Xenophobic, racist, islamophobic sexist comments written in the scenarios. Do you want to comment . [ inaudible ] with the department of Emergency Management. Well, you have my word, i will consult with my executive director as soon as she returns from d. C. Supervisor cohen well, to be fair, you gave me your word that you were going to work with supervisor yee, and you didnt do that. We have met with him several times, and we have a differing dialogue, to be fair, but i will work with the director, cronenberg, and im sure its a conversation she will have with the other Community Members and sheriff ahern, absolutely. Supervisor cohen at this time, id like to ask the assistant sheriff of Alameda County to come up. I just wanted to give you an opportunity to give some feedback on some of the remarks you heard here today, going a little further than the two minutes that you had in Public Comment, and i assume out of the representatives, i am the most senior. Yes, maam, i am. Do you mind if i grab my notes. Supervisor cohen grab your notes. Ill just continue talking until you get back to the podium. Thank you for being here, because i think the short coming of this conversation is you guys have not been here at the table in San Francisco, so thank you, and i appreciate you being here. And i appreciate those comments, and in the future, i will make sure that there are people here from Alameda County to address any questions. If i could start by saying, i know that theres been some comments that urban shield has evolved over the years. It started out as a police exercise and has evolved into an Emergency Management exercise. We have heard the concerns of the community over the years, we have heard the concerns of some of our elected officials, and we have made changes as a result of that. We had a significant amount of community involvement. Weve always had citizen and Community Volunteers with urban shield, however, you heard we had Neighborhood Response Team exercises, we had the gray command, very successful. Heard the issue about the oath keepers. We dont have interaction with them. They requested to come at the last minute. Had we known that there was a perception that they were an extremist group, they would not have been allowed to be there. Those were not used to identify suspects. There were many wearing those, at what i believe to be the incident in question. They were strictly being used as a protective measure. Many people here in the United States of america now wear those when theyre in certain environments to protect those in sun. Supervisor cohen with you were in Alameda County. We dont have strong one. We can discuss climate change, but the reality is it doesnt enhance the exercise in any way. You see how it makes you look bad . Yes, maam. I do tunds. I just want to make it clear that we were not using it to identify suspects, and we do not use them to identify suspects in any kind of incident or anything like that. There were about 70 vendors there primarily targeting an audience of police and fire. Out of those almost 70 vendors, there were five of them that did have firearms displayed. Theyre not sold on the premtss, bpremt premtss premises. Supervisor cohen correct me if im wrong, to the point, theres other trade shows and other opportunities to evaluate new weapons. Yes, thats correct. Supervisor cohen so it doesnt necessarily need to happen with this at this event. Thats correct, and also you had mentioned the funding that comes from that, the funding that comes from that is utilized to pay for things that we cannot bill to the grant, for example, so the amount of funding that results from that is pretty small in the grant scheme of things, and i am planning on speaking to sheriff ahern about possible making some adjustments Going Forward with the vendor show. I have had some discussions with my staff regarding that this year, but i will be planning to have further discussions with the sheriff to see what his thoughts are on the matter. Supervisor cohen i would appreciate that because times are changing, and i know the sheriff is also up for reelection, i dont know if theres anyone thats running against him or not. Not yet. Supervisor cohen but there is times are changing, and i think that we would be we would be foolish not to acknowledge the change, and that we have to respond accordingly. You took an oath to protect and to serve, and that means everyone. And when i think about the all too numerous shooting occurrences that have happened, even in our state of california, when you think about a few weeks ago, north of San Francisco, i mean, we need i do believe we need to be prepared. I and i couldnt agree more, maam. And just on that note, i would like to state that that the number of shootings, at least in the region, have declined significantly over the recent past, and not that thats attributed to urban shield, but just so you know, swat operations that take place, most swat operations are resolved in a safe manner without a use of force, and part of that is a result of the equipment thats utilized at those incidents, if you will. Years ago, swat operation was basically, you know, busting down a door and flooding into a house as fast as you possibly could to overwhelm the occupants. Thats not the case anymore. Now what swat teams typically do is they do surround and call outs. Its very methodical, and they try