myself and the director safai met with caltrans last month for the relinquishment of these parkests and they have provided a very good path on how to direct these parcels. given sufficient time to prepare for the final use of the parcels. i'd like to thank caltrans for their flexibility, understanding and cooperation. and helping us with this expedited process. they've been a great partner in this process. so, thank you. >> thank you very much. moving on to phase two of the downtown extension. the board approved a proposition allocation in the amount of $9.7 million for the downtown extension project for the 30%

design effort. and $7 million only covers a portion of the funding needed, and we will be requesting the remaining funding from m.t.c. early next year when the regional measure three funds become director. i'd like to thank the director and her staff for the continued support of phase two. later on today in the agenda you have an item for your consideration to fund a design contract with parsons to complete the 30% design work. in regards to the status of the environment will documents for phase two, the federal transit administration recently informed us that instead of following the streamline process for approval of the environmental document by issuing a combined final supplemental environmental impact statement and a decision, they have elected to follow the standard neepa process which involving files a notice for the final impact statement in the federal register prior to

issuance. this involves the board signing the combined document and then f.t.a. will publish it in the federal original for a 30-day period. we have provided the office of the f.t.a. with the revised copy of the final environmental document with references and the responses to older comments to date included. we are currently expecting the f.t.a. to provide us with their final input by the end of september. our team and the team will remain fully engaged in this process. and i hope to bring the full document for your consideration in the next month or two. last item i have is that you have in front of you the quarterly financial reports and this completes my report. thank you. >> questions from the board members. next item. >> clerk: you do have one member of the public on this side, a mr. patrick.

>> good morning, patrick and company, san francisco. i had the opportunity to take my family to the opening. as you know i followed this system, if you will, for a long period of time. and i just thought it was fabulously successful. a.c. transdiet a design are dynamite having their buses with the drivers interacting and talking about the way that the buses worked. i took a picture of my wife sitting in the bus driver's seat. she loved it. and everyone loved it. and so it was very, very successful. i'd like to go back one step, however. and that is this transit center doesn't happen without a lot of leadership. mark took up this leadership role and he brought this thing together and it's been a very, very successful, i think, operational phase. it's not without problems and i criticize where i see as necessary but i think that it's hats off to him who did a great job in bringing this thing together.

so i didn't bring my hat with me. my hat off to mark. thank you. >> i want to mention ron alamedo as well, he's been tremendous as well. but thank you so much. >> clerk: that concludes the members of the public under that item. and pyour next item 6, is the construction closeout update. >> good morning, directors. dennis turchon. i do want to point out that our ron and i are both into a new phase of construction closeout. we're in a different era. and we are security and operations and maintenance and we are supporting them. so our role has changed here. and so will our presentation as well. so with that said, we do have a project overview. but i really want to take this opportunity, please, to take a look at your screens, to enjoy

five of the eight years in about a minute's time of the construction. and i wanted to take advantage of this to say to the board members that we appreciate your support throughout this entire construction process. it's been invaluable to getting us to this point. you have supported us through the monotonous years of being a hole in the ground to our year of steel in 2015, which was instant gratification, all the way through the time of the, you know, the completion of last month. i also want to take this opportunity to put out a strong thank you to the labor force. you know, the men and the women that worked in the trades that worked so very hard to build this transit center for us. all 25,000 jobs throughout the country that were created and were put together for us. i wanted to that i can this public opportunity to thank them as we move into the next spot. very good.

