Mr. Chairman, you have a quorum. Item three is communications, im not aware of any. Item four, board of directors new or old business. Ill make this short my old friend from high school said he knew how to straighten out the Millennium Tower so i would announce it. You let the rest sink and then drill those piles. I talked to mark about that, he said yeah, thats been talked about. But i did promise my friend i would pass on his great idea. Okay. Thats it for communications. Item four, board of directors new under old. Chair nuru good morning directors. Everybody is eager to jump in. laughter item five executive director. Good morning directors. On january 24th, voted to place measure three on the june ballot for this year. The measure will increase the total on toll bridges, excludeing the golden gate bridge, 3 gradually by 2025. As importantly, 5 million in annual operations for the Transit Center. If passed by the voters, the money could be available as soon as january 2019. On june 12th we submitted our application for the rail Capital Program, including the request for 275 million for the construction of the downtown expansion. The Capital Program provides grants from the Greenhouse Gas fund for projects. This is a five year Program Updated every two years and provides 2. 4 billion in grants over five years. The approved project list is expected to be published end of april this year. In regards to the real operation study we completed in october 2017, the peer review of the real Operations Report and it includes evaluations of operation materials from the study and value engineering study on behalf of the property owner. Theyre composed of senior managers with substantial rail Operation Management with commuter and inner city rail lines, including jacobs, less elliot group and Port Authority of new york and new jersey. The purpose is to inform key policy makers regarding the operational advantages of having three tracks versus two track system. The Peer Review Committee held meetings with caltrain, high speed rail and Group Representative on january 25th and 26th. The peer review is expected to be completed in march of this year. The presentation of the results will be presented in april to the board. And at the april Board Meeting it is expected the final supplemental environment document will be presented for consideration. At this time i would like to have the efforts for the Transit Center. Morning erica elliot. Im here to present the retail update for the month. Want you to see if you could page 2, so we have extreme interest as usual, moving along. Go to the next page. Youll see where we are in our progress in getting towards the 11 stores open second quarter. We are scheduled for 11 by the end 13 by the end of this quarter. We have 11 already and its february. So we are ahead of schedule. Great news. In terms of the actual interest, getting varied interest in all categories and using that interest and the inquiries from the web site to go through our merchandising plan to appropriately place each tenants used to match what the board approved last year. One note that i think you all might be really interested in knowing, of the inquiries that we have, over 75 are local. We continue our our action items, we continue to speak with tenants, tour them through the spaces, receive their work letters, analyze them with the help of Lincoln Properties to make sure they fit mechanically in the spaces identified. Work through tenant work letters to get to the spaces to mechanically compensate for rierm requirements and then price that out and keep within our budget we have identified for landlords work and tenant improvement dollars and we are on budget. Any questions . Chair nuru i guess i have one question, this might be for mark. Since were paying for the build out, how does it work into negotiations when a new tenant comes in . Its part of the what we intend to do is provide certain allowance, depending on the tenant, what their uses are and what their capabilities are and weve provided a rough budget but we think each space is required for improvements and building improvements. Well pay 100 of improvements. Thats part of the negotiations. Capturing some of the money put up for that . We expect to get higher rents paying for more improvements. And less improvements, lower rents. The retailers can provide up front money versus paying the lease. Im assuming theres a formula for that . Sure. How that works for example we have a tenant interested in a space that it was originally designed for a restaurant and they dont require any venting. That expense that we supply goes towards takes out of that and into the rest of the bucket so to speak. If another tenant needs a shaft or cooking or Something Like that, that would cost extra, its paid for. So depending on the space, the tenant physical requirements for that space and type of tenant it is, we stay within our budget for landlords work, which is what mark was saying and then if its for a restaurant, a certain ti above the landlords work, if its not a restaurant, we dont give them the restaurant ti, we give them less. I see. Director nuru, each has different needs and were going to capture the total costs through the rent or chair nuru i understand that. But were putting up a lot of money and trying to make money. I dont want to give away everything. No, no, were not no. Its not given as