to bring out the people inside, and a lot of that equipment is utilized during urban shield. Supervisor cohen thank you. I appreciate your extra commentary. Supervisor yee . Supervisor yee so, we just concluded that one can go to other shows and get the same information. Thats one thing, and you just said that the show brings in some funding, but its a small piece of the funding. So why are we doing this, and if were i guess from my point of view, if we value that we dont want our personnel to participate in shows where theyre selling a bunch of weaponry and if theyre not selling it there, theyre raffling it off i hope next year, they dont raffle off a tank or something. But i guess the question is if this is a point of contention for many thats here, is it really worth the money that you get to do this or can it be made up in a way so that the controversial issues can go away so that you can actually have these exercises, that many people can see that theres some value in it . I think that is possible, and again, thats some of the discussion that ive had with my staff this year that oversaw the vendor show this year. Part of the reason the primary reason why we do it is again, theres things that we cant pay for with county funds or bill against the grants. For example, meals that are served at dinner at what we call the hot box. That gets paid for through money thats veefd from received from vendors, so it would result in a change of probably some of the things that we receive for some of the participants, but i think its a discussion we should have yee ayee supervisor yee one of the things you can do is there shouldnt be any vendors thats going to display military weaponry. Supervisor cohen i appreciate it. Were going to move on and take up the issue that we have here, and i understand its interesting. I would be offended if somebody came into my county and told me what to do with the money, but in order for us to continue to move forward, i think collectively, otherwise, were going to have the same problems, were going to have the problems, were going to have the protests, were going to have the unrest, and we have an opportunity to bridge a gap here. The department of Emergency Management is responsible for administering the grant fore the bay area uasi, ensuring that the grant funds are spend according to grant guidelines and ensuring that each of the bay area counties and cities that they may receive a portion of the grant funds, that they adhere to the grant and fifrk will guidelines cht i want to read into the record for those of you that dont know the summary budget as follows, because i think we need to bring some clarity. Equipment, equipment is approximately 6. 3 million. Planning is approximately 4. 4 million. Training is 1. 8 million. Exercise is what we line share of our conversation was about today is 1. 8 million. Organization is 6. 8 million, and the Management Administration is 1. 1 million, so this is still, in total, a significant amount of money. Were asking were being asked to accept and then expend approximately 22. 5 million from the federal department of homeland security, so this is not an insignificant amount of money and there are a lot of very concerned people that are paying attention. So supervisor yee or supervisor tang, i dont know if theres a motion that youd like for us to begin to take on. Lets start with item 18. There was a series of amendments that were read into the record by supervisor yee. There were two in particular. The last two, further resolved clauses in the back. Supervisor tang, i think you had are you able to support both or are you able to support one or none . Supervisor tang first, for item 18, i support all of his amendments. It was item 19. Supervisor cohen okay. Fantastic. So by the way, i just want to acknowledge that Public Comment is closed. Im not sure if i did that. So supervisor yee has read into the record his amendments. Im happy to accept both of the amendments as well, supervisor, and we can take that without objection. Supervisor yee yes. Supervisor cohen okay. So as amended, we will accept i guess two additional further resolved clause. Clerk and that will be referred to the full board . Supervisor cohen that will be referred with a positive recommendation to the full board. Thank you. Item 19, there were three amendments that were proposed, three additional whereas clauses to the mou, and lets take them one by one. Okay. Ill read them. The first one, whereas the city and county of San Francisco does not condone training that promotes militaryized training that promotes stroo types and focus on religious programs. We accept this without objection. Next item you be for consideration is the second whereas clause that says whereas the city and county of San Francisco are in incorporating or principles that is an amendment, supervisor tang . Is that a yes or a no. Supervisor tang oh, no. Supervisor cohen okay. Supervisor yee. Well do a roll call vote on this particular amendment. Well start with supervisor tang. Clerk yes. Tang, no. Vice chair yee . Supervisor yee yes. Clerk yee, aye. Chair cohen . Supervisor cohen no. Clerk cohen, no. The motion fails. Supervisor cohen the third and final whereas clause says whereas if uasi funding is used for programs that are incompatible with the values and goals the board of supervisors may consider legislation restricting participation