>> welcome everybody. we want to think so many people that are here that helped organize and put this gun buyback together. we just do it alone -- we don't do it alone. i want to make sure we understand saturday, december 15 th, will be national gun buyback day maximum so the minutes we have been doing, give us a hand.

this is happening all over the country simultaneously that we ended senseless gun violence. there are a lot of people that are here he will speak so you want to make sure we acknowledge a lot of people who are here before we do speak. i want to make sure i give a shout out to all the sponsors. especially the dispensaries. authentic 415. grassroots. without them putting money into the cause, it wouldn't happen. i wanted to get that to be acknowledged and that -- let that be known. the verse first at the first race will be coming up is a mayor of san francisco, london breach two is an amazing supporting this gun buyback since the beginning of time before she was even the mayor. so i want to bring her up here give it up for the mayor. [applause] ♪ thank you. think everyone of you for being here today. we want to get the word out about this gun buyback this

saturday. i just want to start by talking a little bit about many of the tragedies that have existed over the years in san francisco and all over san francisco. i come to united players. is an amazing place i see so many of the people that i grew up with on the wall and people that we lost in this city to gun violence. it hurts our families and it hurts our communities. and as matty scott from the healing circle has always said, her people have heard people. when you think about it, why would we want someone to feel that same hurt and pain from violence, why would we want them to her just as bad as we hurt hurts when we lose a family member or a friend to senseless violence. so many people who are here

today have really been in this fight for so many years and i see shawn richer with brothers against guns who has been on the battlefield fighting to try and resolve so many conflicts. things that we may not always see out in the open but have led to amazing results of people being able to live their lives alive and free. and we have so much work to do. we have to get he stands off the streets. i want to thank united players were consistently holding these buybacks to get people an opportunity to get these guns out of their hands, out of their homes, out of our streets, out of our playgrounds got out of our communities, and destroyed. that is what our ultimate goal is. to get as many guns off the streets as possible. [applause] >> one got off the streets means

thousands of lives saved. i want to thank the san francisco police department and chief bill scott, and so many folks who come here whenever rudy reaches out to the department and asked for assistance in obtaining these guns, and getting rid of these guns. the police department has been on the front line of the community partner in this effort i want to thank all the sponsors and all the amazing organizations that are here to work together to address what we know has really taken far too many lives of our friends and our family members. we say not one more. not one more back, not one more funeral, not one more. and today starts a new day. i want to thank rudy and united players, and so many amazing people. one gun buyback at a time period regarding hundreds of guns off the streets.

hundreds and thousands of lives saved as a result. it is also due to this community coming together to address a real challenge. not just here in our city but all over our country. we will push for reform. we will push to change how the kids that are growing up now, their normal should not be gun drills. their normal should be happiness and playing in the playground. we talked about this at the visual vigil we held for so many family members this past sunday. was a sunday, sunday where we talked about some of the people who lost family members to gun violence. suicide, accidents where kids got a hold of guns. situations where people's children have been murdered. not just on the streets, but from -- in the classroom. this cannot continue to be normal. we are going to do what we can to get as many guns off the streets through this gun buyback

i want to thank all of you for playing a major role in saving lives. thank you all so much for being here today. [applause] >> thank you, mayor. as you know today is december 11 th. in san francisco last year, december 12th was a real significant day in san francisco i don't know if you guys remember what happened. mayor ed lee passed away. may keep rest in peace. that man was about ending senseless gun violence. he was a big contributor and supporter of ending gun violence so last year, a day -- one year after december 12, mayor london breed was brought in as our mayor. she has been doing a tremendous job of helping ending gun violence and all violence across san francisco. i want to give it up to our sister right here for staying

honest and consistent and true with her words. thank you. a shout out to ed lee. i know he's in the house. so there's a lot of partners who are in all of this. project level, turf, the brady campaign, west bay, all these organizations have been helping out to make this happen. the sfpd has been a big part of helping out. we have a new captain in the neighborhood. big edge. what is up while we will have to find a shirt that fits you. [laughter] so anyway, there has been so many people who have been helping out to make this happen. we can't do this alone. i want to bring up somebody else , our district supervisor, jane kim. she's been very supportive and we have one of her workers up here. my brother like no other, a boss player. [applause]