so now something different here. this is a slide that will show the remaining work. this is the work to complete list with a graphical description of each area. this is contract work that still needs to be completed. we still have to do the second street elevator that is at the far west end. that is anticipated to be opened very shortly. but that's the location of where it's at and it's a direct connection between the ground to the park. the west end breezeway, that's also close to second street. i have a couple slides to show where that is at. a significant amount of work is being done through that area, and also shaw alley, same one. these are the access points that are still being constructed that didn't affect the operations but felt they could be done quietly during the daytimes and the nighttimes. and also the first street and the beale street traffic signals. and there are if you walk around, there's a significant amount of ceiling panels that

still need to be installed. i'll touch on that as well too. this is the work to complete list, this isn't the entire list that webcore is working on at this point. they are continuing to work on punch list, commissioning items that aren't specific here and then also any kind of warranty work. our warranty work, an example of that one right now would be the pathway, you know, on the park. the park that -- the performance of that pathway in portions has been disappointing to us. and we've got three actions that are in place right now. the first one is a continual cleaning up of any kind of loose gravel to ensure that is taking care of. and we're also looking into actions to get certain potholes or certain areas that would be deemed needing more of media kind of attention and looking at the material that would actually fill that. while looking at a long-term, you know, a long-term process for that too. ron will also address this some more in the latter part of the

presentation but i wanted to put that up front too that we're actively working on very closely, especially on that particular one. and so with that i'll go back to the work to complete items. the second street elevator, it's almost there. it passed its state in inspectis this past sunday and it should be open by the end of next week. it's another connection to the park. right there from natoma from second street. and the west end breezeway, this is an area that is a very good connection to greyhound and level two. that one, the picture here that was taken on september 4th has a lot more of the ceiling panels been installed and the escalators are just about ready to be put online. the stairwell is ready to go. so that will be opened within the next few weeks partially. there's still work to be done but it will be done off-hours and not to affect the public.

similar, the shaw alley. shaw alley is our fourth of four public art displays. this is our jamie carpenter light fins, which you can see some of them up in the ceiling but also those boxes down on the floor are also light -- along with the benches. the concrete for that is going to be poured here by the end of the month and this will be open to the public in full availability for this art piece in about mid-october. and the other item that we're tracking right now is our traffic signals. the traffic signals at first and beale. the freemont one is in place and first and beale are installed now nightly with the poles. there's a couple items with that. we're picking up the controller's cabinets shortly but we had an issue with pg&e in getting our point of connection service. so we're working with the highest levels of pg&e with those who are providing our power.

burt we've had a lot of challenges with getting pg&e to get us a point of connection service. we continue to do so as best we can. we probably -- if they don't come through -- we'll have to go temporary routes because i know that those signals are very important to get up and going. and the other work that is really the ceiling panels. the ceiling panels are throughout and they're being installed and they should not affect the public, whether it's night or daytime, if it's out of the way or mid-day when the service on the bus deck is at a very low point, but those will continue and they'll continue through december. it's taken some time for our sub-contractor to get those materials in place and to get them installed and that will be the driving force that ron will show you on the schedule slide. that's what pushes this all the way out to late december as their final acceptance date. basically this is what the words, as i have mentioned, one item to note too is that on the east end of the gondola is

boston properties. it's almost complete with their gondola and they project in the next couple weeks that will be ready for operations and they'll keep us posted when they're ready to open that to the public. so we'll have two different avenues to get up there, beside our elevator and their gondola opening in the next couple weeks or so. the storage facility is coming along very well. the keys have been handed over to a.c. transit. the picture on the right shows the signage at that admin building that's there and there's buses that have been parking there since the first day of operations and we're working through some -- we're working through punch list items but they are working through there and we're working closely with the a.c. transit staff continuously as they are working out of that facility now. and lastly for my portion, safety and labor, i'm very happy to report since last time that we met that there's been no recordables for lost time. and accidents, which we had no lost time to date this year and

only two recordables and we are about to surpass 5.5 million draft hours of the men and women that have been working to build our transit center. it's a very impressive milestone. with that i'll turn it over to ron for the rest of the construction closeout update. thank you. >> thanks, dennis. it's a nice thorough look at the work to complete and touched on all of the main points. moving into budget and schedule, on the budget side you will see that we have extended to about $2.086 billion, that's a $30.8 million shift since july, since we had moved in august. it's a two-month stand of expenditures, commitment, and upticked by 12.6, with the closure of old issues and nothing of note that's new

