this day. so it's really exciting, commissioner torres, we went through all the opportunities and all the scale of investments that ratepayers are making and the communicate to get all sorts of community benefits around work and environmental impact mitigation and through the presentation here from masud and the work of your very skilled consultants, bernita davis and i think you had your whole staff participate as a comprehensive process with arlen, tommy, carolyn and your ever steady general manager harrington. we've seen him at all kinds of hearings. the board of supervisors, almost three or four hearings, including land use yesterday was another hearing. this is really a product of a really tremendous process. some of the highlights -- and i actually didn't check to see if the executive summary included an idea that came up that supervisor sophie maxwell had really locked on to which was that when community benefits are allocated out of projects

costs and project investments, that the portion that's going to go in the community benefits would be allocated pursuant to a fund that c.b.o.'s and nonprofits apply to with their projects and proposals they kind of r.f.p. into. this is something we saw with the south market stabilization fund which was the community benefits package that came out of the rincon center i want to say supervisor chris daly allocated. and they went in and made the proposals and was graded by an independent panel which a lot of the speakers are talking about today which is transparency. you want to reward -- create a really good community partnerships that will give you outcome-based results. that is something that's really promising about this. and like i said, i didn't get to see that idea of kind of a community benefits fund in which everyone comes together with their proposals about how

to move community benefits happen. that's how you'll get maximum transparency. i know that's something supervisor maxwell really, really liked. just a quick update. i confirmed and went downstairs the mandatory local hiring amendments that were provided by an array of stakeholders including partners from labor, on the contracting communities, the city departments and community folks were introduced by supervisor avalos not that long ago and supervisor sophie maxwell stood up right after and thanked supervisor avalos for his leadership on this. and i think as someone who has seen him doing this the past year and a half is really amazing. a lot of it, to be honest with you, flows from work that began here december 9, last year, to get mandatory local hiring on your projects. thanks. president vietor: thank you. thanks for coming. >> my name is mindy, a senior job developer of anders and anders.

i'm here today to tell you that training works. we need a largers percentage of the clients i represent that include ex-offenders, people from low incomes and disadvantaged zip codes to act as training. training then gives them access to really construction careers where they can get benefits and move up from apprentices to journey. so i'm hoping that you will consider a training program that can help my clients who are in constant need of having to go to get skills. they don't have skills, they don't have access to skills. there are certain programs where it's limited, and i need there to be a larger percentage of my clients being able to access training. thank you. president vietor: thank you for your comments. any other public comments on this item? thank you again for your hard

work on this. and we look forward to a version incorporating these further thoughts and comments. thank you very much. next item, please. >> madam president the next item is the closed session. the commission will entertain a motion to move into closed session on the listed items. adam president if you would call for any public comment on any of the closed session items and then entertain a motion to invoke the attorney-client privilege. president vietor: is there any public comment on any of the closed session items? >> commissioners, my people are packing up. we should note tomorrow is one of the furlough days for the city, so the p.u.c. will be on a skeleton crew tomorrow and thursday and friday are vacation days but if you recall, when the additional 12 days of furloughs were given to city staff it included the one to report thanksgiving and the one between christmas and new year's so tomorrow is the first of those official furlough days if someone is accessing our

services. president vietor: let's hope everything goes smoothly. >> has there been a motion? president vietor: no, there has not. may i hear a motion, please, to assert attorney-client privilege and go into closed session? >> so moved. >> second. president vietor: all those in favor? >> aye. president vietor: opposed? >> if you'll give me a moment to read these items we will retire into closed session. president vietor: thank you. >> item 15, threat to public facilities are facilities, pursuant to chief of security. item 16, conference for legal counsel, anticipated legalation. item 17, conference of legal counsel, existing litigation. jay martin et al. 2170 folsom, l.l.c. san francisco's superior court number 436930, 18 conference of legal counsel existing litigation. california separate insurance from michelle acevedo claim 09876 filed january 13 and item

19, conference of legal counsel existing litigation, city and county of san francisco v national union insurance company et al, c.v., si united states district court, northern district of california. we will now go into closed session at 4:02 p.m. >> we're back in open session. president vietor: great. thank you. there was no action on agenda items 15 and 16 and agenda items 17-19 were settled. and i will entertain a motion to not disclose the discussion held in closed session. >> motion. >> second. president vietor: all those in favor? >> aye. president vietor: opposed? thank you. >> madam president, is there any new business the commissioners might want to propose at this point before we

move to adjournment? president vietor: any new business? nothing. >> happy thanksgiving to everyone. president vietor: happy thanksgiving is right. thank you very much. the meeting is adjourned at 4:30 on the nose.

