Violations. It extends what was available in law as Diversion Program for minors. Now to extend that same provisions to adults. The thought process behind the bill is to allow the adults to have access to diversion p rogram, get better educated in terms of the way they supposed to conduct themselves. An interesting measure of indirect importance is ab1254. This measure deals with data and it subjects the data to the open meeting act requirement. Well see more of the hearing and process than weve seen in the past. Sb9, this was important measure by senator bell. It sought to revise and kind of focus the attention of the transit rail, cap and trade f unding program. Its a capital program, grant, competitive process. What the senator attempted to d o, ultimately was succeeded in doing is focusing the attention on transformative projects and large scale projects. You want further than that and the initial versions of the b ill, which we were able to work with him. Where he limited the amount that would have been available for Small Projects to 30 or less. That restriction is no longer in there. It was something that the administration asked for. We were all asking for it. As a result, we now have a tool thats going to be more useable but wont be as limited. Its main effect, it allows the cap and trade funding to be programmed over multiple years. So you can start more projects because the cash flow for each project will be programmed over several years rather than consuming large amounts of the annual allocation year to year basis. I think thats an important improvement. Its a very preliminary process. One bill that we looked at this year that was chaptered, there had been a lot of discussion centered around this measure was sb413. Senators measure sought to provide some additional elements adjudication process. It deals with posting for handicap access within the vehicles themselves so that they can be regulated. It also extended the p rovisionses of the adjudicated administrative process to m inors. Several of our committee hearings, that remained in the bill. The San Francisco mta several local, children advocacy groups felt that going down the pathway decriminalizing and other crimes for transit was a provided a better relief or better c orrective action for youth rather than having them tangled in the criminal process. That measure was enacted. Those will be the keys i wanted to draw your attention to. Turning my attention to the special session. The Conference Committee was formed a month a go. They finally have scheduled two hearings. One on friday and the next one is scheduled tomorrow. The first one was in sacramento. I think as a witness to what transpired at that last meeting, it was notable for the level of engagement. We have not seen a republican caucuses engage in real d ialogues. We saw their representatives on the Conference Committee start to discuss the various proposals that are on the table. The center piece of the way the two cochair, mr. Gomez from l. A. And senator bill from san jose, they determined they wanted to use the governors proposal that had been released a month or so ago as the center piece for discussions and make changes based on that. That measure raises 3. 6 billion on an ongoing basis. The main focus is for fix it first for state and some measure of local funding. The bill also includes 400 million augmentation for transit for cap and trade as well as 100 million for complete street. With guidelines determined by the administration. The way that would work. For this region as i know youre moving forward with your consideration of revenue m easures for 2016, the one area of note here in the governors plan, also resident in the other plans out there. Is in position of fees on vehicles on a flat basis. It will be 65 65 per vehicle. Its something else. It walks and talks like a Registration Fee rather than a percentage based fee. I want to make sure youre aware of that. If we get to a conclusion some time in december or january, i wouldnt be too surprised to see that as a key element. Thats statewide . Statewide. I believe we are entering the point in time after tomorrows hearing where we want to see a spark of discussions between the caucuses and their leaders and their conferees to see if theres a willingness to put new transportation revenues into a package and vote if up in january. I think were getting close to seeing that come together. Im not willing to say its greater than 50 to 60 chance based on how im watching the process. That would be my report today. Commissioner mar. Thank you. I just had a question about one of the bills that impacts the bay area air Quality Management district that supervisor avalos and i sit on. Sb491 on the transportation ominous bill. It looks like that measure just requires Public Meetings to adopt criteria for how the air district extends funds. Thats different than the current procedure on how funds are allocated per county within the air district. Is that right . Its requiring more explicit criteria . To give you a level of comfort, any change in law in the ominous bill goes through very thorough vetting process. All the committees, not just the transportation committee, to ensure there is technical change in the law. These