Good morning, tuesday is june 25, 2013. My name is john avalos, the chair of the authority. We are joined with us by our clerk, erika and would like to thank sfgtv staff for broadcasting today jessie and charles. Could you call the role please commissioner avalos, present, shoe present; kim, absent; mar present; tang present; yee present. We have quorum. Thank you. Could you call our next items. Approval of may 21 minutes. Opening Public Comments on minutes. No one coming forward. Closing Public Comments. If you could call our next item please. Oh, sorry. Madam clerk, could we have role call . Campos, absent ; chew, i ; commissioner mar, i; tang, i. Item passes. Next item please. Chairs report is an information item. On may 30 we held a board workshop on the San Francisco Transportation Plan which provides needs for the citys transportation system. The plan is in its final stages of development. Coordination with local transportation agencies, regional transportation offices as well as
Keep the project on schedule that we worked on with sfmta and the federal transit administration. It is skwred jewelled for 2018. Our biggest project in the prop k Sales Tax Program a [inaudible] good news report is a project has been khal he thinked over the last half year or so in terms of Cost Increases in the first phase of the project, the transbay transit center. Were hoping to fill the funding gap through these two a bgs today and through nec million through recommendations to provide 6 Million Dollars to the project and additional 41 million from prop k funds. The board will be asked to adopt the baseline next month. Those savings are a result of savings from financing costs so theres additional capacity despite lower overall sales tax revenues. The other good news i want to give is the transbay highway facilities opened bids last week on the steel structure. When it went out to bid the first time it was one giant package. We had one bigger that came in significantly over the e
With a lot of regulatory costs that are controlled by the contractor and have a strong trim line above ip flation. It is not expanded, the economic real value has not increased and therefore is diminished. The screen before us is a screen shot from the bureau of labor statistics showing that there has been over a 124 [speaker not understood] since 184, ~ 1984. If you take the cap since public works, it would be 36. 3 million today [speaker not understood]. And i just wanted to show some major cost contributors to the area of public works construction. Oil is a major cost contributor and has increased over 32 3 or more than 2. 6 time inflation since 1984. Concrete another major cost contributor has increased over 287 . And pcc pavement or concrete pavement has increased over 1. 63 times inflation. Im not asking for change, but i want the same program that was in original real terms, maybe some indexing, you know, or just this issue being addressed and i never heard it addressed before s
Dollars in construction. On the prime level for design, 63. 1 of the total amount of fees went to nonlbes. 0. 75 of the prime fees went to lbes. On the subcontracting level, 17. 9 of the total fee went to nonlbes and 16. 8 went to lbes. Our question to you is whether 17 local business participation is suitable and appropriate in our city. We ask that you rectify the situation in the upcoming legislative process amending the 13 b ordinance and to set the policy positions for the board of supervisors in enhancing local spending. Thank you. Mr. Fong, can you share with us which department that is or is that information airport. Okay, airport. You point out the statistic we got suggests the 65 is something, but youre suggesting something very different. There may not be a conflict there because what theyre doing is aggregating between design and construction dollars. There are more construction dollars being spent to lbes than there are professional services. Thank you. Good afternoon, my
Needed. Jeff sessions, the attorney general, he says he is open to an investigation of president Obamas Justice department. More from a revealing interview with sessions. That is ahead. Also on our agenda, a time warp. I guess history has a funny way of repeating itself. I think there has been too much of a focus here on arbitrary time lines and deadlines and baselines. As republicans take aim at obamacare, well talk with one of the democrats who was instrumental in passing it back in 2010. Well ask him. Does he have any regrets now. We begin, though, with our top story. House republicans, they are on a frantic time line right now. They are trying to push through the Health Care Reform plan through the house. That bill cleared one of the hurdles it faces today. Two committees. Two committees voted it out, kept it alive. House leadership now hoping to bring it to the floor for a vote in a matter of days. Two major questions right now loom over all of this. Number one, does paul ryan hav