Francisco sfgtv meeting of the San Francisco Transbay Joint Powers Authority occurring september 12, 2013, will begin shortly. Okay. Good morning, and welcome to the transbay joint Authority Board of directors meeting for september 12th. And take roll call. Harper and metcalf and sartipi are expected and we will call the meeting to order. With director lloyd . Here. Reiskin. Here. Kim. Are there anything for todays meeting . If none, new or old business from the board of directors . Seeing none, we will move on to the executive directors report. Great, good morning, directorses and members of the public i would hope that you had a good summer, i would like to report on a milestone that we recently reached, since the ground break of the new station since august of 2010, we have been busy on the construction of the under grounder portions of the facility and we demolished and recycling 100 percent of the materials that were used to build it and the shoring wall and we excavated down to 6
Themselves on tv. And we have 13 of them, and they were from various different high schools, and various different universities, and a good chunk of the universities from california, but we did have from oregon and colorado, and it was, we had them spread out throughout, urs and our pmp c and turner, wew corp and they all had interns working the summer interns and they were very helpful. And they got a lot out of it and this shows the mentor ship and got them out in the field a lot and we wanted to show them what it is like to work but also wanted to get Something Back from them to show what it means to be coming to work every day and what you do. And they were excited to see our project which is the iconic nature of it, and it is just the kids got so excited just to be on the site and i think that we really planted a great seed with all of them, even though not all of them were interested in construction specifically but i think that they may be thinking about it. After their very fun
Board of directors meeting for september 12th. And take roll call. Harper and metcalf and sartipi are expected and we will call the meeting to order. With director lloyd . Here. Reiskin. Here. Kim. Are there anything for todays meeting . If none, new or old business from the board of directors . Seeing none, we will move on to the executive directors report. Great, good morning, directorses and members of the public i would hope that you had a good summer, i would like to report on a milestone that we recently reached, since the ground break of the new station since august of 2010, we have been busy on the construction of the under grounder portions of the facility and we demolished and recycling 100 percent of the materials that were used to build it and the shoring wall and we excavated down to 65 feet and built trussles to put in the heavy equipment and cranes and we also built a vast internal bracing system and relocated the utilities and installed over, 129 micro piles. And we hav
Project, as well as the Construction Industry in general. I think its important to note that its not just about hiring veterans. Its about retention. And making sure that they succeed. And so on that note we have actually been looking at ways to ensure that they are going to succeed. Just as a best practices note from all the research i have done, we found that veterans need each other once they are back from their tours of duties. They actually should retain a cohort, which they can find of hang out with and be together. That is what were attempting to create with this whole construction hiring process as a way for them to still, like there are so many jobs in the city that are coming down the pike, we want to make sure that they have a network to stay connected with each other. So on that note were working with San Francisco unified school district, as well as integrating veterans preorientation programs there. As well as the Sf State University Veterans Club to generate internship p
There a motion to adopt the minutes as amended . So moved. Second. All in favor. Aye. Aye. That is a question, i was not present, should i abstain . Pardon me . Not an option, you have to vote. X i will vote in favor the next item on the agenda is the executive directors report. Just one highlight this month. Again, bringing up the report that was done by the board of supervisors budget analyst comparing the San Francisco and Los Angeles Commission procedures. In order to bring that to a commission as a discussable item, we decided not to just show you the report. But to gather some Public Comment on what the report actually means. So that we have some feedback to give you in advance of this. So we have scheduled two interested public meetings. Interested persons meetings in december on the 4th and the 10th to do this. You are welcome to come as you are to all interested persons meeting. If you could let me know in advance and well bring this to the commission in the new year as an age