I love doing that.

Welcome everybody.

I would like to call this meeting to order.

And uh if Ms.

Bateman can do the roll call, that'd be great.

Good afternoon, Mr.

Chair, members of the uh committee.

All members are present either in person or virtually for this meeting.

You have a quorum and the meeting may proceed.

Thank you so much.

Uh first order of business, I think um approval of the agenda we all have have in front of us.

Mr.

Chair, if we could just go back to the public first question.

Oh, I'm sorry, stay public comment.

Before we go to that, um, we will do uh public comment both at the beginning and at the end.

Um do we have anybody here um interested in making public comment beforehand?

I see one.

I don't know.

I was waiting to see if they were first you're okay.

Well, good afternoon, everybody.

It's a pleasure to be here and keep coming to these meetings.

I think it's very important that um nevada women in trades is uh aware of what's going on in in this state with being we do prepare women to get into trades.

We're the only nonprofit that does that in the state.

And I think it's very important for us to keep up on what's going on in the um in the city as far as jobs and awareness and um my name is Evelyn Pacheco, I'm the president and the owner of Nevada Women in Trades.

I created this program in 2018, and we have been very successful.

We're getting women in the unions and I also have a partnership with Department of Transportation.

Um but again, we've been we just had a graduation that graduated um five out of ten ladies and already have um one of the ladies working for Bombard Mechanicals, so I'm very excited about that.

Um but um this needs to keep happening in the state, so we can again bring awareness that women that are underserved and coming out of the prisons, coming out of jails, or just need a a a leg up, not a handout, um, to keep this program going.

And thank you for letting me say my piece.

Thank you very much, Mr.

Pacheco.

Thank you for being here.

And uh I look forward to being with you as we roll out information that I think is going to be important to this project.

So thank you.

Any other folks here wishing to make public comment?

Seeing none, I will now move on to seeking a motion for approval of the agenda.

All those in favor, aye.

Oh, I guess that's fancy technology as well.

All right.

Motion is proved.

Next, approval of the minutes for the last meeting, the October 29th meeting.

We have one a motion and a second.

All those in favor approve.

Motion passed.

Mr.

Chair, can I quick question on the um procedures?

Are we required to have a second or are we using uh an abbreviated Robert's rules?

Uh I I appreciate the question.

I am on autopilot, but if uh Ms.

Bateman wants to weigh in.

Mr.

Chair, the Stadium Authority Board had adopted a revised small board's uh Roberts rules.

However, this committee has not adapted either.

Um so if it's your preference, we could um propose something like that for a future agenda, but as of now we are following standard Roberts rules, which require a second.

Thank you very much.

So I'm automatically seeking a second.

Uh okay.

We've gotten the minutes approved, then we will uh move on.

If any any members have any comments, now will be the time.

Yeah, Mr.

Chair, I got a couple.

Sure.

Uh first I'd like to uh thank Dr.

Mathis uh Coleman uh and Catherine Acre uh especially.

Uh for those of you that don't know that uh they uh were involved with the presentation of the Board of County Commissioners.

Uh and Catherine in particular was uh patient uh and flexible with the presentation at the last minute, uh, but more importantly, very responsive to what we had to get prepared quickly.

Um I think what's really important for everybody to know is that uh uh the presentation was well received by the board.

Um Commissioner Kirkpatrick in particular uh was very appreciative and uh noted that everything that's been done so far has been done without the trigger uh of the bonds.

Uh and to have that coming from Commissioner Kirkpatrick, I I felt pretty good about that.

Um the other thing with that is that I think she made a good point, and that the one thing that the Commissioner Kirkpatrick pointed out is that it's not about stuff, was the was her exact words is that it's not about stuff is what we should be doing, uh, but looking at the involvement with the community uh and that type of enthusiasm with the with the kids and everything else, that it that it doesn't have to be about stuff, and and I went away from that meeting appreciative of that.

Uh the other thing that is to thank uh Stephanie Gaywood since that uh that meeting, Stephanie has met with all the liaisons uh at the county, and the liaisons uh are assigned to all the commissioners.

So the the most important thing that that Stephanie can do from that is to to just develop that relationship.

But immediately after that, she made an appointment to appear uh with all the liaison at our our monthly meeting, and so that was greatly appreciated as well.