>> good morning, everyone. let's put that down here. thank you all for being here. my name is john. as rudy said, i am with supervisor kim's office. here on her behalf. she's any meeting so she can't make it. that's why i am here. i have come to find that in the work that we do, we often encounter issues that are deeply personal to us. and i know that the issue of gun violence is something that is deeply personal too many san franciscans and many americans across the country. i personally lost my grandfather to gun violence. i've lost wattle uncles to gun violence and at 16, i lost my best friend to gun violence. my family and i, like far too many others know what a destructive force an unsecured firearm in the wrong hands can be. we know that it takes a split second to make an irreversible decision that will last a lifetime. we know there is no going back. it is like efforts like this,

this buyback, that matter. each individual firearm taken off the streets is a life saved. is a family kept intact and a community kept whole. c.u.p. quote that so eloquently states it takes the hood to save the hood is accurate. that is exactly why this matters i really want to commend the united players, rudy, the entire team and everyone who comes out to make this possible and i really hope to see everyone on saturday. thank you. [applause] >> we have a couple of more speakers we want to bring up here. where is' v.i.p.? we want to make sure we acknowledge you guys are doing the work you do. where is my brother at? that man right there did 45 years in prison, and he is out back helping and senseless gun violence. and all the brothers who did the race, raise your hands. all these brothers right here. and some brothers behind you who

all, at one point were taking life but are now giving life. they are now helping out to and senseless gun violence. my brother right there. you're involved in helping us out. so the next gentleman i want to bring up has been so instrumental in helping san francisco and violence periods. you gave me a quote and i will probably let him share it with you. give it up to our chief william scott. [applause] [laughter] >> good morning. i will just go straight to what the mayor said and reemphasize, not one more. not one more. and this is not going to happen by accident. thank you for all the leaders in the room, starting with the mayor and all the leaders in the room. members of the san francisco police department that are with me here today. it takes a community. everyone up here and most people in this room have been impacted in one way or another by gun

violence. whether it be suicide, murder, accident, violence is violence and a life is a life. not one more. we are tired of it and sick of it as a community. we will do something about it. i got asked yesterday whether buybacks make a difference. i think they make a difference. i know they make a difference. because taking guns off of the street prevents them from getting in the hands of people that are going to use them for the wrong reasons. and any way that we can do that, we will do that. united players, thank you for what you do. all of the partners in this endeavour. the men and women of the san francisco police department. we have confiscated a little over 1100 guns this year off the streets. [applause] >> reproduced gun -related homicides by 40 1% over this time last year. we produced homicides by 30 1%. [applause]

>> give it a hands. >> that is just not the police department. that is the community. that is these people standing up here that care. that is these people who have made it their life's work because they've been impacted by it, and they don't want anyone else to be impacted by it. if you have a gun that you don't want in your house, turn it in. give it up. you get $100. if it is an assault weapon, you get $200. and makes a difference. you can be a difference. not one more israel. in this city, we don't want to lose any other lives to gun violence. come and join us on saturday. be a part of making the city the safest city in this country. thank you. [applause] >> no questions asked. we have two more speakers than we will wrap it up. we want to bring a powerful mother from the brady campaign, and also mother is in charge. maddie scott.