>> welcome to "culture wire." today we're headed to smpling f. camera works, a premiere venue for artists working in photographer, video, and digital media. the latest exhibition lists clearness as a set of political alliances and possibilities that it is behind the sphere of dominant gay and lesbian culture. the curator fills us in on the process of creating this thoughtful exhibition. and what she would like you to take away from it. >> i co-cureated with danny, a chicago-based writer and curator. the conceptual framework is what it means to be clear and radical for our generation.

clearness as a set of political alliances and possibilities, not necessarily related to institutions of gender and swam formativity. danny and i wanted the show to feel funky and to have a really tangible quality to it. so part of that was incorporated handmade objects and installations and beautifully printed photographs and videos. there is also a lot of opportunities to participate and to take postcards or to get the photo taken or sit within a tent made out of afghan blankets to watch videos. the exhibition is organized in three distinct galleries. in gallery one, which is the gallery designated to clear

activism, there is an installation by the oakland-based collaboration and it's called "unleashed power." it's all focused on one protest that happened in chicago in 1991 with the activist organization act up, which was protesting the inadequate health care for people living in aids, and specifically it focuses on an act of police violence that occurred at that protest. the thing that is really interesting for me about that piece is that it brings us back 20 years to what clear activism looked like at the height of the aids crisis. gallery two features work that is related to intentionally communities that exist both within cities, also in rural spaces, and transient communities as well. the return features a no madic

clear tribe, the people who join this tribe are often in various states of transition themselves, whether it's leaving behind previous gender assignments or corporate jobs or a life within cities. a lot of the work featured in the exhibition and a lot of the installations are handmade objects. there is a lot of do-it-yourself aesthetic and that handmade do-it-yourself feeling is something that mimics the idea and the reality of the alternative world making that we're trying to represent here as far as the self-sufficient community goes. gallery three features work that relates to the ideas of self-determinenism, alternative world making and utopia.

visits can still participate in this -- visitors can still participate in this project. during the opening, we invite visitors to come in and try on these costumes, pose in front of the backdrop. he was really inspired by comic books that he read as growing up and thinks of this space as a post-apocalyptic monster portrait gallery where people can remain genderless once they put on the costumes. we think it's important that this be happening in san francisco, which is considered an ekpe center of the queer actual cure. the majority of the queer cultural events happen in june which has been designated as the pride month. which to me translates as the period of time in which people can be in clear arts and

culture. in september, it's hashingening back to that and proving that this is something that is scon significantly happening all the time. what danny and i hope visitors take away from this exhibition is to observe the diversity within the designation of queer in terms of race, in terms of gender presentation and intergenerational perspective of what it means to be queer as well as what it means to exist and be active and work in solidarity with people whose identities may or may not look like yours. commissioner chu: go.

welcome to a special meeting of the transportation authority plans and programs committee. madam car, please call item two. >> update on the financial plan for the san francisco municipal transportation agency's central subway project. this is an information item. commissioner chu: this was an

item that we heard last week and we asked for an update. >> this is an item that was continued from last week. i am continued -- happy to say that we have worked with sfmta staff over the past week. i am about to introduce the central manager for the central subway project to show you a presentation that shows you our attempt to close the funding gap as well as an overall context and where regard to the road map of getting the full funding grant agreement from the transportation administration. >> good morning, supervisors, my name is john, the central subway program manager. i'm also joined by mr. carter wrote hand, the director of construction. they have reviewed this briefing

that i'm about to give you. before i start the presentation, i want to provide you with a bit of context in terms of how the financial plan fits into the over all sfga process. i will highlight some of the accomplishments that the mta has achieved in meeting some of the ssga roadmap deliverable. i will discuss the fund's utilize to close the funding gap to fully fund the cap and then the next tax. >the central subway is currently on track to achieving a full funding grant agreement. the sfta process began with the final approval dated january 7 of this year and continues with monthly meetings fta washington

and region 9 staff, along with tsa staff, and it continues to meet and satisfy all the obligations under the ssga road map process. submitted must and that we achieved on november 19 where the project received approval for the letter of no prejudice that would allow us to move forward with the utility relocation contract in the union square area. this is an significant milestone which allows for the federal authorization of an early construction activity. identified before you are the remaining sfga some metals necessary on schedule to receive the $942 million in federal funding. a key milestone in the application is a submission of an updated financial plan, which is scheduled for february 15 of 2011, that identifies the funds

committed to this $1.58 billion project. the sfmta is now moving forward with revisions to the central subway financial plan in order to meet the ssga obligation. the central subway financial plan is comprised of federal, state, and local funding sources, as outlined on this slide. the great majority of the funds have already been committed, and they are highlighted in yellow. as you can see, there is a remaining federal obligation of aid and its $69.7 million. that is the remaining fund that would be authorized under the full grant agreement. what is currently shown is the $137 million funding gap which is part of today's discussion. earlier this year, sfmta

convened a mind the gap committee, which was comprised of members of the sfcta, mayor's office, and others to explore a number of the funding options we are about to present to you today. this slide show the proposed capital funds committed to fully fund the program. only capital programs are -- funds are being used to fund the central subway program. no operating funds are being utilized for the central subway program. the alliance structure of the funds used to fill the remaining gaps of the funds are used here. $31 million in prop k, $32 million in problem be. the combination of these funds, along with a projected savings from current capital projects are what is identified as a solution for closing the remaining funding gap for the central subway program. as a maximum -- since central

