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Newhires and beating the bushs to make sure that we get veterans integrated. Kind of a lot to swallow, but i have a handout that outlines everything that we have done todate. Webcor obayashi has hired nine direct hire positions within our company. Turner at the recent u. S. Hornet career fair hired one and i think the key is developing the oneonone relationships with the sourcing agencies to find the veterans that are out there and get them into internships or apprenticeship programs so they can...

General. I think its important to note that its not just about hiring veterans. Its about retention. And making sure that they succeed. And so on that note we have actually been looking at ways to ensure that they are going to succeed. Just as a best practices note from all the research i have done, we found that veterans need each other once they are back from their tours of duties. They actually should retain a cohort, which they can find of hang out with and be together. That is what were att...

Moving the project forward. Mike was a member of the caltrain board of directors and also a former San Mateo County supervisor, mayor of daly city and San Francisco Police Inspector and not only served on our board, but numerous other regional transportation boards and well always be appreciative to mike for all of his work in the area of transportation, as well as his commitment for those in need. We extend our sympathies to mike and his family. I would also like to thank director reiskin, beca...

Working to support veterans, but nobody is really talking to each other and they are trying to individually reach out to employers and not really in a cohesive fashion. With unions and companies and cbos we needed to develop a more cohesive hiring process and that is what we worked on. We had a Success Story working closely with the Carpenters Union, where we have two returning veterans, i think from afghanistan, to essentially prescreened through a communitybased organization out of a group of ...

There are so many jobs in the city that are coming down the pike, we want to make sure that they have a network to stay connected with each other. So on that note were working with San Francisco unified school district, as well as integrating veterans preorientation programs there. As well as the Sf State University Veterans Club to generate internship paths into construction employers like webcor, turner, dbs and other employers. We can start with the transbay project and then move forward from...

Subtracted from the bidders bid price making their bid price more competitive and improving the likelihood of approval of the work. Well realize 100 of the savings with the bidders value engineering proposal. During Construction Trade subcontractors will be encouraged to submit these proposals and after deducting costs incurred in the proposal, a trade subcontractor in the tjpa will share a 50 50 basis a shared savings. So thank you director for that suggestion and well implement that moving for...

Then the belowgrade structure and the walls and the foundation or structural walls and of course, eventually well get the steel out there to the superstructure. Just the overall budget, which remains consistent for the construction work that has let. This is the overall construction budget of commitments todate560,000 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 constr...

Continue that work. So well finish that early part of next if year as they work through the holidays on mission continuing to put in the new water line. Coming up next, the belowgrade structure contractor who now has the geothermal and grounding contracts within their package will start that work in january. The buttress work will continue and the micro pile production, they completed 70 in the total production piles and that will hopefully be completed in the next 90 days and move into zone 2. ...

Was too complex or disdainful for her to take on, and one of those really unspoken one but important to me she is the might have roof the cell phones. When the cell phone got broken or took a walk in the water linda was there to sort it out and get it back in your hands as quickly as possible and i know twice she saved me and thank you very much linda and good luck. [applause] that concludes your report . No im sorry actually no. Were you going to say anything linda . You have to do it at the mi...

The one other item on the veterans report that i wanted to highlight was that enville buildings was awarded the hoisting contract for the project. So they are going to be providing the man lifts to bring personnel into the excavation and in future to the upperlevels of Transit Center construction and the personnel to operate those. And that is a disabled veteranowned business. So both in the field as contractors were making end roads. Just a few words on our apprenticeship programs. I reported l...