things are watched very carefully. Governors dont like them unless they come to them with technical items. It sets up expectations if they have other things that are added to it. Its probably the most thoroughly scrubbed type of bill in sacramento. Thanks. Okay, thank you. Other questions here . Appreciate the update. Open this item up for Public Comment. Any member of the public like to comment. We will close Public Comment. Lets go on to item five please. Recommend awarded a three year consultant contract to smith, walsh and hartmann. The executive director and negotiate contract payment t erms. This is an action item. Good morning chair and commissioners. Amber with the Transportation Authority. As you just saw, the Transportation Authority contracts with the state legislative advocate to work on our behalf to monitor legislation, to identify bills that both harm San Franciscos interest or advances interests to represent the Transportation Authority to state legislators. To run legislation and help us develop what legislation on the Transportation Authoritys behalf. To advance our interests through other processes such as the special session and the budget process. In august, we issued an rfp for three Year Contract not to exceed 135,000 for that three year period. With an option to extend to additional one year period. By the deadline, we received one proposal. It was evaluated by panel and the panelist recommended to award the contract to smith and hartmann who you just spoke w ith. It served us well in sacramento for ten plus year. With that, seeking a motion to support the award. Great, thank you. Lets open this up for Public Comment. Any member like to comment. Well close Public Comment. We could have a motion. Roll call vote. Item five. Commissioner avalos, commissioner campos, commissioner cohen, commissioner commissioner kim, commissioner mar, the item passes. Very good. Number six please. You will do six and seven together. Lets call item six and s even. Recommend increasing the amount of professional Services Contract by 1 million. Not to concede 16,935,000. Item seven recommend increasing the amount of the professional Service Contract at Parsons Brinckerhoff inc. Authorizing executive director to modify contract Payment Terms for both items. These are action items. Bz Deputy Director of capital projects. Very happy to present items seven and seven. Weve made significant progress. Im going to go through a Powerpoint Presentation here. We were able to get past the bird nest. The birds are all safe and s ound. On the screen there, youll see a visual rendering of the completed project. On the right side, youll see the westbound off ramp that were constructing and inside a loop westbound on ramp that were constructing. We basically are 100 complete with all of the foundation, the columns and all the underground work. Which is a significant milestone because as you know, thats where a lot of the unknowns are and where the risk lies. In that regard, being 100 complete is good news. Weve also completed all of whats called the falsework. Its fallswork when it was being recked. Recked. Erected. That work is complete. This is a shot taken from the construction site of bay bridge. What i wanted to depict here is the fact were very close to historic property. Weve had to continue to monitor that property and make sure theres no damage. Theres no damage to date. In in that regard. It looks like little old lady in the house who didnt want to move it for the freeway coming by. Right now, i want to show you there picture tells a thousand words. This is the clipper cove area. Were relocated to this clipper cove area near the intersections of tear Treasure Island road. Its a perfect park area. Working with the Treasure IslandDevelopment Authority to go ahead and complete the l andscaping and all the utility tiein work. This building will have future use in terms of open space type of use. Were excited about that. We spent a lot of money to relocate it. We want to make sure we get some type of use of that in the future. This is the picture i think really tells the story of where were at. You can see that we are up in the air and have completed approximately about 40 to 50 of our bridge depth work, riding surface. This picture probably old. We had more decks in that r egard. Were in good shape in that regard. Our plan is to go ahead and complete the rest of the deck course here shortly. Lets talk about the specifics here in terms of the award of the contract. We were awarded in 2013 for g olden state bridge just over 49 million. Construction work is a pproximately 70 complete. We made payments to them in the tune of 38 million plus. Im happy to report, were m eeting our dbe goals, we made payments over 40 million. The real current activities are the concrete pours and all the barrier work. Were on schedule to complete the project by august of 2016. Golden state bridge has been a great contractor to work with. Theyve been really magnificent in terms of working with us, to make sure we meet the dbe goals. Theyre at 13. 