in uasi in the future. We can do a roll call vote on that, as well. Clerk on that motion, supervisor tang . Supervisor tang no. Clerk tang, no. Supervisor yee . Supervisor yee aye. Clerk yee, aye. Chair cohen . Supervisor cohen no. Clerk cohen, no. The motion fails. Supervisor cohen all right. We have one amendment in item 19 that has been accepted, and id like to make a motion to move this forward to the full board with a positive recommendation as amended. Clerk madam chair, i believe theres one more amendment to the dem to make the matter retroactive. Supervisor cohen thats correct. We can also take that with the final vote. Clerk yet. Supervisor cohen so well accept the amendment from dem as well as the one remaining amendment that supervisor yee introduced, and we can take this without objection. Clerk yes. The matter will be amended and forwarded to the board of supervisors with the full recommendation. Supervisor cohen all right. Are there any other matters before this board . Clerk that concludes the agenda. Supervisor cohen all right. Were adjourned. Thank Womens Network for a sustainable future. San francisco streets and puffs make up 25 percent of cities e citys land area more than all the parks combined theyre far two wide and have large flight area the pavement to parks is to test the variants by ininexpensive changing did new open spaces the city made up of streets in you think about the potential of having this space for a purpose it is demands for the best for bikes and families to gather. Through a collaborative effort with the department we the public works and the Municipal Transportation Agency pavement to parks is bringing Initiative Ideas to our streets. So the face of the street is the core of our program we have in the public rightofway meaning streets that can have areas perpetrated for something else. Im here with john francis pavement to parks manager and this parklet on van ness street first of all, what is a parklet and part of pavement to Parks Program basically an expense of the walk in a public realm for people to hang anti nor a urban acceptable space for people to use. Parklets sponsors have to apply to be considered for the program but they come to us you know saying we want to do this and create a new space on our street it is a Community Driven program. The program goes beyond just parklets vacant lots and other spaces are converted were here at playland on 43 this is place is cool with loots things to do and plenty of space to play so we came up with that idea to revitalizations this underutilized yard by going to the community and what they said want to see here we saw that everybody wants to see everything to we want this to be a space for everyone. Yeah. We partnered with the pavement to Parks Program and so we had the contract for building 236 blot Community Garden it start with a lot of jacuzzi hammers and bulldozer and now the point were planting trees and flowers we have basketball courts there is so much to do here. Theres a very full program that they simply joy that and meet the community and friends and about be about the lighter side of city people are more engaged not just the customers. With the help of Community Pavement to parks is reimagining the potential of our student streets if you want more information visit them as the pavement to parks or contact pavement to parks at sfgovtv. Org ok, good morning. I will call to order the november 9, 2017, Transbay Joint Powers Authority meeting. Roll call please. Note for the record that directors kim and sartipi will not be here. Director harper, reiskin, present, mr. Chairman, you have a quorom. Item three, communication. Im not aware of any. Item four, directors new and old business, and seeing none, number five, executive directors report. Earlier this year appointed process authority of Northern California regional director as a representative on our board. The next steps were for the current member agencies to, excuse me, to obtain concurrence from the respective boards. That step has been completed. Todays agenda we have an item for the board to approve amendment to the bylaws and rules of order to add California High Speed Rail Authority as a new member and acknowledge additional city and county of San Francisco member to the board. Once this step is completed and once we have received the executed First Amendment to joint Powers Agreement from the respective agencies, then we will, then california high speed rail will be a member of the city and new member of the city and county of San Francisco will join the boards. Two new members were expected to be seated at the december Board Meeting. On november 3rd, we hosted a senior delegation from australia led by minister andrew constance. The New South Wales of transport and infrastructure. Mr. Constance is responsible for overseeing public transport and infrastructure for australias largest state, New South Wales, includes sydney as the capital. Also in attendance, dan richards. Minister was very pleased with the Transbay Program and the opportunity we realize. He was equally impressed with the High Speed Rail Authority in undertaking to link the high speed rail to california. Moving on to phase two, as a followup to discussion at the Board Meeting last month, we have posted the operations analysis report which results presented to you as part of the phase two update last month. As you recall, the reports concluded a threetrack system is needed between the future fourth and Transit Center. I have asked the San Francisco county Transportation Authority to undertake a peer review of the report and they have agreed to do so. Once completed we will provide more detailed briefing of the report and the results of the peer review. In terms of funding for phase two, we continue to seek funding opportunities for the downtown extension. Last month i reported that Governor Brown signed bill 595, regional measure three authorizing legislation into law, if passed by the majority will provide 4. 