that's come our way. e.a.c. boasts first attendance scope as well as the addition of the t.i. and the legal is holding steady and hasn't changed in the last two months. contract time is at 108%. obviously, since we were a little late in delivery, but as you saw from the opening it was well worth the effort. it was a great opening. contingency usage, again, no real surprises here either. we're towards the end of the project and we have about $3.7 million left in balance of construction contingency and cmgc contingency at 14.3. so again leaner but not as alarming as of yet, in particular with the program reserve of 83.1 to deal with

whatever might crop up, both in my world of construction as well as program-wide world. moving the schedule, oops... we have simplified the graphics. it's pretty much a run from substantial completion to final completion. as well as noting that the activation of the facility was as of august 12th. contractually final completion should arrive in october. the current schedule and trending is showing december and the main drag point on that is then as dennis noted is the arrival and the installation of the odds and ends on the ceiling panels and the trim. in terms of other scopes of

work, the momentum seems to be showing end of september, end of october, a good measure of the other work to complete list will be arriving. that brings me to the work to complete status. general punch list, i think that we've got our systems in place. and we're moving through as dennis had shown graphically. the work to complete is advancing through the building. we had initially concentrated a lot of work at night to leave time and space for operations during the day. since then we've kind of learned to co-exist a little bit better and i'm seeing more personnel during the day also, again, in getting punch list items done that has been helpful in retaining crews. and most of the electrical is at night and we're seeing more and more work coming back to the

days dovetailed in with operations. so that should support more timely completion. again, activities, building systems and commissioning. it's starting to get its momentum as we tease out some of the systems. and those are things like -- the most evident ones are like escalators and monitors that we're teasing through some issues. but for the most part it's supporting operations quite well. and then warranty processes in place. we have an online input system and thus far has been the handful of things that have come up under warranty are being steered to the appropriate parties to be addressed. so no real concerns there and as dennis had mentioned the path

which seems to be getting a lot of attention of late is one of the major warranty issues that we're addressing. as dennis mentioned we're somewhat disappointed on some areas of the path, not to put too fine of a point on it, but there's a lot of high traffic areas that are showing what we think is excessive wear. we know that this material is a bit finicky and its means of installation, we were quite careful to give all of the time and space to the installer. it's got a rather long cure time. (please stand by).

. ease stand by). >> the other challenging issues as noted is the ceiling metal panels as well as the first street signaling that dennis had mentioned. we've been in a bit of a tussle between pg&e and p.u.c. to get the power lit up on those signals. in the meantime, the poles and sfm signal heads have been in place, and i've been pushing for a permit or a temporary

power so we can address that safety concern. it's a very active movement right now. and then lastly, the project closeout risks haven't changed from two months ago. we're putting focus on work to complete fulfillment. we've continued to work -- meet regularly to ensure that the punch list and the final completion is advancing. we're using plan grid, has some very good metrics and graphics. i think we'll see a slide, just a snapshot of kind of progress on punchlist and final completion either in october or november presentation, just to give it some time to kind of shake out, but good tracking metrics on how we're progressing on those

in-the-field incidents or punchlist incidentals. closeout documentation is starting to get its momentum, kind of a pamean predecessor ta complete training is to have all the o.n.m. training manuals in hand, and we're starting to get those integrated with the operation folks, so there's not a real concern there, just something to pay attention to. lastly, the close out of subcontractors and working through change orders, potential risks of claims, and resolution of claims, that's going to be the long run here for closure. a handful of subcontractors have larger issues, but for the most part, we're tracking, i think, 43 subcontractors that need to get closed out. i understand from webcor that