1 . Theres some statistics there in terms of the workforce, female employee, close to 7 , m inorities up 25 . These are all contract goals requirements by fhwa. Now lets talk about the specifics of the contract amendments. We have brinckerhoff handing the construction. The design support is performed by aecom. He handle all the documentation. Aecom has been involved since 2006. I want to Start Talking about changes. There isnt a construction job around that doesnt have changes in the field. Its just something thats part of the game. The key to successful management of these project is to manage those changes. They have really helped us in that regard to be ahead of changes in the field. Were working right adjacent to the major entrance to the u. S. Coast guard facility. Working closely with the coast guard. At the end of the day, weve got to make sure we perform traffic shifts mandated by the coast guard. You mentioned the nesting birds, we have gotten past that. All the trees that need to be removed have been removed. Were going to mitigate those later in the project. That did cause a couple of m onths delay, frankly. Weve made up now in terms of having additional work. Some on the weekends and some extra hours. All projects typically have some kind of site conditions in terms of different site conditions, unidentified utilities and b uried objects. Its really important to recognize, this is an old naval station. In that regard, we had to do a lot of extra work in terms of identifying utilities and appropriately relocating them. Finally were working next to the big bay bridge project. We share the access roads with the bay bridge project. In that regard, its important that we monitor and work with them closely and our pd Construction Management team has done a great job as it relates to making sure they attend and sit in on the meetings on bay bridge as it relates to construction. Lets talk about upcoming milestone. Theres some large retaining walls walls walls that were constructing there that were completing there. The bridge deck placement should be done by early 16. Well all of those falsework and temporary large steel beams and smaller columns removie m oved by the spring of next w eek. Well widen north gate road. Which is the road that lead down to the coast guard property. Have that done by the late spring of next year. Put up the bridge barriers, concrete barriers on the side of on the and off ramp structure. Put in the signing, striping, metering etcetera and our plan is to have it all complete by august of 16. Im happy to report were on schedule. I wanted to make sure we talk about risks. El nino. Were preparing for it. Winter is coming. They say its coming finally in that regard. Were going to go ahead and shoot the folks with the m easures to make sure that we get those slopes properly s eeded. Thats key for the rain hit. If he dont do that, we could have issues. Were properly mitigating. We do have contingency to handle additional storm Water Protection measures that might be needed. Finally, on the budget side, i wanted to go ahead and give you an overview of the budget. We bid at 49 million, we got a contingency of 20 just over 10 million. We have supplemental funds also in that regard, 1. 7 million and the state did furnish some material for this project. Which primarily were the lights for on the and off ramps. Architectural features were unique. We bought those. Our construction allotment was 63 million. 63. 8million. I want to focus on the contingency. This is important for everybody to understand. Our cco budget, how much money do we have for changes in the field was over about 12. 3 million. We issued 4. 5 million of change orders to date. How much . 4. 5 million. We still remaining about 7. 8 million and what were requesting the state, all of this work is federal and state funded. Were requesting the state to shift some money from the capital side of the ledger for hard construction costs, to the Construction Engineering side of the ledger. What cos, which is the construction support costs. To the tune of 2. 5 million to be able to fund these two contract amendments. That still leaves us with 5. 3 million left over right now for any final work. Given where were at a 70 complete, we believe that is sufficient contingency to finish this job and do more if we need to. I just want to make it clear in that regard. From a budget perspective, were shifting money from capital to the construction support side. All the indications for us in terms of planning ahead, we got the money to finish the money project. Do you think its possible to have lot of that contingency left over . Yes. We think theres going to be some contingency left over. Hard for me to estimate. I can tell you more after the winter, frankly. Once the winter hits, we got to make sure we have money for sweeping measures. Commissioner kim . Thank you. Congratulations on staying within the budget and also doing really well with ensuring theres a strong contingency program. When you said if theres other improvements that improvements that we can if there are remaining fund, what would that look like . Well, undefined in that regard. I know in our work with c altrans, there have been instances where were working so close together that weve decided, you do this, we do this type of thing. Something to that affect might work. When we open the new westbound on and off ramps, we had to close the existing off ramps which