Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20180113

SFGTV Government Access Programming January 13, 2018

The second street, exterior sun will also be in, grading, everything so that buses can be parked. And then, the Administration Building will be completed as well. Youll hear over the next few months, ill be presenting the construction updates over the next few months. So with that, ill turn it over to skip for phase two, the 2018. So for 2018, the plan for phase two is tjpa has been requested by sfcta to put the fcis on hold until the peer review on the street track has been completed in march. We will then submit the environmental document to the board fof your approval. The seiscs is with the fta right now, and they are doing their final qcqa checks and will be in position to issue the rod prior to the tjpa board approval. We have scheduled meetings with sfta to support their review for the tier three track. And were in place, once the rap study is available, well be in a position to address any of the recommendations that are presented from this study. Were going to secure funding to update the remaining Design Elements that were not done in the previous year, and then, well complete 30 design and cost estimate for the entire phase two project. We plan on entering the new starts federal grant program. Its a 1 billion ask for our grant, and its also identified in the 2040 plan bay area plan right now, and its all for the dtx project. The tjpa board approval, the environmental document, along with a record of the decision from fta is essential to entering the program to maintain the timeline required to secure the funding, so you know, to progress, we need to keep things moving. We will position the project for any additional infrastructure funding that may come available this year from any anywhere. Well be ready, okay . Thank you. Okay. The focus in 2018 is of course inform open. This can be thought of in three main areas. What i call lights on, doors open, marketing and promotion, and construction. Other than security, the other two Major Services that are labor intensive is the engineering and maintenance staff and the custodial staff. As we move closing to opening, lincoln will contract for e and m labor, mostly dictated by the hours needed to appropriately maintain the equipment. This cannot be accurately obtained until information is provided by webcore, however a staffing model has been built into the preliminary budget. With regarded to the custodial staff, the concept is to start lean based on projected visitor volume and safety considerations and then build from there. A staffing model, again, has been built into the preliminary budget. Additionally, the Major Service contracts that are already in place and mentioned earlier will be supplemented by other smaller needed contracts such as pest control. The computerized Maintenance Management system and it operations contract are singled out on this slide as a goal for 2018 because these are integral to keeping the center up and running. The it operations contract also includes a 247 help desk or will include a 247 help desk. With regard to establishing a robust Promotions Program to include a website, four proposals are in hand with focused work to occur over the next few months to select contract for and launch the program. Finally, lincoln is charged with planning, bidding and commencing the landlord what i call prework to be ready for the tenant improvements. This work would be starting to look at the electrical distribution and the mechanical and plumbing distribution branchs and taking a look at starting to build the demising walls which would be the main outlines. We will continue to seek sponsors for Revenue Generation. Recall that the concept is to provide activities that are free to the public with sponsorship to support covering operating expenses. An example from brb from other locations is seeking sponsorship for holiday decoration doe decorations. These conversations are well underway. Finally pearl is an important partner in structures these opportunities in that they will seek to pull brb into their advertising packages. Pearls goaled are threefold for the content management system. As mentioned earlier, the design work is done, so the focus turns to testing and implementation, so to be ready with the transit information, to be ready with the way finding information, and then, to work on Revenue Generation through advertising on the screens, experiencential activities in the grand hall. Pearl will be here in february to speak before the board for a comprehensive view of their work. The retail has two components, temporary and permanent. With the temporary, its straightforward. The goal is to be ready with pop ups for when the buses start to run. All the legwork is targeted to be completed by the end of march as noted earlier. A primary activity over the next few weeks is verification of the electrical outlets on the bus deck and the ground floor level. When this is completed, the preliminary plan can be finalized for pri to ge out and get commitments from the vendors. Colliers is going to follow in a little while, and they will include an overview of targeted activities that gets us to the Second Quarter of 2019 is the First Quarter that were looking at opening our first stores. So this is a visual of the pop up locations at the ground level with the pop up types noted in the key. And again, this is what were working towards and well be verifying the electrical over the next were going to actually do that one of the meetings is next week. Last, as mentioned earlier in 2018, full bus service. Im just going to focus on one as secretary, which is continued transition planning and ron mentioned this earlier. Over the holidays, a group of us met with the ac transit