Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20171229

Were to be advanced to permitting and we can get this and it will be in the coming year and our focus right now is to lean in and make sure that we address the issues and the truth is that right now distribution, the state of completion of distribution of the utilities throughout the building is not where it should be. Whether or not theres water or not you need sinks and toilets in place to have an operational facility. You need racks populated and you need transformers tested and some of them are constrained and some of them are not and, again, i think that as said over the last last two years that we have been here we have all leaned in and been as collaborative as we can and pushed where we can and we meet every week and try to take down the big issues as much as we can with our project leadership team, and quite frankly, that agenda has been fairly light because its really just progressing the routine. And when big obstacles come were fairly adept at knocking them down. But i think that jes is right that theres a lot of work with commissioning and were just not there in terms of the state of completeness that we ought to be. And, you know, from my vantage point, the drag point is a lot of electrical and a lot of shop drawings that went back and forth with the fire marshal and theres a lot of minutia to tease out at the design level and the shop drawing level. And i think that weve arrived there with the fire alarm finally, but, you know, thats a known risk and a known issue that needed to be muscled through. I dont know what more to add but we are still trying very hard as a team to address these things, but clearly walking out there in tomorrows of lit up electrical rooms or low voltage, its not near where it needs to be. Anything i might add is that i mean, yes, our contract does finish on december 22nd, but what well try to do is to focus on the things that are needed by tjpa and, obviously, the muni bus was needed prior to that and even when we found out, you know, a couple months ago that it was needed in early december, the team rallied and they figured out what theyd do and how to corden it off and make sure that its safe for passengers and give them time to test. So we turned over a portion of the facility in early december, because it was needed. And so were going to keep looking at the kind of things that you need and well keep working as a team to figure those out. Were not worried at all what the contract says one way or the other and all we want to do is to try to solve the issues that arise and try to get you in as quick as possible. In your planning, when do you think that tjpa will get the keys to the facility . Say that again, please . In this teamwork or this progressive trying to meet strategic needs, when do you think that well be able to get the keys from you and to be able to meet the deadlines or the schedule that we have . So in getting the keys from me it means that everything is done absolutely 100 . Thats right. Right. And so because thats always nuanced theres a few punch list items that are usually not that big of a deal and the biggest thing that you really need is the commissioning done and ultimately the security up and running and i can see what would take place is us to try and find ways to hand off to you as they are needed even though you dont have the keys its your house and were still doing a few things but we still have some things well have things to finish certainly into april. So i guess that the question is, when will we get the master key that opens up all of the rooms in the building . Versus bits and pieces . Well, the easyiet way to get the master key is to go ahead and not give you anything, just let us finish the box and get done with it and then turn it over but we know that is not possible so in order to do muni we had to pull people from somewhere else and finish the phase and we needed that earlier but now it takes longer on the site work. To get the bus deck done we have to pull people off so i wish that it was an easy answer but by trying to mitigate and give you the things that you need as you need them is the way that its going to take longer to give you those master set of keys. I will just ask that we ramp up and we continue to just do everything that we can and this board has always said that anything that we can do to talk to some of these Utility Companies or to do that for other projects and we do have a commitment in get the station open as soon as possible. Thats really clear and i wish that it was as easy as ramping up and id say that its still more of the things that we find. Typically in the schedule youve gone ahead and worked, you know, five days a week and you have weekends to catch up when you find things or second shifts or whatever else and we have gobbled all of those thing and so when thing comes up and its our issue or a design issue or something, theres no more room to navigate. So those are the things that we hit the hardest to try to figure out and its just a matter of keeping the team focused on figuring out the solution to the issue, resolutions as quick as possible and getting it done. So were not afraid of whats ahead of us, we just dont know the unknowns that could come up. Thank you. Thanks for the update. The challenge that i have is, you know, ron has been great in giving us updates every month and its been very clear that the hes been very political in saying m. E. P. But its very clear to me that the e. Has been the one that has been behind. And so following up director reiskins concerns and the concerns of the board, what are you doing to prevent ron coming back next month and saying that it slipped again . What weve done is to bring in additional help. And not only augmenting but supplementing. For example, the air refuge and the Emergency Response system we got an understanding of what the Fire Department needs here at the end of november and we have about 5,000 lineal feet of conduit and were getting it done, and so theyre off now doing it. So were trying, as those thing comes up, were trying to bring in others to be able to handle some of the unique things that come up so we can keep our eye on doing the basic work and getting done. What are the consequences of coming back next month and ron saying that it slipped again . What are the consequences . Not meeting the dates that are being presented this morning . Yeah, there are unknowns in the industry. I mean, were working through what we know. So, i mean, id love to be able to say that i can turn the keys over to you but where we also need things too and we dont have everything, but its coming in time. Just with all due respect, this is not the first building that the work crew has built and we have three months to go, and