Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

SFGTV Government Access Programming July 14, 2024

Your permit application is conditionally granted. Please follow up with our Deputy Director for next steps. Congratulations. Okay. Great. The final item on the agenda is item number eight, commissioners comments and questions. Okay. Nothing. You must have something. I do have something. I knew you would. Go ahead. Make your so starting this sunday for eight weeks, waverley alley, theyre going to be doing sunday play streets, and were going to be doing things for the kids, and also, theres line dancing for the tourists to see. And on the other alley, therell be activation of different nonprofits. In fact, on the 18, theyre going to be doing a big safety the sfpd will be there for the recruitment team. Fire department will be doing first aid and c. P. R. Its kind of a healthy safe chinatown promotion, but theres a lot of Different Things happening, so come down. Its the launch party. And how many weeks . Eight weeks starting the 11, so itll be finished on the 29 of september will be the last one. Beiokay. Id like to open this up to Public Comment. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Id like to close this meeting i. Shop and dine the 49 promotes loophole businesses and changes residents to do thirds shopping and diane within the 49 square miles of San Francisco by supporting local services we help San Francisco remain unique and successful where will you shop and dine shop and dine the 49. My name is neil the general manager for the book shop here on west portal avenue if San Francisco this is a neighborhood bookstore and it is a wonderful neighborhood but it is an interesting community because the residents the neighborhood muni loves the neighborhood it is community and we as a book sincerely we see the same people here the shop all the time and you know to a certain degree this is part of their this is created the neighborhood a place where people come and subcontract it is in recent years we see a drop off of a lot of bookstores both National Chains and neighborhoods by the Neighborhood Stores where coming you dont want to one of the great things of San Francisco it is neighborhood neighborhood have dentist corrosive are coffeehouses but 2, 3, 4 coffeehouses in month neighborhoods that are on their own thats [ ] i really believe that art should be available to people for free, and it should be part of our world, you shouldnt just be something in museums, and i love that the people can just go there and it is there for everyone. [ ] i would say i am a multidimensional artist. I came out of painting, but have also really enjoyed tactile properties of artwork and tile work. I always have an interest in public art. I really believe that art should be available to people for free, and it should be part of our world. You shouldnt just be something in museums. I love that people can just go there, and it is there for everyone. Public art is art with a job to do. It is a place where the architecture meets the public. Where the artist takes the meaning of the site, and gives a voice to its. We commission culture, murals, mosaics, black pieces, cut to mental, different types of material. It is not just downtown, or the big sculptures you see, we are in the neighborhood. Those are some of the most beloved kinds of projects that really give our libraries and Recreation Centers a sense of uniqueness, and being specific to that neighborhood. Colette test on a number of those projects for its. One of my favorites is the oceanview library, as well as several parks, and the steps. Mosaics are created with tile that is either broken or cut in some way, and rearranged to make a pattern. You need to use a tool, nippers, as they are called, to actually shape the tiles of it so you can get them to fit incorrectly. I glued them to mash, and then they are taken, now usually installed by someone who is not to me, and they put cement on the wall, and they pick up the mash with the tiles attached to it, and they stick it to the wall, and then they groped it afterwards. [ ] we had never really seen artwork done on a stairway of the kinds that we were thinking of because our idea was very just barely pictorial, and to have a picture broken up like that, we were not sure if it would visually work. So we just took paper that size and drew what our idea was, and cut it into strips, and took it down there and taped it to the steps, and stepped back and looked around, and walked up and down and figured out how it would really work visually. [ ] my theme was chinese heights because i find them very beautiful. And also because mosaic is such a heavy, dens, static medium, and i always like to try and incorporate movement into its, and i work with the theme of water a lot, with wind, with clouds, just because i like movements and lightness, so i liked the contrast of making kites out of very heavy, hard material. So one side is a dragon kite, and then there are several different kites in the sky with the clouds, and a little girl below flying it. [ ] there are pieces that are particularly meaningful to me. During the time that we were working on it, my son was a disaffected, unhappy high school student. There was a day where i was on the way to take them to school, and he was looking glum, as usual, and so halfway to school, i turned around and said, how about if i tell the school you are sick and you come make tiles with us, so there is a tile that he made to. It is a little bird. The relationship with a work of art is something that develops over time, and if you have memories connected with a place from when you are a child, and you come back and you see it again with the eyes of an adult, it is a different thing, and is just part of what makes the city an exciting place. [ ] clerk with that [roll call] clerk mr. Chairman, you do have a quorum. Go ahead and call your next item . Yes, please. Clerk item three is communications. And i did want to note that due to some time constraints, were going to go ahead and call item 14, i believe its the