Continue to look for opportunities to participate in community events, and to highlight not just our construction progress, but the various unique design and engineering elements of the Transit Center. So with that, im going to turn it back over to mark. Thank you, scott. For 2015, we expect to award the remaining trade packages by the middle of this year, with the exception of the ip network. For the ip network we plan to complete the procurement planing in may and begin the site readiness phase at that time. We also will continue development of the final design. We expect to complete the final design in the spring of 2016 and award the ip network in august of 2016. We also begin the development of tenant improvement construction documents for greyhound and am track facilitis in the new Transit Center. For the bus storage we expect to complete the final design in the fall and be ready to award the contracted at the end of the this year. The award of the bus storage is capital independ
Likes on facebook. We doubled our number of instagram followers and increased our number of twitter followers by about 25 . Here you see some examples of our social media postings and outreach and the role that the Transit Center plays in the role of the bay area sustainability and so forth. Media coverage is another important aspect of our Community Outreach and for that reason we regularly do site tours with members of the media. We were able to secure good coverage of our structure steel event in november and ongoing coverage of the successful formation of the melaruse district and able to get coverage of the role it will play in the highspeed rail on all of the local networks, abc, nbc, cbs and fox. Were very proud of that. Had some good features in print. Our [skao uft ] director named deal maker of the year, a significant honor and a great way to draw positive attention to the project by the San Francisco examiner. And an additional feature on abc 7 news, as well as a feature in
Week for the close of the bridge loan. Moving forward into 2015, well continue to seek discretionary funding d. O. T. , fema, any other opportunities that present themselves, including the state of california, with the cap and trade funds and other funds that may be available. We will continue to work towards the formation of the Community Business district, which will provide maintenance and operation funds for the rooftop park and well continue to seek full funding for phase 2 and considering the delivery methoded for methods for that project. With that, i will hand it over to scott. Hi, good afternoon, directors. We had good outcomes with our community outreich this year and i will give some specificks in a moment. Just to start, we of course continued all of our regular ongoing outreach activities. We have Monthly Community meetings that we held at tjpa the third wednesday at every month at noon in our large conference room. We continue with our tenday construction outlooks that we
Is being poured. Well come out of ground for the bus ramp, the cablestay bridge pylon. I want to leave with where well be at 2016 at this time. Most of the steel will be installed by the end of this year, with only leaving the eastern side, that would be beale street at the far eastern end still to remain. Of all of that steel, there will be a lot of concrete poured on it and mep, all as we get what it looks like from a year from now. Thank you for listening to all of us and if there are any questions, were happy to entertain those. Thank you. Thank you, that was a very comprehensive new year report and thank you to all of the Staff Members for putting that together. Any questions . Director reiskin . Just one. First of all, i agree, that was great, really a phenomenal walk through 2014 and look to 2015. That was a lot that was accomplished in 2014. That was a great yeah, particularly seeing the steel start to come out of the ground. One question, one thing that mark said, the bus stor
[laughter ] i dont know i just wanted to its not really a question, but its really quite impressive. I know i started here just towards the tailend of the year, but just really wanted to say thank you to the board that is here and the staff for an amazing amount of quality work. Then i also just wanted to comment that i am going brag a little bit. It was a really big deal for us to get board certification on our electrification project, which is a project absolutely necessary for us to connect to the ttc and the other City Partners helping us implement that project and looking at the 2015 program, with that big milestone, were just getting started. We have a lot of work to do, but well be able to focus a bit more attention at looking at dtx and really getting that moving over its hurdles and challenges. So im looking forward to working with everyone for the upcoming year. Thank you. Director harper . Yes, until you get an overview like this, of a time period, its really hard to imagine