>> yes. the motion passes. >> okay. the motion passes can you please call item 7. >> item 7 authorizing the contract purchaser to enter into an agreement for the not to exceed $4 million efforts of the purpose of engineering international airport safety program. >> okay. and for item.

>> he the resolution before you - the board of supervisors has approved our bid requirements and as f co- is the only company that manufactures the products

we

>> >> any questions? >> though not to exceed $35 million, the total authorization is $40 million and that's because it would provide for a contingency of about 4.8 million dollars which we think is reasonable. we do recommend that you approve this resolution. >> okay. questions? seeing none. we'll open up to public comment. items on no. 7. seeing none? public comment is closed. >> we have a motion to send to

recommendation. >> please call items no. 8 and 9 together. with respect to certain equipment be used for city purposes approving the issuance of not to exceed 2.5 million. >> okay. thank you. maybe you know, are you presenting on this item?

>> i certainly can. we have between 10 and $13 million that we use to fund leases for various equipment items within the city's budget and the legislation before you appropriates those funds as they were intended. we do have a budget analyst report that recommends approval. >> thank you. >> mr. chairman, on page 66 of the report we point out that the 87500 is estimated at 12.2 million in $380,000 in interest with the annual debt service of $2 million over the six year period. all the equipment on

the attachment on page 68 of the report was approved by the board of supervisors in the 2013 budget. we do recommend that you prove the resolution and ordinance. >> okay. thank you very much mr. rose. any questions. >> seeing none we'll open up to public comment. >> how are you. if there is anybody that would like to publically comment on items 8 or 9 step forward. seeing none public item is closed. call these items together. motion to prove the resolution of the ordinance? we can do that we can iv seconded and do it without opposition. mr. clerk do we have any other items. >> that completes the morning agenda. thank you. we'll take a 10 minute recess before the next meeting begins.

thanks, very much. meeting adjourned. >> >> if you are interested in our local city government and would like to work with 18 other enthusiastic citizens committed to improving its operations, i encoura

>> hello. welcome to "culturewire." we are here today with bay area artist jody chanel, and we are here to see the plaza where your piece has just been installed. >> i have been doing large-scale paintings in the galleries and museums, and the idea that in the future, i could do something that would hang out a little bit longer than the duration of the installation the kind of appeal to me. i quickly found out about the san francisco arts commission school and realized there was a

pre-qualified school you had to apply to, so i applied to the. >> how long did it take you to develop this work for the plaza? >> this was a fast track project. design development was about a month. >> let's look at the beautiful mural. i have never seen a mural created on asphalt. >> the heat of the asphalt, a new layer of asphalt. then, these wire rope templates that were fabricated for the line work get laid down and literally stamped into the asphalt, and then everything was hand-painted. >> maybe you could talk about some of the symbolism, maybe starting in the middle and working out. >> [inaudible]

the flower of industry. >> it is like a compass. there's an arrow pointing north. >> within the great bear consolation, there are two pointed stars here. they typically lead one to the northstar, otherwise known as polaris. so i thought it has a layer of theme. >> let's talk about some of the other elements in the peace. we are walking along, and there is a weather vane. there's a sweet little bird hanging on the side. what kind of bird is that? >> [inaudible] the smallest of the gulf species, and it lives around the bay area. >> you want to talk about the types of flour patterns that you send? >> [inaudible] around 1926 or so by the dahlia

society. >> what is this bird here? >> that is the california quail. >> coming up here, we had a little blustery theme. what is this area here? >> this is supposed to be the side view, the expense of the golden gate bridge. >> there it is. >> there are really beautiful elements of architecture still around, i would say that it gives that feeling over to the work. >> what are your hopes for it? >> that in a way it just becomes part of the area. i think it is starting to have that feeling. people utilize it. they sit and, and have their lunch and play on -- they sit

and, and have their lunch and play on that -- they sit and come and have their lunch and play on it. just for it to be part of the neighborhood. that is my hope. >> is such a beautiful addition to our public art in san francisco. thank you for joining us. it was nice to meet you. and thank you for telling us about your beautiful mural. thanks for watching "culturewire." before, addiction and depression kept me from living my life. and now, every step i take in recovery benefits everyone. there are many options that make the road to recovery more accessible. it begins with the first step. join the voices for recovery. for information and treatment referral for you or someone you love, call 1-800-662-help. brought to you by the u.s. department of health and human services.