resignation of director reiskin, and then follow with the remaining items. Other than that, i note no other communications. Chair nuru okay. I wanted to note that i have to leave at 10 30. Clerk with that, well go ahead and move into your next item. Chair nuru yes please. Clerk seeing none, item five, executive directors report. Good morning, directors. Im pleased to provide you this morning with our experience today of reopening the Salesforce Transit Center to the public and our move to provide services to both legal and commercial operators. We opened it on july 1, in advance of the reopen, we relaunched or website, salesforcecenter. Com, and utilized traditional and social media to educate the public about the reopening of the center and the services. The park, grand hall and other areas of the Transit Center and other popup retail returned on july 1. The reopening also included a full schedule of free events and activities in the park and im happy to report that we have seen steady and growing use and interest in the park. On july 13, bus Service Began at the bus service with muni and golden gate service, and this sunday, august 11, a. C. Transit and other bus services will resume on the bus deck. We continue to work closely with our transit partners, neighbors, and security Operation Staff to provide a smooth transition back to full operations, and our final milestone will be reached this weekend when we reopen the bus deck for regional service. Our goal it to provide ride is to provide riders with a worldclass service to their destinations. I look forward to working with our partners to do just that. Im happy to report that interest has been robust since the opening and today for your consideration, we have three additional leases representing approximately 4700 square feet and five additional spaces leased. Approval of these leases will increase the Square Footage lease at the Transit Center to 64 . We will discuss the leases in detail as part of the facility operations and leasing updates. Moving on to phase two on the downtown extension, as you know, the federal Transportation Administration or f. T. A. Approved moving forward on phase two next month. I would like to thank f. T. A. For their cooperation in getting this process approved. Its a significant milestone for the advancements of phase two in the downtown extension. Having the approved environmental document and having taken steps to replace the design would place the downtown extension in a position to capture other opportunities under senate bill 1. According to m. T. C. , the program has a funding level of approximately 1. 2 billion statewide over the next two years, a portion of which is already committed. As you know, we applied for funding in january 2018, but we were unsuccessful partly because we did not have an approved environmental document and were not making significant progress on the downtown extension. The next transit application for the program is october 2, and weve already completed our application for submittal. We also look forward for the San Francisco Transportation Authority to complete their peer review so we can complete our project priority the next steps. I would like to share with you the next steps to advance the d. T. X. To be ready in the next two to three years, and dennis, if you can put up that slide. Director, this is a slide that ive been sharing with you and our partners in the last couple years as the specific next steps that we need to do to get to shovel ready in the next three years. Having a solid 30 design will provide us with a robust cost estimate and a robust Risk Assessment that we can use to perform our vallue engineering to determine what our costs to the project would be, what costs to be deferred to later on if theres no funding, and so forth. And then, after that, we could decide on delivery methods and update our project budget based on that information. In the meantime, well also be working with our partners on developing a funding plan. Developing a funding plan is a regional and state effort as well as tjpa effort, so well be working with our federal partners, regional partners and local partners. And then, we would also enter the new starts program in order to capture the 1 billion for funding to the bay area, and then after that, we would be shovel ready at that point. This is a twotothreeyear effort, and it requires a lot of work on behalf of our tjpa partners to do that, and im committed to doing that. So thats d. T. X. At this time, id like to ask dennis tershawn to present the project Labor Agreement reports. Good morning, directors. This may be one of our last p. L. A. Reports for a while, but ill go through some of the details of the meeting in june, and why this may be going into a hiatus at this point. We did hold our meeting on june 20, and the carpenters and electricians were in attendance. Went through the construction temporary update with them, retail leasing. Martha valez gave that, and then, we talked to apprenticeships and veterans. Apprenticeships is incredibly robust, especially with the carpenters, i think theyre noting 6400 apprentices in their group in Northern California at this point. Regarding labor for the last quarter, we had no work stoppages or incidents and zero recorded incidents in the Second Quarter of 2019. And then, the statistics which will be pretty close to our number of 5. 