dbe contract compliance officer to interview folks like mr. chan and other businesses that were rejected. >> next speaker please. >> deraline davis [sounds like] >> i am also on the cbe coalition of business equity. i am appalled to with this but is done as it relates to small businesses. it is unacceptable. i have been in the central subway project and then kicked off that project for no apparent reason. also there are other small contractors, they have not had a fair opportunity to participate. this body should go back and look and review the legalities of this contract,

and how it impacts small businesses like mine to work in san francisco, where we pay taxes every day. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> alex chu, followed by lance carren [sounds like], last speaker. >> my name is alex chu, president of the asian-american attorney and cpa firms. we are also a member of the coalition for economic equity and also the council of asian-american business associations. we are here to voice our request that you reconsider the awarding of this contract. we support wholeheartedly what has been said so far about opposing this contract. we support the coalition's

position. i don't know. there is much more i can say this point. the small businesses in san francisco are suffering. even though there is an uptick in the economy, the uptick has not helped small businesses. we request that you consider this contract. without taking into consideration the impact on the local economy as well as the lack of assistance to the local, small businesses. thank you. >> next speaker. >> lance carrin, last speaker. >> mr. carrin. >> let's see.

two minutes. hello again. i want to follow the discussion, not sure your name, mr. heinicke, mr. fungi, regarding the problems of the schedule. i recommend the article in the morning's examiner by joe eskinosi [sounds like], a full rundown of the problems. you have a 4.7 week contingency where you should have 10 -- i'm sorry, 4.7 month contingency, should have a 10 month contingency as far as scheduling on a 65 million dollar contingency. you should have 160. mr. fungi said it was dated, it

was dated may 16th, reflected up until the end of april. if we were in year four of six years, it would not be a big deal but you have not started this project. you are already in deep trouble as far as the federal government is concerned. i really recommend that you bone up on this; [indiscernible] and get the agency back on track. i would like to point out also that apparently there's serious trouble at union square station, driving piles. maybe-- those are my comments.

i encourage the board to get up to speed on this and stay with your agency. thank you. >> albert wong, followed by howard wong. >> i like to follow up - my name is albert wong, value fire, i work with stanley. i like to follow-up with other points of view brought up. not only by moving up the project said a dangerous precedent for the city agency to ignore the lbe ordinance, in disregarding the benefits to the local economy that can be generated. but also many of us, the contracting communities, have dreamt and aspired to participate in a once-in-a-lifetime 840 million project. now we are about to have this dream taken away not by others

but by our own agency. this project will be built and maintained with local monies for many years to come; local communities are to arrive benefits throughout the project especially from the onset, where it impacts the most. this project must be billed by san franciscans. finally, we are to use everything in your power and wisdom to disapprove this unprofitable proposition. the lbe organizations will applaud and remember your actions. >> afternoon mr. wong. >> howard wong, savingmuni.com.

half of my career has been overseeing large city projects; i am aware of the problems that projects can fortell at any point in the project. with the award of the tutor perini contract, the project report dated may 16, 2013, will drop the central subway contingency to 65 million dollars, or approximately 4% of the project cost. when the federal requirement at this point according to the fta is 10%, or 160 million. but - savemuni.com analysis indicates that perhaps this is even worse than it seems based on records that we have obtained the contingency might be closer to 3%. given the fact that major construction of tunneling and

station deep excavation has not started at this point of the project is prudent to have large contingencies for project with high risk as the fta acknowledges. in 2009, the fta recommended a contingency of 20%, 330 million dollars. the report they wrote in 2009, they said there was an 80% chance this project would cost 2 billion or a 420 million contingency. in the consultant's report, the average has been 39%, requiring a contingency of 600 million.

this project will go over budget. >> mr. chair. commissioners, al norman, -- bayview contractors. i am against your awarding the contract to tutor perini. the only way you work for them as they take your number; you don't think there's. the majority of the people who get left out are the ones for whom you paid these laws. we ask you not to award this contract,; you will not get participation from anybody.

those are the same contractors i work for 10-20 years ago and i got in trouble just working for them. i am asking you not to word this contract. it is not worth it. what happened to us, the people who have to go to the polls and vote the measures for you to get the, money for transportation and of the tunnel, and the system and get out and support the mayor? we ask you as citizens and business owners in the city and county of san francisco not to award this contract. i don't care who you give it to but you need to go out and then again and do it all over again. if nothing else put it back out to bid. >> thank you. >> --

>> good afternoon everyone. i just could not help coming up here and making a few comments. first we are very cognizant of the local business enterprise hiring programs in the city. we have done some of the largest public works in the city from the mosconi second phase to the muni metro turnaround; to the majority of the san francisco airport. we understand these are small business goals. we talk to all the local contractors despite to what you hear. this job is a very complicated, very difficult, one-of-a-kind belowground station excavation project. we did not get a lot of local enterprise quotes on the major categories because it's extremely complex and larger.

one of the largest subcontractors is a local subcontractor. we did everything within our power and are still open to local businesses who really have an interest in providing service on what's remaining to be done. your agency has all the quotes we took from local businesses; i think you would be interested to find out that there weren't that many quotes despite all the rhetoric to the contrary; we did everything within our power to incorporate them. we have a saying, if you don't bid, you don't work. >> excuse me just a second. in the spirit of what people are saying here, sounds like you are saying the local businesses cannot do the work. >> i'm saying that this is an complexity of the job, there are that many categories were

we can utilize local businesses. in the final analysis we held those same meetings and we got a certain number of quotes; we turn in all the quotes to your mta agency and you would be amazed at how few local quotes we got as compared to those quotes outside of the city. in other words what i was trying to say is, in order to incorporate local businesses they have to come, to have to talk, and have to quote to us. those quotes are all a matter of record we turned them all in. >> i would be interested to see. >> first of all thank you for standing up. you do not have to. i can think of 840 million reasons. >> i am here to be culpable. >> i'm not looking for culpability.

