Present. John baptiste is not here but expected. Director lipkin. Why present. Why director syed. Here. Director tumlin. Here. Vice chair mandelman is not here but expected and chair gee. Present. We have quorum. Next item. Communication. We would like to note the process for members of the public to make comment members may comment during Public Comment in person or remote. Call in line is a courtesy and availability may be disrupted due to technical difficulties and in person will be taken first and remote taken after. The call in line is on the agenda and dialing instructions should be scrolling on the screen on sfgovtv. There are other communications . I want to say thank you to director shaw. Come on up. Thank you for your service on tjpa and all you criminalitied to the board and to Sales Force Transit Center and positioning the portal project for success. And wish you well on your next assignment the mtc committee. And we know where to find you. Questions and comments and thoughts and you know where to find you gos if you have add voice for the board and members. I want to thank you for your service. Why thank you. It has been great. Transit is in my heart im thome move on where i am from the upon standpoint when we can accomplish for transit. It has been good working on this. Caltrain was where i started. It has been bring back memories and i leave you in good handses with direct syed. Thank you. Thank you for showing her the way. Welcome. Thank you. Directors item 4 is Board Director new and old business. And directors im not aware of any. Okay. I will proceed. 5 is executive directors report. And we have executive director van de water who will present. I would loishg to note for the record that director baptiste arrived. Good morningful nice to see you. I want to pile on to our chairs acknowledgment and appreciation for service of director shaw. Joined the tjp aboard in official 21. And has been a ray of sun on the board. Bring warmth and incite and lots of great participation at the tjp aboard. I warn you once on the board you are always a part of the family we may extend invitations to events. I want to welcome our new member director syed. Has been experience. Worked for the operators from bart to the valley transportation to oakland and represents the ac board. Welcome. Director syed. So. We see great participation. Got the great summer weather and really fun events in the paushg will hear from the director ary walsh about events that we hosted for the pride weekend. And fun one coming up sunday. Circus bella in the park. P invite the public to visit. Find out on our website and partner website at the east cut benefit district we share programming in the park with. Why this week the Transportation Authority approved request to allocate 300 thousand of prop aa. On First Reading to funds the way finding program at the center. Funding updating the important equipment implement our way finding program. We have some exciting improve ams that are cardinal direction oriented not just operator logo focused if you are not familiar and want to head northeast and south or easier path. I encourage to you test that out it is live in our screens at the facility and rolling that out soon. And we veterans the portal the downtown rail extension. And the federal Transit AdministrationGrant Program of had an exciting agenda at our next meeting well bring series of decisions for your authorization to submit this to the fta. A mile Stone Building toward for 2 years. And made great Technical Work and position us to be eligible for future federal appropriation. Look forward to that at the next meeting. Tracking funding opportunities on the federal and state level to ensure our project advances and we combine our collective required matching funds. On the subject level providing an application for the u. S. D. Transportations arent notice of funding opportunity for megaGrant Program under the law. Application due on august 21st. You will recall we applied last cycle. And were not one of the 9 awardees got a debrief with staff that was positive. And with a couple of significant changes to the application should well positioned for the grant moving forward. On the state level the upon governor signed the budget includes 5. 1 billion in funding for transportation. Funding 2 billion restored for the transit and inner city program for this year will come through the Metro Transportation commission by formula based on population. We look forward to working with the mtc than i review their project advance am framework this fall this is important to help them prioritize the projects for funding we hope will include allocations for operations of the center and funds for the portal project. The copy of the project Labor Agreement status report in your packet we thank our labor partners for support. And i would be happy to answer questions on the project or agency before we turn it over to walsh for facility Operations Update. Thank you, any questions. Lets see what is going on in the park. As well as other places. Good morning im walsh the tjpa welcome to director syed and thank you so much to director shaw for everything you have done. Starting off, some of our popular programs this month include officer top jazz and drum circumstantial and he will highlight our programs we had the last fiscal year im proud to share we offered more than 600 i think sick 40 different events and programs that are fro and available to the public. And working every day to get word out on the great, free events. As director van de water mentioned celebrated pride in the month of june. On the 17th of june welcomed [inaudible] a