Get senate back to normal, that means, working more. Dont think we had any votes on friday in anybodys memory, it means, Opening Senate up. So that amendments are permitted on both sides. And it means ohs or cakes burnit oil. Lou republican advantage in senate is likely to grow, republicans are favors to win two of last three states, louisiana, virginia and las lag, there is still no projected winner in louisiana, republican bill cassidy forced to run off with indum incumbent dem democry landrieu. And virginia, gillespie shocking pollers by drawing within a single percentage point of democrat mark warner. Alaska, republican challenge sullivan has lead over marr begich, sullivan up 4 . 40,0040,000 absentee ballots hao be counted yet. Yet. House of representatives, seizing 9 democrat could districts by republicans, pushing total to 242 seats as f tonight, but there are 19 races remaining to be decided. If republicans prevail stkwr just in just 4that would match h set back in 1947, republ
Continue to look for opportunities to participate in community events, and to highlight not just our construction progress, but the various unique design and engineering elements of the Transit Center. So with that, im going to turn it back over to mark. Thank you, scott. For 2015, we expect to award the remaining trade packages by the middle of this year, with the exception of the ip network. For the ip network we plan to complete the procurement planing in may and begin the site readiness phase at that time. We also will continue development of the final design. We expect to complete the final design in the spring of 2016 and award the ip network in august of 2016. We also begin the development of tenant improvement construction documents for greyhound and am track facilitis in the new Transit Center. For the bus storage we expect to complete the final design in the fall and be ready to award the contracted at the end of the this year. The award of the bus storage is capital independ
Likes on facebook. We doubled our number of instagram followers and increased our number of twitter followers by about 25 . Here you see some examples of our social media postings and outreach and the role that the Transit Center plays in the role of the bay area sustainability and so forth. Media coverage is another important aspect of our Community Outreach and for that reason we regularly do site tours with members of the media. We were able to secure good coverage of our structure steel event in november and ongoing coverage of the successful formation of the melaruse district and able to get coverage of the role it will play in the highspeed rail on all of the local networks, abc, nbc, cbs and fox. Were very proud of that. Had some good features in print. Our [skao uft ] director named deal maker of the year, a significant honor and a great way to draw positive attention to the project by the San Francisco examiner. And an additional feature on abc 7 news, as well as a feature in
Week for the close of the bridge loan. Moving forward into 2015, well continue to seek discretionary funding d. O. T. , fema, any other opportunities that present themselves, including the state of california, with the cap and trade funds and other funds that may be available. We will continue to work towards the formation of the Community Business district, which will provide maintenance and operation funds for the rooftop park and well continue to seek full funding for phase 2 and considering the delivery methoded for methods for that project. With that, i will hand it over to scott. Hi, good afternoon, directors. We had good outcomes with our community outreich this year and i will give some specificks in a moment. Just to start, we of course continued all of our regular ongoing outreach activities. We have Monthly Community meetings that we held at tjpa the third wednesday at every month at noon in our large conference room. We continue with our tenday construction outlooks that we
Stretch the department spending. When it comes to Law Enforcement, your arrival at the department at a critical time of needed leadership is welcome. Since our hearing early this spring, with the departments lawenforcement chiefs, we have seen the departures of the atf director and the dea administrator. I hope you will Pay Attention to these Law Enforcement agencies. To ensure that they faithfully execute their duties during this time of change. As an example, the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, and firearms and explosives has a rule pending that would impose burdens burdensome and unnecessary regulations regarding firearms lost or stolen in transit. However, the atfs own statistics indicate this number is insignificant and should not be a cause for concern. It certainly does not warrant such encumbering regulations. Oversight and accountability should remain a top priority for this committee. I have consistently expressed my displeasure to your predecessor regarding the departments resis