Which are imminently more easily operated, they can be opened being mechanically and manually. If you cant get the fire truck out, you cant respond. I want to move on to the emergency Fire Fighting water system. This is a bond component that is under the direct management of the San FranciscoPublic Utilities commission. So unfortunately the project manager is not present here this morning to speak to these two aspects or to the bond measures for the emergency Fire Fighting water system. I should tell you that is the new monicor of the system. It is done in part because of the historic system, sort of the city well for over 100 years at this point. But through further engineering oversight, the experience or facility pushing water through pipes determined there was kind of a different approach they would assume for delivering pumps for this system which is a more modern, i would call it interpretation. Having said that much, 2010 is substantially complete, and ill speak to that later in the financial summary. It says 28 in your power point, but its 26 of the systems are functional. Thats an enormous asset that was not present in the locations where theyre installed and provide the Fire Department with another sort of arrow in order to assist with fires. Pumping station number two for those familiar with it, or not, its in aquatic park, its one of two pump stations. That pump station contract has been awarded. It took a bit of time for that to find its way to award but finally has been awarded and then street valves within the context of pipe network expected to occur early next year with the funds drawn from 2010. 2014 for the efws continues to do a good deal of pipeline related projects and that really is the underpinning for the most part, currently installing robust pipe extensions and strengthening existing pipelines if they can better respond to the forces if you will of an earthquake. Ill leave it at that on that front. Certainly open to your questions. Police facilities, i guess thats me again. Lisa zoe is our project manager and taking a well deserved break with her family this particular holiday week. Police facility are the smallest of the bond components in dollars. No less important in significance to the Police Department certainly. We are doing projects that are of the type for nfs to establish the dure ability and reliability of the venues for the functions they serve. So, we have approximately nine district stations, theyre attending to in various ways. Most recently notice to proceed for the contractor on the northern richmond stations and we received bids for the park in angleside already. We have a low bid in that regard. And we have already i might as well fast forward. We have obtained our approval for farm Simulation Training facility. And were nearing completion of Police Academy project for those familiar with it at Diamond Heights in regard to the building upgrade system. So that is Police Facilities. And now the office of the chief medical examiner project. Briefly again, the project is completed. We received temporary certificate of occupancy on october 10th and the building is occupied by the staff of the medical examiners facility and open to business as of november 6th. When the close out phase in the project, we are finalizing training and addressing items. For the next project, traffic divisions, i would like to have the project manager speak. Good morning. If you are not familiar with this project, it is taking the csi and the Traffic Company out of the hall of justice and combining with the crime lab currently located at the shipyard at Hunters Point and putting them at a new facility at 1995 evans avenue, approximately a block from the public works yard. Currently owned by the city, the Real Estate Division manages the property and they have vacated as of november 10th. Notice to proceed was issued to a general contractor who will be overseeing Hazardous Materials over the next five months. At the same time recently, a notice to proceed was issued to the construction manager general contractor who its Clark Construction who will lead a cmgc team. The Team Component is design, build, core trade, subcontractors, will come on board starting november 27th to coincide with the executive archite architect to work in sync with them to address budget concerns on the project and get the project to budget and solicit bids from the subcontractors. That will start at the beginning of Preconstruction Services phase 1. As soon as the budget is achieved and the bids are taken, we will start a Preconstruction Services phase 2, where the core trade subcontractors will become the engineers of record and continue to work towards document preparation and permitting over the next year with hok architects as we move through towards construction. Thank you. Thank you michael. Just a note on contractor form of delivery, that is the favored Design Delivery model for most capital projects. What it does is introduce the builder up stream in a phase we call preconstruction where we can learn their expertise and insights that assist the engineer team so its more consistent in align. Thats a valuable participation partnering with the builder that we have generally found to be good in the delivery of the work. In this particular instance, we have introduced the participation of what michael regarded as the core trade subs. For laboratory projects, you know, the mechanical engineer, the plumbing engineer, and those trades are critical to the success as you can well imagine, Lab Buildings are very dense with those kinds of systems, having that participation early on, again, very invaluable to earn the insight we need with less conflict