how could there be so many unknowns when we have done this before before so many times . I mean, it seems to me that by this time with where were at we should have a clear path of what the obstacles we need to remove and what to expect. If we were three years back, i would understand, but were not. It seems that were arguing whether we have power or not and we say that we have power in august. I dont know when they submitted to the p. U. C. The application to when they wanted water or not, but i think that it was submitted late but ron worked and were getting water in monday. What else you were involved in the preconstruction for several years, since 2010, so you know the plans inside and out. Yeah and you also know that we were supposed to have all of our subcontractors in board until 2013, and we didnt get them all on board until 20152016 because of the significant changes made throughout time so an appropriate way to do it is to get there early and do lots of preplanning and wash through all of those issues and we didnt necessarily get that timeline. Im not sure and to close it, i think that we all get the point, i mean, we do need to work harder and we cant allow anything else to slip and things do come up as we get to the stage of the project and i think that the discussions are healthy but we need to get and figure out that we dont slip anymore. Yeah, were doing everything that we can can i just say one thing director nuru, i want to make sure that with all of this discussion that were planning on having buses coming in in june with bus operations and the bus drivers are eager to get in here and you will see them whether youre done or not, and i am serious. June 1st, we heard that here. June 1st. To be clear. Thank you. Okay, that somewhat concludes my presentation and i want to underscore that despite all of the tensions that were working collaboratively day in and day out and identifying where we can maneuver and its true, you know, as we get further down the space to maneuver it gets narrower. And the focus is really to get the state of completion on those m. E. P. Disciplines moving as fast and complete as possible and with that i think that were concluding. Thank you. Ron, thank you for the update and thanks to the team. I just want to make sure that i am understanding when we talk about june 1st for a. C. Transit, sfmta will be there ahead of that and looking through the popup and the first bus i mean we have the five fulton on december 26th, and something in march for meaningful operation and i wanted to see how that all gets tied together with the popup and with security and making sure that its all lining up at the same time. Because if i look at the charts theres some gaps and so, you know, i want to make sure that when muni starts running, at least the signage is up and the advertising may not be running at that time, but its just great to see all of this stuff laid out and i just want to make sure that there are no gaps as we call it a softd opening versus full operation. Yeah, no, i think that the intent is to make it as active as possible. You know, some of those streams of activity have different Different Things pushing them and different constraints that are independent and different than the construction. So theres kind of a natural progression that may leave gaps that we need to focus on and try to narrow up, but, again, kind of the sequence of events to stand up a popup and or leasing is a little different than, you know, pushing on the electrician to pull more wire. But weve got our eye on both of those to advance. The key is, i guess, while theres different pushes and pulls on security and signage and advertising and construction, is to not forget that managing the Customer Experience when they get off the bus or get on the bus at the new center. First and foremost. And managing, you know, getting off and where to go and that is part of the Customer Experience, to make sure is that we manage those expectations or celebrate those expectations and experiences. Absolutely. Thank you. Clerk next item, 11, the Facility Readiness update. So today im going to review the lincoln Facility Maintenance progress and the status of the work as related to the park and the status of pearl digital medias work and the status of colliers leasing efforts that supplement what was already discussed. Status of the popup preparations. And update on transit readiness as related to the moving parts on the various agreements and then sydney will review securi security. As mentioned earlier, the focus has been getting ready for greyhound and amtrak. The primary focus of this discussion is the construction on the second floor. At this point the construction documents are complete and ready for permit submission and were doing this in parallel, the document review will happen with greyhound and amtrak next week in separate meetings. Primary update on the lincoln Facility Maintenance slide is that three proposals have been received from Marketing Services that lincoln needs to review for our recommendation to the tjpa. Key aspects of the needed services are creating a brand with an understanding of how to use the sales force naming rights agreement and the tjpa brand. Development of a site website that serves as a point of entry for colliers, pearl and p. R. I. And then also outreach in particular social media to generate and maintain customer traffic to the Transit Center. This slide represents a contract awarded within this last month to landmark industries. Its the waste and recycling services. Its an important contract in place. The timing was sensitive because equipment has a long lead team of anywhere from three to six months. With regard to costs, these are unit prices, services will be calibrated depending on the need. Note that there was only one respondent that was viable. However, pearl link and landmark prices are consistent with the market for large complex multitenant facilities with the mandated zero waste ordinance goal. And this slide is blank as a placeholder for facilities contracts and you will start to see those come in in the january and february time frame. With the daily operations of running the site, at this point, three of the five key Service Contracts are in place and thats cleaning and engineering and maintenance and sanitation and waste. Two that are in the pipeline that are critical to daily site operations are the computerized Maintenance Management system, support vendor. This contract is expected to be completed in midjanuary. And another key contract is the vendor that will support management of the technological backbone of the center. And that will also include a 24 will be 7 help desk for Service Problems and in terms of supporting the retail tenant improvement activity, the needed contracts