Um and I guess the uh the other thing Commissioner Kirkpatrick noted is that Sandy Dean may be the most important person in the A's organization uh based on uh him taking time just to speak with an eight-year-old kid on the phone.

So I think that that gives you the flavor of what the the Board of County Commissioners is looking for.

Um it's not about uh a bunch of money be thrown at projects and things, but that the involvement uh with the community and stuff.

Um and then if you'll indulge me as a fan, um uh I think if there's any criticism that the A's may have had over the years is that they've drafted well, they developed players, but they uh uh haven't retained them.

But everything I'm seeing so far with uh uh contracts and everything else, I think speaks pretty well to to what we could be looking forward to when they uh open up here uh because re retaining some of those players, uh one of which might be my favorite is Rooker.

Uh I think is terrific, and so I think we have good things to look forward to when they open that stadium.

So thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Shannon.

I think uh at least a few of us have learned a great deal from Commissioner Kirkpatrick.

So if we are still having her stamp of approval, that is a good place to be.

Uh and I I will take a point of personal privilege to say that I caught a 98-mile an hour fastball once.

Put me in, coach.

It was scary.

I won't ever do that again.

Um other remark from the committee.

Staff, anybody?

All right, we'll move on to uh the only item um on, and that's the staff reports and requested actions, community benefits agreement report.

I will uh go ahead and invite Mr.

Bedain up uh directly on item one.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Uh I think you were a good hype man for me at the last meeting, and you just keep uh outdoing yourself.

But thank you for the kind words.

Thank you for noticing uh and for the ability to be in front of the Carr County Commissioners and have a chance to show what we're doing in the community.

Uh I do want to give credit to Judith Siegel.

Uh the donuts are from her.

I I uh had lunch at Bagelmania, told her I was coming down here and she said, bring them donuts and gave us three dozen donuts.

So hopefully you'll either take them or share them with people who want them.

But uh thanks to Pinkbox for for providing that.

Uh we've obviously had a very productive couple of months since the last time we're here.

Tyler with Mortenson McCarthy will give the the majority of the presentation.

I did want to introduce Shannon Jordan who's with me here today.

Shannon I have worked together in a couple of different capacities over the last 10 years.

She has experience in the NBA, the NFL, and running nonprofits, and she will be joining us as our SVP of community engagement and events.

So you'll see her at some of these meetings as well, and you will definitely see her out and about in the community.

Um I think I will turn over to Tyler and then when I have a chance to go through some of our slides, expand a little bit more on what's going on with the athletics and and how we're doing.

So, Tyler Thank you, Mark, and thank you all for the opportunity to be here again today.

Nice to see uh a lot of familiar faces and uh each time being here is always uh a privilege to be able to speak on behalf of the ballpark itself.

Um I wanted to thank you for your partnership.

Uh it's been great working with you, and um and you know, I know we've uh continued to make a lot of progress, so I appreciate you as well.

Um again, my name is Tyler Vannicott.

I am the uh project director uh representing Mortenson McCarthy and uh excited to get into some of the details today.

Um we're gonna start today a little bit different, but I wanted to start with just a construction update because it's pretty exciting and wanted to again.

I like to show off the the hard work of the men and women that uh is going in place each day in the field.

So um we just wanted to include a couple photos here.

So the top left, July 17th.

That's early on in the project, and we just thought it was a good representation of the amount of work that's actually happened um up until today.

You know, not that long ago, we were just pushing dirt and driving piles, and uh now we've we're all the way up to main concourse, and we're gonna start setting steel soon.

The top right um uh picture, I believe that was the last time that we held this specific meeting, and then we had a snapshot from uh let's see, February 5th.

So that was uh this morning.

Um so pretty exciting.

Uh I'm gonna go to this next one, and this is just that same photo that was on the bottom.

Um this was a really big week for concrete.

We had three large deck pores, so we had two deck pores, one of them is tomorrow, but two deck pores on our main concourse.

That's that upper deck, and then one on our lower suite level.

Uh, and then we had another buttress pour, which is those large column-shaped um structures, and that was on the south side or the the plan south of this image here.

Uh, it's exciting what's going to be starting up here in the next month.