incentive. Its by need. If we had it our way, wed have them pay all the improvements, but thats not practical. And we are sorting applications from bay residents who want to sit on the committee. Application deadlines are february 20th and applications are on our web site. That concludes my report. Chair nuru questions from the board . Next item. Item six, citizen advisory update. We have bruce with us. Good morning chair nuru, directors, im the chair of the citizens advisory committee. My comments are focused in the following areas today, first on the staff report, we continue to encourage the San FranciscoPlanning Department to work with the Key Stakeholders and Decision Makers to move forward with the process leading to a decision on the preferred alignment of the downtown extension as part of the study for a host of reasons that we shared at previous Board Meetings. We were pleased to hear that mayor ferrell will receive a briefing and look forward to hearing back. Regarding construction update, we had with the substantial completion date now pushed out to june 1st, we see a significant risk with the implementation of full bus operation by mid june. With that said, we heard at our meeting that ac transit and other operators are working closely with the project team to get on site as soon as possible to ensure training can occur prior to achieving substantial completion of the center. And we wanted to note, the project team fully agreed that employee and Operator Safety as always comes first and no early training would be scheduled if there were any risks. We do understand based on how training progresses, implementation of full bus operations could be pushed out. We were also pleased to see that the aec is holding. We had discussion in regards to how that is being managed as we know that scheduled delays intuitively lead to overruns. It was explained that those are covered as we know many of the bid packages awarded were higher dollar amounts at premiums than the estimates. Moving on to faulcilities and retail update. We provided feedback on our concerns of readiness of passenger signage, status of bus departures and information of that sort. This was identified as a risk unless appropriate workarounds could be identified and we ask for a presentation at our next meeting of the status of popup readiness. We were interested in forecast, types of popups planned, locations, next steps, etc cetera. On several slides we requested additional clarity and month to month completion dates. The project team agreed and committed to communicate status and schedule. And on the slide i just noticed on the report, this morning, that changes were made from tuesday to really focus in on the cumulative progress as retail is being brought on. The last item i wanted to share with you was regarding a followup on the cac item we have been tracking closely, the integrated Planning Efforts to address and support issues associated with the potential homelessness population that could be attracted to the center. At our meeting december 5th, 2017, the staff facilitated a multi agency Panel Discussion of coordinated response to quality of life issues in the trans bay neighborhood. This was done in response to request to understand the proactive approach being planned to provide support services to the potential Homeless Population that could be attracted to the Transit Center, a premier public facility and neighborhoods around the center. This started about 18 months early with the request to have detailed plans presented prior to the opening of the center, specifically procedures and protocol in the center and surrounding neighborhoods focused on safety, security and availability of supportive services. There was Significant Interest from the neighboring building tenants. Representatives from mission bay and others attended the meeting. Members of the panel from the department of homelessness and supportive housing. Captain fong from sfpd. We thank them for attending, presenting and for their commitment. The presentation focused on each department outlining procedures. First describing the three levels of support within the center, ambassadors, security and sfpd officers. As additional assistance is needed, the transit personnel will work with other agencies, in most cases department of supportive housing, sfpd and others as appropriate. They will follow current procedures and protocol to handle situations on a case by case basis as they do citywide. Various examples on the effectiveness of how theyre working together to support atrisk residents. If neighbors and agencies outside of the center see problems or identify issues, theyre instructed to call or contact 311 or the sfpd and theyll respond which is current protocol. To ensure optimal response, each agency indicated they might need Additional Resources. The members had a robust debrief and follow up discussion on january 8, 2018. We were pleased with the direction of readiness of the center and protocol with the city departments however remain concerned about the potential impact of increased Homeless Population on neighborhoods adjacent to the center. These neighborhoods dont have the level of dedicated and coordinated resources that will be on site within the center and would face challenges responding to and assisting the homeless. In light of the high profile nature of the public facility in one of the most or soon