executive, salvador llamas and Steven Keller for active engagement on getting ready for what is needed at the bus deck. This includes the work that webcore needs to complete to enable the Driver Training for the buses to begin Revenue Service. So this led to our restructuring the monday mornings transition meetings so that the first part of the meeting is for information and action that pertains to all the operators, and the second half of the meeting is just for ac transit. We started with a check list that will be expanded on over the next few weeks for a comprehensive task list from ac transit. This is for us to understand the intersection of what is needed by when as related to the webcore work, and that new format started this work. Finally, this monday, conversation and this will happen on a weekly basis conversation was started on vacancy of the temporary terminal. The request of the operators is to start to build their task list and then we can apply timelines. Well, were off to a fast start in 2018. The third item, staff will host integrated security, emergency exercises to train the security team. Tjpa staff, transit operators, Transit Center employees and First Responders to respond to emergencies at the Transit Center. Theyll execute a professional Services Agreement for information security, Cyber Security services. Staff will request the board approve the sales force Transit Center code of conduct. Its to support the centers goals and other purposes of the facility, preserving the publics investment, and promoting a safe Transit Center for all users. It supplements the park rules and regulations. Finally following the board approval in october, an ordinance has been drafted amending the park code to amend tjpas park to the San Francisco park code. It should go before the board of supervisors later this month, and ill turn it over to mark to introduce or next presenter. Our next presenter is going to be Christine Salvi deputy. Shes with the department of public works. Shes helped us with outreach, and weve given her a very small task which is planning for our grand opening. Christine . Thanks, mark. Good morning, directors. As mark stated, we are planning for the grand opening excuse me of the Transit Center. I thought i would start by going over who our goals are. Our goal is to have a regional selection for the Greater Community in the bay area, and i want to assure you that is going to be done in a very comprehensive way, culturally competent. Were going to be reaching out to all of our neighborhoods in the region really. Its a small staff, we have a lot of partners who really want to see us succeed and have a great grand opening. Our outreach is going to focus on the continued use of the facility, and our goal is to build excitement and awareness about the center in the months leading up to grand opening. So in order to accomplish this, you approved a limited Public Outreach budget to offset the cost of these events and to implement a Community Media outreach plan. First were going to transition riders from the temporary permanent until in a multilink wal way through maps, signage and an ambassador program. Next, were going to undertake a traditional media and social media plan thats going to highlight everything from transit leadership, transit oriented development, and really highlight the project and its going to have a continued benefit for continued generations of san franciscans and everyone in the bay area. Were going to work with our partners to plan and host a series of events. Were going to be having public, school and media tours, and open house, and something were going to call a neighborhood block party. We really want inclusiveness, to make sure everyone knows this is for them. Were also going to have the grapt opening and ribb grand opening and Ribbon Cutting. Finally, weve established a working Communications Group with the ac transit, sfmta and our other partners. Weve met and toured the facility together, and weve started sharing information and planning for the event, and im happy to come back in the months and update you. This concludes our presentation. In 2017 you can see we accomplished quite a bit, but we still have a lot of work in 2018. Weve got completion of the Transit Center, bus operations, advancing phase fwo, atwo, andg sure that the leasing revenues are competent, and making sure that the operators dont have to subsidize the Transit Center. With that, do you have any questions . Yeah. For christine on the last slide, do we have a best guess date for the grand opening . I do not. I have a good range that im working with, and our planning partners and myself are working together. All that im doing can apply to when the center opens. So i presume itll be in the late summer, summer or fall . Well, we have two people that hold the answer to that webcore and ac transit. Webcore needs to finish the building. I know ac transit will be part of the grand opening. Im just trying to get a little bit yeah, absolutely. So our goal is to open everything for the community. Partners, and Revenue Service well have Revenue Service in place it sounds like to me already. Probably. The goal is in may to start with public tours and school tours and really promote that its ready. And Revenue Service and the popup retail i imagine is going to open at the same time, simultaneously, so events are going to be planned in that way. Yeah. Our other plan and weve discussed that with ac transit is to have a june operations, but really, from rons report, that was based on an april substantial completion, and so now, theres a little bit of slippage, so if we dont bring that back, the may could be in jeopardy the june operations could be in jeopardy, so thats something in the next two months were going to be pushing really hard to make