Stgtv and it is marvelous that they keep us rolling like they do and keep this rare as they do, any little, anyone who does not think that this terminal is necessary, should have been with me on bart, the trains were all off schedule and everything was totally rush loads and, cheek to cheek. It is really necessary any others . Not that i am aware of. Okay, old and new business . Board of directors . Anything . No . And then we will go right into the executive directors report. Good morning, everyone. We will begin today by reporting on our most recent successful milestone that took place last friday on the site of our Transit Center construction area and we celebrated the aoe mer begans of the fissioner steel column above ground for the Transit Center and i was joined by over 100 people, including the chair of the california High Authority and richard Assembly Woman Nancy Skinner and i was also joined by the board of directors greg harper and vice chair harper and director sartipi and
As i said that shot in the upper left hand corner shows you the train box level without the form work anymore in the lower concourse. That is down at the southwest end where the future rails would come in. Up on the lower concourse theyre working on the rebar, the waterproofing and the form lift for the walls and as i said working on interior walls being formed rooms and everything that are on the lower concourse. Steel erection is happening in the central area. In fact if it wasnt for the weather they would have been taking down the struggle for erection. They completed the first full bay of steel and plumping it up so they can start the final welding and those are some of the shots. You can see that shot on the left someone on the team decided to get artistic with the reflection of the building but basically shows the ground level node with the pipe columns up to the bus deck level. The picture on the next slide here actually shows if you look on the upper right hand picture thats al
Available on line and the transcripts. Lets take roll call please. I will note for the record that director lee will not be present. With that director nuru. Present. Director reiskin. Here. Director sartipi might be late too. Director kim. Here. You have a quorum. Is there any old business today. Seeing none. We can move to the directors report. Happy holidays. I received some good news. We got a review of the train box grant of what they do annually on how were doing with the report and its a good report. I can share it with the board if they would like to see it. There are a number of best practices they will recommend and the recent survey we commissioned to have a better survey in the construction market, the mitigation measures in place including accelerating the payment cycle and having the [inaudible] in place and having us do outreach to smaller contractors. In addition we were commended for our jobs net and employed over 8,000 people in 19 states across the u. S. And i really
Soonest critical ones are the lower concrete slabs and walls and 61 complete right now and on track next quarter to complete all of those. Thats the third lift wall and the lore concourse. Steel completion is one of the milestones and we will track these and if they change we will keep track of the prior one. It was suggested by a member of the aca group to have a Percent Complete against each milestone and how it affects the overall path and we will work on that as well. This is a contingency slide and the couple minor change orders but the major issues were the opinions approved last month. No major changes besides that in those. The safety report, we were finally able to obtain the federal and state bureau of labor statistics for 2013. You can see that we were below those and total hours Going Forward and incidents. There were no incidents no recordable incidents or loss time incidents at all on the project this last period which is great. Were over a million and a quarter 1. 2 75 c
Here. Director sartipi might be late too. Director kim. Here. You have a quorum. Is there any old business today. Seeing none. We can move to the directors report. Happy holidays. I received some good news. We got a review of the train box grant of what they do annually on how were doing with the report and its a good report. I can share it with the board if they would like to see it. There are a number of best practices they will recommend and the recent survey we commissioned to have a better survey in the construction market, the mitigation measures in place including accelerating the payment cycle and having the [inaudible] in place and having us do outreach to smaller contractors. In addition we were commended for our jobs net and employed over 8,000 people in 19 states across the u. S. And i really love that map so i am glad we put that together. We were thanked for tracking the biamerica alliance and they were low audio and how we track issues and resolve issues. Additionally th