So we have exterior framing starting within the next couple weeks.

Uh, we have our um slab on grade and MEP Underground uh starting in March.

We have bowl steel starting in March.

We have iron workers that are now on board that are doing some exterior uh welding for some uh for some beams for exterior enclosure.

Um I know a lot of jargon, a lot of words, but um, you know, most importantly, I think what it means to this group is that the amount of uh construction that's ramping up, our craft workforce is ramping up.

We're averaging around 340 craft workers on site each day on site, and we anticipate that that'll um exceed 500 uh craft workers here in the next couple months.

So, what that means as well is that as we're onboarding more and more people, it means that more people are getting to work.

It means that we're involving smaller, um, smaller communities, smaller businesses.

So, as Don and I were speaking, there's a lot of companies that are starting to be onboarded as well.

Uh, you know, as we've uh started off, there's been some of the bigger firms to be able to help with some of the planning, some of the enabling, some of that work, and we have more and more firms that are onboarding each and every day.

So we're excited about that as well.

Uh wanted to treat you all with a little bit of uh video here.

Um I'm gonna click this again and hopefully it works.

I think it's going.

So this is a fun video that we wanted to share with this group.

Uh it's about two and a half minutes long, but it just shows the progression of work over the again, the last, you know, call it um eight, nine months or so.

And uh it has an aerial footage about once a month.

Um this really shows, you know, how the earthwork started to progress from the south to the north, how the the field itself actually took place uh or starts to take place and shape and delineates where that ballpark will sit and where it will be.

Uh the amount of work that goes into place every single month is tremendous.

Um you get to see the progression of the work and how we we start to work, you know, right at basically uh south of home plate in in multiple directions, going both east and west as we work our way around the bowl.

Uh the progression is uh pretty incredible, even for you know me that gets to see it almost every single day and walk the job.

I'm amazed by the workmanship of the craft here in uh in Las Vegas and Nevada, and it's been you know really tremendous to see the quality of work that's going in place.

Uh here in the October time frame, you see a lot of columns going in.

Um we're starting to prepare for some of those uh those lower suite decks.

Uh we finished up all of our foundations uh in the uh the winter months of last year, so before the end of last year, we'd finish all underground.

And then you see between that October and November time frame is when the decks actually start to go in place for the lower suite level.

And then pretty much as soon as we get that lower suite level in place, we kept going east and west, but then we also started going vertical again.

So that's where you see in December that main concourse uh falling in place.

I mean, only six weeks ago, we you know we're barely starting form work, and we've now had uh I want to say four or five main concourse pours uh since then.

Um so a lot of square footage.

We're about halfway done, roughly speaking, with our um our vertical decks.

So both on lower suite and main concourse is about where that work is done.

So uh pretty exciting.

Um, and we just thought that this video, uh, as we think about, you know, even though it's February, but reflecting back on the tremendous year that 2025 was, we thought that this was a great illustration again to mainly just thank the men and women that are getting the work done in the field.

Our responsibility is to support them so they can do their work safely, and that's what we're trying to do each and every day.

Uh I am gonna speak on community um benefits next, but I just wanted to see if there are any questions before I do so.

Looks like they're none.

All right, we're gonna see if this oh maybe not.

Um the buttresses, when I speak to what those are, uh I don't really have a pointer.

Um the the large columns, so there's six total buttresses.

Perfect.

Thank you.

Whoever is great job.

Uh that is a large concrete buttress.

And what that does is it it holds the structural steel, the trusses that'll span all the way across the ballpark.

So the longest span is roughly uh 685 feet from side to side.

It'll be a free standing truss.

And then when you um, and we're gonna welcome you all out any time to walk the project.

But if you're out there on site or if you're looking at the build and you're driving by, the top of the ballpark will roughly be about the height of the MGM across the street.

So uh just imagine this large freestanding truss that goes all the way across the ballpark.

Um a lot of people imagine that that truss is gonna you know sit on top of the on top of the concrete and then span across, but it's a ballpark, right?

And it's gonna be very high.

So that steel almost goes straight up, and then it starts to arch over.

Uh that that steel itself, that work will start in June.

So when we say bowl steel, that's the framing of the actual bowl itself, and which allows us to continue to go vertical on top of our structural decks.

