they are representing the sfmta. next up, harbaugh alan kelly, jr., batting for the p.u.c. commission. following him, we have edgar lopez, future building manager in construction design. thank you. tiffany, i don t see her. she may be joining us later. she is the newly a.ed director of the san francisco redevelopment agency. for those who don t know her, she has a very intimate understanding of the portfolio that the redevelopment agency has been managing. jeff newmeyer. did i say that correctly? good. he is with the san francisco international airport. next up we have barbara smith no, we actually have domenica henderson from the san francisco housing authority, one of our community leaders. we have rhonda simmons, who heads up the office of work force development. rhonda, give a wave to the people. thank you. do we have a representative from america s cup? the port authority, the port? [inaudible] maybe they will be joining us a little bit later. so, i think, if i a
r.c. to partner with a lot of our wholesale customers to participate in that. we are looking at ways we can break contracts down. a lot of these contracts are large, and so we are looking at ways can break these contracts down. the other thing we have been working on is a sewer system improvement program. we are in the planning phases, but we do have a couple of projects that are out. we have the channel bay side contract which is more of a design contract that is out in the street right now. the other thing we have been working on other than that program, that one is about $6 billion. so that is in the planning stage. the other thing that the p.u.c. has been working on is looking at the way we contract like for example we have tunneling contracts. we are providing training. we are actually sending people to where is the training course arizona to get some training in tunneling. the calaveras dam, we are building a dam costing about $400 million. we have also put micro
hold your applause because everyone deserves applause, and we have a lot of work to do and we can divorce ourselves from the pleasantries for just a moment. eddie phillips is here. he is up here. right here in the front. virginia harmon, where are you? she is with sfmta. then we have maria cordero. and sheila evans. are they here? they are representing the sfmta. next up, harbaugh alan kelly, jr., batting for the p.u.c. commission. following him, we have edgar lopez, future building manager in construction design. thank you. tiffany, i don t see her. she may be joining us later. she is the newly a.ed director of the san francisco redevelopment agency. for those who don t know her, she has a very intimate understanding of the portfolio that the redevelopment agency has been managing. jeff newmeyer. did i say that correctly? good. he is with the san francisco international airport. next up we have barbara smith no, we actually have domenica henderson from the san franci
very small conversations i have had with many people last year when i was campaigning as well as this year in office. i am happy to see the people i have talked to, those that call me at 7:00 a.m. in the morning. zula, thank you for your assistance in pulling this together. we would not be here if not for her help. and the h.r.c. staff. i want to acknowledge the many commissioners we have here in the room from the southeast facility commission as well as the commissioners from the treasure island commission and just overall community activists. this is the physical manifestation of community partnership as well as private and public dollars coming together. it is no secret that when we talk about the southeast part of san francisco, we talk about the mantra of needing jobs. i am delighted to see so many small businesses here to learn about the opportunities we have going forward. we have a distinguished list of panel itses that panelisted that i would like to introduce to y
that is going to be moderated by mohammed nuru, who had to leave earlier. so who is going to do it? [inaudible] no problem. let s get started. i hope you brought your thinking caps because we have thought leaders up here who can answer questions. let s go ahead and begin. thank you. hi. i am sarah. i am the chief financial officer with the trance bay joint powers authority. i do want to apologize on behalf of maria caplan, she is our executive director, and she did want to be here, but had some other appointments come up. so i will try to replace her only momentarily. the trance bay transit center program, if you haven t been in the san francisco market area lately is under construction. we are replacing the old transbay terminal with a new bus and rail station, and we will be extending caltrain and high speed rail into the new station. we have completed demolition. those free ways that were referred to that are being torn down in san francisco, we have torn some of those d