would give? it's less likely to get us a competitive price? >> if we don't get a fair and reasonable price, we will bid them out separately. because of the budgetary purposes, we couldn't award it as part of the mechanical piece. >> we didn't have those elements as alternates in the bidding process. >> no. >> how will the timing work if you're not able to get a reasonable price in terms of the timeline for initiating a new bid process. . er we expect to get the prices at the end of this month, early next month for the mep's, the mep's were awarded late last year, we've been nesting the scope with them, making sure they understand what the scope is, we expect to get prices end of this month, early next month. if that doesn't work, we can turn around and bid them out in the august timeframe, we're hoping to come to a conclusion with the existing bidders.

it's a matter of we won't be able to execute the change orders until after the budget has been updated. >> what time of exclusion does that caoe -- create >> the total cost of the park, our estimate is 38 million dollars. the estimate for the landscaping package that's currently being advertised is 24.5 million dollars. so, there's about -- i want to say 5 million dollars, there's probably more than that that we're negotiating with them, but i don't want to tell them how much we want to pay for it. >> is there a motion for approval? >> move approval. >> we have a motion and a second. is there any objection to the motion? seeing none, it passes unanimously.

>> and we'll note for the record that no members of the public want to comment on this item. item 1 is authorizing the executive director to execute an amendment to the office lease for 9685 square feet of office space to 201 mission street in san francisco for a term of five years and four months with ca mission street limited parlt ner ship. >> and sarah is here to give a brief report and answer any questions. >> good morning, sarah jelati, i can answer any questions that you have on the staff report and our broker tony from dtz is here if you have any specific questions that i can't answer. >> first i appreciate the shrinking of the footprint, i know that's not always easy to do, i appreciate you keeping the cost down by doing so. my question is how you arrived at five years as a desired

extension. >> i'll probably have tony come up and speak to what typical terms are. we were asking for three years and our understanding

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>> five years from now, three years from now, i don't know if that will be the case because there's a lot of space coming online, so it may not be as easy as we think, all we can do is hope it sounds like, if the landlord's insistent, then we have to do five years. >> and why wasn't -- did we -- who -- did you do the original brokerage or was it then cassidy and turly, they did the original one. >> correct. >> so, did we have the opportunity to lease longer initially than we did? the project was never intended to be online this early, so i

was wondering what our thinking was, not to get a longer lease from the beginning? >> if you recall, phase 1 was originally before we added the train box would have been done by now, 2014, so the original lease was 2003 and it was an 8 year lease i believe and we negotiated the extension early because we needed larger space, we had more people sitting in one office at one point, so in 2008, we negotiated through 2015, that was prior to adding the train box to phase 1. the transit center would have been completed in 2014. >> did we ever officially say we were not going to build a train box out rkts i thought it was contemplated we wouldn't build the train box in phase 1, but not officially say we don't intend to. >> it contemplated the top down method, the transit section was

going to be built on mound dashing only and there was not going to be any exka*f yeasting of train box on 2. >> and we officially adopted that? >> yes. >> okay, well, then it would make sense. >> is there a motion for approval? >> [inaudible]. >> motion for approval. >> alright. any comments? >> no members of the public wanting to address you on that item. >> okay, any objection to the motion? okay. motion passes unanimously. >> thank you, item 11 si is approved: moving on to item 12 is approving the recommended applicant tos the transbay joint powers authority citizens advisory committee. >> [inaudible] on this item. >> good morning, directors, our cac was formed back in 2007 and we set it up with 15 different seats and each of those seat iss designated to represent a

specified constituency, we'll get a different view nr the transbay program, we have members with two year terms and their terms are staggered such that each year either 7 or 8 seats are up, so this year, we have 7 seats that are up, we also had three members who were not able to complete the sek year of their two year term for various reasons, so we have ten seats that are up for consideration this year and we've recommended 10 applicants for your consideration. we do very extensive outreach process to generate not just applications but applications from each of the various constituencies that we need to have represented on the cac, and we do that through -- we have an outreach list to 1800 people, they get e-mailed, we of course post this on our website, we included it in our

weekly construction outlook that we send out, we have 79 different organizations that we contacted directly, community groups, student group ts, business, environmental, unions, governmental, we of course contacted cal train, ac transit, fmata, we place adds in local community newspapers in the area all to generate a sufficient number of applicants who are able to fill our seating, you'll see in the staff report our recommendations and i would be happy to answer any questions you have? >> questions, directors? >> i just want to recognize and thank scott and tjpa, i know it's a lot of outreach and work and there are a lot of really interested applicants and qualified applicants so i know it's like a big tetris trying to pick folks and i'm glad to see district 6 south of market serving on the cac, i think it's good to have their

