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things could change. if there is some persuasive thing, i am open to it. i am not sure if there is going to be something huge and persuasive, but there may be a need to make a final tweaks somewhere. if we could really advance the report, i am very comfortable with that, but i am not sure the setting an earlier date right now helps. >> i think i am on the position that the fifth is possibly -- i think we should be ready to draft an ad nauseam to the point
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where we feel comfortable about where we are, and i think we will not decide on the ninth we are moving to the 10th. i think the fed is probably the right statedate, and i think we should leave the last day. >> i will amend my motion to allow a final drive that addresses the larger issues of leave open to polishing and tweaking after that. after the fifth.
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>> if we can to roll call. >> are we accepting that amendment without objection? >> without objection, they will be excepted without the amendment. >> on the motion as amended -- [calling votes] there are six ayes and one no. the motion pass those -- the motion passes. i think maybe we need to restate
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the motion for the public debt on april 9 the task force will provide a preliminary draft -- i am sorry. on the fifth. a preliminary final map which will allow for changes to be made at a later date, and it is april 5. >> correct. >> of his time, i am going to conclude the work plan agenda item. we will move on to task force's budget. i do not have any new updates, but overall we are so well in in thin as a task force overall expenses. >> i have a point of clarification, but on item 4
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regarding mali's suggestions for inclusion, i did not know whether or not we have arrived on fact. maybe i just miss that. we can taket it offline if that is easier. >> if we can take it off line, that would be great. >> i do not care when, but sometime in the next 15 and a half days, could we have some kind of budget reconciliation in writing that shows where we are in various expenses? i would like to feel comfortable but we did our task within the budget as amended. >> thank you.
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>> public comment for task force and budget? task force member reports? >> nothing. >> nothing. >> i had to add we are receiving a few media inquiries, but i wanted to be able to alert you about that, and i anticipate we will continue to get more requests as we get closer to our final states. >> are responding -- are we responding to those requests? >> that those requests go directly to the clerk as well as to our share, and share
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macdonell will decide whether he wants to delete it goes to individual taskforce members. -- if he wants to delegate to individual task force members. >> we will move on to public comment for any items that were discussed this evening. >> regarding the blocks south, i recently learned our new supervisor reside in that area, specifically near baker and fulton, so i suggest you find out where she actually live cents so you can see which blocks might be affected.
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>> i did not finish what i wanted to say about out reach. i said good things, but it now predominantly turned out bad. there was insufficient software, insufficient training, insufficient everything, and although several people were at that meeting, not a single mouth came out of that, and that is a function of the budget. the budget was insufficient. the first thing that goes is advocacy, and things get really bad. let me close by putting on my predict perhaps -- predicter hat. i am going to predict a couple things. portrero is going to turn of the
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way it did 10 years ago. it is going to be put back north of market. there are a couple of differences. we are not in the brown administration, and it is interesting to see the appointments not be giving in lockstep. a representative from chinatown was claudine, and she was completely unresponsive to the requirement, and my question to you now is where is she now. >> as a matter of record, i want to stay faste that as far as i , if you umbrella organizations were contacted, and no input was
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taken for the community unity map, and so i do not know which community they were united, but it was the neighborhoods. just because you have drawn blinds does not mean they cannot be changed. i would encourage you to take a look. redrawsf.org and is really good. it is a lot of fun. it does not take long, but you can actually see where you aren' and the racial makeup of y group in the area, which is what i did on the map you have, so
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draft the lines yourself at home. it has been easy. thanks. >> do we took the words out of my mouth. i do not know how many of you have actually gone to san francisco and drafted your own map, but if you are proficient with it, and it took me about a month before i got proficient with it, but i could probably move to 40,000 people in rotation in about 30-, and it can be done. there was a lot of testimony from people supporting the community saying, you cannot
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change it. it is going to be too difficult to change it. nonsense. the fact is you only need five rotations going in a counterclockwise direction, and 5% will beat weeks you can do in the next two weeks. protrero hill into district 6. the theater district, the islands into district 3, 3700 people interdistrict two 3300 people into district 5, and you have accomplished in 95% of what you need to accomplish, and it does not take a rocket scientist to do it, and it does not take more than one hour to do that.