We go from uh structural concrete to support our decks to a steel um structure.

So that's where structural steel will start in our in our bowl area, and then our roof steel, that's gonna be the super exciting element that's just gonna blow everybody's mind.

Uh, that work is scheduled to start in June.

Okay, and thanks for the help in the back.

Um, all right, so now uh more of the fun.

So um again, really appreciative of uh of Don and his partnership.

Um, but excited to share today.

Uh we have awarded additional scope since we've met last.

So we have 989 million of totally commit of overall committed subcontracted work with 159.4 of that to SLB firms and 62.7 million to diverse firms.

So for the 159 proportionally, that's about 16.11% of current commitments.

Uh as we continue with the work and making commitments, there you know will be some slight variation of that percentage.

Um, you know, a lot of times uh that's representative of some of the firms that are graduating from that program.

We've had a couple of those that um is great, you know, to see, uh, but you know, that number will vary slightly as we continue to award in subcontract work.

Uh for workforce diversity, again, we're really excited to share that we are exceeding that goal uh pretty far over the targeted goal.

So we're currently tracking around the 80% targeted worker and uh continue to be really impressed with the workforce that's out there.

Uh wanted to share a couple of updates specific to our Mortenson McCarthy construction team.

So in Q4, I think I shared a couple of these last year, but there's uh a number of these um different events that we participated in.

So wanted to support the Carpenters Union.

Uh we supported the Matt Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation, uh serving our kids foundation.

Um, Choice for Tots, uh, that's that photo um that's in the top left.

Uh we had the largest single contribution that they said that they've ever seen in Las Vegas, um, and that's singularly from our project.

Uh the union supported that.

Um, our craft supported that.

It was pretty neat seeing craft men and women walk to work in the morning carrying a bicycle uh with their lunch pill.

Um so that was awesome to see.

Um construction versus cancer in Reeze Across America was another one that we supported and and walking and participating in the community there.

And then I'm not gonna read through all of the 2026 events, but what I did want to share um is that if there's other organizations that are looking for support and that this board has uh ways that we should consider getting in more engaged in the community.

We love feedback there.

We're always seeking feedback.

Uh I was appreciative of Mr.

Weekly who reached out last time following this meeting, and uh I know that he had some ideas.

So uh we're continuing to look for feedback of how we can continue to stay engaged and support the community.

The other item I wanted to share here is some of the industry events and craft appreciation as we look to 2026.

So uh we have um a number of job site lunches that we would love to invite you all to attend.

Uh we can get geared up, we can walk you around the site at that time and and show you what's going on.

Uh, but these are the different scheduled lunch lunches.

Definitely, you know, check in with Mark, myself prior to to showing up so we know that we're coming and and also you know, in advance in case the date happens to change.

Um, but these are different uh engagements that we're looking to celebrate uh here um this year.

Uh I did just notice the first one is actually Thursday, February 12th.

So great example of checking in on myself.

Um and then there's also industry events that we're really excited to celebrate as well.

So women in construction week, uh safety week, craft appreciation week, and construction inclusion week.

Uh these are all centered around um how we can make the industry safer, how we can make the industry more inclusive.

A lot of times what we'll do during those weeks is we'll have different toolbox talks and we'll talk about what is inclusion mean.

Uh and that means both about like how you can engage in the in the um community itself, but then what is inclusion mean within your crew?

What does it mean if you have somebody with a different background that you're working alongside and maybe you're having a hard time communicating with them because it's a language barrier, or um maybe they have a different way of doing something, and how are you including them and how are you making sure that they're feeling invited as part of that crew.

So these are all items that we'd love this group to uh to participate in.

Um come and hang out with us on the job site, walk the job, and uh it's pretty exciting to see the progress.

Uh these are a number of the community and business business engagements that we've had.

This this slide has not changed drastically, but again, always looking for feedback on how we continue to stay engaged uh in the community um as well uh for some of the business engagement.

Uh we are looking to um try and continue to have any speaking engagements that we can.

Um so if anybody's looking for support there as well, we would love to jump in.

And that is what I have before I hand it back over to Mark.

But again, I wanted to pause and see if there's any specific questions.

I agree like uh exactly that question, but I think the speed of construction is really impressive.

