Actions we need to achieve and i appreciate our staffs efforts were getting ready to build on last summers success we found social media and google adds are getting a lot of information out and responses were building on the responses in coordination so i appreciate that test it shows where your agencies are trying make a difference in the region lastly just we have launched our new website on landscaping as ive gone out in the service area ive told people we know that outdoor water use is the largest used of water tell the jury or encouraging people one day if you want to keep our grass you can water it less but lets go to planting native beautiful tolerant landscaping and this site sports that this shows you what a native buffer water efficient garden can look like im pleased with the success with that ill conclude my questions ill be happy to answer any questions. Questions or comments. Just a comment trump encouraging are i think that is useful to know what happens outside of our b
Actions we need to achieve and i appreciate our staffs efforts were getting ready to build on last summers success we found social media and google adds are getting a lot of information out and responses were building on the responses in coordination so i appreciate that test it shows where your agencies are trying make a difference in the region lastly just we have launched our new website on landscaping as ive gone out in the service area ive told people we know that outdoor water use is the largest used of water tell the jury or encouraging people one day if you want to keep our grass you can water it less but lets go to planting native beautiful tolerant landscaping and this site sports that this shows you what a native buffer water efficient garden can look like im pleased with the success with that ill conclude my questions ill be happy to answer any questions. Questions or comments. Just a comment trump encouraging are i think that is useful to know what happens outside of our b
You have a showerhead you like it might be an old one get a free take away and use it until the drought is over and replace it with youre old showerhead and were piloting a weather based water control for large landscaper those are tiered targeted in the weather based criteria providing a rebate for the customers in that program and then my staff is working together with our fellow to develop a conservatism program we do landscape commercialism but there was a desire to have a program that could be offended in the service area that just is not about landscaping per say but water conservatism and some of the areas that the staff can give throughout their serve area trying to educate the public im really pleased weve going on gone to a two day week watering schedule awhile some might think that is an easy thing to do it was quite interesting actually and sometimes theres questions how effective for savings it creates a Great Dynamic for a conversation about what important how to achieve
Craft hours. And you can see here that San Francisco labor still continues to hold at 20 throughout the project. These are just counting the utility hours and Transit Center construction hours. And again, there is that number, over a thousand craft jobs over the course of the start of the Transit Center work and utility work. If i can answer any questions . All right. Thank you. Thank you, directors, that concludes my report. Thank you. Can we move on to the next item, please . Yes item 6 is Public Comment, can which an opportunity for members of public to address the authority on matters that are not on todays calendar and gilbert deanza would like to address you. If there are any other members who wish to speak, if you could stand and speak after gilbert, thank you. Good morning. Madame chairman, board, maria, i am here to talk about the carpenters agreement with John Oconnell. We recently signed an mou stating that the Carpenters Union will hire students graduating from the John Oco
This will allow them to start the excavation underneath the fremont street bridge and start moving into that zone 4 portion of that zone 4 excavation early before the completion of buttress work. So that shoring wall went in or that cutoff wall went in this last period and will allow them to start excavating under the bridge. The awss work continues. As i mentioned there is just a couple of shots of the work progressing on Mission Street and the integral work around the other utilitis in the streets. So next up is the substructure package as i mentioned. So well just walk through that real quick. The shoring walls are already completed. You might have seen the slides before, the water table. The next step is the micro piles and there are a total of close to 1800 of them, the length of the project, but as they are completed the contractor, who is starting with the grounding and geothermal in january, underneath this will be installing the 5 thick piece of concrete. Then the belowgrade s