4 billion in transportation funtding for the bay area and 325 million for the downtown extension. We have now turned our attention to seeking funding opportunities from other sources of funding, including the transit program. Transit to inner city rail Program Provides grants from the Greenhouse Gas reduction fund, trans formative project, transit improvement project. The program recently received a significant amount of funding due to passage of bill 1 legislation of the capandtrade program. Senator bill 1 will bring 1. 4 billion to the program and capandtrade 1 billion, for total of 2. 4 billion. Earlier this week i met with staff and cal transit regarding the application process and the requirement. Applications are due to caltrans on january 12, 2018. We will coordinate our efforts. We believe that we should be competitive in funding for this program. However, our success in receiving funding for the program is heavily dependent on the completion of the study as soon as possible and our ability to obtain a decision. As doing so would provide a clear path for comprehensive delivery strategy for the g. T. X. Project. At this time i would like to invite merv pryor, our Financial Consultant to provide you with a quick overview of the program and presents funding for phase two. Can i give you this . Hi, im mary pryor with nwc partners and i wanted to give you a brief overview of the tricp program. The Program Provides Greenhouse Gas reduction funds for transformative Capital Improvements to modernnize the rail systems and bus and ferry systems to significantly reduce emissions of Greenhouse Gasses, vehicle miles traveled and congestion. A sample of some of the previous awards, 20 million for the electrification project, muni, 20 million for the bart to san jose phase 2, and 85 million for the Los Angelessan Diego rail travel corridor program. As mark mentioned, 2. 4 billion available over the next five years and the state will program the funds similar to how they do the stip program, every two years adopt a fiveyear program of projects. So the d. T. X. Project meets the tircp goals and objectives. It reduces Greenhouse Gas emissions, increases ridership, integrated rail services, including high speed rail, improves safety and provides benefits to disadvantaged communities and leverages the funding. But scoring well on the project readiness will depend on completion of the study and obtaining the record of decision in the near term. And as mark mentioned, we have met with various different agencies to find out how best to position the project so sscta, cal sta, and staff, feedback, and through the process we may highlight different elements of the project, including potentially design and engineering, rightofway acquisition, utility relocation, tunnelling work, track work and systems, and or stations. So here is an overview of the schedule. Applications are due on january 12th, and approved list of projects will be published at the end of april and the c. T. C. Would approve the project list in may. Are there any questions . Other programs we are going to be pursuing will be the local Partnership Program under sd1 and solution for congested corridors. Last but not least, in honor of veterans day, all the veterans currently working on the Transit Center, hosting and serving lunch to approximately 35 hard working men and women that are laboring hard to finish the transit project. With this, that concludes my reports. Thank you. You have any questions next item. Next item is the Citizens Advisory Committee update. Good morning, chair nuru, directors, bruce agat, chair of the Citizens Advisory Committee, ill focus comments on the following topics. First in regards to the staff report, in regards to the d. T. X. And the r. A. B. Study, understanding we would see alignment by mid to late october with the decision still possible by yearend. And although we have heard in the report a decision is still possible, as we know its november 9th, the Holiday Season is approaching, and we have approximately six weeks left to the end of year. We are concerned the window for the decision by year end is closing. The c. A. C. Is mainly concerned about losing momentum towards phase two and looks forward to hearing more on the timing of the specific steps required to reach this important decision. With that decision, the project team can then turn their attention to next steps required to move phase two forward. Next was a presentation by p. R. I. , outlining the popup retail program. The level of expertise and experience came through clearly, and in the presentation, and although the c. A. C. Had some questions to gain additional understanding regarding look, feel, and quality of the popups, the c. A. C. Was overall very impressed with the approach and