And I think from what I could tell, the uh social media naysayers have kind of disappeared all of a sudden.

It's only going to get better as you go on.

And then following up on what Mike said about the signings, I said, this is really, I think caught everybody off guard.

And I know the entire baseball world noticed, but it's created a buzz in our community too.

That uh we can't wait for you guys to get here.

So thank you.

Awesome.

Well, thank you so much.

Yeah, we're uh pretty excited about how work's going out there.

So excited to share that we're on schedule.

Mr.

Chair, if I could um talking about you know how quick everything's going, uh I've sat on a number of projects with the county over the years.

You get going at the beginning and you're trying to get things done, and and sometimes you don't get some of the small details, and then you're at the end of a project.

Clearly, our role is uh oversight with the compliance.

Don is has been hired to to try to make sure that that everything is flowing that way.

Um and I've worked with him for years, and whether he's coming up with a a form or a questionnaire that that are applying the metrics to are they a small business, do they qualify?

You know, what I hope is that we're not at the end, and and we're we've we've got numbers right now, but that that we're not scrambling at that point.

So, what I would ask is that uh, you know, Don used to give me direction, and I pretty much had to do what he asked me to do.

But uh, I'm hoping that your cooperative and and whatever he's coming up with, because having that stuff at the beginning is gonna make it a lot easier at the end.

I couldn't agree more.

Okay, so thanks.

Thank you for the the explanation and and everything you've been doing so far.

Um, on the community engagement piece, um, thank you for the invitation to also share some ideas with you.

Um, I work for a nonprofit, I hear from nonprofits a lot, and I know that we're navigating some changes to social programming.

Um, and of course, not an expectation um within the community benefits agreement or or anything that that's been doing, but just wondering if that's in your scope at all.

Um, and if not, happy to be supportive there.

Uh, would you mind defining a little bit more on social programming?

Yeah, absolutely.

Um, changes to SNAP, changes to healthcare, and how that may be affecting just the the local communities.

I know there's some grants out there and things that our community is exploring.

So I'm just wondering as you're engaging in the community, um, if you're engaging in like food drives, things like that, just to address that one specifically.

Yep, we have done a number of food drives.

Uh last fall, we um I don't remember how many pounds of food, but um, and or four square, I think is the organization that we partnered with last fall.

Um, three squared, thank you.

Three squared is that probably makes more sense.

Um, three squared was who we partnered with last fall, but uh it will be something that we you know continue to to look at.

So if there's other organizations we should consider, definitely open to feedback there.

Just to piggyback off that, I would just first of all, the great work with everything you're doing.

Love all the organizations.

Um but as she stated, there's been a lot of changes going on, especially in the nonprofit world.

So one of the things I would encourage you all to look at also is um post-secondary education organizations that work with post-secondary education because a lot of their funding has shifted over the last few months.

And so a lot of students that may have in the past had access to additional funding to go on to post-secondary education.

Um, they no longer have that funding.

So happy to talk offline about some organizations that could be helpful in that space.

Thank you.

Uh I'll only add uh I I have been out to the site a couple of times, and it is very impressive.

So I would really encourage uh members of the committee to coordinate with Tyler to go see it.

It's it's impressive.

And to be able to get in now and then come back like a month later and see the progress is uh pretty amazing.

So I would I would really encourage it.

All right, thank you, Tyler.

I don't know if Angela has a question.

Oh, get attention, thank you.

Um Angela Casher for the record, sorry could not be there in person.

I just wanted as I was listening to the presentation and seeing the progress.

Uh commend you uh Mark and your team and Tyler for the work that you guys are doing and how you guys continue to tell your story.

Um I also wanted to tell the the committee that I did have an idea, and um Mr.

Bidane was very gracious in in hearing and making the connection and following up uh to that idea.

So as he's as they say they are open to ideas and suggestions, um they really are.

So I just wanted to put that on the record.

Thank you.

Ms.

Beding.

Uh thank you, everybody.

Uh I can assure you the social media naysayers have not disappeared.

It's just uh it's just nice to prove them wrong.

How's that?

It's nice to flip it on them.

Uh but they'll be there 10 years from now.

So just get used to it.

Uh I would encourage you all.