drag show and a live music performance. And on the 24th we celebrated pride with the prepride parade pick and party in the park. A pride blue grafts and rootsdz festival i practiced that once or twice, that was a fun night we had for the community. Park attendance over the month of june was between 200 and 275 increase of 20 and i want to claire fight counts are a point in time count. We see far more visitors daily this is someone counts all the folks in the park. Performance in july as director van de water mentioned circus bella performance bananas 2 fun live low performances one at noon and one at 2 oclock taking place in the theater. Way finding, so want to say thank you to mtc for support with prop aa being and helping role out the new way finding application going on our kiosks. This will be an upon app people can seat different bus lines in real time and see what what are open, what food they got. And Community Cross the bay and up make it intuitive and easy for people. Retail losing update. During fiscal 23 we opened 5 new restaurants. Happy and proud to share that. I want to give a brief Market Update we are aware how the heels market is doing. I used to guide my thinking and our stj with retail losing we are not that great but you will see. We are seeing sparks or chatter in the Real Estate Market with uptake as well as increased touring that has been going on in the city. Interestingingly we have things like ai and other Companies Looking to expand. And so the tjpa may be doing let market is a bit soft now. And with that, conclude my presentation. Happy to answer questions. Thank you. Directors, any questions . Not seeing. Any Public Comment on the reports . We have one admit audience. Well check for Public Comment in the room we see someone withhold like to provide comment. Jim patrick, patrick and company will i called your attention to the park attendance report. Gentlemen said it is 1 point in time i suggest this is all garbage. I counted 200 people in 10 minutes at the other evening. And there is probably 6,000. To suggest this is the number in park attendance is not correct. Garbage in garbage out. Thank you. No other member in member of the public in the room withhold like to provide comment we will check online. I see we have a caller online no hand is raised. No numbers on line withhold like to provide commentful next item please. Directors item 6 is the Citizen Advisory Committee update. Ncac chair brian larkin is here to address you. Good morning chair gee. Board members im brian larkin chair of the cac. Met on tuesday. Im here to actual about it. Our agenda included the staff report. Presentation by san fran county Transportation Authority on the pennsylvania avenue extension project. The Operations Update you just heard and downtown rail extension, portal work plan schedule update. And procurement approach. Which alfonso will tell you about we have an agreement where i comment and he givesut facts. Lilly wu provided the staff report on activity in june. No comments or questions from the cac. The sf county ta presented on the pennsylvania avenue extension of the dtx gateway project. I asked when tuesday be finished the answer is 1015 years after the main gateway project is complete. And asked if tlldz be an express a third track. Brian shaw asked if the station could be under ground and Paul Benedict asked near term access improve ams to the station handsy cap access is difficult in the current condition. Walsh gave facility operation. Natasha asked yet Office Space Rentals were low given in the area not necessary low in the facility itself. Given more office works are coming become to work for several days a week. Foiblely Alfonso Rodriguez gave work plan update. Which included the likely project deliver methods for 3 components of the portal project. Ryan shaw asked if issueed a bidder ntb noticed to proceed for this contract is delayed. Will a contractor able to guarantee the bid prize i will let alfonso talk about that. During the request for qualification process the ting jpa review in its process of reviewing the rfq. The responses to the question for qualifications review whether the contractors that are proposing have a history of giving making big and frequent construction claims. And contractors make a good project be less enjoyable. Il not be here for your august meeting. But the other young are brian be here brian shaw and in stead im sure will finds his report every bit as interesting as mine. Hope you have i good summer, look forward to seeing you in september. Directors, questions on the report. I dont will check online. A call or line the hand is not raised. Have a great summer well see you in september. Chair gee i would like to note that vice chair mandelman is with us today. Thank you. And with that i will go ahead and call item 7 Public Comment opportunity for members of the public to address on matters not on the calendar. I will check the room. We have a member withhold like to comment . Jim patrick, patrick and companyisment to we skipped over the Labor Agreement. The Labor Agreement as a member of policy the board greed to pay the highest price of labor that had 2 affects. Upon driven the costs up for the Transit Center and driven the cost up for tenant improvements. The labor now we am go to another big project. 2. 