who would like to comment on this item? seeing none, will close public comment. anything else to add? ok, this is an information item, so we can go to our next item. >> item 8, update on the central subway project. this is an information item. >> good afternoon. in view of the time, i will make an attempt to be brief. i am project management oversight authority. for the benefit of those that may be watching at home and not too familiar with the project, the central subway is in the -- is the second phase of the third street library project, which will go all the way to chinatown. much of last year, the board approved the budget of $1.578

billion. september 2011, the mta submitted its request for the full funding grant agreement, which is the major financial milestone for the project. thus far, the board has allocated $9 million. today, the expenditure totals 173. the full agreement is expected july 2012. there has been some discussion about what happens with the allocation, but in a way that signals fda's intent, they awarded $85 million to the project in fiscal year 2011- 2012, and that is the fiscal

year that ends in september. the phase in which the final design is complete, and it is happening concurrent with construction. the first two packages the tunnels and stations are complete, and the systems package will be complete in made next month. construction, as i mentioned, is under way. the first contract is complete, and the second contract in the area of union square -- i'm sure you noticed the activity there. it is 85% complete. the tunnels contract -- the total board machines have already been awarded -- ordered. that contract was awarded in june of last year for $13

million below the engineer's estimate. it is, of course, a major project, which consists of 1.5 miles of tunnel from under the freeway. it has three separate notices to proceed. the first one was for the african much of the tunnel boring machine, which they have already done. the second one was for the development of the tunnel boring machine launched its, which was actually given in march. the last one is for the actual driving of the tunnel, and that will be happening at the the agreement is received in july. the remaining contract is for remaining contracts. the union square station was actually advertised yesterday, so there are two construction contract right now. yerba buena will follow in a

month or so, and the systems will be the final one, third quarter of this year. commissioner avalos: so what we have seen so far -- i am most familiar with the union square, powell street station, and that is utilities? >> yes. the unions for a station on the streets, preparing for construction of the station there. real-estate acquisition that is on track. there are two sides being acquired. the building has been vacated. i do not know if you had a chance to go by there, but it was in order to protect the building. it was wrapped very nicely with some images of chinatown and also of what the station will be looking like.

mta has been pursuing eminent domain in parallel in case the negotiations do not happen. if they cannot be concluded in time, then they will proceed with eminent domain in order to avoid impacting the schedule of the project. there's also 3 easements. and g-8 received possession in july of last year. here, you have the schedule milestones. i will not bore you going through every single one of them, but the most significant coming up is the full funding grant agreement expected in july. as i mentioned earlier, december 2018 is the revenue service. commissioner avalos: do we anticipate any controversy in pursuing the full funding bread? >> no, basically, the mta wants

to -- once they receive the application, they have been answering questions. the mta has been responding, and everything seems to indicate that it is on track. here, you have the full funding. this is something you have seen before. as far as some funding actions, there was some uncertainty, but that has passed because the state bonds were issued last week. so that uncertainty is going this time. also, the staff is working at the regional state level to make sure that the future funding becomes available, that the bonding happens on time. also, in preparation for a contingencies, the staff is also

working with mtc and other funding partners to talk about help bridge funding is needed because some other funding is delayed. so these plans are being developed to make sure that the project gets billed according to schedule. >> so state bonds are expected in april, that is the slump? >> it was expected in april, but that should have happened last week. so that concludes my presentation. the program manager from mta is also here. i'm happy to answer any questions. commissioner avalos: any comments or questions? ok, thank you for your presentation. we can go on to public comment.

>> i have known mr. ruiz for a long time. i got to know them better when he was involved with third street light rail. as you know, mr. chair, this pertains to your district since you have very little representation in the district. the third street light rail phase one begins at fourth and king and ends in the middle of nova and visitation valley. for those listening at home, over $700 million was spent on that project, and 80% of the businesses were impacted, and a lot of businesses just went away because they could not afford to stay in business.