are in place and these are the architect and the general contractor and then an attorney for Legal Support on the lease negotiations. So lincoln continues to work through its list of needed services for r. F. P. S to be issued by the end of this calendar year and the strategy is to get all of the r. F. P. S out and then spend january reviewing the responses that will then lead to selection, negotiation and contract completion. For the contracts to all be in place by the end of march. And this approach will enable review with Small Business outreach in mind. So some specifics to add to what is noted on the slide, discussions are underwa underwat a ministreet food market for some revenuebased activity. They are working with nois pop to have a concert series. Midjanuary is targeted is the targeted timeframe to have a draft Event Planning guide and an event proposal outline, and film photo shoot application in place. B. R. V. Is also developing a cohesive Fitness Program to package as an attractive sponsorship opportunity. Pearl is going to be here in february to present to the tjpa board their entire program. At this point theres three areas to highlight and the transit screen work with the operators is nearly complete and testing is scheduled to begin in january. And reconciliation with web core is in progress. The Media Players are the equipment that run the screens. I mentioned it here because theyre a critical piece of equipment for everything to be working. There are some 200 transit screens throughout the center. And pearl is actively out in the market reaching out to major brands for presence in the Transit Center. Can i okay. Sorry, i thought that i missed a slide. With colliers, already discussed is the activity in the pipeline and most of my update will be given on the next slide. On this slide the highlight is that the leasing signs will go up this week and the rendering that you see at the top right of the slide is what its going to look like. There are various locations that will be on the construction census and theyll move around as the census as as the fences come down. And the signs are metal and theyre 4 feet high by 8 feet wide and they again look like the image noted on the slide. With p. R. I. , they owe the final plan to include the bus plaza and specifically with the bus plaza, there is a coffee vendor that is interested. However, he wants to see what it will look like once its open. And to stand and observe the traffic. And then we also need to make sure that theres a power source. If all of that falls into place putting up the Coffee Service will happen pretty quickly. And this is the slide on the schedule. So this last month colliers revisited the occupancy timeline and provided the tjpa with the update that you see today. The previous plan had the dots arranged as starting in q4 of 2018. These dots start in 22 of 2019. If you recall last month i outlined the various phases of how colliers has moved through its work. First phase was to develop, the second phase was to prepare, and the third phase i called blast to the market and the fourth phase is tenants. So we are currently in phase three, blast to the market. In general preparing for blast to the market took longer than anticipated, thus, contributing to the timeline shift. Some examples are the architectural contract. It was heavily negotiated where maybe the anticipated timeframe to negotiate was two months and it actually took about four. And another example is the lease template, making sure that all of the public requirements were incorporated into it, the original thinking is that it would take about a month and it took two. And the website had to be redone at the point, the naming rights agreement went into effect and that added to the timing. The website is particularly important because it contains all of the needed information that a prospective tenant needs in order to make an natural decision, including the line drawings of each space and these are prepared by the architect. And it is important to note that colliers was aware of pentup interest in the Transit Center based on the informational tours that happened throughout the summer. So being prepared to address the expected rush of inquiries was necessary in order to be able to efficiently new through a deal to completion to create a good First Impression and to create confidence. As such the revised timeline is a reflection of where we are today, taking into consideration the timing of the formal reach out to the market and the steps that it takes to work through a deal, some of which was outlined earlier. According to colliers, leaseup time can be anywhere from nine to 18 months, depending on the complexity of the deal. And build out of the space. And so backing out from backing up one year from 22 of 2019 takes us to q2 of 2018. And so that anticipates much leasing activity over the next few months. This slide is the transit Utility Companies<\/a> or to do that for other projects and we do have a commitment in get the station open as soon as possible. Thats really clear and i wish that it was as easy as ramping up and id say that its still more of the things that we find. Typically in the schedule youve gone ahead and worked, you know, five days a week and you have weekends to catch up when you find things or second shifts or whatever else and we have gobbled all of those thing and so when thing comes up and its our issue or a design issue or something, theres no more room to navigate. So those are the things that we hit the hardest to try to figure out and its just a matter of keeping the team focused on figuring out the solution to the issue, resolutions as quick as possible and getting it done. So were not afraid of whats ahead of us, we just dont know the unknowns that could come up. Thank you. Thanks for the update. The challenge that i have is, you know, ron has been great in giving us updates every month and its been very clear that the hes been very political in saying m. E. P. But its very clear to me that the e. Has been the one that has been behind. And so following up director reiskins concerns and the concerns of the board, what are you doing to prevent ron coming back next month and saying that it slipped again . What weve done is to bring in additional help. And not only augmenting but supplementing. For example, the air refuge and the Emergency Response<\/a> system we got an understanding of what the Fire Department<\/a> needs here at the end of november and we have about 5,000 lineal feet of conduit and were getting it done, and so theyre off now doing it. So were trying, as those thing comes up, were trying to bring in others to be able to handle some of the unique things that come up so we can keep our eye on doing the basic work and getting done. What are the consequences