to be densely Populated Areas of the city, were making the following recommendations to ensure engagement, clarity of protocol and expectations of stakeholder groups and city agencies. First, establish a committee to review plans and protocol and upon the opening of the center monitor effectiveness of the plans to ensure safety, security, quality of Life Services are being provided. At minimum one member from the staff, sfpd, department of homelessness, neighboring business should be members of the committee, members of other constituent groups should be added as identified. Second, part of the planning process review with the committee what specific types of services will and can be offered to those identified as homeless and others who are at risk. Identify responsible organization, where they will be provided and established metrics. Third, allocate resources from across associated city departments to be dedicated to this plan. Commit these resources to a lockbox agreement. Four, based on the evaluation of metrics and conditions, if Additional Resources are needed, they can be identified and submitted for approval as part of the next two year city budget cycle and last, once the center opens, the committee should meet at least twice a month to assess issues, performance and metrics and make necessary adjustments. The cac is excited about the opening of the Transit Center. So much great work has been completed to this point. Additional focus in this area is just another element to ensure that the center will be the premier transit facility and public aminutety. There is much discussion to whom it should be addressed and district six supervisor, supervisor kim with cc to mark farrell and all the associated departments who participated in the panel. This was done yesterday evening. As a cac we are not experts in this area and provide the recommendations only as a framework for consideration as an appropriate path forward. Thank you for the opportunity to provide the update and happy to answer any questions. Chair nuru Board Members . I have one. I know i havent, but maybe staff has, seen the way that the terminal will funnel people and protect people from where the construction still maybe going on, how theylling g get up to bus deck, has cac seen anything like that . We have not seen an update on the egress looks like as a center initially opens. I dont know maybe ac has but were going to have to see that soon so we know how our passengers are going to get up there and relatedly, too, as far as i know, linda would know better, were not going to have any all Night Service through the terminal. Theyll run until midnight. But there is a time that from ac transit standpoint, you could close the terminal down a few hours. Security will still be there and maybe thats another coordination that needs to take place. A lot of facilities can use three or four hours of down time for various reasons and the hope would be maybe passengers will be all night station, that kind of thing. Were coordinating closely with operators on what needs are, what time they need the bus there and so forth so we can close areas off. Obviously the park is going to be closed. The bus station will be closed after midnight and service will be street level and we do have a plan showing how that will be, well bring that up at the next meeting. In general access would be up through the park. Retail areas would be cordoned off. The areas west of free mount within the Transit Center would be closed. It would be a separation. Well make sure it doesnt feel like a construction hall. It will be fully open and we just cordoned off on sidewalks around. Well present something next month. I want to thank bruce for his help with the homelessness situation. We are in close contact and coordination with the Community Benefit district in terms of how were going to coordinate any issues once we open. The next item is for members of the public to address you on things not on the agenda. Jim patrick. Welcome. Patrick and company, two issues that i want to call to your attention. Number one, we focused on this homeless notion, which is an important notion. I rode in on the bart today with a homeless person who i think was placed by the hospital, she had a lot of hospital stuff on her wrist and have you, we can receive Homeless People into the Transit Center and need to have policies that deal with those people. Kansas city sent someone on a Greyhound Bus to San Francisco, what are we going to do . We should proactively try to address it. Number two strategically i would like the board to agendize the peer review meeting going on. This is a strategic issue we need to jump on immediately. Im glad mark reported on it but we need to be on top of that and immediately support it. What we dont want is for it to die in the committee some place. Thats my hope. Thats my fear. Thats not my hope. Its my fear it will die in committee. We want to be out front, we want to be the leader on this and have the Mayors Office come in on it and approve it and get this in our eir and get moving on it. It needs leadership from the board and i think being more proactive with this, well achieve that leadership objective. Everybody is looking at us to move forward on this. My recommendation agendize the peer group so we have a report and we know what the end result is and the position well take when its complete. Thank