is on the left side there. There might be some additional work for improvements there. Those kind of things that we want to make sure we have contingency for. Is it important to make sure that we have concrete options in case the state decides to claw back if we dont have ready options available . In that regard, just to make sure we spend all the money. Im not encouraging we overspend taxpayer dollars i know that right now, it looks like we should come within budget with some left over. There is no other scope items that we are expecting to go ahead and include on the project that are included as we know them today. Those risks that we have related to el nino are the ones that are ones that are biggest issue. As we gettedly and complete our concrete pours and our barrier work, there may be some changes there that might require additional ccos. Commissioner campos. I dont know why its el n ino, but, just going back its good to see the overall budget. Going back to the specific request. Item six, youre asking for an increase of 1 million for a e com. Item seven youre asking for increase 1. 3 million. I was wondering if you can walk us through it. As im looking at aecom c ontract, my understanding is that it was first issued back in 2008. It was for 2. 5 million. Then you increased it to 8. 2 million in 2009 then we increased it to 15. 9 million in 2010 and now were increasing it to almost 17 million. If you can explain how did this happen . Whats the justification for that. Likewise, with parsons contract, were talking about a contractor that in 2013 was a 6. 3 million contract. Now were talking about a 7. 6 million project. My apologies for the wrong year. That 2. 5 million was for environmental documentation w ork. It did not include design. It did not include any of the additional work thats needed here during construction s upport. We went ahead and augmented their contract for design work. Why didnt we rfp that at that point . At that point, we made the decision not to rfp it because of the fact they had the engineers that were most knowledgeable of the project. Who actually had all of the information related to their tieins itself to the bay bridge. At that time, we had made the decision not to put an rfp out. As long as they done satisfactory work. That was included in the rfp we sent out. The intent to go ahead and move forward with final design with the same firm. If they did satisfactory work. I understand that. I dont know that i would have done that. I think that if they were the best for the project, that would have come through in the rfp process and the competitive process. The fact that they did a fine job with 2. 5 million efforts doesnt mean theyre necessarily for 17. 5 million expenditure. What was the expected amount that you had budgeted for the aecom piece . What was the typically the budgets is for the environmental documentation and for the design and the construction support are typically in the range of 25 plus percent of the construction contract. In that regard this project is very intense project. In that regard, we are in that 25 to 30 range what would that range be h ere . The 25 range would be approximately 15 million, 30 range being approximately 18 million. They fall in that range. I completely understand, commissioner campos, its a large contract at the end of the day. Its a large contract but unfortunately has been increased pretty significantly in increments. That worries me because its the one, two its the Fourth Amendment to a contract that started as a 2. 5 million and now its a 17 million contract. Understood. This is the final amendment. We are in a position now that we can complete the project. Weve got a compliment commitment from them. We understand theres some additional scope of work that was added to their contract, especially here during the construction phase. Some of it out of their control where we in to make changes to joints that caltrans requested. We need to hear from the executive director on that. How do you feel about the way that we have gotten here . Commissioner campos. I appreciate your concern and i do share that. I think on a large job, we my have been able to presented that strategy to the board from the beginning if we felt that was the right way to go. I would defer to eric having been the longer project manager on this and the Management Team where they felt like there was enough value to recommend going forward. I do believe the transparency and competitive process have yielded the same result to your point. Let me ask you a question about we amended it in 2010, right . We increased it we almost doubled it, actually. We added almost 8 million from the 8. 