>> aye. >> metcalf. >> aye. >> reiskin. >> aye. >> ortiz. >> aye. >> kim. >> aye. as well. that is five ayes and item eight is approved. >> item number nine. >> approving the minutes of the september 13, 2012 meeting. >> so moved. >> a second. >> we have a motion and a second to approve item number nine, are there any comments or questions? >> seeing none, roll call. >> and any members of the public that indicated that they wanted to address you. >> lloyd. >> aye. >> metcalf. >> abstain. >> reiskin. >> aye. >> ortiz. >> aye. >> kim, aye. >> as well, four ayes and item nine is approved. >> thank you. at this time we the board will convene into closed session. before we reconvene back into regular session, before before we do that i did want to allow members of the public if they would like to comment on an items that we will be discussing at closed session. >> seeing no public comment, at this time, we will close that. and we will take a motion to convene into closed session. >> so moved. >> second. >> we have a motion and a second. at this time we will convene into closed s

. >> director reiskin? >> first of all i would concur with the previous director's comments. i think that those are good and important points. great presentation, very exciting to start to see the details and see how this is really going to look and feel. my two questions, one, part of what makes this exciting is that there has been a lot of thought that has gone into the design, this is a lot of features and elements both aesthetic and functional and structural that is part of what is going to make this a great facility that the flip side of which is being a lot of that has cost. and i know that there has been a lot of thought that has gone into ways to operationally make it as efficient as possible. i am wondering to the extent, do we have kind of a formal process, for soliciting value engineering and cost-reducing proposals from the different trade packages so that if there are ways to bring down the cost, we can encourage, if not ensensitivize them? >> we don't have anything formally built into the bid packages themselves. the next big one that is coming up is the steel p

. >> reiskin? >> here. >> ortiz? >> present. >> kim?ere. >> as well, madam chair, you do have a quorum. >> are there any community indications from the board members? seeing none. i will move on to the business. if there is none, so we will move on to the executive director's report. >> great. good morning, directors and members of the public. some good news, i would like to start off by reporting that since our last meeting in september we did donate our wo llie mammoth tooth to the academies of sciences and they are thrilled to receive it and are going to be making it part of the permanent collection and they will notify us and put together an exhibit to understand what san francisco looked like about 11,000 years ago. we would like to thank the academy for all of their work on our behalf. second i am also pleased to report that our transbay traveling archeology exhibit was awarded the california, preserve vasing foundation, 2012 award. it is quite an honor to receive that award. there were only four awards given for the entire state

. >> reiskin. >> aye. ortiz. >>ee. kim, aye. and that is five aye and item seven is approved. item number 8. authorizing the executive director to ex-skaout the amendment number five to the agreement for professional design and construction administration services for the transit center building and related structures with the pelli clark pelli architects to increase the additional services amount by $14,014,222... >> directors probably two years ago we gave a presentation, director kim had just joined us on the design of the transit center and what work we had done to date. since that time, we have progressed quite a bit on the design of the station. and i would like to have bob beck give an update on all of the work that we have done to date on this item. thank you. >> thank you. director and members of the board. bob beck, and maria said two years ago we completed 50 percent construction documents package, that was around the same time that the board authorized the funding to go to the bottom, up construction and incorporate the train box and we were going through a lot of