you. Okay. That concludes members of the public that wanted to address you under that item. We can move into the regular calendar. Item 8, construction update. Good morning. Ron and i will report on our monthly update. Its busy out there, still over 700 workers in all zones throughout the entire area. In our usual graphic that we update monthly, you can see on the roof top, it is very active from the gray water basin from the east to the great lawn amp theater to the west on the roof top. A very different color from last month, the bus deck, you can see a lot of the purple color, what that is depicting is a lot of ceiling panels that will start going up. All the work above the ceilings is relatively complete. A lot of the areas have been cleared so the southwest, our subcontractor for that particular work can progress and thats throughout the entire area of the bus deck and when you move down to that lower line, it shows the exterior, the ground level as you look at the overhang above the ground level. And moving down to the second level, theres a lot of activity in that area, web core is getting ready to turn over to turner projects for improvements. These are the Facility Improvements such as greyhound and amtrak and facilities at the east end. And the ground level continues to have a lot of site work. When you work below ground, thats finishes, smells like paint, a lot of those things happening in that area. And at the bottom level at the train box, continuing to show some of the concrete just being punched out, finished, surface finish type of element being finalized. Getting a little more glandular, the roof top continues, landscaping in all areas. We have from the granite pavers throughout the entire area. When you move to the bus deck, not only is the ceiling in place, covers continue to be put in place. Elevators, escalators on the way, sidewalks, roadways, those elements are all working throughout the entire project. But then electrical is our most active. Its the most critical. Its our critical activity, pulling and terminating wire and distributing power throughout the facility is Critical Path now throughout the area. And of course gypson board throughout. You can have a peek at the art piece in that picture as it reflects on the glass floor. It was a neat night picture shot that showed that area. And on the righthand side it shows the column covers going in on the grand hall is getting ready to it basically has protection over everything at this point. Once they get the ceiling panels in, it will be close to done. Moving down to the bus deck, thats one of the 27 large fans that shows the ceiling grid, so there will be actual panels being put in place that goes fairly quick. The grid takes longer than the panels themselves. And bus deck getting ready for the next and final wave of testing for operating testing. We had a good meeting with the operators. The coo was there and the meeting team to go through what the criteria for testing, february 20th and march 13th date. Ill send out info for that. We had a good coming into agreement on conditions and next step, training going in april to ensure we keep all on track for that mid june date. When you move down to the ground level which this is at the east end by the muni bus plaza, there was a lot of effort to get the north end done and now the south end is looking just about almost done. Good progress on the eastern zone at the ground level and then moving to the western zone, its all about sidewalk and curb, so that area, with the heavy emphasis with gordon ball and concrete north in that area, by possibly the next Board Meeting a lot of that will be poured out. Well have a lot of pictures next month. Condoets are in place. The final utility connections with happening on beall street. Up on the park, the pathway in here is about 90 complete of the half mile jogging walking path. Were getting ready for the small plants showing up, drip irrigation is in place and working on a temporary basis, temporary water to get them going and get it installed as it starts to come together. This has been poured this picture is about a week old. Ive heard zero issues at this end. As we continue to build out and complete the bus plaza area is going well. One element i mentioned about level two and some there is a handoff starting to happen this month. Web core is working on their punch out and turn over, basically signing off where theyre working specifically, the level two area probably the most real estate getting turned over to lincoln management who has Turner Special Projects Division doing the tenant improvement for that work. They have their bids, safety coordinations happening, out reach and of course the pla is in work for that as well. The bus Storage Facility continues to be on time. The falsework on the bridges has gone well. The approach slabs poured within the next few weeks and sound walls going up. A lot of block is going and they are still on track for their june date. Hopefully we can get buses in the bus storing facility around may even to start training at the west end where the east end is the final work the admin building. Quick update on the on ramp item, submitted was the set to caltrains and it was incorporated into the scope. I anticipate that, keeping on track to being signed off, it seems like the parties are in good shape for agreement on what needs to be done and well get that over to our contractor soon to have that implemented before bus operations start. Lastly, i know i showed this last month. We advertised 42 states, we found two more. The signs coming from south dakota and wyoming. So now all we need is alaska, hawaii and vermont. We keep putting the pitch out there. We have to find the three states, that would be quite a success for our effort for labor to have all 50 states create a job somewhere every where in the country. Were almost there and we have over 21,000 jobs identified as well. The very good news on safety, theres nothing to report. This year so far. No lost time to date this year. And were almost at 4. 