3 billion. Harf that number is. We have agreed to pay the highest price for labor. Why would we do that . We are to negotiate this. You sch in the have this policy in place. Labor costs will be 90 of the cost. Over head 5 . Risk factor 3 . Profit 2 . We gallon out for a bid . We know we will pay the highest price . Does not make sense. Unless you want to you want to drive for the lowest cost. Or you want to drive for the best management of the existing labor poop. Thats an alternative or approach. So i suggest i argued against this when the policy was adopted years ago. I condition to argue being the wrong policy. Why . Pay the highest price for labor have a journeyman for 5 people versus one person. That was 5 journeymachine for one aprentice. Makes poor sense of thank you. We will turn on line for Public Comment. Seeing 91 online. That concludes Public Comment. Directors item 8 approval of the june 8, 23 meeting minutes. And i will check for Public Comment. In the room. Seeing none i will check online. No Public Comment online. I will call roll for the approval of the well, alcoholic beveraging. Directors is there a motion. Make a motion to approve. Second thank you director forbes and baptiste. Second. Director forbes. Aye. Director lipkin. Abstain i was not hear. Director baptiste. Aye. Director syed. Abstain i was not here. Director tumlin. Aye. Vice chair mandelman. Aye. And chair gee. Yes. This item is approved. Go ahead and call your next item. Item 9 is authorizing the executive director to execute a professional Services Agreement with Stantec Consulting to provide Archaeology Services relating to the Transbay Program the portal for 5 year base term with option to extend for up to 3 additional, one year terms amount not to exceed 1 million, 192, 525 for the base term. We have ana Harvey Deputy project director here to address you. Good morning chair gee, vice chair mandelman, welcome, director syed this. Item before suauthorize the professional services will agreement for a 5 year base term with option to extend for 3 additional one year terms. A bit of background i dont have a slide deck today. Prior to commencement of demolition of assets including the demolition package and prior to commence am of construction tjpa require investigations and monitor Service Associated with cultural resources. Selection for the professional Services Planned to be complete in the this year of 2023. Tjpa issued the rfp in november and january we received 7 proposals. Upon a thorough review and materials and the completion of reference checks the committee determined that stantec was the highest ranked. The team be lead by Alisa Reynolds in attendance today. Thank you. That Team Includes staff who supported projects in San Francisco previously. Throughout the bay and l. A. And central valley. That latter 2 are registered e firms and contract amounted utilization goal will exceed tjpa gospel 10 . Report is included with this brief report im available for questions. Thank you very much for your presentation. Questions. Public comment . I will check in the room. I will check the line. No Public Comment online. Thank you. Item for action. What would you like. Move it. Thank you. A second. Thank you director lipkin. Roll call thank you. Director forbes. Aye. Director baptiste. Aye. Director lipkin. Aye. Where director syed. Aye. Director tumlin. Aye. Vice chair mandelman. Aye. And chair gee. Yes. Aye. This item is approved. I will move on to your next item. Directors. Item 10 is the sf riprogram mittee update. Michelle the chair will provide the update followed by Alfonso Rodriguez project director for the portal who will provide the status on the schedule. Good morning chair gee and directors i want to welcome director syed and director shawn to hear you are in the going far we talk with caltrain hat on soon at the mtc. To give an update where we are with the executive Steering Committee on the 21st discussing the governors blueprint describes a recommendation for a new governors prop for procurement correction and commissioning phases of the portal. This blueprint the guide the preparation of a new mou. Alcohol be amongst all of the portal Partner Agencies to succeed the existing peninsula rail that governed the project during the readiness work program. It really has lead to i think Great Success in terms of adhere to what aggressive accelerated work schedule congratulate the portal partners for adhere to what will get us to an amazing mile stone next month in which we are looking to submit with this boards approval and updated funding plan and supporting documentation to request fta funding through the capitol guarantee who starts program. So with that, im done with my brief comment s and hundred it over to alfonso who will talk a bit more about the blueprint process and timing. Thank you. Chair gee. I wanted as i typically do illustrate the items appearing before this board in the coming months. Chair but shard pointed out next mont will be bchlz i have to tell you as i have done before august is in our minds for many years and it is already next month. Why august is important is because the chair pointed out, we plan on resubmitting the documentation the board approved and submit it to the fta in february. Since i Risk Assessment workshop part of the grant process evaluate the a number. Factors the submission that will be presented before the board next months reflects those updates and allows the fta to complete the evaluation will lead to a rating and get this in line for funding requests. We also have next month agreement with caltrain. We talked about a Master Cooperative Agreement we have still a baptist work to do on that. It is not required by fta at this time. However the agreements are starting to expire in the interim agreement provide a framework in funds being mechanism and mutual agreement and plan to continue to enengage in the coming months progress the project. Leading up to the point in time we ex