DUSPA Meeting Feb 3

The DUSPA Board held their monthly meeting on February 3rd. At the meeting, it was announced that Don Hunt would be resigning from the Board due to his new role as Executive Director of CDOT. Other discussions included the schedule for release of unaudited and audited financial statements according to the requirements of TIFIA and RRIF. The Owner Representative reported that the project is now 32.4% complete and that the light rail cutover date has been established to be July 19th. The board planned to visit the Rocky Mountain Precast yard to check on the progress of the vent tubes. New construction activities this month will include the start of installation for the overhead catenaries for light rail, start for above grade demolition west of the historic station to Wewatta. It was noted that Wewatta would be open until August. There are only 3 remaining design packages that require approval/release. The Pedestrian bridge is expected to be released 3/25/11, the redesign of track and throat will be released 3/30/11 and the final public realm design will be released 6/15/11. The Historic Station building drawings for its required new steam boiler is at 50%. The team will tackle the cooling design next. In general, the project continues to progress on schedule.

The meeting agenda was as follows:

REVISED AGENDA
MEETING OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF
THE DENVER UNION STATION PROJECT AUTHORITY
February 3, 2011
1:30 P.M. – 3:30 P.M.
HOGAN LOVELLS
1200 Seventeenth Street
Suite 1500
Denver, CO 80202
303-899-7300


I. CALL TO ORDER
II. WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION OF GUESTS
III. PUBLIC COMMENT
IV. ROLL CALL (See Attachment 1)
V. APPROVAL OF MEETING MINUTES (January 6, 2011)
VI. DISCUSSION ITEMS
A. Resignation of Don Hunt as City Appointed Board Member
B. Finance Committee Report – Claude Pumilia
i) 2011 Plan of Finance Update – Doug McCleod
ii) 2010 Audit Status
C. Selection of External Auditor – Mike West
D. Owner’s Representative Report – Bill Mosher/Mike Sullivan
i) Update regarding Project Progress
ii) Change Order Update
a. Change Order Approval
iii) Update regarding Market Street Station Closing
E. Discussion of Federal Contract Issues – Dawn Bookhardt/Cole Finegan
VII. ACTION ITEMS
A. Approval of Change Orders
VIII. EXECUTIVE SESSION
[The Board may enter into executive session in order to discuss certain matters as permitted under the Colorado Open Meetings Law (C.R.S. § 24-6-402 et seq.) related to financial and contract negotiations, financial management negotiations, and litigation.]
[ACTION ITEMS RESULTING FROM EXECUTIVE SESSION]

IX. FUTURE MEETINGS:
A. March 3, 2011
B. April 7, 2011
X. ADJOURNMENT
ATTACHMENT 1

DIRECTORS


Laura Aldrete
Parsons Brinckerhoff
City Director
Jerry Glick
Columbia Group LLLP – President
City Director
[Don Hunt]
Antero – President
City Director
Bill Bianco
Davis Graham & Stubbs
City Director
Elbra Wedgeworth
Denver Health – CGCAO
City Director
Michael West
Michael D. West, CPA – CPA
City Director
Judy Montero
City Council District #9 – Councilwoman
City Director*
Claude Pumilia
City and County of Denver – CFO
Manager of Finance, ex officio*
Marla Lien
RTD – General Counsel
RTD Director
Kent Bagley
RTD – Board Member
RTD Director
Mark Imhoff
CDOT – Executive Director
CDOT Director
Jennifer Schaufele
DRCOG – Executive Director
DRCOG Director
Steve Kaplan
Kaplan Kirsch & Rockwell
Met District Director

* Non-voting