budget that did not provide the level of funding that was required by the authority, the way that that usually works. >> if your question is whether or not hypothetically the security plan might require the resources, the answer is yes, it could.

>> thank you. that is the concern. i appreciate that. the potential impact that this could have is an aide channel ready is stretched. i have concerns about that and i think that language that leaves it up to the authority is language that does not provide sufficient protection for the city. if that goal is to have a safe security -- to then the security should require reasonable efforts to provide security. that should be sufficient but the way it is written right now, i would say that this creates a situation unlike anything we have seen in terms of the burden that this could pose on the general fund. >> there is a couple of additional points i would like

to make which is implicit in any contract. there is a requirement. >> that is only able to be enforced if you go to court and that is a challenge here.

>> am i hearing a request to the city attorney's office that there be some effort in order to seek alternative.

>> thank you. >> how do we now know -- how do we not know, there's a lot of doubt about what the cost could be. >> that is one of the concerns that i have. what i would say is that if

anyone can come up with the language to protect the city, that he would and the city attorney would, is a matter of the negotiating team making clear that that is what the city wants. the lawyer can only do what the client is asking. we need to ask the larger question about whether or not there are similar provisions that kids have the same impact. -- that could have the same impact. >> i have never -- i have no further comments. colleagues, i believe that we can recess this hearing. the conversation will be continued, this is an important

one. >> will lead to what needs to be done procedurally? >> this will be a committee report. >> others have asked good questions. that it's been known that we have a little bit more work to do bad. the city family will need to pull together and really marshal some strong answers. >> absolutely. >> i believe that concludes this portion of the hearing. >> this item will be recessed until 1:00 in the afternoon next monday.

>> we have a child care issue and and i'm wondering if it is possible to recess the remainder of the items. monday as well. >> yes, it is. we will beat recessing item number 12, and we will also be recessing the conference and for the city attorney for number 16. >> do we have public comment on

the is before recessing? >> we can take public comment on monday. >> very good. >> there are no further items, we are adjourned. >> hello, i'm meg, welcome to "culture wire." for this episode, the director

of cultural affairs, luis, will take you on a journey through presidio has been tet. -- presidio habitat. >> welcome to "culture wire." today i'm at the presidio trust, a treasure within san francisco, because the presidio trust is really a national park in the center of an urban setting. it dates to the very founding of the city. national park. toting me today to talk about this amazing exhibition at

presidio habitat is cheryl hanes. can you tell me a little bit about the idea of the presidio habitat? >> succinctly, i have been long involved in the presidio. i was here when it was still a military base in the 1980's. i remember driving down walmart to the golden gate bridge and seeing the military guard at the gate and being utterly fascinated. >> so presidio habitat is an exhibition where you have invited, how many artists to think about the habitat? >> we put together a list of possible participants, local, national, or international, of people who are concerned with environmental concerns, made

some sort of contribution to the landscape and conversation we're having here. we said that broke -- proposal requests and we received 25 back. from that 25, we went through and chose tend to realize in the landscape. >> including this building, which is an amazing example of recycling. >> we are proud of this space. it was designed by a local architecture team. we said, we need something that is a temporary structure, something that can be brought onto the presidio in pieces, act as an exhibition space for one year. we came up with the notion of shipping containers. it was important for us that we made this project for the place,

of the place. what i mean by that is participants would also used repurchased materials. >> we will be speaking to one of the artists that you selected. what excited you about his idea? >> have many things. first of all, i am a fan of his architecture. because of that creativity, i knew that he could come up with something unique. i love the fact that he was specifically addressing the landscape around here, and it was also about the human interaction with this place. >> what are your expectations with the people coming to presidio habitat? >> we really hope people will come with their family, dogs,

and come back a number of times the works will change over the year. the feedback we are getting is you cannot do all of them on one visit. it is really better to come back and have different experiences. >> thank you. i am with mark jensen of jensen architect. he was one of the architects to be chosen to do the presidio habitat. when you heard about this project, what inspired you about that call? >> our inspiration is a great blue heron. it was the site itself that attracted us. this is an incredibly beautiful outdoor room. we did a bit of reverse engineering once we knew we wanted to work here. which animals live here? the great blue heron jumped out

at us. we walked around, and quickly, you get into another pace. you slow down, leave the city behind you. you can feel the wind and the breeze. in our increasingly frenetic, fast-paced, connected life, the chance to be of here and slow down a bit was part of the agenda. as part of the installation, it was suggested that this would be deliberately not mowed because it would allow the sustaining of insects, plants, that would graduate -- that would gravitate to the area. >> that is right. i think you quickly notice that. >> thank you for being here. presidio habitat is an exhibition at the presidio trust. it will be in san francisco

through may 2011. we hope you will come out to experience this amazing exhibition and great natural treasure. >> to learn more about the other habitats installations in the presidio, visit our court is miss stokes. >> please turn off all cellular phones and pagers. copies of any documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon will appear on the december 21 agenda, unless

otherwise stated. supervisor mar: please call item number one. >> resolution approving annual report to the city for fisherman's wharf community benefits district and for the port side community benefit the district for fiscal years 2006- 2007, 2007-2008, and 2008-2009. >> actually, can i use this mic? good morning. my name is lisa and i am with the office of economic and work- force development. before you today is a resolution approving the annual report for

