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It is a truly hidden gem in the city. The part is rich with eucalyptus trees. Long paths allow you to meander, perfect for dog walking in a wooded environment. I enjoy this base and the history behind it. The diversity that exists in such an urban city, the concrete, the streets, cars, we have this oasis of a natural environment. It reminds us of what San Francisco initially was. This is a section for dogs and plenty of parking. Transit is available to get you there easily. And the part is ada park is ada accessible. There is also a natural lake. This is your chance to stroll and let the kids ...

Continue that work. So well finish that early part of next if year as they work through the holidays on mission continuing to put in the new water line. Coming up next, the belowgrade structure contractor who now has the geothermal and grounding contracts within their package will start that work in january. The buttress work will continue and the micro pile production, they completed 70 in the total production piles and that will hopefully be completed in the next 90 days and move into zone 2. Of course the excavation will continue to work from west to east of the timeline update still remain...

The one other item on the veterans report that i wanted to highlight was that enville buildings was awarded the hoisting contract for the project. So they are going to be providing the man lifts to bring personnel into the excavation and in future to the upperlevels of Transit Center construction and the personnel to operate those. And that is a disabled veteranowned business. So both in the field as contractors were making end roads. Just a few words on our apprenticeship programs. I reported last month that webcor had developed two tracking reports that we have now been using over the last f...

Potential candidates that they will refer to tjpa and other employers. I mentioned that our interns in the past have had a great deal of success working on our project and have been very positive experience for them, preparing for college and moving into other activities. And we were featured by the National Academy foundation in two of their recent publications, and the brochure you see three of our interns from the summer of 2011 with their mentors from the tjpa and project control staff. So we had very positive feedback from National Academy foundation looking to tjpa as a model for the int...

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 integrated. Kind of a lot to swallow, but i have a handout that outlines everything that we have done todate. Webcor obayashi has hired nine direct hire positions within our company. Turner at the rec...