Okay. So, madam secretary, can you call the next item. Clerk yes. Item 4 is board of directors new and or old business. Im not aware of any, and directors would indicate if they had something at this point. I see no hands. All right. Shall we call your next item . Yes, please. Clerk all right. Item 5 is the executive directors report. Good morning, directors. First, i would like to update you on our continued efforts to reopen during the continuing covid19 health crisis. As you probably know [inaudible] with the most uptodate information. The city has advised that informing people that properly Wearing Masks can make a significant difference. We have ample signage, we make regular announcements, and we have trained all staff to communicate this. Compliance for mask wearing throughout the Transit Center has been very good result. Enhanced cleaning protocol remains in place. In regards to tenant improvement, as you know, onsite dental, we opened last month, and we continue to support the
Okay. So, madam secretary, can you call the next item. Clerk yes. Item 4 is board of directors new and or old business. Im not aware of any, and directors would indicate if they had something at this point. I see no hands. All right. Shall we call your next item . Yes, please. Clerk all right. Item 5 is the executive directors report. Good morning, directors. First, i would like to update you on our continued efforts to reopen during the continuing covid19 health crisis. As you probably know [inaudible] with the most uptodate information. The city has advised that informing people that properly Wearing Masks can make a significant difference. We have ample signage, we make regular announcements, and we have trained all staff to communicate this. Compliance for mask wearing throughout the Transit Center has been very good result. Enhanced cleaning protocol remains in place. In regards to tenant improvement, as you know, onsite dental, we opened last month, and we continue to support the
Good governance to avoid soul sourcing and have many of the earlier activities have been identified to be proactive rather than reactive . Right, and thank you for the question. It certainly its an issue, right, for us, that we dont have the gec on board and we are procuring and we understand why thats necessary to support that. Some have the onall bert benchh perhaps through the Engineering Resources might be able to back receive fill a few areas, but really, we do rely on the gec contract for the majority of the work going forward. As far as the procurements, theres been some need to backfill some of the gecs for the current sixmonth period that were in and in addition, we will be needing to support caltrain and highspeed rail as they procure that operations consultant that steven mentioned for the rail operation analysis. I would rather be proactive instead of catching up with the project. Could not agree with you more and the esc has discussed this as a potential risk item. You hav
I would rather be proactive instead of catching up with the project. Could not agree with you more and the esc has discussed this as a potential risk item. You have asked for this, an ongoing risk register and just tracking and i know thats something director lipkin will do and project development, as well as vice chair. So were all aware and appreciate your interests in getting ahead and not just reacting and playing catchup and that way were doing the best work we can to try to get ahead of these things. Thank you. And i didnt want to go too far and ask what the register was or the p1 questioned for the 400 items and i wont go there. Twelcome to the team, steven. Are you interested in pursuing the permanent position . Theres a lot of questions about the interim versus permanent recruitment. You put me on the spot, director. This is an important project for me and feels like a capstone of my career and i think im in a better position to support this leading the pmpc team and thank you
Team. Dr. Matthews team with him and all those that supported the mou that well be voting on later today. I know it wases a lot o it was d i wanted to express my gratitude moving forward. The first item is approval of the board minutes for the meeting of july 2020. I need a motion and a second. roll call thank you. Thats five ayes. Thank you. First and foremost i want to welcome everyone back. We are so close to the start of the school year which is next monday august 17th. Our Student Learning will begin for the 2020, 2021 school year. You should know that our School Staff Members are working extremely hard preparing to welcome our students on monday. This past monday was the fifth annual Digital District day. This year was all online. There was overwhelming consent. When we needed to close registration on sunday night. Those that participated, it was thirst first time attending digital event. Teachers with a wide variety of other roles, including para professionals, substitutes, coun