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I will ka call the meeting to order. Secretary, please call the roll. roll call . President torres . Here. Vicepresident courtney, commissioner caen, commissioner moran, and we have a quorum the first item is to make announcement that Public Comment on all presentations before the commission will be limited to two minutes since we have so many people that want to testify on a number of issues, so i wanted to make sure everyone knew that. Approval of the minutes. Ill move approval. Alright. Every...

Approval of the minutes. Ill move approval. Alright. Everybody signify by saying aye. Sorry, Public Comment on the minutes. There being none, all those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Public comments . And the first person i always have on the list is the honorable francisco tacosta. Welcome. Commissioners, my name is Francisco Decosta and you know i come here from time to time to address you on the certain pertinent issues. Commissioners, many years ago, i was appointed by the first peopl...

Specific projects, but what it does its an agreement between us and them that first of all, describes what the intent of the program is and that we are going to make an effort and theyre going to be receptive and that the idea though is theres in guarantees. They still have to perform and have to meet the scope thats in their contract. This kind of stuff. And. How to you identify which organizations and companies youll enter an mou with . Well, cal transoached firms and in other cases theyve app...

Number five. Its an important discussion. We. Let me bring up tita i have a couple questions for tiat before we move on to that. Thank you. Now on to the Construction Management pl discussion. The Transportation Authority went ahead and issued a request for proposals in january of 2013. We received six proposals in february, four firms were short listed and interviews were conducted in march of 2013. Unanimous Panel Selection [inaudible] with the best relevant experience. Wanna talk a little bit...

And thats exactly what happened with the steel i dont know if you can picture some of us with the hard hats on in kansas where the cast nodes are being manufacturesed. So long as its by america were coast to coast looking for anyone who be helpful us some of the contractors on the glazing package is in Hartford Connecticut so were talking to everybody everywhere we need good bids. Thats good to hear. So thats all my questions and im glad to see that a lot of attention is being paid directors i a...

Youll enter an mou with . Well, cal transoached firms and in other cases theyve approached us but helping women owned or minority owned businesses. Thats just a plus if they are. Exactly. So on this team here we have four Small Businesses and zune is a small business, but not a dbe. How do you determine if your program is successful . What are the indicators for success besides some a few of them competing against you . To me i think theyve all stayed in business. Okay. I think in this economy w...

Terms of the design risk and the documents and the lack of clarity of the documents and those are the things i feel like we were talking about a year ago so its un fortunate so i hope well all as the entire team will be working towards implementing those and on that point, i think what we also discussed nearly a year ago is that it seemed the goals of an integrated project delivery approach didnt seem to be working in this project as well as they should be and it seems that the results of this s...

Hes trying to hide from you. Mr. Richie, this is not church, you dont have to hide in the back. [laughter]. Okay, i found this very interesting, the desalination projts comparison, could you tell me what it means so i can understand about the energy use, how they compare the different yes, in this case, we compared the bay area regional desalination projts to the santa cruz project t marine project in San Diego County on an energy and cost basis, and basically what this shows is that the energy ...

We advertise and receive about five proposals on may 29 and out of those five, two were qualified met the qualifications. Those two firms that were collected [inaudible] are here and theyre present if you have any questions for them. Theyre both bde firms as they lead the leed consultant firm. Cd is obviously a team that has been around for a long time and knows authority very well and they have history with a lot of the projects. And vice has done this type of work for the county [inaudible] we...

Sorry, Public Comment on the minutes. There being none, all those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Public comments . And the first person i always have on the list is the honorable francisco tacosta. Welcome. Commissioners, my name is Francisco Decosta and you know i come here from time to time to address you on the certain pertinent issues. Commissioners, many years ago, i was appointed by the first people of this area to address the issues on things like the infrastructure resources, disc...