would be to go towards davis and associates as a consultant that we will be utilizing to help the pc staff. we move forward with the customer notification plan. happy to answer any questions or provide any dish detail. thank you. >> supervisor mar. >> thank you. i was going to ask, it came up in a couple communications. i guess one resident did raise a concern there may be conflicts of interest given that pg&e was a former client. >> currently davis does not have pg&e as a client. they have been a client of davis and associates in the past. as part of the proposal they submitted, they fully disclosed

their previous that pg&e was a client in the past. we did have an independent panel. one of the panel questions was to disclose any conflict of interest and talk about relationships with p g&e which davis and associates did have as did other folks who completed for this contract. the independent panel who scored ultimately selected davis and associates felt confident that there wouldn't be any conflict of interest. also in our existing contract with davis and associates we have privacy clauses and conflict of interest clauses. i think we at the pc feel confident that there is no conflict of interest and any work that davis and associates will do for the pc will not be

conflict future work with pg&e. >> it's wonderful to see daniel webster students in the audience with us today. ms.fox, i did want to ask, davis and associates will do an extensive public outreach in education campaign. was there any discussion how they will reach immigrant communities? >> you'll see in the budget for the customer outreach notification plan is part of the budget. some of that the work will happen by things that davis and associates does. some of it will be pc. it will also having some partnership with community-based organizations who have a much more direct relationship with low income communities, communities of color, non-english speaking community. plus all of the educational materials we have done, will be

in multiple languages. one of the things that we will be reaching out to the board over the next couple months is to also get a sense from you in your district, who are the community-based organizations that particularly reach those community that's are hardest to reach so that we're connected with them and we're partnering. make sure that everyone is informed about the benefits and the financial costs associated with clean power s.f. >> i want to thank you for choosing mlb in this process as well. >> thank you very much. thanks ms. fox, appreciate it. obviously cca is something i did not support earlier last year. but outreach is a great thing. what you're doing is terrific. we will go to budget and

legislative analyst report. i want to say thank you to the daniel webster school. kids, you guys want to say hi? >> hi. >> thanks for coming by. ms.campbell? >> as you point out on page 4-3 of our report, when the board moving forward with c.c.a. in september 2012, they did amend a resolution requiring undertake extensive outreach of the program. these funds, the $1.4 million is suppose to address that issue. we do provide a budget. the $1.4 million will go to the outreach campaign contract with davis which is competitively

selected. >> anymore questions. we'll do this in budget committee. i'll make a motion to -- thank you very much supervisor avalos. >> at this point, i like to open this up for public comment. any members of the public wish to comment on item number four, please step forward. >> [singing]. sometimes i like to quit, the budget doesn't seem to fit. hanging around in thiscy and town. rainy budget days and pc mondays get me down. all we got the budget blues. nothing is really wrong, i want to give budget money and i give you this song and hang the city around. it's city like a lonely budget clown. rainy days and mondays always

get budget me down. hanging around hanging around give the pc budget money all around. rainy and budget moneys always get budget down. give it now. >> okay, any other members of the public wish to comment on item number four? seeing none, public comment is closed. motion to release the reserves and that is second. we can do that without opposition. okay, mr. clerk, please call item number five. >> numb number five hearing persons interested of proposed establishment of business based district known as moscone

expansion district. >> thank you very much. we have lisa from office of economic and workforce development to come and talk about item number five. >> good morning chair farrell, committee member, supervisor avalos and supervisor mar. on november 20, 2013. the board of supervisors unanimously approved resolution to establish base to be known as moscone expansion district. it was resolution 416-12. in this resolution a public meeting on the proposed establishment of the district and collection of assessment was set for january 23, 2013 at the budget and finance committee. no action will be taken at this meeting on proposed settlement district. testimony can be heard and as members of the public are here to testify. in december a ballot for the special election on the proposed moscone expansion district together with a joint notice of