6 million craft dollars. Now over to ron to tell the rest of the story. Thanks dennis. Good morning directors. A lot of good work going on out there and positive Energy Despite our challenges. With respect to budget, no real big news, in the last month weve expended about 23. 2 million, a little shy of where we ought to be pacing. Committed was 8. 7 and no real big change in the budget. Dac at 2. 15, exclusive of all known and anticipated issues out there. It does not include 301 Mission Matter or ti work. It does track the issues were tracking with respect to delivering phase 1. A total of 139. 9 million remaining in contingencies. This was associated with bus Storage Facility and disposal. We had a bit more disposal type soil conditions. Its been managed through that. That brings us to schedule. There is a bit of a slide at june 1st for the Transit Center. Im actually optimistic about the summer despite june and ill get into that more dealing with risk and mitigations in play. I think whats pushing june from the previously reported may 11th is a little more emphasis power on rival and distribution and in terms of the roof park, we actually gained three days. Theres a lot of high energy and good work going on on the roof park. And again, the bus storage is the poster child of just steady as she goes and delivering and should be arriving in june as well. The previous fear of bus storage lagging so behind and not available for operations is dissipating which is good news. Looking at the streams of activity, this months read on the schedule was a little perplexing for me. Youll notice the maps and system commissioning stayed steady and Everything Else slipped out. I have to call a meeting to kind of understand whats going on here. This graph is kind of telling me a bit of a perplexing story. What i have come to learn is that now that were coming to the end, it seems everything is critical and even if theres an odd ball shaft or room in any of the streams of activity, it kind of pushes it out. I think the majority of it is pacing better than would be indicated here. Im relying a little more on as i mentioned last month, ive been pressing to be informed better on milestones. I think i mentioned theres about 71 milestones in electrical only and i wanted to hear more on other streams of activity. Getting that information has been a little jerky but i did hear with respect to the 24 expected milestone to be met in the last month that 13 were met and 11 were at first glance missed and youll see in the risk slides, i was reporting unsatisfactory level of milestone achievement and in fact let me move on to the risk slide. Looking at the 11 misses, theyre kind of near hit. Theres a lot of mitigation, bump motors, run pumps and what have you. I think theres a high energy of mitigation activity going on. Getting back on track with the slide, again, our challenges remain with the electrical subcontractors pace of delivering milestones, the e2 pylons are kind of the struggle out on the park because thats moving very nicely, the park in general. But these pylons are continuing to be promised next week, next week. And yet again, i heard theyre arriving next week. Web core has some individuals going down this week to visit the plant and see whats going on with the manufacturer and delivery of these items. Recently you have heard a lot of worry about completion and energizing the Power Distribution bottles and im pleased to hear all the physical work is complete. I was looking into it, and i learned that there was a series of miss steps over the past year in terms of installation by various contractors and maybe some by puc as well, but we have navigated through that, everything is in place. I understand theres a scheduled review for volk acceptance next wednesday on the 14th. We should have that behind us and then last, another risk has been the state of completion of inspection readiness. And thats kind of the typical push pull of when are you really ready, inspections failing, or not meeting the mark and ill speak to that in mitigations in a bit. And if i were to add one more to this, i think on the horizon, standing up to systems is going to be another risk. Dont have much information right now. In terms of mitigation, maybe the best or biggest news, the highlight was hearing that web core has finally removed all low voltage scope away from the low performer. Management of that scope is now under web core as of this week. Ive seen a lot better personnel with that. It has been a good performer but restrained by the lack of management. So it was refreshing to see that were seeing web core grab hold of that. And put a lot of focus on getting those low voltage systems in place, in particular, the fire system which