happening. thanks. president chiu: next speaker. >> hi, my name is glen jones. i'm a resident of pier 38 as well. i have two businesses as well. one we do environmental restoration work. another is a contracting company and we build homes in san francisco. i would like to say i don't think we have been treated very fairly with the eviction. we have been associated with carl and have taken the tenants to carl on that we are, as has been stated, really a great group of people there creating jobs, making jobs for san francisco and the community and at large, we are doing a really good job and we would like to stay there. i'm a general contractor, like i said. i can repair everything on the list within a month easily and pay for it.

so i would plead our case to stay and continue giving revenue to the port and the city of san francisco. with us leaving the pier in their 25-day notice to depart, the city is going to lose a significant amount of money due to our departure and rent loss. then the pier is going to sit, from what we hear, from two to three days while these minor repairs are taking place while it degradates as does the pier beside it. the waterfront is the gem of the city and needs to be taken care of. we're there to take care of it, run it and help the economy of san francisco. thank you very much. president chiu: thank you, next speaker. >> good

>> good afternoon. i would like to speak to some of the concerns raised about the construction project and the give a little bit of background and a couple of ideas for strategy's going forward. we have a lot of history here in the room. the bayview, hunters point, agencies have existed and there were commissioners who were right here on the left. eloise westbrook who passed away. here to be with us to highlight the challenge is the good faith efforts and local hiring project. good faith did not work in the sixties and it will not work now. the city had this local hiring process as well.

the city chose this through legislation and this was supported by the board of supervisors. the ship from a good faith type of approach that measures success and outcomes and actual results is what i think might be really important because i don't think that the concerns will go away. the redevelopment continues to have a good face policy. to build upon the relationships that are developing that led it to the passage of this law. the board of supervisors can consider using their influence to influence the redevelopment agency. thank you.

>> thank you, my name is oscar james. the one thing i want to bring up first is that i was like this session to clothes. -- to close. there will be a meeting on the 20 it and they're talking about capping. we don't want any of the shipyard to be capped. i have seen the radiation roberts, i have seen the lead, i have seen the toxic -- back there. i have also served on the

hunters point shipyard. i talked about the toxins being there, and they denied it. the city of voted on it. they wanted all of these moved. do not allow the navy to come in and cap the shipyard. we're talking rectifier that they started. all of this is a total lie. we can give you an update on what happened. please come to this meeting and voice your opinion.

thank you very much. >> thank you, next speaker. >> thank you, supervisors. we are going to to lose out on a big advantage. all have asked for this space. we have brought some of the clients that we work with to san francisco where they ended up spinning off their own company. and we think that that opportunity will go away. we also echo the sentiment about the timing. we have 15 employees, we have several contractors. this is not a trivial thing to

do. we have not yet secured a new location. we have worked with the port and other commercial real estate folks. everyone confirms that will must see anything for 10 months. we would like to offer a plan which is some way of staying in our current situation. think you. >> i want to reiterate what other people have said, obviously this represents a lot of jobs and revenue for the city of san francisco. we are working on various boats. in the past, there is a lot of

options for the public to have boats there. we're hoping to turn this around and reiterate that this could happen with more access. time is short and i encourage you to see what happens. >> next speaker. good afternoon, supervisors. i want to say thank-you to all of you for your willingness to be crossed out, talked dirty to.

don't get worried. i want ology to know, what you are seeing is years and years of frustration. i just pray that they're different than what we were in the sixties and they don't want to comment blow everything up. let's give the lot on opportunity to work. i am 100% with mr. jackson. one of the problems that we have had is that there is no teeth to these. i would say do you to get

someone in their to ensure that these contractors are not getting wealthy on city jobs. thank-you and got less all of you. >> i am the founder and ceo of -- a year ago, a venture capitalist friend of mine who are talking to about to and the start of said that you need to come out of the bay area. when i came, there was this energy that emanated and it was here 38. this serves as a nexus for venture capitalists, very talented people call law and businesses and risk takers.

if you look at san francisco as the speaking, pier 38 was the filament of that. this is a shame to see this go this way. >> i have been told by the court staff that there is a meeting that will be convened likely by the end of this week with various city staffers. we hope that everyone will be able to come, i know that we have visited pier 38, this is an incredible place.

we want to make sure that we do everything we can to figure out a good resolution. we want to let you know tuesday to end and you can call supervisor kim's office. >> there is someone here to speak with the people at pier 38. we have been speaking closely with some of the tenants to coordinate this meeting. if you're not in touch with our office, that is our way of keeping in touch with you but we have been in touch with the mayor's office of the finding a resolution. >> thank you very much for being

here. next speaker. >> i live across the street. they have been a good neighbor. they bring healthy people coming and going to work in our neighborhood. the overhead is not seem to be working. i will switch the subjects and i will ask you to choose between two neighbors. here is bayside village, it has been here. the parking spaces are ventilated.

this is about the size of a space. across the street, we have the water mark. that is a parking garage. this is tied to the power grid. it blows fumes. on the front side, it blows noise. this is equal to the bridge. which would you like to have in front of your neighborhood, in front of your home where you live?

to have noise in a building, it gets dumped. the noise is garbage. thank you. >> thank-you. >> good afternoon. i am from a district 10. i started to work as an electrician because of the program that they had back in

1977 to get people in the area to work. bill local six electricians are good at that. if they don't like you, they will bankrupt you. there should be more emphasis on hiring people in this city to keep this function in. if people cannot get a job, this goes to people in livermore, modesto, santa rosa. there seems to be a lot of

collusion and ways to bust the system. i would like to thank you for the up to 80 to have people come and speak on their causes and to represent themselves. thank you. >> are there any other members of the public that bush to speak in general public comment? general public comment is closed. why don't we go to the adoption without committee reference calendar? >> these items will be acted upon by a single vote unless a member requests a discussion of the item. >> would anyone like to sever any items? could you please call the roll?

