Morning and welcome to the Transbay Joint Powers Authority for the board of directors for thursday, february 14th. Prior to taking role. Ortiz may be late. Metcalf. Present. Ortiz. Present. Kim. Sartipi. Kim here. And are there any communications. Not that i am aware of. Any new or old business from the brord of directors, seeing none we will move on to the executive directors report. Good morning, everyone, first i want to have good news, all three butress have been poured and i want to thank everyone who has worked six days, you know, a week, nights and weekends and all sorts of inclement weather. All floors are done, secondly i want to acknowledge and thank the carpenters for highlighting us in the january edition of the magazine. They have a really nice article in there about the transbay project and the importance of labor in their continued support to our project over many years, thank you very much for acknowledging us and the magazine. And in addition, board members, i did sign
Project and the importance of labor in their continued support to our project over many years, thank you very much for acknowledging us and the magazine. And in addition, board members, i did sign out a letter from anvill builders as you may recall. It is a company that we awarded a contract to in november of last year for 9, 250,000, million, and they sent a letter thanking us for all of the work that we are doing regarding minority owned business and i want to thank everyone because we are doing a good job in that area. In addition, i wanted to report that last saturday, there was a very tragic incident that occurred on third street where a bicyclist was killed in a collision with a cement truck. And i know that our chair person kim has been very concerned about traffic and safety for pedestrians and bicyclists which is busy in that area understandable because we have a lot of events and on that particular day was an Appreciation Day and so we have asked the department of parking and
The magazine. They have a really nice article in there about the transbay project and the importance of labor in their continued support to our project over many years, thank you very much for acknowledging us and the magazine. And in addition, board members, i did sign out a letter from anvill builders as you may recall. It is a company that we awarded a contract to in november of last year for 9, 250,000, million, and they sent a letter thanking us for all of the work that we are doing regarding minority owned business and i want to thank everyone because we are doing a good job in that area. In addition, i wanted to report that last saturday, there was a very tragic incident that occurred on third street where a bicyclist was killed in a collision with a cement truck. And i know that our chair person kim has been very concerned about traffic and safety for pedestrians and bicyclists which is busy in that area understandable because we have a lot of events and on that particular day
Density has increased in this area, maybe something that people are not as familiar with from previous work, but the south of market, grew 27,000 residents in the last ten years and so i hope that we can figure out a way that we can be more forward thinking so we dont have these collisions or conflicts that happen on our streets. The development is great and we want to encourage it and support it. We want to make sure that there is an awareness that they are in neighborhoods that did not exist before. We have been there in terms of the specific projects and we have been looking at them in terms of the circulation plans, when it comes to large vehicle traffic, we are trying to balance the need of getting the trucks, efficiently as possible from the site to the freeways using the major streets and avoiding local streets and sometimes there will be noise concerns or a particular street is more sensitive than another street and in those cases the trucks may be detoured to another route. We
And weekends and all sorts of inclement weather. All floors are done, secondly i want to acknowledge and thank the carpenters for highlighting us in the january edition of the magazine. They have a really nice article in there about the transbay project and the importance of labor in their continued support to our project over many years, thank you very much for acknowledging us and the magazine. And in addition, board members, i did sign out a letter from anvill builders as you may recall. It is a company that we awarded a contract to in november of last year for 9, 250,000, million, and they sent a letter thanking us for all of the work that we are doing regarding minority owned business and i want to thank everyone because we are doing a good job in that area. In addition, i wanted to report that last saturday, there was a very tragic incident that occurred on third street where a bicyclist was killed in a collision with a cement truck. And i know that our chair person kim has been