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Opportunity for members of public to address the authority on matters that are not on todays calendar and gilbert deanza would like to address you. If there are any other members who wish to speak, if you could stand and speak after gilbert, thank you. Good morning. Madame chairman, board, maria, i am here to talk about the carpenters agreement with John Oconnell. We recently signed an mou stating that the Carpenters Union will hire students graduating from the John Oconnell program. I am also a graduate of John Oconnell and its been a great career for me. I think its a great thing for the rel...

Integrating veterans preorientation programs there. As well as the Sf State University Veterans Club to generate internship paths into construction employers like webcor, turner, dbs and other employers. We can start with the transbay project and then move forward from there. So its kind of a multipronged approach and still a work in progress. Working with the unions, as well as the Building Trades to make sure that we have got them all aligned and identifying existing veterans in the union first, followed by any possible newhires and beating the bushs to make sure that we get veterans integra...

It. If there is a way to get visibility on how it gets drawndown, that would be helpful. No problem. Thank you. Great. And now directors, we have our last presentation of the year on our quarterly project Labor Agreement report by bob beck. Thank you, board members. Bob beck with tjpa to give an update on the pla progress in the last quarter. Last month we had our quarterly meeting with the trade unions. So this represents now one fullyear since we first approved the pla. And we had updates on upcoming trade packages to make sure that the unions are informed of work that is coming down the pip...

We have been working closely to streamline the timing of payments to the subcontractors and that has been there was a problem in the past were getting caught back up and working closely to make sure that process runs more smoothly in the future so the payments to the subcontractors are timely were just getting caught up in the last 2 months of progress payments and if we can establish a consistent track record i think that will go a long way to letting the potential bidders know that were serious about getting people paid on time weve had a very successful sbe Outreach Program and continuing w...

Mitigation measures to reduce risk and make the project as attract active as possible. Secondarily most of the bidders thought the design was unique and very custom and designed to an extremely narrow tolerance that was almost un constructible and so you pay for that level of complexity and in the trade packages currently on the street several of the bidders mentioned that the language in the bidder manual gave a perception to the perceived responsibility for the design even though the package is essentially complete and that added risk in their eyes and language in the bidding manual possibly...