looked forward to hearing more on the implementation and progress to ensure the Transit Center is fully activated upon startup of bus operations. The construction update and facilities readiness, although the schedule remains at a 12week delay, we would like to again applaud the project team and web core for holding the line on a substantial completion of the center for the second straight month. We were also pleased to see the schedule expanded to include all elements required to ensure successful opening of the Transit Center. Specifically added were charts on transit operations, facility, and security readiness. We reviewed current completion dates of these approximately 49 high level work streams, and we now have insight on the key elements required of implementation of bus center and activation. One recommend we made and director gee as a followup to your comments at last weeks meeting, to clearly identify the key interdependency, work streams may not all be essential for startup. We look forward to next months refinements and update. As we said and discussed last month, implementation of bus actions for a. C. Transit is the long pole, currently scheduled for june 2018, and the project Team Continues to work with a. C. Transit to identify opportunities to pull that date in. Based on the current and anticipated substantial completion date of the center, it would be beneficial to clearly identify the key elements which are driving the june date and specific opportunities to pull that date in. As a last item, we were very pleased to hear that we will have a presentation at our next c. A. C. Meeting regarding the integrated plan to address the Homeless Population that could be attracted to the Transit Center on opening. While the homeless have every right to use and enjoy these public facilities, we are concerned once the park and building close each evening the Homeless Population will be forced out on to the streets to find refuge. Obviously the first place to find refuge will be in the surrounding neighborhoods of the transbay district, hill, south beach, north of market, along the waterfront, etc. We look forward to understanding how the department of homelessness and supportive housing, c. B. D. , staff and others as appropriate will interface and Work Together to supportively address any potential homeless issues. Thank you for the opportunity to provide this update and happy to take any questions. Thank you. Item seven, Public Comment. Members of public have an opportunity to address the authority on matters that are not on todays calendar and we have jim patrick. Good morning, directors. Jim patrick, patrick and company, San Francisco here. I was at the c. A. C. Meeting the other day and it appears that a. C. Transit is going to maybe slip this delivery of a whole project and i would like to get all these agencies together, i would like to hold revely at a. C. Transit to get everyone together and i think seems someone is dropping the ball over there, because we want this, i think we want this Transit Center to open with a bang and not with a major tenant not involved with the fireworks. So, something just doesnt seem right to me as an outsider looking in and i would like to hold revely to find some solutions, of the opening and coordinating with the a. C. Transit. Thank you. That concludes members of the public that wanted to address you under that item. Go ahead and call your consent calendar. All matters listed are considered to be routine and no further discussion of the items unless a member of the board or public would request, and removed separately. The resolution for 8. 3 has been slightly modified from what was posted to clarify that the action is conditioned on each members execution of the First Amendment to the joint Powers Agreement. With that, i have not received any indication from the board or the public to have any items severed. I move approval. First. And second. Director harper. Aye. Four aye and the consent calendar is approved. Call your next item. Item nine, the construction update. Good morning, directors. Todays construction update is an expanded one this month. Not only is the regular first half that i will give, but also ron almada and others will have an expanded schedule explanation over 12 slides that will be all the integral elements, so they will walk through that. Ron and also Steve Humphries will go through the risks slides and then ill end it and come back with a per Board Director request, a bus ramp merge item that, and go through some of the slides explaining what the issue is and where we are at Going Forward. So, with that, our usual kickoff picture here that shows a lot of trees. As you go into the usual graphic, youll see on the rooftop level there is a lot of activity going on, continues at all levels. Yellow is the focus on this particular slide, we are really on the bus deck of some important concrete poured at the joints on the bus deck level where they allowed for the completion of the coating that gets us to the busses running on the bus deck starting in december. Other elements that we are working as well, too, down at the muni bus plaza on the ground level, a lot of yellow activity completed in the last month and some pictures to show that as well. Going down below grade, continues to work in that upper left hand area with the lower concourse, all the various, the big box of