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>> my name is benjamin gonzales, and i am a filipino american born in san francisco. i have been to a couple of meetings. i thank you for being able to stick to the process. i heard in the last meeting only have showed of -- only half showed up, so i am glad you guys as a committee are able to hear what the public wanted. in february i sat in with a group of filipinos, and we asked who we are and what we wanted. i came to the meetings and saw these different groups defending their areas, and the lines you create are going to build those
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communities the filipino community have not had an actual larry get it was designed as theirs. i heard a long time ago there was a question about japan town becoming little manilla. i am asking and requesting that you recognize there is a filipino community in san francisco, and i hope they stay together in one consolidated area. thank you. >> thank you. at this time and we will take -- >> i did spend many hours 10 years ago of these task force meetings, and i do recall changes were still made on that
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day, but i do see the value of having something before the last day in place. obviously a little tweaking if need be. i do feel we are very late in the game to do something as big as taking potrero hill out of district land. i feel as people felt strongly about it it should have been discussed more seriously early on, so i urge you refrain from doing that. i do appreciate the fact you have been sensitive about traditional communities as in restoring japantown in district 5, along with other important cultural components of district 5. i hope you can keep it or bring back the west side community into district 5, where it really belongs. thank you.
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>> i will take future agenda items. i heard earlier this evening and we wanted to keep pretty similar to the agenda items we had this evening. are there any admissions -- additions? >> i would like to request that i would like to get some numbers, demographic information for the latino population in district 9 based on how it looks now compared to moving the boundary north to the freeway. >> if there are no other adaptations, we will adjourn, and our next scheduled meeting is for wednesday. public comments for future agenda items?
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we will adjourn, and our next meeting is wednesday, april 4, 6:00 in city hall in room 406. >> good morning, everybody. welcome to our america's cup center here at pier 80. i wanted to make some further announcements in light of the discussion that has been happening in our city on our
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america's cup event happening, starting this year, and will definitely have been in 2013 as well. i am here with stephen berkley, the head of the event authority. thank you to you and to jim and mike and our team for working intensely for months on the last few weeks, putting together the development agreement that is part of the investments on the america's cup, which oracle and others have been working on. the last couple of weeks, i have been a key participant with members of the board of supervisors but also engaged between our staff and the abet a party and corp. team staff, to try to get to all of the complex agreements that have to do with the investments.
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i will say, in light of those discussions, some of which have been written about extensively from all of you, i started to get the feeling that people were for getting help on this race is going to be for our city and started talking about not only the complexities of planning, permits, investments, returns on investments, i even have people start mentioning lawsuits that have started to creep up. i wanted to get back to the focus. the focus has always been that we would work with our event authority, with the oracle racing team, to present one of the best, most interesting, and dynamic international races this country has seen, and to get back that excitement and not get so bogged down in all of these conversations that we have been having, particularly in the last
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couple of weeks. we have been working intensely to make sure the event and the purpose of the event continues to go forward. we are announcing today, in light of the complexity that presented themselves, drawn-out discussions over that, we have worked out some agreements, some changes that will make it less complex and therefore get back to the origins of it. the race is still confirmed here, but we also want to let you know, we have agreed, piers 30 and 32 will no longer be in the immediate discussions for development. we will consolidate all of the teams here at pier 80 for this event beginning this year and
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through next year. i think that will help with the conversation. certainly with the level of investments that have been anticipated to repair 30 and 32. we will not be needing those, and we figured that out over good conversation that we had this weekend. that will bring us back to the origins. i want to emphasize, in this decision not to have 30/30 to be a part of this at this time -- and i emphasize, at this time -- consolidation will take place with all the teams but we will still have -- and i am promised, tomorrow, some of the walls around the shed will be coming down as part of the investment in building the james herman cruise ship terminal at pier 27. that will continue forthright in