close to 40 of them is anticipated to be closed out by the end of the year. a good measure of those are just working through proper measure of what i call board feet and man hours. it's just production of change order work or perceived change order work. some of it will be schedule issues and back charges amongst us as i mentioned a couple months ago, that they overlap with some of our discussions on close out. in general, the expectation is close to 40 out of 43 will be closed by the end of the year, and then, we have to navigate through some of the larger issues in the first quarter of 2019. so that concludes my piece of the closeout update. if there's any questions, i'll

gladly address them. >> questions? >> i have a question. on the path -- and i guess it's a good question that it's so poplar and everyone's using the park, but do you anticipate it being a maintenance issue beyond the warranty period, and what are we doing to address that. >> yeah. that's why i'm reaching out to rec-park and understand what they've been doing. moving forward, when they want to get the correct patching methodology, i think we want to look closer at some of those high wear areas, with redoing forever patching or do we look at some intersection of different points with a different wear profile? and then lastly, we kind of have to facilitate our slow walk-through, what is the delta of the third that's not

performing well versus the two thirds that is, and get that addressed. so whatever larger replacement that may happen is in the successful installation column as opposed to not so successful installation column. >> thanks. >> thank you. i don't have a construction question. congratulations, again, on a great job. a question perhaps for director related to the opening. has there been consideration of a -- of an ability to bring leashed dogs to the park? i'm hearing something from d-6 office that they're still hoping to understand when that might be possible. >> our current park rules prohibit dogs unless they're service dogs. the park has 13 distinct and sensitive habitats, gardens, that we really want to be very protective of. we also have a great water system that we need to be

mindful of, so that's why the board agreed and approved that we would limit the dogs on the park for service dogs. we are working with ocii on building under ramp park and transbay park, both of which will have significant dog parks or dog runs, but it's a matter of time. >> thanks for that clarification for members of the dog. the understanding is we don't allow leashed dogs at salesforce park, but there will be other ocii parks that will allow leashed dogs. >> yes. and one other thing, director chang as we're evaluating what to do with the former temporary terminal which is the blocks two and three and four, we're looking at some interim uses. we're looking for an opportunity to actually create some dog park in that area between now and sunny develops,

so we're working -- >> that's very much appreciated. thank you. >> i have a question for you, ron. so you mentioned in your report that you would be able to close out about 40 of the packages that you have. who are the other three, and what do you see? >> well, i think right off the top of my head, they've historically had a lot of production issues and what-have-you. the ceiling tile subwill have a number of issues, and then, schmic have had their challenges, as well. a measure of that is just interrelationship amongst themselves, kind of skewing the ability to close out, as well, in terms of the back charges,

the push-pull between webcor and the various subs. so i see those four, one or two or three more that may have a drag point mostly because of its relationship or the tangential relationship of different subs overlapping. >> okay. thank you. >> all right. if i can call your next item, item seven is the facility operations update. >> and martha velez will present this, along with some other facility people, as well. >> today's update will follow a format that's different from

the previous presentations, as what follows you see in front of you is an agenda. so i will start with a general facilities update, and then, i will be followed by other updates in respective areas, and then followed by the securities update. so i'm going to highlight just a few things on the transit update. sala sal lamas shared with us last week that since moving to the transit center, ridership has increased 7%. you can see 7% prior to opening and 15% from the prior years. amtrak continues to provide service at the temporary terminal. this means that beingtrak has not signed a lease with the

tjpa for the second floor space, and also golden gate started transit service this last sunday. with regard to lincoln management, this slide is to highlight the wonderful work but the various local artists in painting the various vacant ground floor storefronts. if you haven't seen it, take the time to go and enjoy. jill manson with the sf art commission supported us by providing input on the selections. in general, this slide is a broad summary of the operational aspects of the lincoln service in place as of opening. so the site is fully staffed with service contracts in place, including tech support