2 in 2009 to almost 16 million in 2010. Why the extra million . Whats the need for that . It seems like we already increased pretty significantly. Understood. The augmentation you smoke about was to handle the design phase with a portion of the construction support phase. Really, this 1 million has to do with a lot of the changes that weve had to go through in terms of managing project changes as we encounter them in the field. As i listed before in terms of utility relocations, changes to different areas that required as we got into construction, that mandated us to use more r esources from the aecom team to go ahead and make changes, get them approved by caltrans. What about the parsons piece . The 1 thats a pretty significant increase. This has been a very challenging job for us in terms of actually managing the construction contract. Weve worked the Construction Contractor has been very good to work with. Theyve had changes that theyve had to make on falsework s ubmittals and other types of changes and changes and s equencing theyve taken a look at, saying, we can get this job done and keep it within time frames. In that regard, not only have we had to manage that effort in our construction and resident engineer and their Inspection Team has also worked on numerous days where weve gone ahead and gone to 10 hour work days and worked the weekends, which were not originally included in their budget. We have proactively gone ahead and kept the project on schedule because from our perspective in terms of delivery of the p roject, these costs are much smaller than any potential project delay cost that we might encounter. As project manager, ive made the business decision to get staff and keep them moving so we can manage this change working with our contractor and all the outside influences. Is the parsons amendment the last amendment . Yes, it is. Definitely. Thank you. Im referring to Deputy Director for finance. I think commissioner, we would like to go back and take a look at the decision to go from environmental to design as the source based on the work of aecom. We wanted to stay on schedule. The federal rules did allow this to happen. It didnt require procurement. We should review that and come back to you how we might approach it going forward. That decision was made in 2008 . Environmental design, yes, its my understanding. That was way back. Back at the time where Prior Administration and we were l ooking to try to keep the project moving expeditiously. Okay, thank you. Okay, thank you. Was there looking ahead from previous years, was there expectations well be doing these contract increases yes, definitely. 2. 5million was just for the start of the environmental work. We had to fight hard to get the federal and state fund. That was an uphill battle for the first two years. As we were doing Engineering Work, which was on the local dollars tightest dollars we were using, we were starting to move forward with the Engineering Work because we wanted to make sure that we met in essence, the bay bridge schedule in that regard. In that regard, we did. We did meet our schedules and the time frames that we needed to construct this project. At the same time theyre constructing the ramps on other side of the bridge. It is a huge success story. If we had not met our schedule, we probably wouldnt been able to Start Construction here. I can recall like the first year i was in office and the finance committee, we were looking at designs for this project well before the bay bridge was completed. Its been very exciting to see different phases going through and seeing the completion. I never thought youll be excited about offramps. But here we are. Questions from the roster. Lets go on to Public Comment. Thank you for your presentation. Public comment is now open. Any member like to comment. Seeing none, we will close Public Comment. Motion on this item. Roll call vote. Item passed. Thank you. Next item please. Item eight introduction new items. This is an information item. Thank you. Im looking at having a hearing to address our soon to be s tarting Bike Share Program under motivate. The hearing will be looking at how we can ensure that the motivate program is one that has significant benefits, workforce benefits and local hiring benefits that we can get a sense of how this can be not just boone for people looking to cycle, but also for community in San Francisco as well. I look forward to hearing probably next finance Committee Meeting to discuss that. Okay. Lets open this item for Public Comment. Public comment on any new ideas for finance committee. Seeing no one come forward. Well close Public Comment. Now item number nine. Public comment. Public comment is now open. We will close Public Comment for lack of commenter. Mr. Clerk, our last item. Item ten, adjournment. We are adjourned, thank you. We came to seven straight about 10 years ago. 7th street about 10 years ago. The environment is huge. It is stronger than willpower. Surrounding yourself with artists, being in a culture where artists are driving, and where a huge amount of them is a healthy environment. You are making it safer. Push, push. That is better. When i start thinking, i see it actually sometimes, i do not see it, but when i do, it is usually from the inside out. It is like watching something being spawned. You go in, and you begin to work, excavate, play with the dancers, and then things began to emerge. You may have a plan that this is what i want to create. Here are the ideas i want to play with, but then, you go into the room, and there maybe some fertile ideas that are becoming manifest that are more interesting than the idea you had initially set out to plan. So there has to be this openness for spontaneity. Also, a sense that regardless of the deadline, that you have tons of time so the you can keep your