7 million hours worker hours, which is a very impressive number with the program. With the anticipated final acceptance from webcor, technically, what happens in phase one construction is the p. L. A. Goes into a hibernation until phase two starts up again unless the committee chooses to continue it on through the tenant improvements, and we are working with the unions through the tenant improvement process, but technically, the p. L. A. Does carry through final acceptance, and then, it goes back in for phase two. But that completes my presentation for the p. L. A. This quarter. Thank you. My last items to you is to introduce to you lilliana coe. Lilliana, you cant be shy. Youve got to standup over there. Tell the directors how youre going to help me deliver the downtown extension. Oh. As he said, im leilani. I go to high school in the city. So im helping them with the downtown extension, how to put that out there cause it hasnt been publicly announced on any social media platforms, and i think its i live actually in the area. I live downtown, so its actually really cool to see the Transit Center, like, as it progressed over the years . Because i remember seeing it when it was just completely, like, nothing, so yeah. Director, this completes my report. Thank you. Chair nuru thank you. Clerk all right. Well go ahead and call your next item. Item six is a construction closeout update. Good morning, directors. Ron and myself will provide this months construction update. Ill go through the basic contract work status, and then ron will complete with the contract closeout, status, contingency and phase one project. Contract work, this is a graphic that weve been carrying quite a while now to track how long its going to take to get that base contract work done. Anything from the west end breezeways to those rub willing Traffic Signals that took a while to get activated, so im going to give you a quick update and closures on each one of those. A quick update on several things here. Shaw alley, it is a beautiful art display, as well, if you have not seen it, it is a highly beautiful area, and then, the breezeway on the righthand side we call it the breezeway. Its really at the far west end of the Transit Center level. Its closed off to go to the second level until all of the activation for the retail is up there on the second floor, until that gets completed, so those two areas are done. Those Traffic Signals, we did get those done. That was quite a that was one of the more arduous things that we had to deal with, but we got there. Theyve been functioning beautifully and everything seems to be going well with the jay walkers have gone away, and a lot of issues seem to have gone away now that we have those midblock crosswalks fully activated. There are still some ceiling panels, minor, at very, very small areas. Weve finally made some progress, youll see in rons graphic, that southwest is the one that has the most panels out there. But at least from a bus deck standpoint, itll look beautiful come this sunday. Its got a few things to work on, but its been cleaned up and sparkling, its going to look that way for sundaymonday activation. And then, the path. I like walking the path and its great hearing the incredible comments and how packed it is at any time of the way. Its great to see the new pathway is working great. And then, there was one element on the bus ramp that we were tracking. Right underneath on natoma, this is where the food trucks are. That skin that covers up where the structural girters are for the bus ramp, that got completed. So all those projects that we were tracking were done, and ron will talk to you about that in the next few slides. Thank you. Good morning, directors. Thanks, dennis, were true low buttoning truly buttoning up and closing things up and winding out of phase one so mark can have full focus on phase two and operations and i can return to my day job. The trade group status is coming right along. In fact, weve got 14 subcontractors out of 47 done and gone. Weve got 20 that are all but done, whether its a signature away or the last throes of discussions, but that would be whats shown in the blue and the green on the graphic, so were winding up very nicely. That leaves us with 13 subcontractors with webcor that are going to be going through the some sort of dispute resolution process, whether it be a d. R. A. , continued discussions and negotiations or lawsuits of last resort. But were trying to muscle through that. Were looking at the first d. R. A. To be in place or initiated in october, and that would be with mcguire and hester. Theres been a bit of a back and forth with terms and conditions on the on the dispute resolution. Moving along to close out in terms of punch list, were in a handful or couple few hundred items, fairly incidental. This graphic kind of shows you who has punch list items still, and as dennis mentioned, southwest has the bulk of them because they have the skin and the buttoning up. And most of the trends between july and august, youll see, are starting to wind down in terms of number of items. Some are levelled out over the month because theyre waiting for predecessor work to happen. Or in the case of schindler and otis, they have a bulk of items that they want to tackle at the end when predecessor work is complete. So no issues to onmention, really, just processing the closeout of the punch list. Moving on to contingency cost, as you would expect, drawdown on contingency is tapering off. Just the last of the activity out there in terms of signage, and i think the bulk of it was around finishing up the Emergency Response items. In terms of bottom line is we have 43. 9 reserves and contingencies to work with. Youll note that the Program Reserve in july actually went up by 3. 9 minimllion, and thata reflection of the first wave of reconciling the beam issue with contract reduction cost. So all in all, thats moving in the right direction, as well. And then, in terms of budget, the current budget remains at overall 2. 259. 4. Just a little bit of a breakdown. The g. N. C. Contingency remains at 2. 7. The breakdown target of 2. 16. 6 is holding with an anticipation of estimated completion of 2. 17 2. 174 billion, and thats a reflection of a slight uptick as we had gone over design and support contract. And then, again, the tenant improvements in the mission, 301 mission legal. Takes us to an estimated completion of 2. 237 billion, and putting us a bit under budget of overall budget of 2. 259. So were looking forward to wrapping up phase one a bit under the budget, and with that, i can take any questions. Chair nuru thank you. Thank you. Clerk okay. Next item . Chair nuru yes please. Clerk item seven is the facility operations up

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