has all the Fire Department signoffs now in terms of the shop drawings. So thats a piece of my optimism despite some of the indicators on the schedule. Additional supplementation of voltages going on as well. And the site notice has advanced better. Theres been a blend of introducing different concrete sub, as well as gordon ball stepping up and i think were seeing a better pacing around the building to finish with all the sidewalks as intended and clean up the perimeter. Column covers was mentioned and they have picked up pace as well. Was able to continue with the original subcontractor. Thats good news. Theres still some finish issues we want to get addressed. But it is pacing better. I think some adjustments will need to be done to clean up some of the alignment issues we see out there. Then addressing interior finishes, weve had a great influx of tile workers. Thats all good news. I think my optimism comes from despite what i have been calling the unpleasantries of administration with lds and charge back and all that, take it down a level to boots on the ground. We have a good concentration of energy with the web core crew, with our crew across the board, renewed energy with ac transit and muni, were all having good positive dialogue on how to deliver in june. Its remarkably good feeling particularly on wednesdays where i focus heavily on transbay and in the mornings theres 3040 people in the oac meeting and were all theyre all the superintendents are reporting and getting into the milestones and good positive energy in that respect. The issues that are a logger jam, theyre elevated to the project Leadership Team where theres anyone from 612 of us in the afternoon, were making decisions, identifying problems and making decisions and theyre advancing. So thats all real good. In terms of my concern about the inspections, theres new closeout management with web core overseeing the flow of inspection and inspection readiness. I worked with taylor before at the hospital, hes quite capable and im seeing some improvements on all the subs being better prepared for inspections and better prepared to fulfill their qa, Quality Control responsibilities. So thats all good. And i wanted to kind of conclude there was a lot of talk about puc and delivery of energy and power and permanent power and i just wanted to set the record straight as i see it, as i had kind of dug in and understood what was going on with all of that. And i do want to commend puc for stepping up and help navigate through the problems that arose from some of the miss steps over the past year. Puc is very much like pg and e, they have a volt readiness check list and if you dont check every box, they dont show up. The lighting has to be just so, until all the boxes are checked, they have every right not to show up and do anything. Theyre coming next week to finish checking the boxes but all the work is done. They have stepped up and delivered for us and i want to acknowledge that. With that, ill take any questions. Chair nuru Board Members. I appreciate all the optimism and hearing theres good energy but it seems the fact remains from the schedule perspective, in the past month we have only gotten a week or two worth of work done and some areas, exteriors, were further away from completion than we were a month ago. Can you help reconcile your optimism with the schedule. That is where the fatalistic initial reaction was to look at the graph the schedule is not accurate . No, i think some things are being pushed out because so many things are critical as i mentioned. The exterior enclosures, i understand theres difficulties with finishing up some shafts with the metal panels and all. That is pushing out some of the bars. Likewise, the readiness of rooms are being pushed out because theyre not done in terms of meeting the milestones i mentioned. But in fact because theres temporary power and provisions, they are kind of moving forward a little bit more. Its not really graphically showing up. Im not sure how to resolve that. Theres a broad brush in saying in all the 3,000 activities on the schedule, how are they all tracking. So kind of the out lying lays the terms. Thats why i want to look at the key milestones and understand the hits and misses with that and work on kind of tease out some of the out liars so its not obscured on the graphics as much. If there are isolated issues such as a portion of the exterior or a few rooms here and there that have issues, is there a way to get them off the Critical Path . Yeah. I need to foot note those or understand them i guess there are contract issues and getting certificate of occupancy issues but only a portion of the facility we need to be able to eventually function in terms of the bus service. I guess a concern is this keeps slipping out and out and if some of that is being driven by things not really needed by day one, if we can disassociate those and get certainty in terms of when we can actually start serving customers, that would be helpful. No, in fact, i met with steve last week and we need better certainty and again, as you saw when jeff spoke up, i didnt get a lot of certainty, just a lot of other issues or the other guy. But we did drill down and talk about kind of what does it mean to take over low voltage, some targets in terms of getting the fire alarm going. Were going to meet again next month to start honing in. We need to get