transportation commission. it's very highly rated, this project was very highly rated in the program so planning will be fully funded by that as well as a match from tita. it's about 18 months duration of the planning study, a total contract value is $300,000 and we are meeting actually exceeding the db equals for this contract for this team. i'm happy to answer any questions. the competitive process we did receive 4 bids and interviewed 3 and recommended the strongest. thank you. thank you. any members of the public that would like to speak on this item? please come up.

>> i'm sorry, i just wanted to quickly acknowledge that we have jim from pb here if you have any questions for pb. >> good morning, commissioners, my name is jackie sacs, i'm from the citizens advisory committee and i have also been on the advisory committee for the doil drive project. this firm and very familiar with this firm because they are the ones that got the pressidio parkway done. i strongly support that you approve this contract and i hope do you this same. thank you very much. >> thank you. are there any

other members that would like to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is close. colleagues, any thoughts or ideas on this item? seeing none. we have a motion? thank you very much. motion by commissioner ferrel. madam clerk please call item no. 5. >> reading item no. 5. this is an action item. >> thank you very much. >> good morning commissioners, deputy doctor director for finances administration. this is the annual budget since we

adopted the budget in march. what i have for you is on page 47. it's attachment a. a high level view of the budget adopted for fiscal year 2013 and the changes we are proposed and what we are looking at if this item were to be adopted. on page 45 i have a more detailed version of the budget amendment where we go line byline with different types of grants. i would like to point out the items we will be increasing and decreasing on a budget. the first item is our prop k sales tax revenue. this amount was budgeted at 77.5 million, but as of january 14, we collected $2 million in sales tax revenue. we recommend we increase it by $7 million.

then we have the corridor investment study. since the last budget we were able to obtain $81,000 and san francisco state university and general properties of the galleria. we anticipate spending about $63661 for the grant activity. in august of 2012 we were able to obtain a grant for $1.5 million. we will increase federal revenues and decrease other revenues by $251, 892 dollars. next we have the project, we are experiencing a total amount of

$91,000 for next year. during the year we were able to obtain $434, 531. the treasure island mobility mansion, the item you just heard before, this item, we received a $500,000 federal grant from mtc. we will be spending approximately $64, 101 this year. this is the largest budget announcement. we are recognized $34.1 million revenues we'll be receiving from mtc. what happened is we anticipated this in the last fiscal year but do -- due to a

lack of full completed analysis, we were not able to pay cal trans and not able to recognize that revenue. this year we anticipate we'll receive most of the invoices and anticipate receiving full complete invoices to recognize the full $34 million. in addition to the project, there has been a switch of responsibility. more like a shift. cal trans has asked authority to take on more responsibility with the p 3 contractor and with this there would be additional $3.3 million of expenditures but no overall budget adjustment. the budget will remain the same for that project. for the better market street, this was an item heard before the board. an additional $305,000 and we anticipated spending $327,000 of that in the next fiscal year

to. highlight, i would like to say $61,000 was received in grand by the harney way transportation plan. we were able to contract a couple more items through the travel demand model service bureau. we also will be taking off the caesar chavez redesign services because we were able to finish that project during the last fiscal year. in terms of our capital project for the prop k program initiatives, we are increasing our capital projects by $20 million. this is for 59, 40 foot motor coaches procurement project they were able to procure this item in advance of what the original schedule so we plan on adding

$20 million to this budget. last item, as you may recall during july of last year, we were able to obtain a new line of credit. with that line of credit we were able to reduce our interest fees by approximately 1.2 million. in relation to that, we'll not need the $295 million debt that is originally put on the adopted budget for the fiscal year. we are in process to determine whether well need that for the next year budget. in terms of the cac, this item went before the cac and there was a unanimous muss -- vote for this item and we are seeking a recommendation to approve the amended budget for 2013. i'm happy to go over more details or answer any questions you have.