Uh, you heard the chairman mention he was out on the site a little before the holiday, I believe.

Uh I would encourage you to come out.

Uh you're volunteering your time, which we appreciate.

That's obviously an important role.

But I think for one of the reasons you're doing this, and one of the reasons we're all doing this is for the job creation.

When you get out there and you see three or four hundred people and you know that they're earning a really uh uh a great wage and they're building something that they can be proud of, it's a source of pride for you as well.

So come on out.

It's fun.

We'll take some good pictures, and you'll have a picture from uh the various points in construction, and then when the building's done and you come to a game, you can take a picture in the same spot.

It's a really cool thing to have.

So thank you again for your time.

And we do we do encourage you to come out here.

Um one last thing on on Tyler's presentation, just because I find it interesting.

And I asked him to explain the buttresses because I have to do a presentation tonight, and now I can plagiarize everything he said and actually sound like I know what I'm talking about.

But the buttresses, what I think is one cool thing is they're building these shoring platforms where the where the field is.

So as they're building all this steel, obviously I'm not an engineer, but I can understand this.

It has to be supported somehow.

So the shoring platforms support the steel, and so it's gonna be really cool engineering feat for everyone to see, including kids in the community, and we're gonna be engaged uh with schools to try and explain some of the engineering behind building the actual building and what goes into it, right?

I mean, everybody sees the finished product.

Uh when you see those videos and you see how it actually works, and then you understand how it works, um, it can be pretty inspiring.

So they'll build these shoring platforms, the steel will come in eventually, they'll connect, and then they pull them out.

And it's just an amazing.

I I just find that that's gonna be I don't know when that we're gonna finish that, but sometime between June of this year and June of next year.

Does that sound about right?

June and March.

June to March.

So anyway, be prepared for that.

Uh look, I I think you know I don't really like to go through and uh you have the materials, you've seen where we've been in the community.

If there are suggestions, like you said, we'll go anywhere, we'll we'll be at everything we can uh we can touch here in the valley.

And we've tried to be as present as possible.

We've seen a lot of you at events and we've tried to support the events that you brought to our attention, and we're obviously on the ground in a lot of other areas.

I think you all know because you're all involved in these.

This is about we're about to embark on gala season, so we will be at a lot of the gallows, and and hopefully we'll see you there.

But we're enjoying being a part of this community.

I think I shared the last time we've continued to to relocate more and more people with the organization as well as hire a lot of people.

Um we haven't made it an absolute mandate, but most of the hirings are coming from the local community.

I'm I'm there's a lot of talent in this market, and if they want to come and be a part of this project, I'd rather have someone from here than relocate someone.

So we've added uh probably a couple of dozen folks uh uh over the last seven or eight months, and more relocating here from California and making this their home and uh being part of the community.

So hopefully you'll see more and more of that from the organization.

And and we'll continue to reach out to you and be at these events.

But if there's any other events that we can support, all you have to do is let us know.

We're gonna get rid of that picture.

Yeah.

Most of this we also did at the presentation that uh Mike shared when we were in front of the county.

So a lot of this is uh has been shared with you guys as well.

Any questions?

Looks like none of CH.

I have a question uh that I don't think it's for you, Mark.

Uh, but um it kind of goes back to the presentation that uh Tyler gave.

First of all, I want to say thank you guys for everything that you are doing in our community.

Um we're definitely seeing it and seeing the impact and your presence.

Um, and thank you for being open to get more ideas on how you can be supportive.

Um, but I wanted to, and this may even be a staff question.

Uh I want to understand on the I want to congratulate you guys on blasting through that with the 80 percent and on the you know, the SLBs and the uh workforce metrics.

When at what time will we be able to see what that breakdown of the 80 percent looks like?

Um, and I'm not sure where that comes in in play, and at what time will we be able to see that?

Just want to get an idea of what it at the metrics actually look like in that in the great work that you guys are doing.

I think I'm gonna defer to you, Mr.

Burnett.

Well, I'm gonna defer to Mr.

Finger on that.

Uh yeah, I'll get to some of it in my presentation here in a minute.

We're glad to at our next quarterly meeting make that a part of the presentation.

Um, I know you know you're asking this because of your interest.

The targeted workforce requirement is across all of the categories, but I appreciate your interest in what those categories are.