the january 23rd public meeting were mailed to all businesses registered as hotels registered in san francisco. additional testimony on the formation of the moscone expansion district will be taken at the public hearing on february 5th at 3:00 p.m. at a meeting of the full board of supervisors. at the close of the public testimony on february 5th or at a future board meeting if the hearing is continued, the ballots will be tabulated. if the required ballot threshold is reached the board of supervisors will vote on resolution to establish the moscone expansion district. i'm prepared to provide you more information on what the moscone expansion district is but also wanted to let you know that next week budget and finance, there

will be three additional items. there will be a resolution on the finding of fiscal feasibility on the january 30th budget and finance committee to be considered. an ordinance authorizing the certificates of participation issuance and supplemental appropriation for certificates of participation. all of those pieces of legislation will be presented on the 30th in detail and in for the board's consideration. again, another presentation on the 5th. i'm here to answer any questions you may have about the proposed expansion district and go over any information but also want to let time for the public if they are here to testify. >> thank you very much. colleagues any questions right now? i know we will be having many other items about the moscone expansion district coming up in the upcoming weeks. this is an informational item.

thank you very much. at this point in time, we'll open up to public comment. john if you want to come up and speak. members of the public wish to speak, please line up. >> john san francisco travel association. good morning, thank you for having us here. as you know, san francisco travel continues to really appreciate the relationship with the city to transform moscone into a state-of-the-art facility that continue to attract convention business to the city. ensure that we remain competitive. currently the 16.35 million visitors that come to san francisco spend about $8.5 billion. of these visitors, 21% come through moscone. we know that due to size constraints we're at risk losing some of this business. we know from third party report,

we've lost over $2 billion between now and 2019 because of size constraints. the m.e.d. will help us fund an explanation project that will allow us to recoupe a lot of that business so we will remain competitive. doing so, the city will realize significant benefits. these include the creation of 3430 jobs. the community as a whole will realize $713 million over the first seven years in incremental economic activity and the city itself will benefit from $321. with that, san francisco travel is in complete support of this. we know that our hotel community is well. >> i wanted to ask, can you put us in contract compared las vegas and san diego in size and

how this may be competitive? >> well, las vegas is a whole separate university of itself because there are some hotels in las vegas that have convention spaces bigger than moscone. in our direct competitors when you look at san diego, san antonio, washington d.c., chicago, these are some of our major competitors. we remain small. we know there was an expansion currently planned in san diego which would put us at a significant deficit to what they have. we though that groups, particularly in the medical field, generally comes every four years to san francisco. has told us they will not come due to size constraints. this will even the playing field.

we won't be as big of them but we are san francisco we know people want to come to san francisco. our customers tell us, even though you're a little bit smaller now, we want to try to get there but the biggest concern for most of them now is space. this project will allow us to have the space and allow those folks who want to come here continue to come here or come back to san francisco. >> thank you very much for that. next speaker please. >> [singing]. do you know the moscone way of san jose. there will be a place in san jose. i'm leaving on a harvey milk airport plane. don't know when i i'll be back

again. i hate to go. there's sow many time we've come to town and we can use some budget money found. it means everything. i'm leaving on an airport plane. don't know when we'll be back again, are we still hate to go. >> thank you very much. any other members of the public wish to comment on item number five? seeing none, public comment is closed. this was an informational item and informational hearing. if we can have a motion to table item number five. motion to file item number five. mr.clerk, are there any other items. >> that completes the agenda. >> okay, seeing there's no other business. first g is adjourned.