>> thank you, very much. >> see if there is any public comment on this item. i see one person. >> good morning, commissioners, my name is jackie sacs. i'm a member of the cac. i was one of the individuals that asked for approval of this item in our last cac meeting and it was voted unanimously and i hope you do the same. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. seeing there was no other public comment, public comment is closed. there is a motion that we move this forward with a positive recommendation? all right. motion made by commissioner david chiu. without objection. all right.

it moves forward with a positive recommendation. madam clerk please call item no. 6. >> any public m ebbs that would like to speak on item no. #6? okay. comment is close. >> no. 7. public comment? public comment is closed. madam clerk. >> adjournment. >> thank you. we are adjourned. hey, guys. i'm with the

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test, test, test, test, test >> call meeting to order. >> (calling roll). >> item two approval of meeting for the meeting. >> second. >> motion to approve. march 26th >> second. >> all in favor. >> i and a item 3 pledge of allegiance. >> flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

>> item 4 please be advised that the ringing of cell phones and paramedics and similar devises are prohibit at this meeting. please be advised that a person maybe escorted out. and a person may commit on the report. member of the public and port staff thank you for joining us. on behalf of my commissioners we're at 5 now commissioner murphy. and commissioner brandon is still sitting in the jury room

and hoping to be realized. but it's my honor to welcome you commissioner murphy. i want to give a little bit of background on you if that's okay. and we're looking forward to having your expertise on part of our work. we've been really, really busy. our initial calculations are showing in the last 5 years the port will have invested almost $300 million as the - your timing wouldn't be better. commissioner murphy is a left hand california real estate broker and a successful real estate developer in san francisco and in arizona. he is also the founder and director and chief exclusive

office for the investments. you may know he recently served on the office and - as you'll hear was born and raised in ireland and has traveled all over the world has come to san francisco he was headhunted and sent off to europe. and he founded two very successful entrepreneurs. he's a founding member for the alienation of responsible growth here. we look forward to working with

you. if everyone will please join me in welcoming the commissioner. i guess you'd like me to say a few words >> before you say that i want to welcome you as well. i echo the comments of the director and speaking one that joined the port recently you couldn't have come at a better time. we're thrilled to have you join us >> also commissioner murphy it's a principle to have you on the commission we now have 5 i was outnumbered by the women. i think now we'll go forward and i look forward to working with i >> thank you very much. i say thank god for the women or

i wouldn't be here. i want to thank the mayor fraught u first of all, nominating me to this commission. it's a an honor for me to serve and to serve the city and a county of san francisco. i can tell you that my soul is here in san francisco. i love this city. i've just been away for a week and a half it was great getting back to san francisco. i'd like to thank monique for making this transition easy for me and also amy who got my schedule it out to arizona for

me. i've admit a lot of department heads i've enjoyed meeting them. so i'm a newcomer going i don't know very much i'm willing to be teachable and i want to do what's best for all citizens of san francisco. and again thanks a lot >> thank you commissioner and welcome i suspect you know more than enough to help us out. i think as you know commissioners the last week there was an article in the san francisco chronicle having to do with the ports. we thought it is a very important issue for the port and we think it's important to share

with you what the port is doing and why we're intent on protecting the birds >> good afternoon, commissione commissioners. as monique said there was a report in the chronicle a week ago and on channel 2 news last wednesday and there's a few things we would like to follow-up on and correct in those reports. so it concerned offspring at pier 80.

osprey a protected under the federal law called the any congratulated treaty. it's - this law is enforced by the fish and wildlife serve. it protects a lot of birds their eggs and nests as well. for the seagulls we're concerned about the western gulls. in particular regards to bird nests conversations with bird life staff their guidance documents and also federal and state management plans

consistently indicate that nests in the process have been constructed are not active nests. the n ta does not prevent - knocking down nests that are empty are not a threat. so this speaks to the heart of the pier 80 as i'll describe. if i saw the article you may recall or you may recall from last spring as well that we celebrated having a pair of osprey show up at our according

terminal and nest on top of one of the according cranes. we allowed the osprey to raise their chicks. the end of september 2012 the port removed the nests. we did after consulting with the san francisco group and also a communication with auto bond. after that there was wire placed on top of the crane to detour the birds from come back. initially in communication with auto bond we flooded the idea of setting up a platform we

suggested a park to the south of the terminal areas. ultimately that offer wasn't accepted there were concerns both by auto bond and also some folks in the port will encouraging rafters to go to a park and they might eat the other birds that are there already. so we remain hopeful that the osprey would go to the complainer cranes at 96 those have been abandon and their equally as at all and attractive as those on pier 80. this spring our crane crew has

been testing this. the port i've got to say never intended to have the cranes available in the spring. on march 26th a person noticed osprey on crane 80 and they were carrying sticks. wednesday morning the crew operated the crane and observed no nests. they did remove a few sticks on the end of the crane. there's nothing on the crane that met or approached fish and