subway have received the maximum allocation under prop k, as you can see, the items identified under kapor reprogramming, a number of projects would require the reprogramming of prop k and sfmta, along with the sfcta will be working on a reprogramming efforts that will start immediately and conclude prior to the submission of the financial plan in february of next year. a $34 million in prop 1a is part of the $61 million state funds for high-speed rail. one of the conditions of that funding was connectivity. central subway provides a direct link to caltrain and imposed high speed rail station at fourth and townsend. earlier this year in march, we put in a programming request to

the california transportation commission for $27 million, and we were approved by the ctc to move forward with $27 million of the $61 million. a $31 million represents the balance of that funding source. prop1b, there is $78 million left in the program listed as uncommitted. 72.3 of that $70 million of and committed funding will be allocated to the central subway program. we have been receiving $9 million in savings from this been climate for project phase one, so we will be looking at reprogramming that prop k effort back to central subway. phase two, we recently received federal allocations that allows

us to unallocate some of the funds for islais creek. geneva can be project, that project is in close out, $1.2 million in savings for that effort that would be allocated to the central subway project. finally, the its radius system replacement program. there will be some lower-cost program that will be allocated back. some of the lower priority options are like a digital, visual announce the system for cards, along with using their radio system as a means of mapping out the yards. these are lower party options that will be deferred. commissioner campos: commissioner dufty?

commissioner dufty: what does that mean, lower priority option. can you go more into what you mean with its? lower priority? i do not know what that means. >> the radius system project is a replacement program read the agency will replace its motorola system with a modern, upgraded system, as mandated. we will be replacing the radio system by 2012. commissioner dufty: and this is a large project? >> it is a large project, essentially replacing all the radio systems within the fleet. we are currently operating under a 1970's-based system. that said, the base effort of that program is fully funded and there are some out-year options that our options in the contract that are listed as

whether or not -- sort of enhancements -- to the system. if the agency would like to move forward and assign those options to the program. $10 million was assigned to this option effort. because of the deferment of these options, it will not have an effect on the overall delivery of river systems. the agency is proposing to move forward to defer some of these lower priority out year options to central subway. commissioner dufty: is this something that is future, down the road? >> it is currently approved under prop k under the radio replacement project.

before you is the proposed central financial plan showing the additional capital funding, and demonstrating a fully funded central subway financial plan. as you can see in yellow, under committed, $29.5 million currently assigned under local, regional, other. that is the pool of funding that will be working with the sfcta to reprogram. identified here are the actual project expenditure needs for the program. the expenditure needs are shown in light blue, so you can see the expenditure begins in fiscal year 10, 11, and concludes in 2017 through 2020. what is highlighted in dark blue

on the top, beginning in fiscal year 2013, is when we will be spending the money we are committing today to close the 1 and $37 million gap. the first spending need for the 137 will be in fiscal year 12, 13, 4 $38.7 million. as you can see, it is proportioned out for the next seven years. concerning cost, central subway is fortunate to take advantage of a competitive bidding environment and has realized $8.5 million in savings for its second contract, contract 1251, that we are about to award on december 7. we also anticipate receiving approximately another $10 million in savings to our largest contract that we are

planning on issuing for bid in the first quarter, february 2011. at this stage in product development, fta requires cost savings be carried in the program as program contingency. the mta is also controlling cost through its utilization of what is known as a contingency management program -- commissioner chu: just to clarify, you commented that cost savings must be carried as contingencies. would you are saying is, even if we are realizing cost savings, as we are seeing with $8.5 million, hypothetically, the $10 million coming up in the second quarter of 2011, we cannot count those toward reducing the project cost, we just have to put into a contingency bucket at

a later point in time? >> that is right. the plan allows us to reduce our contingency levels for the program. further to the point, currently, the program carries $300 million in program contingency. that is part of the $1.58 billion program. this is not allocated, not assigned to any effort in the program, besides program contingency. in the management plan, there are seven intermediate milestones. if the agency meets those milestones, those contingency levels will be reduced, and a radically, it could go down to zero in 2018, when we finish the program. the effort, as outlined in the risk management plan and contingency management plan, is that when the program matures, levels will drop, and when those

contingency levels are essentially freed a by the fta kroger, how -- program, the agency will be able to reprogram those funds back into the capital program. commissioner chu: so the current $300 million that exists in plans, to the extent that we have additional savings, that would add on top of that contingency? so for example, the 18.5? >> exactly. commissioner chu: and as you meet different milestones, by the end of the project, this contingency balances can be reduced? >> yes, requirements will be lowered, and so the surplus funds, the agency will have the chance to reprogram that money. commissioner chu: so the point i am taking away, the project we have right now, 1.57,t