Have a handout that outlines everything that we have done todate. Webcor obayashi has hired nine direct hire positions within our company. Turner at the recent u. S. Hornet career fair hired one and i think the key is developing the oneonone relationships with the sourcing agencies to find the veterans that are out there and get them into internships or apprenticeship programs so they can be hired. So that is my summary. Thanks. Thank you. The one other item on the veterans report that i wanted to highlight was that enville buildings was awarded the hoisting contract for the project. So they are going to be providing the man lifts to bring personnel into the excavation and in future to the upperlevels of Transit Center construction and the personnel to operate those. And that is a disabled veteranowned business. So both in the field as contractors were making end roads. Just a few words on our apprenticeship programs. I reported last month that webcor had developed two tracking reports
Good morning and welcome to the regular Transbay Joint Powers Authority board of supervisors meeting for thursday, december 13th and happy holidays to everybody. May we take roll call please. Prior to taking roll i will note for the record that director sartipi has a scheduling conflict and will not be present today. Director lloyd . Present. Director metcalf . Present. Director reiskin. Present. Vicechair ortiz . Present. And chair kim . Present. Madame chair you have a quorum. Thank you. Do you have any communications this morning . None that im aware of. Is there any new or old business from the board of directors . Seeing none lets move on to the executive directors report. Good morning everyone. I would like to begin my report this morning on this last Board Meeting of the year by dedicating our Board Meeting in the memory of mike nevin, who recently left us. Mike was one of our founding Board Members way back when we created the Transbay Joint Powers Authority and was very suppor
Advance and well bring this to the commission in the new year as an agenda item. That is my only highlight in the report. Thank you. Public comment . David pilpel. One of my favorite topics continues to be the list of bad people. I really would love for the new year, if we could put together the list of all of the individuals who owe fees, fines, forms and other things starting with f to the commission and why and periodically update that and work to get people off that list. I know i have said this many, many times before the commission. It would just be great if we could do that at some point and the goal of course is not to shame or publicize, but to get people off that list. We would really prefer that the people comply and i think not compiling that and publicizing that makes it feel people can get away with stuff and if they ride out the statute of limitations long enough, there wont be any penalty . How long is that list . Nonfilers . I dont think we know. There are different pe
Wanted to see if they really liked the carpenter program. So this is a replicable hiring program that were going to try to push out and we have been pushing out to other employers, other subcontractors on this 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.
This morning on this last Board Meeting of the year by dedicating our Board Meeting in the memory of mike nevin, who recently left us. Mike was one of our founding Board Members way back when we created the Transbay Joint Powers Authority and was very supportive over the years. He served as our first chairperson and was there with us in the initial years of moving the project forward. Mike was a member of the caltrain board of directors and also a former San Mateo County supervisor, mayor of daly city and San Francisco Police Inspector and not only served on our board, but numerous other regional transportation boards and well always be appreciative to mike for all of his work in the area of transportation, as well as his commitment for those in need. We extend our sympathies to mike and his family. I would also like to thank director reiskin, because a few Board Meetings ago director reiskin suspected that suggested that we look into that and found its viable and could save us money a