creativity alive and not cut it off and just go into old habits. It is a lot like listening. Really listening to watch what is going to emerge. I like this thing where you put your foot on his back. Lets keep it. Were your mind is is how you build your life. If you put it in steel or in failure, it works. That works. It is a commitment. For most artists, it is a vacation and a life that they have committed themselves to. There is this notion that artists continue to do their work because of some kind of the external financial support. If that was taken away, artists would still do their art. It is not like there is a prerequisite for these things to happen or i will not do it. How could that be . It is the relationship that you have committed to. It is the vocation. No matter how difficult it gets, you are going to need to produce your art. Whether it is a large scale or very small scale. The need to create is going to happen, and you are going to have to fulfill it because that is your life. I have 2 job titles. Im manager of the tour program as well as i am the historyian of city hall. This building is multifaceted to say the very least its a Municipal Building that operates the city and county of San Francisco. This building was a dream that became a reality of a man by the name of james junior elected mayor of San Francisco in 1912. He didnt have a city hall because it was destroyed in the earth wake of 1906. Construction began in april of 1913. In december 1915, the building was complete. It opened its doors in january 1916. Its a wonderful experience to come to a building built like this. The building is built as a palace. Not for a king or queen. Its built for all people. This building is beautiful art. Those are architecture at the time when city hall was built, San Francisco had an enormous french population. Therefore building a palace in the art tradition is not unusual. Jimmie was an incredible individual he knew that San Francisco had to regain its place in the world. He decided to have the tallest dome built in the United States. Its now stands 307 feet 6 inches from the ground 40 feet taller than the United States capital. You could spend days going around the building and finding something new. The embellishment, the carvings, it represents commerce, navigation, all of the things that San Francisco is famous for. The wood you see in the board of supervisors chambers is oak and all hand carved on site. Interesting thing about the oak is there isnt anymore in the entire world. The floors in china was cleard and never replanted. If you look up at the seceiling you would believe thats hand kof carved out of wood and it is a cast plaster sealing and the only spanish design in an arts building. There are no records about how many people worked on this building. The workman who worked on this building did not all speak the same language. And what happened was the person working next to the other person respected a skill a skill that was so wonderful that we have this masterpiece to show the this masterpiece to show the good morning everyone. Welcome to our tuesday o ctober 20, 2015 of the San Francisco county Transportation Authority. Im joined by commissioner mark felled. Julie christensen and commissioner yee. Why dont we go to roll call. Commissioner christensen, commissioner farrell, commissioner tang, commissioner yee, we have a quorum. Thank you. Item two please. Advisory committee report. Information item. Thank you. We have our cac chair. Good morning commissioners. Item number seven on of the 4 million for several allocations. The cac approved in the item 8 0. Most centers around clarifications and how it was run. One thing regarding the district 11 John Morrison questioned why the bus service was cut. That was something mta will be get back to us and address that today. Item number eight, the cac approved this item 70 with one abstention. The pilot Shuttle Program and its regarding in january when it ends, what will become of it, what will happen what are the plans and mta will be back with us with an update. Item number 10. Many people in the cities talking about trees along that. The driver required to look for alternative routes. That was a concern for some of us. Thank you very much for your reports. Do we have any questions or comments from commissioners . Well thank you. We will go to Public Comment on the cac report. Seeing no members of the public, Public Comment closed. The consent calendar please. Items three to five is consent calendar. Staff is not prepared to present on these items. If any objects, it may be considered separately. Any questions. Seeing none, Public Comment on consent calendar. Seeing none Public Comment is closed. Sorry. Good morning chair tang. Just to note that after we mailed the packet, the staff did provide another revised version of the one bay area grant formula fund. San francisco did receive a share cut. Were investigating the basis for that. We want to let you know and will report back to you next month. Thank you for that update. Any members of the public on the consent calendar . Okay, seeing none, Public Comment closed. On the consent calendar, commissioner breed, christian christensen, farrell, tang, commissioner yee, consent calendar is