and compromise. So now, a brief status of budget and Financial Plan. I am missing my senior budget analyst as well this week. Its a good week for folks taking the time. 2010 as you can see from the far right column has been substantially spent. Were at 90 between them, fire stations 5 and 16 in the context and some of the work i described to you for awfs. Substantially spent down. We would expect this work to all be completed by next year. Great. Thank you. One more. Last but not least, the status of budget and Financial Plan for 2014. Obviously this is underway. Were two plus years removed from the first infusion of bond funds. Medical examiner is done effectively. You might ask why is that done and Everything Else seems to be a few Percentage Points behind . Well, the city at the time it was entertaining the project for the bond, decided it was of such importance, especially regarding reaccreditation that it should have funding prior to the bond to bring it to a several level of completeness, such as when the bond pass, we could pick it up and go to construction. That was a very wise approach for getting it done sooner. Clearly its evidenced by what we described to you and this percentage. The other projects as you can see for the most part are still in their preliminary phases, although i would tell you that Police Facilities among the bond components is really fast and otherwise out of the gate and completing some work very quickly. In sum total, i can tell you the ambition we have, the plan is to complete 2014 by the fall, late fall of 2019. We are preparing as we speak for 2020. We want to make sure as we present ourselves to the voters in that year, we can speak to all of the good work we accomplish and to the fact that we would have spent the monies entrusted to us at that point. We dont want to have a sum of money sitting there and having people wondering why are you asking for more money when youre sitting on a bunch. That is our plan across all of the bond components inclusive of the efws as well. With that, we will conclude the presentation and ask for any questions you may have. Please. My question is about the eser and the old water supply system, i live in the Outer Richmond district and richmond review, a local paper, has an article about a system that is planned now to replace the awss and among the things that it says is that the new system is going to rely on the Domestic Water system to provide Fire Fighting and questions integrity if it will stand up during an earthquake, especially an earthquake of some magnitude like the 1906 earthquake. Apparently one of the reasons pec doesnt want to do this, a legitimate reason, they have an estimated for water piping opposed to 19 million a mile for the strengthened piping with the joints that have mechanical connections and upgraded fire hydrants. Big money difference for the numbers in the paper. Hard to imagine the difference of five times. If you had a good crew, i would question that a little bit. That aside, is it just a matter of cost or are they confident in the event of a large earthquake, the firefighter system is capable of delivering the water needed for fighting the fires. Thats an excellent question. Im not an engineer, im an architect but what i can tell you, pc has been studying the modernzation if i can call it and the expansion of the emergency Fire Fighting water system for a number of years now. There is as a goal, a parity throughout the city for access to dedicated Fire Fighting water. There are different ways to accomplish it. Clearly the system that was designed subsequently to the 1996 earthquake was landmarked, still landmarked, its never really been attempted again in the modern age. I think there are two i wouldnt say comparable but two that reassemble them in a remote way. One in japan and one in vancouver. It is opinion that it is prohibitively expensive approach for providing for High PressureFire Fighting water. Was the pec has done, with the special engineering consultant, pursue an attack that would more quickly provide for that parity in access to Fire Fighting water sooner than not. If we spend the multiple commissioner you remarked upon, given the pacing of the bond program, at least historically, it would take us far longer to accomplish that parity than if we pursued a less expensive tack. As far as reliability and dure ability, i would prefer to have the pc speak to that. I do know that it would be in the new iteration if you will, benefits portable water system it would be more durable than what currently exists in the regular hydrant system. Theyre trying to approach it in a way that as i said renders the access to good Fire Fighting dedicated water much sooner than not. We know the big one as we call it, its not a question of when its not a question of if but a question of when. Any delays not doing as much as we can for as many in the city is probably not the most prudent approach. Ill stop there. Youre at a disadvantage, you dont have the project manager to answer questions as specific as this, maybe you could give me his contact information. Absolutely. I do believe that the puc will be responding to the article that was published at least to the neighborhood newspapers. Yeah, i think the sunset beacon had it, too. Theyre the same paper almost. Ill defer further discussion until well get back to you with more detail. I had a couple of quick questions. The fire station 35 its noted there was a notice to proceed for october 10th, did that happen . Yes. Thats been issued . Yes. Okay. The other question i had was the hazmat and demo for the Traffic CompanyForensic Services was going to be a notice to proceed in october, did that happen . So that happened . Okay. Great. Thats fine. Thats the notice was issued october 20th. There were some delays with the Real Estate Division in vacating the property. That happened november 10th. Everything is proceeding. Great. And so in my role as the liaison for these two bond issues, in this last quarter i did have a tour of the new chief medical examiner building along with brenda, and so i want to thank charles and project manager magdalena for the tour. It was an impressive building and going to serve the citizens of San Francisco for many, many years to come. Its really state of the art, and i really appreciate the opportunity to get to see that. And the second thing i did also this last quarter was mentioned here, the awss pumping station number two, at the very foot of where the pier begins to take off, thats been awarded, the contract was awarded for about 18 million, its going to be a 26 million seismic upgrade in that facility and a lot of steel will be going into it. Theres also some historic preservation. But it was great to get a tour of that and see it before they started the construction and well be able to come back and take a look and see how its going. I appreciate david meijerson from the puc project manager on that. Im looking forward to that. I did have i did review the bid items and there were a couple of bid items where the bid that came in that was awarded, the contractor was very much lower than what our engineers estimates were. And that always concerns me because thats a potential for change order. I did talk to david about holding the contractors feet to the fire. Thank you commissioner. One of the things i would like to say, in fairness to the puc, theres been amazing work completed for the awss system, certainly within the context of the bond. 26 of 30 large 75100,000 gallons, we seismically restored the ashbury tank and jones street tank. We repaired and strengthened the twin peeks reservoir. These are all and pump station, the pump stations are being undertaken now. These are all critical components of the overall system. We can certainly have discussions about the pipe network. Thats very important. I dont think it can be lost in the conversation that weve done some awfully robust strengthening improvement of the system that was much needed. Much needed. I would like that to be understood as well as the current discourse about what the best pipeline approach should be. Okay. So in addition, when i did get the detailed Quarterly Report for the bond programs, for september, i noticed and it was noticed in the report that the Financial Data was as of june. There was no updated Financial Information to review. Could you comment on why the september Financial Data wasnt available and is it now available or whats going on there . Ive heard references to the new city system, i would like to know when i might be able to see september financial bid. Commissioner, the new Financial System adopted by the city currently does not enable us to collect data we require in order to present you the reliable and accurate even as of today. Thats correct. So there are a lot of cost centers in the new Financial System that the budget data didnt come over accurately. We have accountants working on the corrections. I honestly cant tell you what the schedule is for the different types of expenditures. Theyre making a lot of progress and we will ill find out with ben and check with funding accounting supervisors and update you i need to know myself. I assume it wouldnt run past another end of a quarter. I will find out and know what priority order the bond programs are going to be in to be accurate about it before you would be receiving more Quarterly Reports. All right. And last, it is important for liaisons to have meetings with the bond staff. My attempts to get a meeting scheduled this time were not successful and so maybe charles you could comment on that. I think i sent some emails and made some phone calls but didnt get replies and again, not having the Financial Data is but there were other things i had been asking for such as projects that had fallen off from the schedule or changes in the schedule but didnt get that either. I think we have to figure out a better way to communicate. Yes. Apologies again for failing to align with your schedule and ours. I think thats the first time we have missed the opportunity to sit with you and review matters at a finer grain of detail. Well endeavor to do much better the next time out. Certainly were available to you if you would like to get into anything that you were wanting to know before the meeting, we stand at the ready to respond to you. One more general follow up question, not related to you referred to core bid, th. Theyre now part of the official team. We will be working with our Architect Team as well as with the builder team to arrive at a price point if you will for the Representative Work of the core trade subs. Well then have a moment in time when well say now you have to put your name to that number. And it will be a number we will have reconciled and understood to be appropriate for the scope of work, especially in the context of the other work that needs to occur. Its a matter of agreeing to agree. Sorry. They will be given that opportunity to basically affirm the number, if by some curious set of circumstances they choose not to, then we will be duty bound to go out to others to secure a pricing more in line with our budget capacity for the particular elements of work. Okay. This sounds more like negotiator procurement than competitively bid its different from bringing out a set of documents and asking for it to be bid. In this market especially, i would say th