i was just curious, thank you. >> director metcalf? >> i am really glad that we are talking about the extension of the cal train i am hope thating we spend more time as a board on this. i have no concerns whatsoever about ecom or the price. i am concerned about the scope of what is in this and what i know from talking to other people in the community is that the various partners that will be necessary to connect cal train to the transbay terminal do not agree about the alignment. the san francisco mayor's office and i am the mayor's appointee to this board does not agree with this alignment. i don't believe that the san francisco county transportation authority does. getting agreement between the various parties in addition to the high speed rail authority and cal train is the task ahead for us. the, i believe, i have a great concern about opening a supplemental and then locking ourselves in and then telling ourselves that we can't reopen it. i know that we have to do a supplemental eir but i don't think that we yet know what should be

>> aye. >> metcalf. >> aye. >> kim. >> aye. >> that is four ayes and item nine is approved. >> thank you. and we will look off the schedule for a broader discussion on dts and cal train at future board meetings in the next couple of months. item number ten. >> approving the arise participation level of 8.3 percent for years, 2010 to 11 to 12 to 13. and we did get in the informational presentation at our board meeting, i believe in september or october. so, if you could just give an update since then. >> right >> and the director sarah galatty will report on this. >> i thought that i would give a little bit of background since director was not here in september. i have to leave in two minutes any way. >> well the brief update is that we did put the revised goal of 8.5 percent out for public comment. we also had a small and disadvantaged business roundtable at our offices and got a lot of good suggestions but no comments that would lead us to revise the goal so we are recommending approval of 8.5 percent for the remainder of the fiscal years. >> i am curious about the feedback that we

metcalf? >> aye. >> we'll have to carry this forward. >> so we'll take a motion to continue this item to the next board meeting. >> so moved. >> we have a motion and i believe we can do that -- >> what will change next time? >> the two will always abstain because they weren't here. >> i wasn't able to attend the meeting. >> what will change? >> i apologize. >> so you may review the meeting minutes that are available online and confirm that the meeting minutes accurately reflect the activity. >> okay. >> >> so we have a motion to continue this item until january and we will do so without opposition. do we have any other items to review? >> that does conclude your agenda today. >> meeting adjourned and happy holidays to everybody. [ gavel ]

. >> director metcalf? >> present. >> director reiskin. >> present. >> vice-chair ortiz? >> present. >> and chair kim? >> present. >> madame chair you have a quorum. >> thank you. do you have any communications this morning? >> none that i'm aware of. >> is there any new or old business from the board of directors? seeing none let's move on to the executive director's report. >> good morning everyone. i would like to begin my report this morning on this last board meeting of the year by dedicating our board meeting in the memory of mike nevin, who recently left us. mike was one of our founding board members way back when we created the transbay joint powers authority and was very supportive over the years. he served as our first chairperson and was there with us in the initial years of moving the project forward. mike was a member of the caltrain board of directors and also a former san mateo county supervisor, mayor of daly city and san francisco police inspector and not only served on our board, but numerous other regional transportation boards and we'll always be appre

. >> metcalf. >> here. >> kim. >> here. you do a quar um. >> thank you. there any communications today? that i am aware of board of directors in more old business? seeing none we can move to the executive director's report. >> good morning directors and members of the public and just a few announcements before we move on for our construction update for today. it is now displayed to the public at the academy of science and that will run for a number of months. so we would like to thank the california academy for putting on display the mammoth tooth. and we will be looking for a new home in 2013. and finally on october 17th we had number one of our regularly schedule committee meetings to provide a construction update to our neighbors. so everything that moving along well. now to give our construction update with steve turner. >> good morning, directors. steve, ru, with turner construction, construction oversight. i don't know. is that up? there it is. >> another good month, of work or almost a month and a half since we filled you in on the last period. the