the fisherman's wharf community benefit district and for a portside community benefit district. receiving and approving the annual reports for three fiscal years, these are pursuant to be properly benefit district act of 1994. it is in compliance with the management plan between the city and county of san francisco and the fisherman's wharf association. i want to introduce cavan, the executive director of the fisherman's wharf association. he and i will share the presentation. i will go over our review of the annual report. i will let him talk about the services about the fisherman's wharf association -- the

services that the fisherman's wharf association provides. the community benefits districts are governed by state law and local law, and a contract with the city and county of san francisco, and by their management plans. our office is charged with ensuring that allcbd's are meeting -- all cbd's meet their requirements. we will provide the board of supervisors with a performance report. this resolution covers annual report for three fiscal years -- annual reports for three fiscal years. kevin will follow me and talk about other highlights of the

district. the fisherman's wharf association is the management corp. they managed two special districts in fisherman's wharf, two legal districts. one is the property-based district and one is the port side, business-based district. on the landside, property owners are assessed. the two legal assessment districts are managed under one non-profit organization, called the fisherman's wharf -- ok. the land side was established in 2005. portside was established in 2006. able to expire on june 30, 2020. both districts are managed by the same nonprofit. they have a budget of $850,000

combined. they have several programs to manage. one is the district identity and streetscape improvement. they do marketing of major events, such as fourth of july, fleet week, they have holiday lights, a festival in the christmas season, and the crab festival. they have street operations services, including street cleaning, graffiti removal, pedestrian waste, hanging flower baskets, officers during the high season, which is the summer, and a pure save program. they have been very involved in the development of the public realm plan to redesign jefferson street.

the office of economic and work- force development and the city services audit division reviewed the annual reports. we have provided these reports to you for your review. fisherman's wharf cbd as required -- has submitted the required reports. ok. i am going to go over the review of the financial statements that provided us with this analysis. one of the things that we have to look at when we review each cbd is if they stayed within 10% from their management plan budget. every service category should

not stray far from what they originally budgeted in their management plan. from year to year, it should not go up more than 10 percentage points. fisherman's wharf stayed within that required 10-percentage- point. we also look at a fund-raiser. there's a target of 5% per year of their revenues that they are supposed to raise through donations. they have raised 5% to 8% during the three fiscal years we are looking at for this report. they met that obligation. budgetv ersus -- budget versus expenses, they did spend more than budgeted on administration for all three years, due to increased costs and increased

staff and office expenses. they have carried-over funds at the end of the fiscal year every year. they have included these funds into their following-year post a budget. they allocate the funds to a project each year. they allocate an amount depending on how much help is available at the end of the fiscal year. the cbd included a carry-over fund in the 2009-2010 budget. that budget is here. the revenue is $1,000,153. the expenses totaled $841,000. they have a carry-over.

the carry-over disbursement planned for 2009-2010 includes special marketing projects, special street maintenance, and some of their public rum improvement capital projects are in there as well. we would like to recommend that the cbd carefully track how they're carry-over funds are expended each year. they have to be expended according to the management plan. the cbd should indicate budget vs actual expenses. the amount they spent in line item should also be detailed.

i would like to let kevin talk about the services in more detail. supervisor mar: supervisor maxwell has a question. supervisor maxwell: [inaudible] that they did not provide you with those things? >> they did give us a budget of how they would spend their money. we wanted to have more detail about any carry-over expenses every year. we want to know exactly how the contingency line items are being spent, and how the carry-over is spent. they did provide is a detailed budget. we want them to continue that and provide more. supervisor maxwell: on a minister of costs, you mentioned they were over. is that -- on administrative costs, you mentioned they were

over. is that because they have taken on extra or they have done more things? >> i will let kevin answer that. they were within 10% of their budget. it is not that they were over anything. we look at what they budgeted at the beginning of the year and what they spent at the end of the year. i will let kevin answer that. >> good morning. as we grew, we realized that some of the support systems we had in the staff, we needed additional support as we grew. it was something the board worked with us closely on. supervisor maxwell: are you thinking about readjusting that, or will you stay within that 10%? >> we felt it was important to stay within that percentage of the management plan. we have done our new budget for the current year. we're staying within the plans we have. supervisor maxwell: it helps you budget, as a tool. >> absolutely.

there's a balance between administration and the services we provide. good morning. i have the pleasure to work on fisherman's wharf every day. i work with an incredible group of people. we have a very strong board. last year, we increased the board from 19 up to 25 because of the participation we have. we wanted a wider diversity of membership. i think this meeting is a good demonstration. we have several board members here today. i want to introduce them. their support continues throughout the year. we have frank, a board member, a captain of the lovely martha. we have craig, the general manager of the sheraton hotel. lynn is our community representative on the board.

we have the vice president of the board. david harrison is on our board. he is working closely with the civic center cbd. jay edwards is on our board and chairs our sustainability committee. i have one other colleague, troy campbell. he works with me every day on fisherman's wharf. i thought i would share with you the boundaries of the wharf. it runs all the way down on the land aside, the green portion of the diagram. the purple section as tucker portside. -- purple section is the portside. we work very closely with the community associations. we have 11 active members on the

committee. we added three more last year. the new committees we added, one of the senate -- one of them was the sustainability committee. that was working to make sure the wharf is sustainable and we share the best practices among the businesses on the wharf as part of that. we also added a community development committee, which is really looking at how we make sure we protect, preserve, enhance, and educate people about the rich history of fisherman's wharf. it was something we felt we had to do more of. we have an active committee working on ideas of how to do that, and to really make a stronger for us. we believe the vitality of fisherman's wharf helps the city and the millions of visitors who visit every year. we also work with many partner organizations. i have a list appear, but it is not a complete list. we work