[applause] >> thank you united players and rudy. thank you to all of you for being here today. i lost my sun 22 years ago to gun violence in my neighborhood. he was the father of 12 to a beautiful young boys. the next day was my grandson's birthday. that was his birthday present that i had to tell him that his father was killed. i couldn't tell him he was shocked, i had to tell him his father had died. i don't want another mother or grandmother or girlfriend, husband, or wife, or anyone to feel the pain that i have felt on that day and that i continue to feel. that pain wakes me up every day to do this work with people like united players, with chief scott to, with our mayor, and all of you in this room and the brady campaign. that pain motivates me to be here for a mother right now, and a grandmother who is at her

grandson's funeral in oakland. that pain motivates me to go to the school to talk to young people who are angry and who are mad and who are hurting to talk about my neighbors does talk to my neighbors who are hurting and to come to a sensible solution so that they will not pick up a gun. we ask you to join us on saturday to get these guns off the streets. i have elderly family members and elderly neighbors who i am working with for united players to go pick up their guns because they are afraid of them. their husbands have guns and their husbands were collectors and they want their guns out of their homes. we have neighbors and family members or anyone who is afraid to touch the weapon or to pick it up, call sfpd and call it rudy. we will come to your house and arrange to have the gun removed. this is the highest rate of homicide during the holiday season. the holiday season people are depressed and they are stressed out.

and this is the highest time of homicides, suicides with a gun cut domestic violence with a gun , and just straight violence periods. i am proud to be a member of united players, of san francisco , our city where we can know that homicide has gone down we can post because we have a chief that works with us and we have police departments that work with us and we have a mayor that cares and our former mayor, we are thinking about you mrs. lee. we thank you mrs. lee for your husband and the dedicated services that he gave us and for standing with us. we know he is with us today. i thank all of you because united we stand and divided we fall. we can stop the killing and start the healing by bringing your gun on saturday here to united players. god bless you. [applause] >> powerful. i say this last speaker, because

the brother right here does so much work that is under the radar that a lot of people don't even know. he touches a crowd that a lot of people can't touch. he is from the rap industry. this man right here runs an organization called project level. he deals with numerous arches and rappers. my brother is in the house. where you at? you sexy man. what is up? that is my brother. what is up? what's up, baby? >> before i bring him up, that man came all the way from houston, texas. you brought all the rappers together in san francisco and the bay area and they did a toy drive that brought hundreds and hundreds of toys to help stop doorstop this. where getting toys and getting rid of guns. that is where the rap community comes from.

me and him go back like a hot arm of menudo. so without further ado, i want to bring up my brother. hold up. we have to give a shot to damien see that man right there that didn't write that it is amazing work all over frisco to stop gun violence everywhere. i want to say big sleuth to homey pick but i want to bring up my brother from project level big rich pick. >> i have been a united player for 19 years. i will be united player for the rest of my life. it does take the hood to save the hood. me and rudy and everyone up here , we are showing that every day. every time i hear maddie's story , against me choked up a little bit. i heard the gunshot when her son was killed 22 years ago. i was 14 years old living with

my mom in her kitchen. you could hear everything. it is a parking lot right outside her kitchen window. i heard the shots. around to the window and i saw them laid out. no paramedics or nothing. people were calling 911. i ran downstairs and got as close as i could get. i kind of remember that time and growing up in the film or. by the time i was 21, i have been to over 50 funerals. 80% of them were gun related. when rudy brought me on, this was our sixth one. i have been here every time and i will be here until the last one. it is very important. the work i do is for the young artists and stuff like that. i am a product of the fillmore and a product of gun violence. i'm a product of this, and i feel like what we are doing, you have to have a certain level of experience and understanding and a level of compassion for what

is going on for them others like maddie scott, and my brother, shawn who lost an idol of mine. his little brother was like an idol to me. so i am here. i rap but i don't like talking. i will keep it short and sweet. i will see you on saturday. >> i want to wrap it up and say this. this would not be possible if it wasn't for brothers like shawn. watch this. i will even break it down. you have the mayor, london breed you have the police, you have brothers from the hood. you have the weed people here. you have people from every sector. the supervisors. all the homies who were in prison. they came up. we all came up collectively together. the tech industry. the development industry. all of us are coming together

for the one call that affects everybody. one life that is toke can ends the whole world. one life that is toke, that person could be the same person that saved his whole world. that person that we keep alive may even be the same person who will save the world. all it takes is one person that we need to save. all these gun parts that we get, let that box out. dump that stuff on the ground. dump that shipped on the floor. watch this. that is what we are doing with these guns. we are breaking them down. sfpd is helping us out and we are making shovels right here. we plant a tree. we planted ed lee's tree when he passed away. we planted a tree for his birthday. says in the bible that they will be turned into -- made the earth again be free.