And we'll we'll put up a slide next time and show you what it looks like.

Thank you.

Good.

Thank you.

All right.

I don't think we have any other questions for now.

Mr.

Burnett.

Yep.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

Uh committee members.

Um, I have a very brief presentation, which will hopefully liven up some numbers I'm gonna share with you.

Um, if we go to the well, I guess I can.

We'll go to the first slide here.

So I think we've pretty well established uh from some of the comments this morning.

Um, you know, what our function is, what our focus is.

Obviously, we spoke about that at our last meeting and providing some oversight in the administration of the agreement.

So I don't need to get into any of that anymore, but I'm here to tell you that um, as I promised last time, that we are officially in the progress monitoring phase and coming out of our last meeting.

Um I've certainly spent a lot of time uh working through the reports and going through the data, and it's a good opportunity for me to pause and and thank uh Chine and Tyler and the team at Mortenson McCarthy for their cooperation and support and their patience and working with me as I try to figure out what exactly we need and what form we need to try to validate uh some of the some of the the critical uh metrics that uh we're talked about today.

Um and it's a large undertaking and it takes a lot of effort, so I couldn't do it without them and um appreciate the partnership.

And so our progress monitoring over the last three months since we last met, of course, are following those um the couple primary pillars of the construction work that we talked about and the workforce participation and SLB participation.

And I'll tell you upfront that most of my time, effort, and energy has been spent on the first bullet, the workforce participation.

Um to a lesser extent, uh the SLB participation.

I'll get to that in a minute, but that's a function of the fact that this project has been underway going back to uh March, and if I didn't jump into it early, it would find a way to get away from me.

Uh so um that's where my focus has been, and and just to add some you know, light on you know what exactly it means to be monitoring progress.

I show here on the second bullet, um Mortenson McCarthy provides me with progress reports on a monthly basis.

They're fairly uh detailed progress reports.

Um they're all subject to my review, so I'm going through them asking for source data um and the different areas to see if I can't reach the same calculations that they have.

Um and obviously that's part of the the oversight and compliance work of the committee and the progress update, like what was shared with you earlier from uh Tyler and Mortenson, coupled with the review that I'm about to share with you is um gonna be part of this committee's work from every meeting from this point on until the this project is complete.

So let's get started.

So we can go to the next slide.

So this is where we start the review of the uh progress uh report.

And as been mentioned uh with the workforce participation, the the community benefits requirement um in this case, as we've talked about, is 51% of construction work hours on the project to be performed by targeted workers, and I won't spell out what the target workers are because it's defined in the agreement.

Um as I mentioned a second ago, the the first set of bullets talked about the original uh review that I did shortly after our last meeting that went back to the beginning of this project, I believe last April.

And uh in this case, um I requested uh pretty extensive payroll data uh covered, covering in you know pretty fine detail the amount of work that's gone into this project from the contractor, all the subs, everyone that's working on the construction project.

And as you see here, it's at least through October, the end of October, is 165,000 total hours, 131,000 uh total targeted work hours as reported by Mortenson McCarthy in in the last meeting.

And in spite of my uh diminished Excel skills, I will admit they've eroded pretty significantly over the decades.

I was able to work my way through this very large spreadsheet containing all the source payroll data to isolate the targeted work hours from the non-targeted work hours.

And uh so as you see with my uh last little point there, is a it was pretty much 100% on it.

I looked at everything.

Took a lot of time, took a lot of effort, but I was able to uh essentially um reach the the same conclusion that Mortenson McCarthy did on the 80 percent of the total work being performed by the targeted workforce.

Now, Mr.

Miller's point earlier, I didn't parse the data out further to look at it across those you know, the the various groups, whether be veterans or uh women or whatever that may be.

Um Mr.

Finger and I can talk about uh going the next level on the data, you know, going forward at least, seeing what we can provide you with that.

Um as will be the case throughout this process.

I'm gonna keep reviewing the payroll data, maybe not at the same scope that I did coming out of the October 30th uh report, October 31st.

And so earlier this month I looked at the payroll data from last month.

Um as you see here, the the payroll um the total work hours grew significantly over that couple month time period, and that'll continue to be the case, I'm sure, as we go forward.