>> those resolutions are adopted. >> today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following individuals on behalf of supervisor kim, wiener, cohen, and avalos, for the late mr. would burn. for the late mr. cox. on behalf of carmen chu, for helen mcdonald on behalf of

mirkarimi, on behalf of -- >> if we can have miss westbrook for the entire board, without objection, that will be the case. and leicester's any business and from the this board, i think we are returned for to -- unless there is any business in front of this board, i think we are adjourned for the day.

>> ok. we will get started.

i'm the senior communications manager for the california department of trorbgs spokesperson for the san francisco oakland bay bridge. we have invited the media to give you an update on construction progress for our new bridge. a number of things are happening right now and will continue to happen the next two years as we get ready to open up the new bridge to public service. first, we have a transport ship that recently arrived during our final segment that will be put in place the next couple of months to complete the main deck for the suspension bridge. we also, the past few weeks, have constructed a cat walk system that is very visible to the public that will act as a platform for our construction team to erect, to basically place the main cable of what will be the world's largest self-anchored suspension bridge

out in three-dimensional space. that is another very visual element that continues. as we get closer to the end of the year, we will begin erecting equipment that will be placed out there. it will basically look like a giant conveying machine that will pull the cable strands across over what you see that is the cat walk system. that work will begin, the actual pulling, probably january of 2012. but the equipment is being installed now. you will get a chance to look at that in the field today. our contractors have been working long hours to ensure that the transition structure is completed on time. we have the westbound portion of that structure that would take you into san francisco. it is nearing completion and should be done by the end of this year. then we will begin construction

on the eastbound portion. it has started but you will see concrete being poured soon. then coming in the spring of 2012 we will complete an operation that started earlier this year. we moved eastbound traffic to the south on the oakland side of the bay bridge to accommodate for construction work that will be happening the next couple of years. that will allow us to open the bridge all at once approximately six months ahead of the original schedule. in the spring we will be basically closing the westbound bridge heading into san francisco for a period of days. we will come back with more information so you will know what will happen. this is similar to other closures. while closed we will shift the approach to the bridge after you come out fof the toll plaza traffic will be shifted to the south that. will allow us to surgically

remove a portion of the bridge that is currently in the way of the new bridge's alignment. while traffic is running on the new portion we will remove the old portion and allow us to put the construction crew there and basically complete the new bridge so we can open the entire thing at one time. this is a lot of information and you can go to the bay bridge info.org. before i break it down i want to say tonight is special. we are going to illuminate the construction lighting on the cat walk for the self-anchored suspension bridge for the first time. and most people when i say big deal it is construction lighting and maybe our architects would say that, but what happens is it is little bit of revealing. this is out there because they have to work at night and they need the pathways illuminated but ultimately it means you are getting an early look at what

the bridge will look like at night for the first time at 7:45 tonight. we wanted you to be aware of that. those are the main items we have asked you to see. this is one of the few times we have been able to work out with the contractor that we could allow you to come out and be physically on the bridge and go up inside the tower. we hope you will work with us, follow our safety standards. there will be a number of cal tran personnel to ask questions regarding safety or access. if you have any questions see me or tony. at this point in time we will -- mike, do you have a quick one? >> why today? just because the lights are going on? >> let's take the q&a. i will run through the presentation because it will help the folks that it is their first time doing it. >> paul, are you ready? this presentation is available

on line at our media bar. this is just to give you an understanding of the different elements for the bay bridge. the first piece is the arrival of the final steel deck segment on the transport ship that came in yesterday, on sunday. here is some of the footage of the pieces arriving in the bay underneath our western span. there is over 5,000 tons of steel on the transport ship and this is the last ship of its type coming in for the bridge. still a couple of hardware items we are awaiting but the bulk of the steel is now here. and what are we actually seeing today? basically, if you look at the very end of the self-anchored suspension bridge there is a gap between that and the sky walk. over the next couple of months

the pieces that have arrived will be filling that gap. here you can see, using google, we have outlined the gaps that exist. these are the pieces that recently arrived and need to be placed. the next couple of months you will see us in this order place 13 west, 13 east, 14 east, 14 west, and connect them into the bridge. over 350,000 bolts are used to connect this. there are 28 sections overall. these are the final four pieces that will complete that deck. they are some of the most complex ones we have had to build for the bridge because inside of them is the anchorage of the structure. the techniques topic are the cat -- the tphebnext topic is the c walks. we have seen this happened. you can see slightly different the process that they used to

put them in place. this is vintage footage but the same type of structure. steel cable, steel or chicken wire mesh that the workers work on. we have wooden platforms on top of the mesh. you see this guy struggling a little bit to get in place. these guys had to do some different things than we had to do. but again you can see there the cat walk creates the geometry of the bridge. in the 1930's when those came out that is when bay area residents saw what the west bands looked like. that is what you are seeing right now. in the past few weeks away put our cat walk in place. you see a couple of film images of what you will see on site as they connect to the top of the tower. this is our back expand, the short expand that goes toward the island. also online we have a couple of quick methods of i think this is

some of the electrical work that was done to put the lighting system in place as we get ready to place the main cable. here is a shot for scale that you can see. you see one person working there. the lights are the exact same fixtures that were used on the memorial bridge in 2002. american bridge procured them and is using them here. when we put those in place that was a preview of what that would look like at tphaoeufplt tonight, the same thing. that is the cat walk segment. the final deck segment installation. that is over the next couple of months. these shots show a little bit of a very large crane -- rg