year honoring chinese heritage was >> good morning everyone. it's a great time of the year to unveil-- happy new year actually. my name is claudine cheng. i'm speaking as a past president of oca, organization

of chinese americans. every year is special; this year is specifically more special because historically the first year honoring chinese heritage was in 1993, this is the twentieth year anniversary of that; we are proud and happy that the happy new year series is continuing -- by the united states postal service. oca is a national organization 20 years ago urge the postal service to issue a series of stamps to honor the contributions of chinese americans and we have the support of many local organizations, the chinese chamber of commerce,

the chinese consolidated benevolent associations and many other national organizations and national leaders that joined asking the post office to consider doing that. we see the stamp as an important part of the american cultural heritage; chinese-americans are a big part of it. this is a special year, our twentieth year. i would like to introduce our mayor, ed lee, this is his press conference. mayor lee has been to many, many if not all of the -- in san francisco. in as many capacities as a public official in san francisco. mayor lee? >> thank you caludine for your work. from the first time when you were in dc getting us excited

about our national stamp; really our national culture could be reflected for everybody in america. this is a wonderful opportunity yet again and i know this is the sixth stamp? sixth in the second series. i'm glad to be joined the board president david chiu, our new supervisor norman yee district 7, and rod sengera postmaster general for the san francisco bay area. i see the wonderful beautiful designs that ken mack has for our stamp,a reflection of our cultural heritage. i want to thank the representatives of chinese

companies and many others witnessing this to unveil this again. we are getting ready for the new year. as people know we are finishing up on what i think is one of the most exciting years that we have had with the year of the dragon. you know as well as i do that so many things happened, somewhat miraculously whether the world series or on our way to perhaps a super bowl, and even the economic recovery. i kind of thing from our own culture that it had something to do with the alignment of some great fantastic events that we could not control but that came together. and for welcoming in this new year we call it the year of the serpent but some of us will refer to as as a year of the many dragon. of course i want to recognize carmen chu hao district 4 supervisor as well;

she has been a strong leader helping us promote the new year's as well of course taking care of her district, working as a wonderful supervisor. i am excited about this new year too because it has an opportunity to unveil many of our cultural aspirations in the city of san francisco. it has been 160 years, and we know our history well. my ascension to this office has been one of those things that people still consider me pretty special so much special not because of me but because of our community. this tab will have international status. gobs of people will want to have it, reflective of not

only our history but if i go to washington dc tomorrow we will have an opportunity to talk with the rest of the mayors across the country is to how to celebrate new year's. this would be another example. want to congratulate again claudine and the whole team, postmaster general, is leadership is always been important. and the public service that she does not only in delivering the mail and postal service but reflective of the stamp and the u.s. postal service office that we get this opportunity to have a national platform on which our culture affinities can be displayed. happy new year. (chinese) thank you mayor lee. every year the united states postal service in washington dc receives many applications for subject matter to be reflected on a postal stamp.

we really want to thank the poster service committee for selecting every year for the happy new year stamp, or the lunar year thing, to be part of the commemorative stamp program. with us today is seven cisco postmaster rog cingara (sounds like). >> thank you for that kind introduction. i want to thank you for being with us today and for your support of the united states postal service. i know you have important business in washington to attend to. something about an inauguration. i really appreciate your taking the time out here today and inviting us us to city hall and being part of the celebration. thank you claudine. as always your support and your assistance have been

instrumental and it is very much appreciated. thank very much. and thank you all for joining us here today. this is an auspicious ceremony in this beautiful city of san francisco where for the second year in a row now we have been the official first day of issue city for the lunar new year stamp. i might also add that for out of the six stamps in the series san francisco has been chosen three times to be the official city. we must be doing something right in san francisco. i am honored to represent the postal service. today is an exciting service. we are proud to celebrate our special time with our friends and the asian community. appreciate the beauty of the stamps for them to use in the

new year greetings to families and friends and we capture that beauty this year into celebrating the lunar year stamp. the stamp features the firecrackers that scare off evil spirits and renew hope for the future. the staff is available today at all post offices to help you prepare for the two-year mailings,, greeting cards , party invitations and gifts. we don't have stats available-for-sale at city hall but we do at this table here. we can put the date of issue postmark on them. we have cancellations at lincoln station and also add chinatown for the next 60 days. we are providing the cancellations of those two stations. on behalf of the united states postal service i will like to invite mayor lee and our guests

to unveil and dedicate the 2013 lunar new year stamp, year of the snake (chinese). >> i would like to invite representatives from oca and the chinese benevolent association to join us. (applause)