of coming back next month and ron saying that it slipped again . What are the consequences . Not meeting the dates that are being presented this morning . Yeah, there are unknowns in the industry. I mean, were working through what we know. So, i mean, id love to be able to say that i can turn the keys over to you but where we also need things too and we dont have everything, but its coming in time. Just with all due respect, this is not the first building that the work crew has built and we have three months to go, and how could there be so many unknowns when we have done this before before so many times . I mean, it seems to me that by this time with where were at we should have a clear path of what the obstacles we need to remove and what to expect. If we were three years back, i would understand, but were not. It seems that were arguing whether we have power or not and we say that we have power in august. I dont know when they submitted to the p. U. C. The application to when they wanted water or not, but i think that it was submitted late but ron worked and were getting water in monday. What else you were involved in the preconstruction for several years, since 2010, so you know the plans inside and out. Yeah and you also know that we were supposed to have all of our subcontractors in board until 2013, and we didnt get them all on board until 20152016 because of the significant changes made throughout time so an appropriate way to do it is to get there early and do lots of preplanning and wash through all of those issues and we didnt necessarily get that timeline. Im not sure and to close it, i think that we all get the point, i mean, we do need to work harder and we cant allow anything else to slip and things do come up as we get to the stage of the project and i think that the discussions are healthy but we need to get and figure out that we dont slip anymore. Yeah, were doing everything that we can can i just say one thing director nuru, i want to make sure that with all of this discussion that were planning on having buses coming in in june with bus operations and the bus drivers are eager to get in here and you will see them whether youre done or not, and i am serious. June 1st, we heard that here. June 1st. To be clear. Thank you. Okay, that somewhat concludes my presentation and i want to underscore that despite all of the tensions that were working collaboratively day in and day out and identifying where we can maneuver and its true, you know, as we get further down the space to maneuver it gets narrower. And the focus is really to get the state of completion on those m. E. P. Disciplines moving as fast and complete as possible and with that i think that were concluding. Thank you. Ron, thank you for the update and thanks to the team. I just want to make sure that i am understanding when we talk about june 1st for a. C. Transit, sfmta will be there ahead of that and looking through the popup and the first bus i mean we have the five fulton on december 26th, and something in march for meaningful operation and i wanted to see how that all gets tied together with the popup and with security and making sure that its all lining up at the same time. Because if i look at the charts theres some gaps and so, you know, i want to make sure that when muni starts running, at least the signage is up and the advertising may not be running at that time, but its just great to see all of this stuff laid out and i just want to make sure that there are no gaps as we call it a softd opening versus full operation. Yeah, no, i think that the intent is to make it as active as possible. You know, some of those streams of activity have different Different Things<\/a> pushing them and different constraints that are independent and different than the construction. So theres kind of a natural progression that may leave gaps that we need to focus on and try to narrow up, but, again, kind of the sequence of events to stand up a popup and or leasing is a little different than, you know, pushing on the electrician to pull more wire. But weve got our eye on both of those to advance. The key is, i guess, while theres different pushes and pulls on security and signage and advertising and construction, is to not forget that managing the Customer Experience<\/a> when they get off the bus or get on the bus at the new center. First and foremost. And managing, you know, getting off and where to go and that is part of the Customer Experience<\/a>, to make sure is that we manage those expectations or celebrate those expectations and experiences. Absolutely. Thank you. Clerk next item, 11, the Facility Readiness<\/a> update. So today im going to review the lincoln Facility Maintenance<\/a> progress and the status of the work as related to the park and the status of pearl digital medias work and the status of colliers leasing efforts that supplement what was already discussed. Status of the popup preparations. And update on transit readiness as related to the moving parts on the various agreements and then sydney will review securi security. As mentioned earlier, the focus has been getting ready for greyhound and amtrak. The primary focus of this discussion is the construction on the second floor. At this point the construction documents are complete and ready for permit submission and were doing this in parallel, the document review will happen with greyhound and amtrak next week in separate meetings. Primary update on the lincoln Facility Maintenance<\/a> slide is that three proposals have been received from Marketing Services<\/a> that lincoln needs to review for our recommendation to the tjpa. Key aspects of the needed services are creating a brand with an understanding of how to use the sales force naming rights agreement and the tjpa brand. Development of a site website that serves as a point of entry for colliers, pearl and p. R. I. And then also outreach in particular social media to generate and maintain customer traffic to the Transit Center<\/a>. This slide represents a contract awarded within this last month to landmark industries. Its the waste and recycling services. Its an important contract in place. The timing was sensitive because equipment has a long lead team of anywhere from three to six months. With regard to costs, these are unit prices, services will be calibrated depending on the need. Note that there was only one respondent that was viable. However, pearl link and landmark prices are consistent with the market for large complex multitenant facilities with the mandated zero waste ordinance goal. And this slide is blank as a placeholder for facilities contracts and you will start to see those come in in the january and february time frame. With the daily operations of running the site, at this point, three of the five key Service