. >> metcalf. >> aye. >> kim. >> aye. >> that is four ayes and item 8 is approved. >> thank you. >> could we call item number nine. >> authorizing the executive director to execute a professional services agreement with acom services to provide a envier impact statement, preparations service for the transbay center program for an amount of $1.3 million and a two-year term. >> directors brian dikes will also report on this item. >> this contract is to provide, supplemental work, supplemental to the previous feis, eir which was certified in march of 2004. and the reasons for this is that there are changes of a little more small things, and there are changes to accommodate, high speed rail requirements as we have designed the project and we are now at 30 percent of the structures. to make it easier, here is a picture of what is involved. the first thing is that the approach radius were increased from 500 to 650. it is still, but, we wanted to keep as close as possible within the existing right-of-way and we do, of course, with these larger, do effect a couple of properties that were not in t

to roger federer says his long history in korea has less to do with brawn and brains and his wife metcalfhas always helped me always been great company said the thirty one year old when i met her i had no titles and now i have seven kids. six life has changed since the birth of our daughters but he adds i think i would just get tired if she hadn't wanted to accompany me. for meanwhile israel madrid manager jos a marine who says since leaving inter milan his heart is still in the play and i left because if you win with wales madrid then you make history how about my compliments not sort of said the forty nine year old nobody has given you the same sort of happiness i cried when i left i celebrate went in to win and i suffer when they do this. while in their own words arsenal midfielder out mikel arteta i think even the mound coach pep guardiola the next come to england the forty one year old won fourteen titles in just four years at barcelona before leaving the view to take a sabbatical last summer. in his football and if you want me to choose one of them for me then that it would be his f

. >> metcalf. >> aye. >> kim. >> that is three, ayes and item eleven is approved. >> item number 12. >> is the areview of on 007, for california code. >> and galati will crpt on this item. >> directors this is required by the california government code as well as the investment policy be reviewed annually even if we are not proposing any changes. we are not proposing any changes at this time. objectivities of our investment policy remain the same, safety, liquidity and return on investment has a much lower priority. we currently keep most of our cash in a u.s. bank checking akoupt. we obviously do not keep a high cash balance it goes in from the funders and goes out to the contractors. and we do have a trustee account with deucshbank. most of which will be in trescy notes that will come to end of the year. and we will look at investment options at that time. but looking at the economic out look and what we think that interest rates may do in the future as well as cash flow needs we probably will choose investments with short maturities so we can month forward. i am happy to answer an

so metcalf made the decision, it is not going to happen.ome members of the press did come in and got in the way, quite frankly, of a military operation. but the lesson we learned from grana da we have to come up with a better way to deal with the press than what happened over there. it was after grana da that the panel met with members of the media to device the system that we used in desert storm, the pool system. it was based upon what happened in grana da and that's why i had to chuckle at the end of the gulf war a exchange met tow decide on how they were going to handle the next situation because nobody was happy about how it was handle in the gulf war. >> did you ever sit around with your fellow army colleagues and say things like if we ever fight another war this should never happen again? >> no, not quite that. i would tell you, frankly, because of some of the experiences i had towards the end of the vietnam war, -- something that people forget. i had someone put it to me this way, it is my life, if i'm going to go out there and risk

with respect committee to metcalfe perpetrated numerous and often systematic abuses after taking over the town's. these included the abduction and the brutal rape often gang rape of numerous women and girls and the wide spread publishing of the ad agencies, government buildings and the use of child soldiers. it gave deneb's of the plea nothing to rein in their forces as well as even acknowledge that these abuses have taken place. with respect to the army, the of course a flight to a striking deterioration and a disciplined commanding control within the army. for example, in the days after the attempted coup on april 30 of the security forces under the command of captain disappeared at least 21 soldiers allegedly implicated. a witness i interviewed told me that at 2 a.m. the soldiers removed 21 men and put them in a blindfolded in a truck and they haven't been heard from since. many others described how they were stabbed, starved, burned with cigarettes and forced at gunpoint to sodomize one another. the security forces have also intimidated of positions including journalists who've ne