interior finishes, from paint to dry wall to activities in the maze of buildings or rooms in that upper left hand corner progressing well. In general throughout the site, rooftop landscaping in all areas, pathway pavers as well. On the bus deck, its m. E. P. , including column covers throughout the entire area. Bus deck coating is underway on the west end and completed on the east end. Elevator, escalators throughout are being worked on. The terrazo floor are 70 complete at this point. Muni bus plaza is under construction, along with the m. E. P. Throughout the entire structure. Electrical is our controlling operation at this point. Some pictures up on the roof. One on the right is some Water Proofing going the restaurant element and then on the left shows a portion of the pathway, the half mile pathway around the entire Transit Center being poured and looks like some cure there. This is what the bus deck is looking on most sections now, the bus deck is getting ready for the december busses to arrive. Cat tracking, the temporary striping still first of december, and the first full week of december is where the testing will happen with all the agencies that transit agencies up on the bus deck. Final striping by the 18th or 23rd of december, and turned over for training and ready for training any time thereafter. Another element, the ceiling panels are going up. This is sort of the west end. That will still continue through the training, but there will be other activities on the bus deck that will be scheduled around the bus training as that commences after the final stripe is in place. This is an element thats interesting, one of the 27 large fans on the bus deck, some of the back lighting. So you know, showing pictures of that coming up where that moves a lot of air throughout the bus deck area, and thats coming along. Moving down to the grand hall, this i thought was a really neat site of our rendering versus the actual. The only way you can tell the difference, i think the glass floor looks better in actual. Terrazo floor is beautiful in person, but missing column covers, one of the items lagging, but great to see the floor, as a closeup, coming along ministry. Minna street, all the site work thats hang. We also have the first and fremont sidewalks in and buildout of all the streets is coming along well with a lot of activity over the next couple months. Muni bus plaza, the day before, this is the aisle, number five fulton by the beginning of december, poured probably the day after this picture, october 28th, and the team is in ernest working to meet that goal in cooperation with muni. And then here is another picture of the bus plaza as well, too. On the north side, and also oth other elements. A lot of the Safety Equipment is going in place and i do point out that as being a buy america project, i loved the use of the word proudly on this particular package. It sent a tone that was really cool. Electrical cables pulled in switch gear rooms are coming together. Ron and steve both will talk to the electrical. Talking about the fisk, the assistance, and in that picture that is a rosaden person pulling wire. Bus Storage Facility is progressing well. They are on schedule to deliver summer of 2018. Working through the concrete challenges. Theyll have some bridge pours that will be happening. They did have some impacts from the wildfires up in napa, their particular rebar sub was up there. Fortunately, only twoweek impact and their facility was ok. They were in the evacuation for two weeks, so that sucked up, what, what float they had, but still on schedule now and progressing well with no impacts. We did have one recordable noted on this schedule. It was a fisk employee that happened to strain a knee as he was walking down a step, so that was the extent of that recordable. And we have surpassed 4. 2 million craft hours on the project with over 700 workers still on the job. So with that, ill turn it over to ron for budget and contingency and beyond. Thanks, dennis. Always nice to see the great progress out in the field and the focus on starting the button up the edges and get ready for operations and as dennis and bruce noted, our presentation has expanded a bit on schedule to speak to the operations elements, adding that up, with respect to risk, i have distilled it down to schedule, thats the big risk that we are being mindful of and watching. Previously i had been carrying the risk of potential delay or delay of claims and the like, but those matters will manifest themselves in 2018. So dropped those to keep the presentation brief but issues around back charges and accountability and l. D. S and all those issues will be dealt with in 2018. So having said that, our slide for budget is holding steady. We continue to carry estimated at completion of 2. 15 billion, and that dovetails in our monthly refresh of risk out there and projections of exposure. So thats, we are maintaining that. We have not needed to adjust that. Still comfortably under our target max and comfortably in our budget of 2. 259. In terms of expenditures in the last month, it was down at 19. 6, if you recall. Ive been using 30 million a month as kind of the water mark to make it on time, so this speaks to some of the schedule struggles we are having. And we have committed additional 8. 7 million and most of that has been just catching up with dialogue around change orders and what have you. And likewise, with the contingency draw down as low as 2. 