Contracts<\/a> are in place and thats cleaning and engineering and maintenance and sanitation and waste. Two that are in the pipeline that are critical to daily site operations are the computerized Maintenance Management<\/a> system, support vendor. This contract is expected to be completed in midjanuary. And another key contract is the vendor that will support management of the technological backbone of the center. And that will also include a 24 will be 7 help desk for Service Problems<\/a> and in terms of supporting the retail tenant improvement activity, the needed contracts are in place and these are the architect and the general contractor and then an attorney for Legal Support<\/a> on the lease negotiations. So lincoln continues to work through its list of needed services for r. F. P. S to be issued by the end of this calendar year and the strategy is to get all of the r. F. P. S out and then spend january reviewing the responses that will then lead to selection, negotiation and contract completion. For the contracts to all be in place by the end of march. And this approach will enable review with Small Business<\/a> outreach in mind. So some specifics to add to what is noted on the slide, discussions are underwa underwat a ministreet food market for some revenuebased activity. They are working with nois pop to have a concert series. Midjanuary is targeted is the targeted timeframe to have a draft Event Planning<\/a> guide and an event proposal outline, and film photo shoot application in place. B. R. V. Is also developing a cohesive Fitness Program<\/a> to package as an attractive sponsorship opportunity. Pearl is going to be here in february to present to the tjpa board their entire program. At this point theres three areas to highlight and the transit screen work with the operators is nearly complete and testing is scheduled to begin in january. And reconciliation with web core is in progress. The Media Players<\/a> are the equipment that run the screens. I mentioned it here because theyre a critical piece of equipment for everything to be working. There are some 200 transit screens throughout the center. And pearl is actively out in the market reaching out to major brands for presence in the Transit Center<\/a>. Can i okay. Sorry, i thought that i missed a slide. With colliers, already discussed is the activity in the pipeline and most of my update will be given on the next slide. On this slide the highlight is that the leasing signs will go up this week and the rendering that you see at the top right of the slide is what its going to look like. There are various locations that will be on the construction census and theyll move around as the census as as the fences come down. And the signs are metal and theyre 4 feet high by 8 feet wide and they again look like the image noted on the slide. With p. R. I. , they owe the final plan to include the bus plaza and specifically with the bus plaza, there is a coffee vendor that is interested. However, he wants to see what it will look like once its open. And to stand and observe the traffic. And then we also need to make sure that theres a power source. If all of that falls into place putting up the Coffee Service<\/a> will happen pretty quickly. And this is the slide on the schedule. So this last month colliers revisited the occupancy timeline and provided the tjpa with the update that you see today. The previous plan had the dots arranged as starting in q4 of 2018. These dots start in 22 of 2019. If you recall last month i outlined the various phases of how colliers has moved through its work. First phase was to develop, the second phase was to prepare, and the third phase i called blast to the market and the fourth phase is tenants. So we are currently in phase three, blast to the market. In general preparing for blast to the market took longer than anticipated, thus, contributing to the timeline shift. Some examples are the architectural contract. It was heavily negotiated where maybe the anticipated timeframe to negotiate was two months and it actually took about four. And another example is the lease template, making sure that all of the public requirements were incorporated into it, the original thinking is that it would take about a month and it took two. And the website had to be redone at the point, the naming rights agreement went into effect and that added to the timing. The website is particularly important because it contains all of the needed information that a prospective tenant needs in order to make an natural decision, including the line drawings of each space and these are prepared by the architect. And it is important to note that colliers was aware of pentup interest in the Transit Center<\/a> based on the informational tours that happened throughout the summer. So being prepared to address the expected rush of inquiries was necessary in order to be able to efficiently new through a deal to completion to create a good First Impression<\/a> and to create confidence. As such the revised timeline is a reflection of where we are today, taking into consideration the timing of the formal reach out to the market and the steps that it takes to work through a deal, some of which was outlined earlier. According to colliers, leaseup time can be anywhere from nine to 18 months, depending on the complexity of the deal. And build out of the space. And so backing out from backing up one year from 22 of 2019 takes us to q2 of 2018. And so that anticipates much leasing activity over the next few months. This slide is the transit Facility Readiness<\/a>. The focus of my update today are all of the moving parts associated with the various agreements to occupy the Transit Center<\/a>. At this point the kog in the wheel is the agreement for the bus deck between a. C. Transit and the operators. In conversation this week her target for the bus deck between a. C. Transit and the Bus Operators<\/a> is the january 24th, a. C. Transit Board Meeting<\/a>. This week lois and i worked on looking at the consistency of the terms and conditions across the various agreements. This in turn impacts the sfmta agreement with the tjpa for occupancy of the bus plaza and this agreement will be completed this month and we just have a couple points to iron out. However, sfmta has expressed they will not take this agreement to their board until the agreement with a. C. Transit is also completed. So agreements are approval at the february sfmta Board Meeting<\/a>. As such the bus plaza agreement would not be presented for board approval until march. I hope thats not too confusing. Its confusing to me. You got this look on your face. Why is it that sfmta and the bus plaza has anything to do with the bus deck, because its which buses go up or down . So the information thats been conveyed to me is they want