from experts for 24-7 help desk service, and then also, next month, the update will include tenant improvements now we have tenants in the pipeline, we'll be reporting that to you on a monthly basis. and then lastly, this slide isn't specific to the transit center, it's the temporary terminal. we've been getting a lot of questions from the community on how the site will be used. as such, the tjpa is working with the east cut c.b.d. on some ideas, some of which are represented in the pictures and as mark just noted a few minutes ago, which would include a dog area, possibly, on block three. also under discussion is for one or two of the blocks to be leased to a parking operator to -- to generate revenue, so we will be working on this over the next few weeks for an eventual plan back to ocii on

the land use, and if the parking operator plan is palatable, that would be taken out to bid. in parallel, the east cut c.b.d. has also been gathering and soliciting community input. and keep in mind that amtrak continues to occupy block two. that's my update, so with that i'm going to turn it over to ashley langworthy for an update on the park. >> so i just want to give you a few updates on the park, in particular, the free programming that we have. this has been extremely well received by the public. a lot of very positive feedback. we have, first, to start off, a variety of fitness and wellness programs. we have nine weekly classes

that are free and open to the public, all provided by fitness sf which will be occupying a lease spot on the second floor in the future. the typical attendance is around 40 to 60 people, sometimes greater. this tuesday, we had 110 people come out for a boot camp class in the amphitheater. also we have a variety of arts and culture programming. weekly programs include writing workshops on wednesday, a litquake lunch break on wednesdays, monday night makers, and beginner knitting on wednesdays. the photo shows the learn to knit class. we also have a variety of children and family

programming. this has also been extremely well received and highly attended. i think it fills a gap in the neighborhood. we have certain kids that come, young children mostly, with their stay-at-home parent or nanny that come every day to the park, we see them. so we have toddler tuesdays, improv and movement classes on saturday nights. and then on thursday, we have a family fitness and science technology art engineering and music saturdays. and you can see our community partners who provide these programs. these typically have 10 to 30 participants. in one class, we had 80 participants at a toddler tuesday. we also have weekly theater, music and dance. these happen during lunch, after work times. also, highly attended, these are probably the largest crowds that come, sometimes between --

or typically between 150 and 300 people. variety of partners there, and we look forward to having -- developing more of this type in the future in that these take a little bit more in terms of having life performances. and then, we also -- i want to speak for just a minute about how this -- these public programs and a great park also support other -- other successes in the full transit center. so having a really great, well attended, loved park that's clean and safe and has a ton of great programming leads to higher increases traffic for the entire center, which of course leads to higher sales for the pop ups and for the retail. with that kind of food traff-- traffic, and i want to note, we

take very detailed notes. we take counts of how many people are in the park twice a day, including nights and week ends. and knowing these numbers and having these kind of data can lead to sponsorship opportunities and also increase advertising sales for the digital media center wide. so these -- having a great park is both great for the community and the people who attend it, and then, it also bolsters the financial of the full center. thank you. next, pop up retail. >> i'm going to talk a little bit about the pop up program. in our grand hall, we have the cafe coffee caravan, and that

is operating daily now. we're looking for a flower vendor. we've gone through a variety of them that have been interested and have had other operational issues not related to the grand hall. our show shine guilds are open, and our local artisans are reporting sales, actually, very pleased. in the ground level as well, we have our food truck area with signage. it's obviously much busier at lunch. it's averaging about $1,000 pertruck perday during the lunchtime, so that's exceptional. and then, the pop up market weekly on wednesdays, which is going to shift from its original plan of 3:00 to 7:00 to 11:00 to 2:00 starting next week, so we think the lunchtime traffic is actually a better time for them. it got a great deal of very local, hand made artisans, and

about 15 merchants and we're hoping to grow that. on the bus step, we have one first to market, which is c.v.s. and two of the best buy machines. best buy is reporting strong sales, c.v.s. less so, so we're looking at why that might be. fuel rod also reporting very strong sales. it's a sustainable product in when you purchase one, for $1, you can turn it in every single day and get a fully charged charger for your day at work. and then, we have the dunkin' doughnuts, and their sales have beat projections by every