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E-News Update June 1, 2015

Contents: Pasadena to Azusa Update Foothill Gold Line Operations Campus Azusa to Montclair Update Pasadena to Azusa Update The Foothill Gold Line from Pasadena to Azusa is now 95% complete and on schedule to be turned over to Metro in late-September 2015. The majority of the remaining work is focused on completing the stations and station parking facilities and continuing live wire train testing throughout the corridor. Train testing, which began in December 2014, is currently 50% complete and will continue through September. Testing has been conducted on the alignment from Pasadena to Irwindale and will expand to Azusa this month. With the six stations nearing substantial completion, the station artwork is now being installed. Dedications for the stations are being set in coordination with the cities and will be taking place in the months of August and September. More details to follow soon. Guard rails at Irwindale station, by artist Robin Brailsford, featuring all the last names identified in the city’s centennial survey. Bronze weathervane sculpture at the Arcadia station by artist Michael Davis. Bronze pavers at the Duarte station by the artist team of Andrea Myklebust and Stanton Gray Sears. Monrovia station artist Cha-Rie Tang with the boulder sculpture. APU/Citrus College station artist Lynn Goodpasture reviewing her glass art panels before installation over the Ticket Vending Machine area.  One of two unfinished platform gateway structures at the Azusa Downtown station by artist Jose Antonio Aguirre. Foothill Gold Line Operations Campus The 24-acre Foothill Gold Line Operations Campus is an important element of the Foothill Gold Line light rail project from Pasadena to Azusa. The $265 million Campus will be turned over to Metro later this month, and was completed on budget and several months ahead of schedule. A state-of-the-art, 132,000-square-foot Main Shop Building, designed to achieve a 35 percent reduction in water use and 32.5 percent reduction in electricity use. A car wash that utilizes only recycled, reclaimed water. An on-site 178.5-watt solar panel array that will generate an average of 22,000 kilowatt-hours per month (enough to power one-third of the needs of the Main Shop Building). A comprehensive stormwater system that collects and filters 112,000 gallons of rainfall before infiltrating into the groundwater aquifers below. Click here to read a newsletter on the facility, its sustainability elements, and the art overlay inspired by the California state flower, the California Poppy. To view the infographic, click here. Click here to read a newsletter on the facility, its sustainability elements, and the art overlay inspired by the California state flower, the California Poppy. To view the infographic, click here.   OPERATIONS CAMPUS DEDICATION AND COMMUNITY OPEN HOUSE Over the Memorial Day weekend, the Construction Authority hosted a dedication and community open house for the Foothill Gold Line Operations Campus. More than 600 community members and elected officials attended the May 23rd dedication in Monrovia. Among the officials present were Congress Members Grace Napolitano and Norma Torres; State Senators Bob Huff and Dr. Ed Hernandez; Assembly Majority Floor Leader Chris Holden and Assembly Members Ed Chau and Roger Hernandez; Los Angeles County Supervisors Mike Antonovich and Hilda Solis; the Foothill Gold Line Board of Directors and dozens of mayors and city council members from throughout the San Gabriel Valley – all of whom participated in commemorating the on-budget, ahead-of-schedule achievement. Metro’s new CEO, Phil Washington also attended and participated in the dedication ceremony. Below are some photos from the dedication ceremony and open house:  Elected officials, Foothill Gold Line Construction Authority CEO Habib F. Balian, and Metro CEO Phillip A. Washington with the ceremonial key. More than 600 community members and elected officials attended Saturday's dedication. The Foothill Gold Line Operations Campus project team. Metro CEO Phillip A. Washington. Metro Board Member and Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis. Former Monrovia Mayor Mary Ann Lutz and U.S. Representative Grace Napolitano of the 32nd Congressional District. Artist Christie Beniston and Foothill Gold Line Art Program Manager Lesley Elwood standing in front of Christie's glass tile mosaic in the lobby of the Main Shop Building.  Light rail vehicles were on display at the community open house. Community members walk past the California Poppy-inspired lace fence, designed by artist Christie Beniston.  Attendees learned about the campus stormwater collection and filtration system at the community open house, along with the solar panel array.  Azusa to Montclair Update Over the past two months, the Construction Authority hosted six community open houses in the Azusa to Montclair segment. Altogether, more than 400 community stakeholders attended these events to learn about the status of the effort to advance the engineering for the six-station 12.3-mile extension and ready it for a 2017 groundbreaking. Each open house provided the opportunity to meet the city-selected station artist and see the art concepts for the future stations. Project representatives were on-hand to answer questions, and the artists were able to receive feedback from community members on their art concepts. If you missed the open houses, here is a link to the latest newsletter for the Azusa to Montclair segment. Additionally, here are links to the fact sheets for each of the future stations: Glendora, San Dimas, La Verne, Pomona, Claremont and Montclair. Azusa to Montclair station artists (from left to right, beginning with top row): Blue McRight (La Verne), Eugene and Anne Daub (San Dimas), Michael Hillman (Glendora), Ruth Ann Anderson (Montclair), Steve Farley (Pomona), Joyce Kohl (Claremont).