to tie it up into one package. Oh, okay, well, theres no reason for that, but thats what they want to do. Thats what im working with. Oh, okay. Yeah, because theres no no other connection than that political connection. Is that agreement coming to this board in march impact anything in terms of startup timeline . No, it doesnt, because as you have heard from the earlier conversations, operationally at least on the facilitys readiness side, well be ready to go. At that point its really related to the presentations that you heard earlier on the construction. But i guess that the risk is not m. T. A. Or a. C. Transit and the risk is that we have other operators, amtrak and greyhound and they need to enter into agreements with a. C. Transit to operate on the bus deck. Greyhound also has an agreement, separately with amtrak and greyhound to use the office space on the second level. Right. And greyhound entered into an agreement with us pending their agreement with a. C. Transit so were working on them with improvements and so forth and amtrak asked that they refused to enter into an agreement with us until theyre finished their agreement with a. C. Transit. So thats so, yeah, thats my last point was that now that the agreement between a. M. Track and the tjpa for the occupancy of the second floor is stalled all together. They are reticent to move forward until they have a full understanding of the Financial Impact<\/a> of the agreement between a. C. Transit and amtrak coupled with the Financial Impact<\/a> of the second floor lease. We have been having backandforth conversations with amtrak since august and last friday i talked with the senior director of real estate and he made clear that theres not going to be any movement until they understood the financial piece, the full picture, again, because they want to present the full picture to their board. However, i dont know at this point when when amtraks board when amtraks board meets. As i noted earlier we have moved ahead with the planning for the construction because we cant we cant impact the greyhound occupancy of the second floor. What i dont know and ill check this out with our attorneys and i dont want our attorneys to be holding this thing up. I dont know why it is that draft that wed have to come out of a. C. Transit on a Board Meeting<\/a> with the full board approved draft because these things are going to be changed as they go. So im going to find out if we cant come out earlier and say, well, this hasnt been approved by our board because thats probably our next Board Meeting<\/a> is about then. So, i mean, i dont want that problem to just be in there and lets get some drafts going around and get some, you know, early input from everybody. Well, there was the initial excuse me so there was an initial draft distributed a couple weeks ago and so thats where it is now. Okay. Its in the draft process so all of these other agencies do have this draft they do have the initial draft. Lois and i talked about, again, making some modifications for consistency because theres so many agreements, just to make sure that that some of the language is the same so that theres not theres not a misunderstanding or a lack of clarity. Okay, good, because you know how many changes a board makes to a draft zero. So lets get working on it. I think that the focus is really on amtrak because the rest of them are all in the family and work things out. But amtrak is the one that we need to figure out so that they can yes, we need to figure out what to do with amtrak. Theyre further behind than everyone else. Yes, thats often the case. Okay. As our new member can tell you. Good morning, again. So Facility Readiness<\/a> and security, were completing the negotiations with the contractor that was selected through the Security Guard<\/a> r. F. P. Process. Well have select especially trained Security Guard<\/a>s that will fill the ambassador positions and the m. O. U. With law enforcement, we are anticipating completing the m. O. U. Within the next couple days and well bring there to the board in january along with the Security Guard<\/a> contract. The negotiations have been more complex than we expected and as we said the schedule has slipped a month on that. And the Transit Center<\/a> code of conduct is under development and we anticipate to bring that before the board early next year. Okay. Any board member questions . Thank you. Thank you. So i have questions back on the retail. So we were supposed to be up and running this month, right . We now have a partial start this month as director gee said and the schedule is showing the sfmta full service in april may timeline as we have talked about. A. C. Transit, june 1st. And now what im understanding from this chart is that it would be a full year later before wed have any retail besides popup, in the Transit Center<\/a> . So for a year after the sixmonth delayed startup theres just going to be construction site and the retail zones of the Transit Center<\/a> . And thats six months worse than we thought a month ago . Well, i dont know if i would yes, its between three between three and six months. I heard some of the explanation just hard to understand i mean, its bad enough on the Construction Side<\/a> that we lost a month in the last month and we have lost six months with regard to retail. I think that you heard the explanation but i think that really the original proposal, schedule, that were presented to you was probably not realistic given with what we know right now. And we thought that wed have full retail in the Fourth Quarter<\/a> the Fourth Quarter<\/a> of 2018. And given the process of getting tenants finding out from tenants what improvements they need to do construction and given that process its not realistic, probably, to i dont know you know, based on all of the discussions that we had, i dont know what schedules we can have any confidence in at the the moment. What i would say as a mitigation with regard to what the facility looks and feels like on the inside, i think that well have to expend more effort on making it not feel like youre walking through a Construction Zone<\/a> and its going to need more temporary treatments and signage and other things to mask all of the unfinished portions of this building starting as we talked about from the bus plaza in two weeks to other parts of the building starting this spring and summer. If the retail is not going to be there, its not going to be there, but we dont want peoples experience for a year to be negative as they go through this 2 billion facility. It also will require i think perhaps more and extended popup or other activation so it doesnt feel that people are walking through a hollow construction site masked by signage. That would have been the case regardless because the retail construction