7 in october, again, thats been a lot of known issues that have been wrestled with in terms of quantities and quantum and no real see change on that front either. That brings us to schedule and the first slides are somewhat new slide, distilled in this slide just one stream of activity for construction which for final completion takes us into june. The substantial completion bar has been added, the purple bar, and that still remains in march, march 20, to be specific. And we have added some streams of activity related to transit readiness, Facility Readiness and security readiness. And the following slides will delve into that a little bit further, but we are starting to identity what these activities are and well be following them and driving to completion along these lines. This slide is familiar, this is the one we have been carrying for some time as mentioned. The Transit Center has been holding tough in terms of substantial completion. I should note we have added a few more progress bars or milestone bars. The candy striped one that you see just beyond the progress bar is marking the number five fulton operations on december 26th, so most appropriate candy striped benchmark. Following that we have substantial in march and right now as training and such takes us into stepping into may and june in terms of bus operations. Well delve into that a little further as we get into more granular schedules. Roof park slid out about two days, and bus storage is holding its own in terms of its substantial completion. Going to the familiar granular flow of construction, for the most part, everything held its own. We saw a bit of a pushout on vertical transportation elevators and escalator, and thats probably driven more by commissioning and m. E. P. Progress. I think some of our efforts and our leaninto is manifested with metal panels and ceilings. Youll see we have gained some ground on that front. And then moving on to schedule bus operations, well be tracking some key elements, readiness for network, security, supervisor booths, the prefab booths that are scheduled to begin arriving in january. Road testing and lease and subleases will be tracked for bus operation, and we have carried the familiar benchmark or milestone bars on all the slides so you can get your bearings in terms of where it lies relative to operations with the number five as well as full a. C. Transit and full m. T. A. Service as it is mapped out now with their activities for readiness. The bus deck, similar mapout Network Security and supervisors booth and roadway testing pretty much taking us into may and june. Unfortunately, between some of the constraints on operations, its kind of pulling us into june and on the other side with the issues we have with some of the underperforming subcontractors, tending to want to push us into june. However, we are holding tough with substantial in march and advocating or encouraging all parties to focus and drive to their success sooner rather than later, preferably march, and not so much focus on anticipating others failure but to focus on your own success and drive to the earliest possible readiness. Again, another bus plaza detail similar to the bus deck focussed on streams of activity. And with that, i will ask martha to come up and speak to the granular efforts of Facility Readiness and such. Good morning, directors, martha valez, facility manager. The link intended improvements with the focus being the amtrak and greyhound space. First is the contractor selection as we noted last month, an r. F. P. Was done with three rerespondents, and lincoln is finalizing the contract with turner with a recommendation and contract approval to come to the tjpa this november. This does make the schedule tight at this point. However, lincoln is still on track for completion of the initial greyhound amtrak t. I. S in march as noted below in the work stream. With regard to the design, architect is on board, focus greyhound and amtrak, and as of today construction drawings are a week to ten days away. This is the Facility Maintenance on the Facility Services contract. On track for the r. F. P. S to be completed by the end of the calendar year. Commissioning and training dependent on web core. They are having regular meetings and some initial training has already started with the chief engineer being trained on fall protection. The rooftop park, just going to talk about a couple of things, and then more detail later. From a schedule perspective, budgets and plans, they have completed their programming plan this month. Ill go into more detail later. And staffing, they have an Events Manager starting this month. Just a couple of highlights, progress is being made on all fronts. The critical item is the content management system, meetings have been held this week that gets us to advancing the schedule so that full testing is expected in january and then pearl is also actively hosting tours with potential sponsors. On this slide, which of these things, if any, is related to the signage, Digital Signage that a. C. Needs to use in terms of next bus and scheduling and passenger information. So, there is two. Display content layout and the way finding layout. Those are on track, numerous meetings, its a complicated process trying to figure out how things are going to look. Every