we will go to the treasure island job fair next week to do out reach, as well us tpja will follow-up with north bay and south bay association for future meetings. finally, just a few comments on specific measures being taken by some of the locals. the carpenters' local 22 has been doing work with the conservation corps and workforce development programs. they have nine apprentices currently working on the project. oe3, operating engineers, one of the union's we want to focus on, because this is an area where they have not been currently meeting compliance goals, so we want to find more opportunities to bring in operating engineers, but they have been working with city build, young community developers, and mission hiring home. then the local 261 of the worla have a significant number working on the project as well. that concludes my report. any questions? >>> thank you for a group report. books by a lot of progress. is the issue there is not enough supply in the pipeline or is it the contractors in subs are not reaching to the halls and cbo's to get them? >> on the -- they are perfor

i would like to think the city of san francisco at andtpja in pand tpja in particular for maintaining the web sites to keep up with construction. i do not if -- i do not know if you encourage public participation for meetings, but it would help if the board agenda, including the attachments, could be posted no later than friday it before the board meeting. thus month you saw a presentation on the package and the director had many questions about tie downs for the base lap, and it is based on prior experience. today i would like to present you with the different solution to prevent uplift. this slide is a high-speed station that will be serving the olympics this summer. the station is in a trench, and the base slab would have been subject to uplift, but the water table has been artificially lowered to 30 feet below the slab to a permanent watering system, which discharges water on the river and on the left. and it is right there on the left. and should they use such a system, there will be no tie downs, and the dewatering system may even be capable of generating water to support the en

mentioned, and at some point that 650 would slip, it would obviously be a big problem for us at the tpja in san francisco, but i do not know what practical support it has for regional cooperation and support. >> to answer your question on the practicality, when we were all at the table negotiating this, the city and county of san francisco's stepped up to the plate. the city and county agreed to put in approximately or even more than $60 million towards this. it is a huge commitment by san francisco moving up to the plate for the upgrades to the caltrans corridor that end of fourth and townsend. it was very important for the party's that if we were going to support this and not give any money from prop1a, because remember we are not getting any money, that there would be a strong commitment that we would be in the new starts pipeline, and a commitment of no less than 650 million in new starts, because i remind you, while it is an agreement that we all agree to orally in verbally, it is not stated specifically in the mou, other than to say we will all work together to fund the dtx. so bec