Um, as you heard from Tyler this morning, they've also shown a an 80% um maintaining that essentially maintaining the 80% targeted workforce rate.

I did not review the entire body of it.

I've taken a slice of it, and uh, it was essentially a handful or so of subcontractors.

In this case, it was uh 40,990 reported total hours and 28,000 targeted work hours for those handful of subcontractors, and I was able to uh again not validate the 80 percent but validated the reporting data for those handful.

So this should give us you know, this is a great start.

This gives us uh a level of confidence that we can build on going forward, but again, you know, our work continues in this regard.

I'll pause quickly to see if you have any questions.

Okay.

John, I have a question, sorry.

Voice from beyond sorry for the record.

Um, under the payroll data, is more are they using a computer system to input the payroll data?

Are you actually really looking at Excel spreadsheets?

I know from a local government perspective, like the contractors have to input the data through the system, and I forget the name of it, and I don't want to um incorrectly cite the system name.

But is that how that works?

How does that work?

I'm getting a uh a data dump provided by Morrison McCarthy and an Excel spreadsheet, and I'm not really in a position to talk about their payroll system that gathers this defer to Tyler.

Uh yes, we do use a system in which all information is uploaded to all of our trade partners are required to upload their information, and that's where we uh export.

Um I'm spacing uh name a tool right now offhand, but I we can share that if that would be helpful.

Yeah, just for reference, we use LCP tracker.

Um that's basically from the infrastructure perspective.

So I don't know if it's the same database, but that's how we're monitoring ours, local, you know, and and workforce data.

So I wasn't sure.

Yes, that is what we're using LCP tracker.

Perfect.

Thank you.

Okay, I'll go to the next slide.

Um SLB participation and following up on Tyler's comment.

Um this program very much is still under development.

My focus again has been on the workforce participation at this point.

And uh I think we're on uh the cusp of seeing more SLB uh providers uh being deployed on the project.

Um I'll now be shifting my focus over the next three months, um, building out the the things that we need in terms of developing a uh a program to look at SLB participation, and I've broken it down into the two areas, and and I'll pause and let me just quickly refer to the kind of the metric that we're focusing on.

It's the 15% of the aggregate value of construction work performed uh by um SLB subcontractors.

And so the the first bullet, and I'm not getting into any detail for either because there really isn't much uh to show for my work in this area to this point, but uh it's a review of SLB entities status and you know, essentially looking at the designated SLB entities according to the requirements of statute.

Um so um hope to be in a position to report back on that at our next meeting, or at least in in part.

Um the second is uh review of SLB participation and I have begun to put together a program with the support of Mortenson McCarthy that would allow me to track uh payments for SLBs relative to total payments on the project.

Um Tyler's been kind enough to provide me with some reliable expenditure documentation that should permit me to get to the expenditure data that we would need to reach the same conclusions that they've shared with you this morning.

Um and so I'm encouraged by you know our first steps into this program area, but uh it's a lot of work that's left to gather everything as it continues to change from month to month to month.

And so uh my pledge is we'll have a much more substantive conversation on this at your next meeting.

Um it wasn't on my slides, but I'll just mention it.

Um it wasn't on my slides, but I'll just mention that the living wage uh requirements.

Um we haven't really spent a lot of time on that.

But I will say that uh Morrison McCarthy has begun to provide me some information.

Um it's it's all lining up in the direction that I would hope that shows that uh commitments are are are being kept under the CBA, but uh that's the depth and the breadth of my comments on that until I get a little deeper into it.

So we'll hold that for three months from now.

So happy to answer any questions you may have.

Any questions?

I share your uh lack of uh familiarity or comfort with with uh spreadsheets.

So I appreciate the work that's gone in.

It's double the detail.

I think what's important is that even if from month to month it you don't go into that deep of a dive every time the fact that we can and we know that we can and it has been accurate, I think is is is encouraging and allowed you to kind of expand and do some more things as the program project uh continues to move forward.

Anyone else?

All right, thank you.

All right, I guess that that is it.

We're keeping on schedule.

Uh the last thing on our agenda for today is again public comment.

If there's any, and I am not seeing any, so I thank you all for your involvement and participation, and I look forward to next update in a few months.

Uh, this meeting is adjourned.