will be going on and so, yes, that is the longer the duration and the greater the need to make that feel like a welcoming environment. And, again, the d. R. V. Will have the part activated with programs and activities and, yes, the popups will be in place. Mr. Chair. If i may all things being equal, to a comment that was made earlier about the accelerated interest in the space and the numbers of potential entities that want to lease that space in recent weeks, theres nothing that procludes us from pussing them in place and making them operational. So when you say three to six months, we have folks who want to put their system in place and get operational, theres nothing from the building side that will limit our ability to allow them to come in . Thats correct. The pace of the deal is often driven by the tenant, the prospective tenant themselves. The time it takes for them to make a decision, and financial considerations, and the negotiation, that can take some time. And, again, it depends on the the sophisticated i will say tablecloth restaurant tour will take longer, for example, for the rooftop restaurant than, say, a smaller a smaller retail on the ground floor. Yeah so thats what is going to dictate i want to make sure that we dont have a number of willing participants with nowhere to go. Just to add to this, the assumptions that we have here is that the tenants, once they want to start tenant improvements they will have full access to their space to do their work and assuming that water and electricity is there for them to do it. If that changes, then this schedule may be impacted. With the assumption right now is that once we get them on board and they want to start tenant improvements they can do it and they would provide the space and give them what they need to do the tenant improvements within their spaces. Okay, thank you. Answer your question . Yes. Just to followup, i think that director reiskin said it and i want to be sure as we look at these schedules and do the technical stuff that we dont forget the Customer Experience<\/a> for the transit riders as well as the neighborhood experience. I think that the neighborhood has been expecting things for a very long time and to hear that the schedule has slipped some more months is not probably going to go very well. And so we encourage to you work with the c. A. C. , to make sure that the expectations of the neighborhoods are managed and when the construction signs and everything comes down i think that there will be a big celebration but theyll keep waiting longer and longer and theres going to be some anxiety that needs to be managed. Yep. Im so glad to hear this and this has been a huge transit concern for a long time that when this opens the facility has got to be welcoming and people have to be comfortable in it because we really want to increase the ridership in a hurry to it. Absolutely. Really important. Okay, thank you. Clerk a transfer from program in the reserve of 25 million to a new line item for base building improvement and tenant improvement allowances in the Phase One Program<\/a> budget. I talked about this, if you have any questions, director sara debord can answer. I move approval. Second. Clerk with no items to comment on the item, director harper, director kim, director reiskin, and director sartipi. And director tripousis. And thats six ayes and item 12 is approved. Item 13 is authorizing the executive director to write a venture agreement with the San Francisco<\/a> Municipal Transit Agency<\/a> to have certain bus operations in a portion of the bus plaza on an interim basis. I would like to recuse myself from this one. I dont know if that needs a motion. I can answer any questions on this. I think that this is important to get the buses rolling through here so on that one id like to make a motion to approve. Clerk first and second and no members of the public to comment on the item and director reiskin is recusing himself, [reading of names] thats five ayes and item 13 is approved. And call your next 14. Approving amendment number 4 to the intergovernmental agreement, number 2 related to the construction of the Mission Street<\/a> bus supporting island and the extension and an aggregate not to exceed cost of 1,081,000 and not to extend to the amount for all services under agreement 2 and to extend to december 10, 2019, and the members of public to comment on the item. And director reiskin recusing himself. Moving approval. Second. Clerk [reading names of directors] thats five ayes and item 14 is approved. That concludes your business for today. It concludes our meeting, so, thank you, everyone. 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More and more as follows are are becoming interested in upper arlthd they want to joy the open green pace sea know where their food it coming from well look at 3 programs talking ushering agricultural and garden to new heights. So what exactly it, your honor agricultural it the growing food or flowers within city limits traditionally weve been referring to communities gardener that is a raised bed over and over upper argument has a more a farming way of farming. So tell me 0 whats growing in this garden. A really at all plant. In the one of the rare places, you know, people have access to green space 24 is one of the places to grow things like the purple floor. It is sort of recognizing that the more diversity in given space the better not to just have one thing by everything supported each another it provides the community with an opportunity to get their hands dirty and reach 0 out and congressmen with the community in ways they might have not otherwise to engage with one other. Now the dpw urban Planning Program<\/a> so see how the garden community. So i grew up on a farm in air force base we picked the foods open the trees and share with other families and as i drive around San Francisco<\/a> i see any trees with apples or mrumdz and lemon trees i can see the food going to waste and brought that idea back to the Department Many<\/a> of the trees where the fruit would go to waste we origin or crop and pick other fruits and delivery this to food banks or shelters to people who need them. Im here with nang wong hello nang. Hello. I need to understand house this gleaning work. We come and harvest like for example, well come over here this is the lemon and plug it like this. laughter . Made that good, good and ease. The trick is how not to hurt the branches. Like the thing. Im so excited about this. The people are so passionate about where the food goes to the private Property Owners<\/a> give us the food theyre happy that no of a t is going to waste oh. Thank you. Thank you. Again job aura natural laughter . From backyards to back lots lets take a look at the food and Community Bonding<\/a> at the