thank you all for showing up. [applause] >> 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 energy, . >> good morning. i will call to order the transbay joint powers authority for december 13, 2018. call the roll. >> clerk: i will go ahead and note that tilly chang is attending another meeting. with that -- [roll call] >> clerk: mr. chairman, you do have a quorum. i'll note that director tavares is absent today. with that, shall i call your

next item? >> yes. >> clerk: with that, communications, i'm not aware of any. with that, item three, directors new and oral business. also not aware of any. >> none. >> clerk: with none, item five, executive director's report. >> good morning, director. i have several pertinent updating you this morning. to date, we have completed the temporary multilevel shoring system, and we have extracted and tested samples from the first street and the fremont street girters and as we continue to monitor them. as you know, the past identifying the salesforce transit center -- as we move forward from these elements, we are fully cooperating with the independent testing requested

by the metropolitan transportation division requested by mayor breed and schaaf. gi -- for their continued work and support in our efforts to reopen the transit center as soon as safely possible to the bay area. while we do not yet have a date to reopen the facility. today marks a significant milestone as we work to identify the cause of this incident. moving to phase two and the downtown extension, the

supplementary and environmental document for the transbay project has been fined by the federal transit administration. later on today's agenda you have an item before you to certify the e.i.r.-e.i.s. >> we did receive two letters on the environmental document, one yesterday and one this morning. one from a property lawyer representing the property owner on second street, another from ucsf. both issues that were raised in the letters are already addressed in the environmental

document. having said that, we will continue to work with all priority owners along the alignment as we move forward with the development and phase two. in relation to the development and design development for phase two, as i reported last month, the san francisco transportation authority suspended proposition k and a review of the alternative oversight and governance models for the management and delivery of phase two by sfcta. to that end, the transportation surely has issued an r.f.p. due later this month that would review domestic center and international projects, identify best practices in the decisions of oversight and issue a report. it's the selection of the firm or firms to perform this work

will be done by january 4, and that work will be completed in may of this year -- or next year. similarly, the controller's review of the management in phase one is slated to be completed in may, as well. we stand ready to work on the efforts in this so that funding can be reinstated and work on phase two can resume. as a follow up to the discussion at the board meeting last month and the suggestion by director gee that the board reach out to afta, i have reached out to afta's technical services and innovative department, and they're ready to help and they have the capacity to do so. it's envisioned that a peer review by afta would include

policies and procedures implemented in phase one and include recommendations for phase two. that work would include practices that include budget establishment and management, risk management, quality control procedures, change management and communication plan that was done in phase one with stakeholders, funding partners, policy makers, and the public at large. the scope would also include recommendation on organizational capabilitities and lead agency governance and project delivery practices. this peer review's intended to complement the sfcta peer review as these decisions would be coming from public sector leaders with experience in complex government sector projects. with the board's aful pro, i would like to proceed with afta having come onto do this work. in regards to the --

