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Good morning, and welcome to the Transbay Joint Power Authority board of directors meeting for thursday october ninth and i want to recognize the staff at sfgov tv who make the meetings available to the public and online. Reiskin. Present. Harper. Present. Kim. Present. And madam chair you do have a quorum. Thank you. Are there any communications today . Or, old or new business for the board of directors . Seeing none, we will move on toit em five, executive directors report. Good morning, members of the public we have a number of construction milestones that you will hear about today but i wa...

Public we have a number of construction milestones that you will hear about today but i want to highlight the above ground construction and last night the first of the two large cranes arrived and it is located in the access just west of the street and it weighs 2,000 pounds and has 240 feet of boom length and takes 20 truckloads to deliver it and it is going to take three days to assemble and a second crane will arrive in february of 2015, and they will be in operation for 18 months and lifting over 22,000 tons of steel and you are going to hear more about this from steve in a moment. But now...

Able to ensure that we are our team is on that edge, as well as its a public presentation series so the public is invited to bring the public into that as well. And to date, much of our work has been with the city family. And right now, were about to embark and engage the community. So weve got a couple of outreach efforts. One is our type three ecodistrict through the living neighborhoods, and our central corridor, were going to start a Central Corridor Task force shortly to help inform the sustainability component to the central corridor plan. Theres lots of information on the Sustainable De...

12,000 megawatts translates to powering about nine million homes. With these goals we see a shift toward local generated renewable power. The city and state will continue to grapple with water. Are we have city goals to look to reducing water demands to capturing and treating rain fall and increasing water we use. Theres been a number of guidelines and ordinances that have been developed to help us do that. Waste, the city has a strong goal zero waste goal by 2020. Weve done well on that with our recycling program, partnering recol ji. So were looking at how we can get the remaining get to our...

You will see historically weve been unable to meet those targets but we have shown some slow and steady progress over the First Six Months of this current year, which is promising. Planning Division Performance measures, there are two, how efficient we are in processing general plan referrals, and the programming of the Development Impact fees. Again, which general plan referrals are within our targets but we have made improvements within the last six months of this current fiscal year. Moving on to Environmental Review, youll see many of the documents take a very long time to process. An eir ...