also as part of the peer review and consulting team to tjpa is code consultants ink. cci, and they focus particularly on fire protection and fire life safety issues and were extensively involved in the peer review of the bus fire and train fire scenarios, designed basis fire, designations. in addition to cci, we do have a two-person fire design peer review panel that was selected by the san francisco fire department to provide them with expert advice on the smoke analysis being performed at the station, particularly the comp utation, fluid analysis of how the smoke would be propagated and behave over time in the event of a bus or a train fire. also it is significant to note that we have the structural and seismic review committee that has been working with the tjpa and the department of building inspection since the beginning of the project, looking at the structural performance of the building, particularly, in seismic events, code-related is issues, but is also taken a look at some of the blast-related discussions. >> so, with that, i am going to ask dennis signs of

also as part of the peer review and consulting team to tjpa is code consultants ink. cci, and they focus particularly on fire protection and fire life sa

. >> so, the initial phase one budget, in june of 2006, the tjpa board, adopted the phasing strategy for the transbay program and broke it into phase one and phase two and the funding at that point to move the first phase into final design and eventually into construction. >> in 2007 we concluded the competition and we began the negotiations with pelly clark pelly to become the architect for the transit center and it was in november of 2007 that the initial phase one base line budget was adopted by the tjpa board. at that point in november of 2007, the phase one budget was 1.189 billion dollars. and it was based on a top-down construction approach where we would build the foundation systems for the transit center and the above grade portions for bus operations in the first phase of construction and in second phase of the program, in addition to constructing the dtx we would mine out the below grade levels of the transit center for rail operations. the phase one, base line budget and the cost estimates that under layed it were based on the design scheme developed by hok. which is very

it is tjpa staff our accounting costs our legal conducting costs, the program management team, urs. all of those costs of managing and delivering the program are included underneath the program wide budget. >> and did that go through value engineering. >> sorry? >> did that section go through value engineering? >> we have continually looked at opportunities for containing, particularly our program management consultant and our other consultant costs. and a lot of that is authorized through the annual budget, but in the process of setting out the work plan for each year, we have gone through a review of the staffing requirements to insure that we are trying to be as lean as possible in delivering the program. >> okay, thank you. >> okay, seeing no further questions. we can move on, but i do really appreciate the previous history, historical budget presentation. thank you. >> so, when we were in the scheme mattic design phase we went through a risk and vunerbility assessment which was an effort to identify potential hazards, whether they are natural or man-made that the transit center

that's a second example of the dialogue that occurred between the tjpa staff, the design team and the two sets of the security consultants. >> and the glass. can we, i actual have questions back to the presentation. the opaque grant, the pedestrian elements. how does that help with the production cost? >> first, within our existing budget, anywhere where we can find additional funding to address anything within our current budget, a specific grand application, then it helps make other funds available that can then be used for other sources. at the time we filed the opaque grant application we were aware of the funding that the baseline budget was considering would not be available, so, the 10.2 was part of a solution of back filling the unavailability of the funding. now it's a factor in a much bigger picture. >> so when you say, back filling the funds that are no longer available for phase 1, would that mean we can use some of this oh bag funding for the terminal and then later funds would be use for the bike and ped routes? >> this would be used for the bike and ped i am improvement

conference with legal counsel, existing litigation under government code 54957 b and 54975.6 and the tjpa board of directors there is no items to be report. and 54957 b and,. the board did designated jane kim. >> and at this time, could we go to item number 12. >> authorizing the executive director to execute israel paout resolution, advisor, in order to implement the dra procedure referred to in the revised claim procedure set forth in the contract with the cm/gc for all... >> if you have any directors we have mike mckenan, and brian dikes. >> motion to approve this agreement? >> second. >> okay. >> so we do have a motion and a second. and no questions or comments from the board in >> seeing, none let's take roll call. >> no members of the public. >> lloyd. >> aye. >> metcalf. naye. >> reiskin. >> aye. >> ortiz. >> aye. >> kim aye as well. >> that is 12 ayes. and item is amoved. and we will move on to the next item. >> approving the minutes of the february 14, 2013, meeting and no members of the public have indicated that they want to address you on this item. >> go ahead. >> so we have

significant to note that we have the structural and seismic review committee that has been working with the tjpa and the department of building inspection since the beginning of the project, looking at the structural performance of the building, particularly, in seismic events, code-related is issues, but is also taken a look at some of the blast-related discussions. >> so, with that, i am going to ask dennis signs of urs to come up and speak a little bit to the rba process. dennis is with the urs corporation and has 30 years of experience in anti-terrorism force protection and physical security. specializes in vunerbility threat and risk assessments and counter terrorism measures. for both state, federal, local, and international clients for rail, subway, bus, tunnel, bridge and air transportation facilities. so with that, i will turn it over to dennis to talk more about the rba. >> before dennis comes up i am looking at the length of the presentation, some of it was presented to the board in terms of why we, or the staff believes that this terminal is an important site for the additional secur

set of design package and comment it on it from the design instructbility and to the team and the tjpa and we provide pricing and budgeting as well as davis langthen who is the estimator for the design team. we reconcile those estimates and we both looked at it from different ways and reconcile the comments and we advise them what to do in the next generation of design. so the preconstruction process has done throughout and we have it on the structural steel side and it has been a market that has been hungry for work and until recently, they have continued to express great interest and, then we went ahead and went through a process to ultimately decide who is qualified to bid on this job. and so, the prequalification process, is just one and i have a date wrong, we actually advertised it in may of this year. >> at this time or throughout the process? >> i guess that either. what we are hearing is that what came in that was different from the estimate and i was wondering if there was variation in the estimates that we had received? >> the two estimates were prepared by web corps and by