operator has a slightly different information, but they are being reconciled. Having working signage, is that after i think layout so thats what the testing will be in january. The testing of it will be in january. Yes, yes. With colliers im going to talk about colliers in more detail later on and will hear from p. R. I. , our public consultant later this morning, too. The next item is security. Good morning, chief security officer. So, we have three responses we received for the Security Guard the negotiations are underway with the highest ranking firm and we anticipate bringing the item to you in december. M. O. U. Law enforcement is still in progress. We anticipate bringing this item to you in december as well. In the process of formulating the Transit Center code of conduct. We anticipate issuing the roving security and good will ambassadors later this month and bringing it to you in january. In march, finish drafting the security Standard Operating Procedures needed to effectively manage security at the Transit Center. And then preopening Security Training will be complete before the Transit Center opens, with the month prior to opening being used to prepare the members of the Transit Center security team, including the ambassadors, Law Enforcement and Security Center staff. We will also be including tjpa and lincoln staff to operate during normal conditions and during an emergency. And finally, the security Information Management system, and emergency communication mass notification system contract will be complete in may of 2018. Thank you. A question on security timing. So, we are going to have people who are going to be using the muni bus plaza in december, and looks like we are not going to have security in place. How are we dealing with the interim period . Using the existing with the temporary terminal. A Security Guard will be assigned during that time period and then closed off and part of the Construction Zone when its not in active use. Thank you, sydney and martha for the update. That brings us to our single risk, biggest risk, and that is schedule. We continue to have struggles with advance in electrical, although im pleased to see lots more wire being pulled. Walking around, i do see considerable more mechanical, electrical and plumbing equipment in place, and being ready for utility hookups, so, but all in all, the advancement of electrical remains the primary focus and need towards mitigation, as we have been carrying as well, the column covers and the e2 pylons have always, or have been vecsing for some of the subcontractors, and steve will speak to some of the strategies or statuses on the mitigation measures that we are taking to deal with those issues. And i just want to underscore that we are leaning into and focussing on our muni bus plaza activation partial in december and concentrating the grand hall work as you see with the photos, and the bus deck to ensure as soon as possible the beginning of training and standing up to systems to get operations for the bus deck. With that, ill ask steve to come up and speak to where web core is with the mitigation measures that they have been employing in the last couple months we have been talking about. Good morning, Steve Humphries. As ron indicated, holding firm on the substantial completion date over the last couple of months. Mitigation measures are helping that to maintain. We are not really picking up time, but we are overcoming the many challenges we are faced on a daily basis to currently hold the schedule that day. Primarily we are working, continuing to work targeted over time with specific trades, critical trades and where we can get the most bang for the buck. With 700 workers onsite, obviously you cannot work everybody but we are working where we can get the most benefit from it. Ron mentioned the electrical work. We have been supplementing fisk on pulling the feeders. Thats going well. We have increased that scope to include emergency power distribution, connecting the, some of the equipment, and also finishing out some of the electric electrical rooms. And allow fisk to focus on distribution and fire alarm and other things on the project while we get power up and running and fisk is being cooperative on that at this point in time. We have also supplemented our site contractor with another Site Concrete contractor currently working on the project. Our site contractor was unable to get sufficient man power to maintain the schedule for his work, so we shifted some scope there, and thats been going well. We are pouring concrete in zone three, while our site contractor is focussing on the public streets in zones 1 and 2 and completion of the muni bus plaza. We are working closely with our column cover subcontractor. We spent quite a lot of time with him yesterday. We have a supplementation plan ready if necessary, report further next month. Column covers are fabricated, its now the point getting them installed. We are also looking at possible supplementation on interior finishes at this point. I think thats going to be limited in scope, but we are continuing to monitor the progress of those trades and if necessary we are prepared to step in and bring in other subcontractors to keep that work on contract. Thank you. Thanks, steve. Appreciate all the efforts towards mitigation. I think you all can appreciate
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