sure we achieve that. But the intent is to be largely convinincidence with t start of service. It would be when the centers really open. I think thats roughly when the launch would be. Its Ribbon Cutting. So thats when the buses would come in and celebrate. Yeah. If its literally the launch of service, thats a whole thing that we have to get involved in, because that started at 5 30 in the morning. Im just saying, thats what you have we may have a little bit of preappreciations before that. Okay. And then, on slide 54, i guess this is skip yeah, slide 54, do you have any idea how many records and decisions been issued by the fta in the last six months . I have none. I dont. I hear its zero. So my question is if we dont get a record of decision if this continues as a means of just playing around with fta money for future i can tell you for this project, weve come to so close to getting that record of decisions starting way back to last summer that our teams are so closely connected on this project that we have every indication that as soon as were ready, theyre ready. And donald trump is still president. I dont yeah. Wiokay. Okay. All right. I just wanted to know what we had on that. Okay. And director, just on the last point, ive not hear that the federal Governments Holding up records of decisions. I think a discretionary Grant Agreement is another question, but were not there yet for this project. I just had a few quick things. Sorry that i had step out, but i had to read this, and it was a great report. As you said, a lot got done and theres a lot to do. Just three small things. The additional cellular revenues relating back to our earlier discussion, to what extent have you already contemplated those in the up coming budget . I apologize, i dont have the numbers in front of me, but off the top of my head, i believe the assumption was that they would have signed one or two carriers, not not all four, and then, the minimum annual guarantee is 125,000 a year, so that is included in the okay. It looked like i thought i understood from the slides, there would be additional beyond what they already have, and does that turn help address or gap so we dont have to rely on the operators to do so. I believe just based on timing assumptions that what i included was first and second carrier signings to be included. And there may be some upside there that we havent captured yet. Potentially. Okay. Thank you. The second question with regard to the code of conduct. What do we anticipate the process would be by which that would be established before it i assume it comes to the board, but how are you going to go about developing that. Oh, were in the process right now of developing it. Weve gotten Community Input from various different organizations since ive been here, and right now, im working with sfpd to get their input on that and then debra and i have been working closely on that to get it to something that will be unique to us, but weve been benchmarking it off of similar programs in the u. S. That have similar operations. Given that its in a public building that will be in a neighborhood in our city, we probably want a fair amount of Public Engagement in the Development Stage of that. I think that will help that board as it comes here, to know that its been vetted through Community Groups and the area, of course our cac and others. Yes. Thank you. The last point is not so much a question but more a comment. In terms of the goals of the opening, i think the targets, the existing riders, making sure they just understand the transition, thats really important. And then kind of the larger benefits to the public of the center, i think thats obviously important as well. The real you know, the real immediate winners are folks that are coming from the east way to San Francisco or vice versa, because the buses no longer have to toddle on the city streets. If it wasnt a good option for you before, it might be a better one now. I would hope and expect that ac transit ridership would benefit from this. Folks need to understand that benefit of direct freeway connections. Yeah, and i agree and well be working with ac Transit Marketing department, and weve met with them already to highlight that. Okay. I would join the other directors in just thanking staff for all the accomplishments and the great work that has happened last year. Ill keep mysxd fingers crosse that well meet our goals this year. I feel we do have a deadline, and that collaboration will allow us to get this. Webcore, in the room, we definitely are looking forward to opening the station as planned, and so other than that, i feel everybodys working hard and we should just use every little minute we have to reach opening of the station. Thank you. Okay. The last part of my presentation will be Erica Elliott from Colliers International with a very brief update on our leasing agreement. It should be a very short presentation. Good morning, directors. Yes to directors, at this point, i was prepared to stand here and say well, it was december and thats when everybody was not calling us to say were busy recouping our profits for the end of the year, but i have to say, that wasnt the case. They called us. We have not only did we have twice as many tours as we did the month before, but we also had 20 additional inquiries of people that were interested in the center, and we didnt think we were going to get any offers until our scheduled, you know, Second Quarter, but we have five offers already. And so what i want to just quickly go through here is this is our leasing report that youve seen for the last couple of months now, showing the different types of uses and where they are in the stage. So people weve reached out to, people that have contacted us, people

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