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Good morning and welcome to the regular Transbay Joint Powers Authority board of supervisors meeting for thursday, december 13th and happy holidays to everybody. May we take roll call please. Prior to taking roll i will note for the record that director sartipi has a scheduling conflict and will not be present today. Director lloyd . Present. Director metcalf . Present. Director reiskin. Present. Vicechair ortiz . Present. And chair kim . Present. Madame chair you have a quorum. Thank you. Do you have any communications this morning . None that im aware of. Is there any new or old business fro...

Advance and well bring this to the commission in the new year as an agenda item. That is my only highlight in the report. Thank you. Public comment . David pilpel. One of my favorite topics continues to be the list of bad people. I really would love for the new year, if we could put together the list of all of the individuals who owe fees, fines, forms and other things starting with f to the commission and why and periodically update that and work to get people off that list. I know i have said this many, many times before the commission. It would just be great if we could do that at some poin...

Wanted to see if they really liked the carpenter program. So this is a replicable hiring program that were going to try to push out and we have been pushing out to other employers, other subcontractors on this project, as well as the Construction Industry in general. I think its important to note that its not just about hiring veterans. Its about retention. And making sure that they succeed. And so on that note we have actually been looking at ways to ensure that they are going to succeed. Just as a best practices note from all the research i have done, we found that veterans need each other o...

This morning on this last Board Meeting of the year by dedicating our Board Meeting in the memory of mike nevin, who recently left us. Mike was one of our founding Board Members way back when we created the Transbay Joint Powers Authority and was very supportive over the years. He served as our first chairperson and was there with us in the initial years of moving the project forward. Mike was a member of the caltrain board of directors and also a former San Mateo County supervisor, mayor of daly city and San Francisco Police Inspector and not only served on our board, but numerous other regio...

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 recent u. S. Hornet career fair hired one and i think the key is developing the oneonone relationships with the sourcing agencies to find the veterans that are out there and get them into internships or apprenticeship programs so they can be hired. So that is my summary. Thanks. Thank you. The one other i...