free farm. My idea was to start growing food and giving it away. And getting my neighbors to who had space and having a kind of event that brings people together not to run our food program this time around but to share the wealth of the abundance of our welfare. We were all divorce and as part of our philosophy of working together and working together. Whats the most rewarding aspect of volunteering for the free farm stand. Well, we could is a generalic satisfaction but something about giving food away its giving something i brought that in and sort it and gave it to you its primitive to be able to give something some basically to someone else. Now serving number to 49 come on down. We have the capability of producing this food and in San Francisco<\/a> you can grow food all year round so the idea were capable of prougdz food in our own backyards were here to demonstrate an bans of food and i think that giving it away for free we show individuals it in have to be a comedy. We build time together and its the strength of any ideas of the connections well turn that connection and the more connections you make no mistake about it the more you can have a stronger power and not have to rely on money thats the people power. In this episode weve seen the urban farms and gardens provide more in fruits and vegetation people can have the special produce available it can be a place to give back by donating food to others and teach our children the connection to the earth and environment its truly good morning, everyone and thank you for coming my name is rosy form treasurer of the United States<\/a> and the form of empowerment 2020. Yeah. Empowerment 2020 is an initiative to durnl encourage a million women we 2020 to go in leaders positions it is request quality day and the one hundred year of the 19 amendment that give woman the right to vote joining me on stage a margo the ceo of ma tell. clapping. 74 percent have been girls in middle school express interest in office only girls are expressing an interest in Computer Science<\/a> 50 percent less graduating are for girls than thirty years ago ive spent 8 years of the treasurer of the United States<\/a> to have a portrait on the photo in our Public Engagement<\/a> process there were one hundred of women overlooked in the history of our country many tops will be discussed and empowerment 2020 conference everything there empowering young women and girls to be the future leader to encourage women to get into Stem Education<\/a> and getting into nasa and google and making sure that they are part of tech economy. The second part of empowerment 2020 is women money and power to put women in so and so positions for the corporate fleet and elected office the third part of empowerment 2020 are the conferences their action oriented women have flatlined at 20 percent on that percentage one and 20 percent women a in congress that is stagnated if we get up to thirty percent fabulous 80 percent would be amazing that conversation is equality will be something were used to as pair the culture id like to that that will be done in 2020 but if welcome to the e did you know that many buildings in San Francisco<\/a> are not bolted to the foundation on todays episode well learn how the option to bolt our foundation in an earthquake. Hi, everybody welcome to another episode of stay safe im the director of earthquake safety in the city and county of San Francisco<\/a> im joined by a friend matt. Thank you thanks for being with us were in a garage but at the el cap center south of market in San Francisco<\/a> what weve done a simulated the garage to show you what it is like to make the improvements and reduce the reflexes of earthquake were looking at Foundation Bolts<\/a> what do they do. The Foundation Bolts<\/a> are one of the strengthening system they hold the lowest piece of wood onto the foundation that prevents the allows from sliding during an earthquake that is a bolt over the original construction and these are typically put in along the foundation to secure the house to the Foundation One<\/a> of the things well show you many types of bolts lets go outside and show the vufrdz were outside the epic center in downtown San Francisco<\/a> well show 3 different types of bolts we have a e poxy anchor. It is a type of anchor that is adhesive and this is a rod well embed both the awe hey that embeds it into the foundation that will flip over a big square washer so it secured the mud sell to the foundation well need to big drill luckily we have peter from the company that will help us drill the first hole. So, now we have the hole drilled ill stick the bolt in and e postoffice box it. That wouldnt be a bad idea but the dust will prevent the e postoffice box from bonding we need to clean the hole out first. So, now we have properly cleaned hole whats the next step. The next step to use e postoffice box 2 consultants that mixes this together and get them into tubes and put a notice he will into the hole and put the e postoffice box slowly and have a hole with e postoffice box. Now it is important to worm or remember when you bolt our own foundation you have to go to 9 department of building inspection and get a permit before you start what should we look at next what i did next bolt. A couple of anchors that expand and we can try to next that will take a hole that hole is drilled slightly larger marathon the anchor size for the e postoffice box to flow around the anchor and at expansion is going into the hole the same dinning room well switch tamet so, now we have the second hole drilled what next. This is the anchor and this one has hard and Steel Threads<\/a> that cuts their way into the concrete it is a ti ton anchor with the same large square so similar this didnt require e postoffice box. Thats correct you dont needed for the e postoffice box to adhere overnight it will stick more easily. And so, now it is good to go is that it. Thats it. The third anchor is a universal Foundation Plate<\/a> when you dont have room above our foundation to drill from the top. So, now we have our Foundation Plate<\/a> and the tightened screw a couple of ways to take care of a foundation whats the best. The best one depends on what your house is like and our contractors experience theyre sometimes considered the cadillac anchor and triplely instead of not witting for the e postoffice box this is essentially to use when you dont have the overhead for the foundation it really depends on the contractor and engineering what they prefer. Talking to a qualified professional and see what good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to the San Francisco<\/a> board of supervisors meeting tuesday, december 12, 2017. Madam clerk, please call the roll. Thank you, madam president. 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