welcome home, man. i'm nicole and lindsey, i

like the fresh air. when we sign up, it's always so gratifying. we want to be here. so i'm very excite ied to be here today. >> your volunteerism is appreciated most definitely. >> last year we were able to do 6,000 hours volunteering. without that we can't survive. volunteering is really important because we can't do this. it's important to understand and a concept of

learning how to take care of this park. we have almost a 160 acres in the district 10 area. >> it's fun to come out here. >> we have a park. it's better to take some of the stuff off the fences so people can look at the park. >> the street, every time, our friends. >> i think everybody should give back. we are very fortunate. we are successful with the company and it's time to give back. it's a great place for us. the weather is nice. no rain. beautiful san

francisco. >> it's a great way to be able to have fun and give back and walk away with a great feeling. for more opportunities we have volunteering every single day of the week. get in touch with the parks and recreation center so come >> there has been an acknowledgement of the special places around san francisco bay. well, there is something sort of innate in human beings, i think, that tend to recognize a good spot when you see it, a spot that takes your breath away. this is one of them. >> an icon of the new deal. >> we stood here a week ago and we heard all of these dignitaries talk about the

symbol that coit tower is for san francisco. it's interesting for those of us in the pioneer park project is trying to make the point that not only the tower, not only this man-built edifice here is a symbol of the city but also the green space on which it sits and the hill to which is rests. to understand them, you have to understand the topography of san francisco. early days of the city, the city grows up in what is the financial district on the edge of chinatown. everything they rely on for existence is the golden gate. it's of massive importance to the people what comes in and out of san francisco bay. they can't see it where they are. they get the idea to build a giant wooden structure. the years that it was up here, it gave the name telegraph hill. it survived although the structure is long gone. come to the 1870's and the city

has growed up remarkably. it's fueled with money from the nevada silver mines and the gold rush. it's trying to be the paris of the west. now the beach is the suburbs, the we will their people lived on the bottom and the poorest people lived on the top because it was very hard getting to the top of telegraph hill. it was mostly lean-to sharks and bits of pieces of houses up here in the beginning. and a group of 20 businessmen decided that it would be better if the top of the hill remained for the public. so they put their money down and they bought four lots at the top of the hill and they gave them to the city. lily hitchcock coit died without leaving a specific use for her bequest. she left a third of her estate for the beautify indication of the city. arthur brown, noted architect in the city, wanted for a while to build a tower. he had become very interested in persian towers.

it was the 1930's. it was all about machinery and sort of this amazing architecture, very powerful architecture. he convinced the rec park commission that building a tower in her memory would be the thing to do with her money. >> it was going to be a wonderful observation place because it was one of the highest hills in the city anywhere and that that was the whole reason why it was built that high and had the elevator access immediately from the beginning as part of its features. >> my fear's studio was just down the street steps. we were in a very small apartment and that was our backyard. when they were preparing the site for the coit tower, there was always a lot of harping and griping about how awful progress was and why they would choose this beautiful pristine area to do them in was a big

question. as soon as the coit tower was getting finished and someone put in the idea that it should be used for art, then, all of a sudden, he was excited about the coit tower. it became almost like a daily destination for him to enjoy the atmosphere no matter what the politics, that wasn't the point. as long as they fit in and did their work and did their own creative expression, that was all that was required. they turned in their drawings. the drawings were accepted. if they snuck something in, well, there weren't going to be any stoolies around. they made such careful little diagrams of every possible little thing about it as though

that was just so important and that they were just the big frog. and, actually, no one ever felt that way about them and they weren't considered something like that. in later life when people would approach me and say, well, what did you know about it? we were with him almost every day and his children, we grew up together and we didn't think of him as a commie and also the same with the other. he was just a family man doing normal things. no one thought anything of what he was doing. some of them were much more highly trained. it shows, in my estimation, in the murals. this was one of the masterpieces. families at home was a lot more

close to the life that i can remember that we lived. murals on the upper floors like the children playing on the swings and i think the little deer in the forest where you could come and >> i will be chairing this committee. i would like to thank sfgtv for covering this meeting. mr. young, do we have announcements? >> yes. please close all electronic devices.

items active today will appear on the may 14th, 2013. >> thank you very much. we have a long agenda here. please keep moving. please call item no. 1. we have mr. kelly head of puc. perhaps we can hold for questions at the end. >> that would be great. thank you for being here. so knowing that you have a long day ahead of you and you just finished yesterday's meeting this morning. what i would like to do is go over our presentation and i would just want to thank you guys ferrel and members of the budget committee and

manager for the puc and i want to let you know this is my first presentation as my new role and it is to deliver good news. it's always a great opportunity to be in that role. also this is our first time preparing a two year budget and this is a first midyear review. so i would like to spend time to walk through the presentation and just talk about all the changes that we have and mostly good because all increases that we have experienced we are able to offset it with savings and then the second major thing i want to talk about is two of our major infrastructure improvement programs which is a water system improvement program and also the sewer system improvement program and really talk about how the rates are structured and keep that on

track. and so one of the things also is that because we do a 10 year capital plan and 10 year financial plan, it pretty much helps set the vision to where we are headed to maximize opportunities. we want to go over that. so as part of the presentation, the focus today is to really talk about where we stand in mid cycle update an also i want to talk about the puc priorities and improvement to the infrastructure. and we'll talk about the budget adjustments. as we talk about the presentation one of the things i want to illustrate and hopefully a key theme thank you walk away with is