[inaudible] >> -- as the city's limb preferred alignment. the pennsylvania avenue alignment separates 16th street and creates a much needed opportunity for transit development downtown. we're happy to receive mayor breed's input. at next month's board meeting, i plan to present the pennsylvania avenue alignment for consideration by the board and review. i will provide you more details on the delivery of both phases at the next board meeting. moving onto operations, on today's agenda, you have two leases for your consideration. if approved by the board and

executed by the tenants, that would bring the number of leases executed to date to nine leases and 12 of the spaces. we have 36 spaces available, so that makes the percentage leased per space of 34%. at this time, i'd like to ask martha velez to give you an update on the -- the facilities property manager to give you an update on the impact of the closure on our operations budget. she will give you a slide showing the budgets -- average budget per month, and with our current expenditure per month with the temporary closure. martha. >> good morning, directors. happy holidays, martha veles, tgpa property manager. over the next few minutes i'm going to review the cost and revenue impacts to the transit center as a result of the closure. this slide provides a general

overview of the current ongoing activity, the daily operations support for the temporary terminal is now being managed through lincoln and allied as november 1. noted on this slide are the primary areas of focus: park maintenance, minimal clean, general building systems upkeep while working with webcor and also security service. also working with the transit operators to final lies incident active screen content and then continued collaboration with the transit screen operators on finalizing the emergency response. this slide provides a general ideas of the areas where operating costs are avoided which are mostly labor and

services. it was decided to look at the information as a monthly average to make it easy to correlate the passage of time to costa voidance, so the monthly average is nearly $520,000, or 26%. monthly operating budget average. this is net of the monthly average cost to run the temporary terminal. finally, there is a direct impact to revenue primarily in two areas. park programming, digital advertising and some miscellaneous income, so details on the next slide. i will move through this slide on a line-by-line basis and focus on the temporary closure column. the temporary terminal, as i stated, this is a monthly average of the preclosure cost budget prior to when operations moved to the transit center.

buried in this dollar amount is the a.b.m. facilities management cost, which is about $10,000 per month. transit center maintenance, this category is a rollup of various expenses to include engineering and maintenance and general repairs. the primary expense is the engineering and maintenance labor, which kpriezs most of the cost. specific reductions were -- comprises most of the cost. transit center janitorial, this is also a respectup category

that contains the janitorial labor and miscellaneous other cleaning-related activities, such as trash removal and supply purchases. as with engineering and maintenance, the cost is mostly cleaning labor. in this instance, the current contracted staff is about six from a start of about 19. transit center yutilities, thi is shown as zero because webcor continues to pay the bills. park maintenance and programming, this is also being shown as zero because we are not continuing to incur bills. digital content and way finding, this category is left intact because pearl's work

remains uninhabited. marketing and leasing commissions, no change is shown here because the -- the leasing continues, and it -- it's not impacted by the closure. asset management fee and administration, this is a cost category that contains lincoln's management fee, staff compensation, other miscellaneous office expense does. and note that lincoln took over the temporary management of the terminal without an increase in their fee. also included in this is net experts and legal. security, this category is entirely made up of labor with construction related to the decrease activitied. then finally on revenue, we're showing it as an annual amount. on the revenue side, these are the budget amounts that we are conservatively assuming will not be realized.

for b.r.v. just prior to the center opening, ramp-up actions will be need today rebook activities with -- needed to rebook activities with revenue generation not expected until later in the year. with pearl, not much can occur prior to the center opening in that advertisers will wait until it actually reopens. and that's my report. i'm happy to take questions. >> mr. director? >> yes. >> i have a question. i'm surprised to see we're paying half a million dollars rent for a building that's closed. i'm curious as to why. >> director reiskin, we are providing security not just to

the transit center but the ancillary property. we transferred guards over to the temporary terminal and then, the area surrounding that -- >> so the line on the chart that said temporary terminal was exclusive of security, but what's in that line? [inaudible] >> oh . sorry. yeah. excuse me. the line item in the temporary terminal was the average preclosure so there is security costs buried in there, so we can go back and take another look at that number. >> so then, if the cost for security are shown in that line item, then, the cost in the security line, i would think, would be a lot lower. >> prior to the closure, the security costs in the temporary

