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Good afternoon. I would like to call the regular meeting of the Public Utilities commission to order. Mme. Sec. , would you please call the roll . May i have everybody sit down . Present vietor. Here. Vice president moran . Here. Commissioner caen . Commissioner courtney herehere. Commissioner kwon . Here. Present vietor. Here. Commissioner kane is expected shortlyand commissioner courtney will not be able to be here today. Mme. Sec. Next item please. Item number three is approval of the minutes...

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Would recognize them. The counties, you never would. Gardner ran behind romney. It was a rural issue, not an acrosstheboard issue. The same thing is true in other places as well. Iowa, its less obvious but the same distinction prevails. Then the question is, what does this mean for 2016 if what were seeing is not a uniform swing but a localized swing . And is this a turnout question . Well, ive done two states, colorado and iowa, and colorado keeps moving up. But the differential, if you compare...

Today . That i am aware of board of directors in more old business . Seeing none we can move to the executive directors report. Good morning directors and members of the public and just a few announcements before we move on for our construction update for today. It is now displayed to the public at the academy of science and that will run for a number of months. So we would like to thank the California Academy for putting on display the mammoth tooth. And we will be looking for a new home in 201...

In a very contemporary fashion. That base, that thicker base is at the lower five floors and the additional metal depth also does a couple of things for us. It helps us mitigate the effect of wind shooting down the exterior of the building. So imaging that this will be a very calm environment when it comes to controlling wind. And it also allows us to address the whole issue of how to avoid birds flying into the structure. That extra depth and and keeping the birds from hitting the building. If ...

Extraordinary successful collar collaboration with the San Francisco Planning Department staff and so the design that you are going to be seeing i would characterize as the result of a very, very healthy collaboration with staff and we are quite proud of it. So i just need this here. And this is an image, several images that you are going to be familiar with. It simply puts the towering context and this is clearly one of the most important building complexes and we do see the Transit Center and ...

Transit center itself and we are very, very careful about the interaction of the two buildings structurally, one with the other. The elevator core is also part of the structural system. It is four feet thick, at the lowest level and tapered in size of the tower and goes up and so it allows an enormous amount of stability to the towers structure. And in a building this tall, it is very interesting, obviously seismic design is critical but at this height of 1070, it is really wind that one has to ...

Completing. And right on track, is a weekly update here on the production of the shafts and you can see that we were behind the curve in the beginning with just the learning curve of putting the shafts in but we are caught up and projecting a finish on time. But, it is a quality control, remains in effect on the butress there is coring for checking the structure and that is just the general shot of put ng a rebar cage and the awss work. Is the only utility work going on now and as you know we ha...

Good morning, directors. Steve, ru, with turner construction, construction oversight. I dont know. Is that up . There it is. Another good month, of work or almost a month and a half since we filled you in on the last period. There were no recordable incidents. We did have one near miss. But, brought to light some issues with the excavation process of sight lines and so that has been dealt with successfully. And allowing the excavator to work while the folks down below were able to position thems...

Here. Lloyd. Here. Metcalf. Here. Kim. Here. You do a quar um. Thank you. Are there any communications today . That i am aware of board of directors in more old business . Seeing none we can move to the executive directors report. Good morning directors and members of the public and just a few announcements before we move on for our construction update for today. It is now displayed to the public at the academy of science and that will run for a number of months. So we would like to thank the Ca...