better certainty from web core as to when its going to arrive. What is your level of confidence with june 1st right now . Better than my initial reaction. Weve talked about how can we stand up in june on different scenarios. Whether its fully activate the plaza and introduce some if theres a strain with transit in terms of arrival that others may arrive first, making sure the popups are on tracks. Were looking at various scenarios that will improve the chances of opening up in june rather than letting it push out to august or september. Again, im working with the crew and some of the new superintendents, i have positive feeling were going to get it arrived in june. Particularly the walk with ac transit and muni earlier where we tease the out the concerns a bit and we able to maintain the testing to begin on february 20th and next wave in march. And kind of renewed commitment across the board of all the players to lean in and get june has helped a lot. Thanks. Chair nuru questions from other directors . Yes. Thank you. Ron, thank you for the update and im sorry i wasnt here for the january update. I saw it. Im trying to figure out how to say the right things. I want to say thank you for all the hard work over the last years. I think its also safe to say, at least from an emotional standpoint, its disappointing to see it drift out. Absolutely. I dont want to undermine the optimism and teams effort on site, but i think its appropriate to underscore the drifting needs to stop. And the certainty needs to be there whether Critical Path things are i dont want to get im struggling not to micro manage. I know what you mean. High degree of certainty, this facility should be operational june 1st. If there are things you need from the board, please dont hesitate to let us know. But the message should be this thing is going to open for operations june 1st. All the tools in the contract and i know public agencies dont like using lds, i do, all the mechanisms we have will be used that we can use if the date is not hit. Just for clarity, substantial completion june 1st and discussions around june 17th for bus operations but we are using every tool in the tool box, we are in part of our discussion last week with web core was the manner in which we communicated to date and which it was going to continue to be communicated with each pay app what the possible is with lds. Thanks. Item nine, Facility Readiness update. Our facility manager. Good morning directors. Facility manager. This month the format of the presentation will be slightly different than the december meeting. I will start with the facilities update and sydney will follow with the security update and then well wrap up with the schedule update. And an important update on this slide, the greyhound and amtrak bids came in last friday. Lincoln is packaging them up for approval. I expect them any day. In the meantime, both Turner Special Projects Division or were calling them turner spd and web core have met to coordinate access safety rules and other logistics. Completion of the greyhound space is contingent on web core receiving permits and followed by turner with theirs. The completion time frame is likely mid may, followed by the improvements for the lincoln offices. The work on the mail room is not time sensitive in that the noted four week duration is reflective of an over the counter permit to build partition wall and outlets pending finalizing equipment layout. Lastly, when the retail areas are ready for construction, the permitting process through dbi will be streamlined and in place. Facility readiness, two main points today, key contract is the marketing promotion consultant contract, lincoln is currently negotiating with a local vender whose prices were the most favorable. This contract is key, one of the first things they will do with tjpa and other input is create a unique identity brand for the Transit Center taking into consideration the naming rights agreement and program brand. And creation of a rebust web site. Second, an important readiness activity is having the Service Contracts in place at the appropriate time, lincoln is working through the 50 plus rfps issued last year. Having the Service Contracts completed will enable lincoln to apply actual dollars to the budget in which the final version is due to the board later this year. This current schedule shows continues to show a drive toward the end of march where appropriate. Brv continues to refine their program. They have built the information that will be featured on the sales force Transit Center web site. For example film and photo shoot guidelines and application, event proposal and guidelines. They have completed information for approval of pricing rationale and guidelines and rates and well look at those over the next couplie of weeks. Additionally to obtain Entertainment Permit for amplified sound in the park. The routine hearing is next friday the 16th. This will be followed by the posted signs for 30 days and followed by inspections from city agencies. The inspection by city agencies will intersect with web cores work, fire, health, police department, electrical and build building. Nothing is under contract but brb expects to have shortly. Finally not having a firm opening date has impacted being able to move forward with certain activities, examples are marketing and promotion materials, finalizing the programming calendar a