terminal were separate contract, and they were not included in the cost list, so after the closure, we replaced our security guards at the temporary terminal and so it came out of our budget. so it was tjpa money, but it was different fund. with the temporary terminal removed, the cost has gone down about 40%. >> director reiskin, we'll continue to look at it, but we have no security on the roof, we have no security -- well, i shouldn't say no security. we have security on the roof, but not as much as before. our main security is on the ground floor, and the security plaiti operating center. it continues to be fully staff because we have cameras that we need to. and the ground facility continues to be fully staffed, as well. that's why you see continued

costs, but it's an item we will it be to refine. at the next board meeting in january , we will bring to you how the budget is being developed for next fiscal year as well as the annual budget for this year. at this time, you have before you the quarterly financial report. do you have any questions on the report at all? if not, this concludes my report. thank you. >> i did have a question from earlier report. >> yeah. >> when you were talking about the phase one presumption, the reopening of the transit center, two times you mentioned the steps as being identifying the solution, presenting the solution and starting up the facility. we had spoken last time about the balance of starting the entire facility, not just the facilities above fremont and first. can you confirm that's what

needs to happen before we start-up the facility? >> yeah. it includes the direct repair of the girders and investigation of the facility. >> okay. thank you. >> go ahead and call your next item. >> next item is committee review up i didn't tell. we have bruce aggett with us. >> good morning chair nuru, director reiskin, and director zabaneh. [inaudible] >> -- part one, we understand the controller's office evaluation and the sfcta's review of the alternative oversight and governance models for the management and delivery

of the d.t.x. in addition to its previous scope task to advise on the project delivery methods for d.t.x. as approved through resolution 1902 is targeted for completion as executive director zabaneh indicates, may of 2019. although we were hoping this could be completed in 120 days, we understand and agree -- agree fully with the need to perform a thorough review and it is good to see that a date has been established for its completion within a reasonable time frame. we were also pleased to see the letter from mayor london breed supporting the sfcta commissioners' unanimous approval regarding pennsylvania alignment as the city and county's preliminary preferred alignment for caltrain and high-speed rail. although there's much work to be completed on the pennsylvania avenue extension, we look forward to the discussions moving forward after this board takes action on the final certification of

the seis-eir for the transbay program phase two. we were pleased to hear the two new leases were coming to the board for approval, and this continues to be a high level of interest in the retail spaces. in addition we were pleased to hear that tenant improvements continue while the transit center is closed to the public. we also have confidence that letters of interest, negotiations and contracts will move forward with a heightened sense of urgency once there is nor findings on the testing, peer review concurrence, strategy and timing of the opening of the center. next item in the c.a.c. meeting was a presentation on the supplementation on the environmental impact study and environmental impact report. we had a robust discussion regarding the impacts on the buildings near 2nd and howard -- near the 2nd and howard intersection based on the changes to the train throat

design as well as the specific mitigation measures regarding caltrain's use of the term backtrack crossing at 16th street. we also heard during public comment comments from a small business owner who was very pleased with the communications and appropriate accommodations made by the tjpa project team to minimize impacts on their business during phase one construction. i am pleased to report that the c.a.c. fully supports today's item number 10 approving the resolution to certify the final seis-eir, for refinements to the downtown extension redevelopment project, the transbay program. and last on our agenda was an item including a high-level update on the status of the transit center which will be covered later on today's

agenda. it's our understanding additional information was being assembled at the time of our c.a.c. meeting and will be presented in the item today. with that, the c.a.c. looks forward to hearing more on the latest update, next steps, and timelines. thank you for the opportunity to provide this update and happy to answer any questions. >> questions from board members? thank you for your report. >> clerk: all right. go ahead and call your next item? >> yes, please. [agenda item read] >> clerk: directors, we've not received that a member of the public wishes to address you on this item. we can go ahead and move on your consent calendar. >> yes, you may. [agenda item read] >> clerk: and directors, i've not received any indication that a member of the public or any member of the board wishes

to have a matter severed. >> motion. >> second. >> clerk: with that, go ahead and call the roll call vote? >> yes. >> clerk: okay. with that -- [roll call] >> clerk: this's seven ayes, and the consent calendar is approved. go ahead and call your first item on the regular calendar? >> yes, please. [agenda item read] >> this item will be introduced by ron alameda. >> good morning, directors. in lieu of our regular construction update, speaking to budget schedule and progress on closeout, we have the pleasure of having a presentation that includes l.p.i., our testing lab, thornton thomasetti, the structural engineer of record, and the m.t.c. peer review.