historically speaking, when a similar project was done on market street, all the businesses were compensated. i believe by the department of transportation. now, on this phase two, because a lot of this is tunneling under brown, the businesses above, especially union street and all, would not be impacted -- because a lot of this is tunneling under ground. but things are put in a place to create safe passages above ground. now, i'm talking on behalf of three or four focus groups that we meet to discuss such issues. we need to get a better understanding of how certain

segments of the population will be catered to. as i have been stating here and in today's public comments, i stated once or twice we have, if you look at our demographic, an increase in the percentage of our seniors. >> we lost quorum. >> so what happens? commissioner avalos: we can stop your public comment, or we can continue? >> no, i think i said sufficient. commissioner avalos: you are back. wonderful. we have a quorum again. thank you for your comments, mr. da costa. any other member of the public

who like to comment, please come forward. seeing none, no -- we will close public comment. this is an informational item, so we can go on to our next item. >> item 9, introduction of new items. this is an information item. commissioner avalos: colleagues, and the introduction of new items? seeing none, okay, public comment? public comment is closed. next item. >> item 10, public comment. commissioner avalos: seeing no member of the public come forward for public comment, will close public comment. >> item 11, adjournment. commissioner avalos: we are adjourned. thank you.

but good morning der community members, like the officials and colleagues. we are here to celebrate a day that san francisco should be proud of, a day that we should all be proud of. the san francisco civil rights ordinance is officially signed into law. i have been the coalition coordinator for the past two years and have seen firsthand the committee's efforts and inspiring bravery to bring us here today. i have also seen as support of elected officials and allies in the community. please help me in welcoming a few of these people to share this perspective today. help me recognized supervisor jane kim, the sponsor of the organizers -- of the ordinance. [applause] >> thank you. i cannot believe we are finally here. it has been a really long

journey. the for our office, i know we came on board in august when we started working with the saved san francisco coalition. but for the coalition it has been an even longer journey. the starting in 2001, but really, the organizing that has happened in the last couple of years working with the police commission, the human rights commission, and organizing amongst community residents and community leaders that you see here today. we are taking an historic step here in san francisco. we are now the second city to put into ordinands that racial profiling is something that we do not do. for the sake of national security. this is already something that our police chief, our elected and community leaders have said and sat again. but we have now put this into ordinands. it has been a really long passage. i do not want to gloss over it. this has been a really

challenging process for all of us. our community leaders, our office, the mayor's office, and many of our elected officials. we had many conversations. i know the chief and i have engaged a lot in what it means to keep our communities safe, but also how to create trust. i am proud to be standing here today. to the effort of so many people like those that want to recognize who helped push this along to the end. we have the department of public works. and standing behind one of our small business leaders here in san francisco that helped us get to the point that we should compromise around a solution that will work for everyone here. and i want to recognize our police commissioners in the audience today, and our human rights commissioner, who helped advise us in this process. and my elected leader and co- sponsor, president david chiu

at, and supervisor christina olague. we have people who want to speak, so i don't want to belong. but thank you for holding with us every step of the way -- so i don't want to be long. but thank you for holding with us every step of the way. [applause] >> our next speaker is a coalition member and community member an active in the community. [applause] >> good morning, respected officials, honored guests, friends and family. i would like to greet you with the muslim greeting of peace, love, and justice. i am a proud member of the coalition for a state san francisco. and i have been working with the coalition for the last two years to address racial and pulled -- and religious profiling and

discrimination of arab, middle eastern, muslim, and asian committee members here in san francisco. my family and friends and fellow classmates have all had to deal with this type of discrimination. after september 11th. it all boils down to the point where eight city officials may discriminatory comments about our -- as city officials made it discriminatory comments about our community. and these comments were very frightening to community members to get it showed my community as a very scary community. we felt that we were second- class student -- citizens and we have lost some of our dignity and human rights. it has not been an easy road for the members of this coalition to get together. before this work, i had never set foot in city hall two years ago. i had never had the opportunity

to work with such a broad based group of grass-roots community organizations. asian-american communities, latino communities, african- american communities, and different communities here in san francisco. it has been a great and i opening experience for me. at the member of the community, i am thankful and proud of the many organizations that have come together in support of this. i am thankful and proud that san francisco has come together to speak for human-rights. i want to thank the council for their help in this struggle. for the mayor and his support. and all of the community members that will be working to support this. it does not matter how many pat downs, where checks, gps tracking devices -- why your checks, gps tracking devices. these are not going to keep us

safe. what will keep the state is community coming together and working together side by side. at the end of the day, we're all here and we are all equal. i am proud and thankful to have been part of this community. my mother is here and it is her first time to be in city hall. this whole process has been a great and wonderful experience for me and my community members. i look forward to the future to come. it was decades later before some supreme court decision finally apologized and passed something similar to this, but i'm so thankful and i'm proud to be san franciscan and part of my community. thank you so much. [applause] >> thank you so much. our next speaker is the executive director of the asian law caucus. [applause]

