[sound of gavel] the commission will come to order. Secretary president torres. Here. Vice president doury commission moran. Commission toest is skewedded from todayth meeting. All right we have a quorum Public Comment please . Mr. Costa welcome. I wanted to come over here and speak in a manner that is forthright. So, some of you received my articles and if you read my articles, the many point is that we serve the community. And what is hooping in the various departments including the s f g o c is that in certain areas, we lack standards. New commissioners know because of your experience that ethics, morals, standards, count. When we do not Pay Attention to that, and matter go before the ethics commission, then a can of worms is opened and we dont want that. Now, many of us have come from the community and explained to you that the southest sector is not only a bay view but district 910 and 11 has been adversely impacted. And, we know just because of the nature of the water system Impr
Developed a criteria and an evolution form which i expect all project managers to use it to see what alternate system can be applicable to their project we also are in the process of working hold and michael hold to come up with technical advisory in the city committees to steal in program. And also, the whereas one i want to take your attention to the there, we will get the opportunity, i want to make sure that the Lessons Learned are good and are there we need to improve and in the program. We have gone through all of the succession we have stream lines those procedures to respond to our organization and this program and we have also included all the definitions that were in the program into our standard specifications so they are not be heard again and we want make sure the Lessons Learned and the coordination and our department was that also is tarylzed in it. The last point that i want to make is that we have done a Risk Management plan for the add Program Level and it was three m
Transit center in particular to provide, to switch from amulonless glad to amulon glass allowing us to reduce the cost of what is a significant architectal element of the building in the area and volume. We also simplified along with the architect, the floor in the light column, to provide a glass floor at the base of the light column that will continue to allow the light from primary light column to extend into the rail levels and opening up the circulation in the grand hall and reducing the cost from the skylight seating type of feature that had been proposed at that location. In addition to the hard changes that we have made in the construction documents, and we have had the architect as they were required under their contract to incorporate a number of bid alternates, which will provide us with flexibility as we move forward to the award of the individual trade packages to make the decisions if additional Cost Containment measures are needed. And these are just a sampling of the me
The revised base line budget included cost estimates based on our 50 percent designed development documents from pelly clark pelly and estimates compared from their consultants as well as the web corp and the additional that we received through value engineering and it reflected the actual costs of constructing the temporary terminal and the bids that have been received on the demolition contract and some advancement of the design of both the bus ramps and utility relocation and the ac transit bus facility and they had elected to conduct their own facilitis which removed them from our program and our budget. We also the phase one budget reflected a new schedule for construction, with demolition beginning in august of 2010. And completing of construction in october of 2017. At the time, we were still looking at relatively low escalation rates particularly in the very near term, 2010, 2011. And of course, there were additional advancements in the design that were reflected in the cost es
Both the risks of phase one, and face two construction of the Transit Center. To provide a railready Transit Center to improve the ground floor design of the Transit Center by providing Program Space below grade where we could locate a number of utility and back of house programs freing up the ground level to more publicly, Public Programs and retail programs. And it also by funding the first phase of construction, allowed it more time for the land sale market in the bay area to recover, improving our financing picture in total for phase one. So, in may, 2010, the board adopted the revised base line budget incorporating the funding of 1589 billion. The revised base line budget included cost estimates based on our 50 percent designed development documents from pelly clark pelly and estimates compared from their consultants as well as the web corp and the additional that we received through value engineering and it reflected the actual costs of constructing the temporary terminal and the