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that timeframe. i want to get back to the time bring the new want to have for this year and next here on the races that will happen. we are committed to those time frames. we did not want any further disruptions from that. we will be working with our report, members of the board of supervisors who have been notified about this recent change, and give ourselves some adequate time to adjust to those changes and focus on the things that have to be done to get this race ready. mr. ellison and i were in conversations about an hour ago. he is as enthusiastic about getting the race started. he expects to win, i expect him to win the race. we will look at other parts of our report to see how we can do future investment and entice private investors to come in and make sure we can repair some
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very valuable parts of our pier. i want to again say thank you to the members of our event authority. i know lucy is here. carey is here helping us raise private dollars. again, thank you to steven barkley and you're wonderful team for working with us. this wonderful event, with the books that we are starting with, we will start and continue on that time frame and as you have seen here, even though i cannot let you into the secretive rooms that our housing the larger boats, their technology, we will continue on those posts. we will continue to announce that. the time frame that we meet. that is the immediate news. i want to reconfirm, we expect
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to have these races continue. we expect to draw an hour large people around the bay area to see this race. it continues to be a race that will blend of technology of how you view the race, how the votes are outfitted with information and technology coming from the race itself and welcoming in the new generation that will be able to see this for the first time from the shore, waterfront, in new ways that have yet to be announced. not getting ahead of ourselves. it will also involve a new generation of people that will appreciate the fast sailing sport, the youth that we think will be excited about this race and future races to come. this is where we wanted to be. this is where we want to confirm
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the excitement that this gives to our city, a city that is not only dependent but thrives on tourism and events of international stature, as the america's cup is all about. i look forward to getting on one of those ac-45's. i think you have convinced me. i need to feel the speed on that. that will happen shortly. i will make sure i have my insurance in place before i do that. otherwise, i wanted to give mr. barkley a chance to comment on the change and to reconfirm the things we are doing to make race successful. [applause] >> thank you, mayor lee. the thing that i would like to get across from the amendatory point of view it is, the timeframe we are working to was always aggressive. we had a year-long construction project on pier 30/32.
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we compressed that into nine months. when we looked at where we were at, where the city was at, ourselves, we collectively came to a decision that maybe this was the best way. for those that no the intricate details in the planning for the america's cup, you know that pier i-80 was always the contingency plan for teams to base themselves here in 2013, just as they will do so here in 2012. with this behind us, we can focus on having a fantastic sailing event in the san francisco bay, first time it has been done before, and we are really looking forward to it. [applause] [applause] >> we are going to take a few questions and then break. the mayor will be available in smaller groups. a couple of questions?
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>> are you scaling down your expectations on economic benefits? >> no, i expect the race will continue to draw what we were expecting. 5000 people on a daily basis coming in. the races are still planned the way they are. we expect the bay area to receive a billion dollars worth of economic impact from the races. we are building on that. still, the complexity of the transportation plan, the housing of people here, even to this weekend -- i was working on the taxi hackathon, making sure that they are servicing all the different visitors we expect for the event. we are fully expecting the economics to be as great at it had been. >> could you follow up on those
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potential construction jobs at pier 30/32 that will be lost? >> i do not have all the details there. obviously, the immediate development of 30/32, there will not be those jobs there because we will not be developing. does that mean it is forever lost? i do not think so. those piers are very attractive to future development. we will have the discussions in the future. they are planning for this. it is not forever removed, but for this race, at this time, i believe it helps with going forward with consolidating everybody here and making sure the race is the primary focus and timeframe that we want to have to have a successful race. >> [inaudible]
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>> and the scope of the project at 30/32 was to repair -- refurbish those piers. i think the estimate was $30 million. what we have done here, a couple million dollars already spent here. there are 80 people working here. at last count, 24 local hire people from this neighborhood that are here with one team. i personally see this being replicated along the pier. we will also need to look at -- i do not think this will fit for all the teams -- but we may need to look at putting some teams on the end of pier 27, 29. that was always the plan. from the authority point of view, we see little changed
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other than moving the teams from 30/32 down to here. the biggest chain would be if someone wanted to walk from the village to pit row, they will now need to get on muni or something. >> [inaudible] international part us alart fesg on at the same time as the america's cup. have you made any inroads with that? >> i do not think we have ever rejected any idea. i think we have been quite excited about the integration of art throughout all of our events. i do not see a stalling any discussions around it. if they feel that way, i will get in touch with them, but i do no