one of the concerns is not so much that when you put the work into a few categories; but by putting work into some of the categories you preclude some of the local businesses from bidding and i want to get a better understanding, your response to what is called the rebundling of the contract; maybe the rebundling is necessary. but i think that what we are hearing is that

>> hi. i am cory with san francisco and we're doing stay safe and we're going to talk about what shelter in place or safe enough to stay in your

home means. we're here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco and joined by carla, the deputy director of spur and one of the persons who pushed this shelter in place and safe enough to stay concept and we want to talk about what it means and why it's important to san francisco. >> as you know the bay area as 63% chance of having a major earthquake and it's serious and going to impact a lot of people and particularly people in san francisco because we live on a major fault so what does this mean for us? part of what it means is that potentially 25% of san francisco's building stock

will be uninhibit tabl and people can't stay in their homes after an earthquake. they may have to go to shelters or leave entirely and we don't want that to happen. >> we want a building stock to encourage them to stay in the homes and encourage them to stay and not relocate to other locations and shelters. >> that's right so that means the housing needs to be safe enough to stay and we have been focused in trying to define what that means and you as a former building official knows better than anybody the code says if an earthquake happens it won't kill you but doesn't necessarily say that can you stay in your home and we set out to define what

that might mean and you know because you built this house we're in now and this shows what it's like to be in a place safe enough to stay. it's not going to be perfect. there maybe cracks in the walls and not have gas or electricity within a while but can you essentially camp out within your unit. what's it going to take to get the housing stock up to this standard? we spent time talking about this and one of the building types we talk about was soft story buildings and the ground floor is vulnerable because there are openings for garages or windows and during the earthquake we saw in the marina they went right over and those are -- >> very vulnerable buildings. >> very and there are a lot of apartment buildings in san that

that are like that. >> and time to. >> >> retrofit the buildings so people can stay in them after the earthquake. >> what do they need? do they need information? do they need incentives? mandates? >> that's a good question. i think it starts with information. people think that new buildings are earthquake proof and don't understand the performance the building will have so we want a transparent of letting people know is my building going to be safe in it after an earthquake? is my building so dangers i should be afraid of being injured? so developing a ranking system for buildings would be very important and i think for some of the larger apartment buildings that are soft story

we need a mandatory program to fix the buildings, not over night and not without financial help or incentive, but a phased program over time that is reasonable so we can fix those buildings, and for the smaller soft story buildings and especially in san francisco and the houses over garages we need information and incentives and coaxing the people along and each of the owners want their house to be safe enough. >> we want the system and not just mandate everybody. >> that's right. >> i hear about people talking about this concept of resiliency. as you're fixing your knowledge you're adding to the city wide resiliency. >> >> what does that mean? >> that's a great question. what spur has done is look at that in terms of recovery and

in new orleans with katrina and lost many of the people, hasn't recovered the building stock. it's not a good situation. i think we can agree and in san we want to rebuild well and quickly after a major disaster so we have defined what that means for our life lines. how do we need the gasolines to perform and water perform after an earthquake and the building stock as well, so we have the goal of 95% of our homes to be ready for shelter in place after a major earthquake, and that way people can stay within the city. we don't lose our work force. we don't lose the people that make san francisco so special. we keep everybody here and that allow us to recover our economy, and everything because it's so interdependent. >> so that is a difficult goal but i think we can achieve it

over the long time so thank you very much for hosting us and hosting this great exhibit, and thank you very much for joining (tone)

(music) >> herb theatre,open rehearsal. listen to the rehearsal. i think it is fun for them, they see our work process, our discussions, the decisions we make. it is good for us. we kind of behavior little bit when we have people in the audience. msk (music) >> we are rehearsing for our most expensive tour; plus two concerts here. we are proud that the growth of the orchestra, and how it is expanded and it is being accepted.

my ambition when i came on as music director here -- it was evident we needed absolutely excellent work. also evident to me that i thought everyone should know that. this was my purpose. and after we opened, which was a spectacular opening concert about five weeks after that the economy completely crashed. my plan -- and i'm absolutely dogmatic about my plans --were delayed slightly. i would say that in this very difficult timefor the arts and everyone, especially the arts, it's phenomenal how new century has grown where many unfortunate organizations have stopped.

during this period we got ourselves on national radio presence; we started touring, releasing cds, a dvd. we continue to tour. reputation grows and grows and grows and it has never stopped going forward. msk(music) >> the bay area knows the orchestra. you maybe take things for granted a little bit. that is simply not the case will go on the road. the audiences go crazy. they don't see vitality like this on stage. we are capable of conveying joy when we play. msk(music) >> any performance that we do, that a program, that will be something on the program that you haven't heard before.

string orchestra repertoire is pretty small. i used to be boxed into small repertoire. i kept constantly looking for new repertoire and commissioning new arrangements. if you look at the first of the program you have very early, young vibrant mendelson; fabulous opener and then you have this fabulous concerto written for us in the orchestra. is our gift. msk(music) >> and then you have strauss, extraordinary piece. the most challenging of all. string orchestra work. 23 solo instrument, no violin section,

now viola section; everybody is responsible for their part in this piece. the challenge is something that i felt not only that we could do , absolutely could do, but i wanted to show off. i can't tell you how aware i am of the audience. not only what i hear but their vibes, so strong. i have been doing this for a long time. i kind of make them feel what i want them to feel. there is nobody in that audience or anywhere that is not going to know that particular song by the fourth note.

and that is our encore on tour. by the way. i am proud to play it, we are from san francisco. we are going to play that piece no matter where we are.