>> good morning. i'm the executive director of the asian law caucus, and we are also a proud member of the state coalition -- the coalition for a state san francisco. i want to thank supervisor kim in setting the standard against racial profiling. and in support of transparency and local control of our own communities. and our sincere -- sincere thanks to merely for the civil rights ordinance. in the coming months and years, part of the coalition will be working to ensure that the standards enshrine in the ordinance are in a way that protect our communities and shared values. in particular, will be addressing the impact of the ordinance on the existing agreement between the sf tv and the fbi. we plan to meet with various stakeholders how best to meet the ordinance. and lastly, we work to bring the

community leaders together as we have been to be sure that the ordinance robustly fights racial profiling. many of the people we will be reaching out to are in the room today. be prepared to our -- for our calls. we look forward to celebrating with you today and working with you tomorrow. thank you so much. [applause] >> thank you. and our last -- next speaker is the president of the arab cultural and community center. [applause] >> good morning. i am the president of the arab culture and community center, a member of the coalition for a safe san francisco. the center has been working for a safe the san francisco for the last two years. to address very important issues of racial profiling and transparency in san francisco. many of the organizations and

individuals that are working with the coalition are not new to this issue. our community has faced many difficult situations regarding our place in the city for many decades. each of us has tried to work to bring understanding, knowledge, and representation of our community. the center has brought to our communities old and new, and to the issues old and new, and to bring about positive change in the san francisco civil rights honors. because of this board and the mayor's support of this ordinance, it is clear that the city of san francisco stands with our community and working against religious and racial profiling and transparency. again, i would like to thank the mayor, the board of

supervisors, especially supervisor kim, the sponsor of this, and the police chief. thank you. [applause] >> thank you so much. i just want to say, we appreciate you coming out today, especially in light of the tragic fire that impacted a few of the buildings that you manage. i know -- our next speaker is mayor edwin lee. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. ladies and gentlemen, thank you for coming today. it is a very, very happy day for a lot of people, for our city. i think it is true to say that every city on this side of the world, i think, are challenged with this a very basic conflict these days, that conflict that

we see and read about almost every week between our civil liberties and public safety. and it is different in every city as to how it has been handled. and we see different examples of what we fear having happen here. and then we have examples of what could happen. i want to thank the board of supervisors, particularly supervisor kim for her persistence and persisted -- or her persistence in moving this forward through the legislative process. i want to thank the chief of police and his commission to buy because they have also move this conversation forward. but most important and i want to thank the members of our community. they feel the sting or they feel the level of safety and care that the city might have with them and for them. it is in this spirit that we wanted to make sure that we would not end up in the days of apology. that should be long gone.

we should not be apologizing for things that we do. we ought to be moving every community in our city forward with their civil liberties, and enjoying the basic freedoms this country has to offer. it is why everybody who has found a way to come to america, and especially to san francisco. i want to especially thank f ouad, because there were moments where we were not sure what the basis of the relationship would be and what would be its foundation. he has been with us from the very beginnings of the human rights commission servicing the city. and we worked together to deal with other challenges we have had in the city. and it has built upon always a trust that our interfaith community is always helping us

provide for committees of both faiths and immigrant communities. -- for communities of both faiths and immigrant communities. we never want to say we are sorry for something we could have prevented. it is with this legislation and i am proud the today's signing -- proudly today signing that makes people want to enjoy their civil liberties and for generations to come, as well as feel that their safety is also the priority of our whole city family. safe and joins the liberties, where else can you see that happening? and i want to signal my appreciation to the ongoing asian law caucus. i know you are proud of your

work here, proud of the bases upon which we do this. and for me, is always about putting the community first. and all two men become i believe this is the best legislation and one that balances the right tone for our city, but also, that protects these basic promises that we have made for generations. it is my pleasure and my enthusiasm to sign this legislation that you are witnessing. let's do that. [applause] > > are we ready? there, it's done.

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