contractors large and small who are becoming our teammates and clients and i want to mention webcor/obayashi and turner construction have been incredible mentors to our firm. working with this program has help us overcome the challenge of working on large and complex projects and we were able to hire additional veterans to work in office of economic and workforce development and on the trances bay project. >> >> so i want to know the tjpa is making a difference to real people to veterans looking to serve the country in a new and meaningful way. i want to thank director kaplan because without your commitment to this project we wouldn't have grown as much. i hope other agencies in san francisco will follow her lead and support veterans in our community. >> thank you. thank you for attending our meeting. [inaudible] lawrence. >> ladies and gentlemen of the audience and commissioners, chair kim and maria ayerdi-kaplan good morning. i am mr. lawrence and been in the city and county of san francisco for 45 years. i have been a taxi driver for the last 16 years in the city. i am not here to disrupt

. >> item 7 is contract numbers authorizing webcor/obayashi to a troid a sub contribute to sheedy drayage company for roof top cranes and not to exceed 11.5 million over four years and the costs and authorizing construction services by $874,000. item 8 is approving amendment for the same contract to anvil builders for the facilities not to exceed amount listed and the costs by the same amount and the construction services as listed. item 9 is approving amendment to that same contract to award a contract to olson and company steel as responsible bidders with the lowest bid in the amount listed for contract number listed metal stair and ladders and authorizing cost by that amount and the construction services fixed fee by amount listed. item 10 is amending the same contract schindler elevator corporation for the negotiated amount as listed for contract escalators thereby increasing the direct costs by that same amount and the construction fees by amount listed and no members of the public have addressed you on those items. >> that was a lot of word. thank you very much. director harper. >>

i am steve from webcor/obayashi. this is an update on the construction schedule for phase one terminal. base the on the june 2014 complease date -- i'm sorry schedule update that was submitted to tjpa last week we plan to commence in early october the steel plan and the current status of the fabrication and detail support that for the structural steel. without mitigation the phase one transit center with the rooftop park would open at the end of 2017. that is rather than october 2017 which is the current complease date. to be clear the schedule provided last week shows december 28 date of substantial completion opposed to october 23. that is without any mitigation andee we have some strategies they will present that will get us back on track. we're over three months into construction on the project. the highest risk work is behind us and the work in the field is going well and i think there is a very good opportunity to complete the project on time. so some of the schedule mitigation measures that we have implemented