we've reached a significant stage in a measured and meticulous study of design, fabrication and installation of steel. albeit today's a lot of data on material, but we are focusing on our elements to inform us on how to advance through this problem. the presenters in this order will include l.p.i.'s president, robert vecchio, followed by thornton thomasetti's bruce gibbons, the structural engineer of record, m.t.c. peer review will be introduced by andy fremier, and mike engelhart speaking to the peer review's view on what's this interim step of data collection. we view it as a critical step in validation of the structural steel, which in itself will be

a strong component in developing the criteria to examine and evaluate the entire facility. i do understand that webcor, skanska herrick representatives are here to answer questions if needed towards the end. but with that, i'll introduce mr. robert vecchio to speak to the material findings out in the field. >> good morning, directors. i'm robert vecchio. i'm the chief executive at l.p.i., inc, in new york, and we have tested the samples that have been removed from the transit center. in this slide presentation that i have here today, there's some information -- some of the slides are here for informational purposes only, and i'll probably go through

some of those quickly. there's a timeline on the first slide, which i'm sure most of you are aware of, what occurred and how it occurred, the sequence of those events. to inform you of what the girder in question looks like. this is a shot of the typical appearance of the fremont and first street girders. the area of interest is going to be right here where the cursor is right here. that's the bottom flange where the passenger passes through that drops down to the bus deck level. these are a couple of photographs showing one of the fracks in the fremont street girder. a frackture, as you can see is this area here, and it started back at this access hole. [please stand by].

>> four samples were removed from both the north and south girders at fremont street. and this is a schematic illustration of what the -- whoops -- of what the sample looks like. and then here's the appearance of the sample after it was removed from the structure. in addition to evaluate the mechanical properties specifically something called fracture toughness from the first street girders, we drilled several three-inch diameter cores from each of those two girders, and as you can see in the bottom right hand corner, and those samples

were used to evaluate what's called sharpie b-november sharpness. the next photo shows the fracture on the fremont street girder. it initiated at this cut out at the flange section next to the hangar. here's a shot of the entire fracture surface. this is referred to as a low brittle fracture. it means that it happened very rapidly, and a lot of energy was displaced. the origin energy is back at this dark zone right here, and that dark zone was investigated further. during the course of this investigation, representatives from all the interested parties that are involved in this project were present at our facilities in new york, and everyone participated in all aspects of what was gone, and everyone had an opportunity to look at everything equally.

this is another one of the fractures. this is from another access hole area. again, this one has a similar large -- relatively large defect on the fracture surface. this defect is heavily oxidized, and from that information, we were able to tell when and how that defect formed. this is the third location that fractured. this -- there's a thin band here, actually, that exists in all three fractures. it was harder to see on the other two, but this band is also a preexisting defect that occurred during the fabrication process. we -- we were able to examine the weld access areas in greater detail. one of the procedures that we use is something called magnetic particle testing, and we were able to identify a

number of additional fine cracks that were present in the radius of the -- of this access hole. in order to determine the modes of failure, we looked in more detail with an instrument using a scanning elect ron microscope to allow us to identify the mode of fracture and confirm the origin and also to identify that these preexisting defects formed at high temperatures, so the defects that we observed formed during the thermal cutting process of the access hole as well as subsequent to that was when the butt wells were made between the plates, they induced some residual stresses that were able to cause these larger defected to form, again, as elevated temperature, and that's basically what the next couple of slides show. this is a shot that shows that the fracture surface itself is