perspective as we bring this residential mixed use residents and i see some of the applicants, i will give them the opportunity to speak if they would like, i want to thank you for your work and i think we have a lot of great candidates. so, it's up to you. alice, would you like to comment? >> director, i'm alice rodgers, i live in south park, i've been live lg there for about 20 years both oz a homeowner and as a small independent contractor, and i appreciate the opportunity to possibly serve on this cac, this obviously is going to be a major influence in our neighborhood and i'm very eager to help participate and knitting it in the in a way that is effective for us and to make sure that the broader

regional transportation needs are served as liz bison from the cta told me, if you want to solve the congestion issues in your neighborhood, you need to serve all of those people way far out so they have reasonable and pleasant ways to commute to work. thank you. >> thank you, ms. rodgers. >> we're not ready for public comment yet. i don't know if the other members -- were there other members we'd like to acknowledge. >> >> we can't require the applicant tos attend websinger made it known they are welcome, we have a few others, it's up to them if they want to speak. i think that's all, i think that concludes my report. >> thank you. >> so, [inaudible] would like to comment on this item. >> i would like to very briefly

strongly support the application of paul bendex quho you probably saw right now who is in a wheelchair, i've known him for many years and he is a unique addition of the cac, because of his disabilities, he has a unique side to accessibility. >> and that concludes members of the public that wanted to address you on that item. >> is there a motion for approval. there is, and there is a second from director lee. is there any objection to the appointments as presented? seeing none, it passes unanimously. >> item 12 is approved: directors, that does conclude your agenda for today. >> okay, we are adjourned. (meeting is adjourned).

>> when the new california academy of sciences opened in 2008, it quickly became one of the top tourist magnets in the city. part of the cal academies' astronomical success is the weekly nightlife party. >> i am joined by helen who is here to school me on all the nocturnal activities that are getting ready to take place here. tell us a little about what we can expect to see at nightlife. >> we open up the doors every thursday night at the california

academy of sciences. there are certain things you can see every week you can go to the museum visit the planetarium, and we bring in bars and a deejay or band. it is a different feel from during the day, something different every week. tonight , we have beer and music. -- tonight we have great beer and music. it is beer week. we have a dozen local brewers in african hall. we have a deejays to set up throughout the museum and a live performance at 9:00 p.m. tonight. >> what has been your favorite part as a participant or as an observer? >> my favorite part is to walk around the aquarium in to see people with a drink in their hands, getting to know maybe somebody new, may be looking for a day, or chatting with friends. there jellyfish. i mean, they are beautiful. >> the culmination of the

animals. >> it is very impressive. we do not have this at home. >> tell us a little about some of the spider's we see here on display. >> at the california academy of sciences, there is a very large collection of preserved and live specimens, which are the evidence about evolution. we have the assassin spiders which are spiders that exclusively kill and eat other spiders. they are under the microscope here. research done and the california academy's i rhinology lab suggests that the assassin spiders have been doing this for over 150 million years. this glassed in room is a real scientific laboratory, and the people in that room are preparing specimens of vertebrate that is mammals and

birds. the way they do this is to remove the skin, sew it together in a relatively lifelike pose and ensure that it does not decompose. >> i am a really big class actress fan, so i am here to see them, and beer week. >> i wanted to learn something and have fun. >> i always enjoy it. i am not all is well -- always working as i am tonight. sometimes i come to enjoy the music and to dance. ♪ >> culturewire covers the arts in san francisco and one of my favorite culture artists is here tonight. jason, thank you for being on culturewire. tell us about some of your posters that we have here today. >> most of the posters here are four specific shows or tours.

i am hired by the bands or the venue. >> what is the inspiration behind these posters? >> no, disease of the related to the bay and, of course. music -- it is related to the band, of course the musical content or isn't related to the bed. album covers can come from anywhere. ♪ ♪ >> class actress was great. we have been having so much fun.

i did not realize how beautiful the cal academy looks than that. what other events take place here? >> we do corporate events that night on a regular basis. but nightlife is your best bet to come in as a regular person pharmacy the academy at night and visit with friends. calacademy.org/nightlife. we have details for the next few weeks. you can get tickets online in advance or at the door. >> thank you so much. thank you for watching culturewire on sf gov tv.

. >> all right, good morning, everyone, welcome it our rules committee meeting of april 9, 2015. my name is katy tang, i'm vice chair of the committee. i know our chair, john avalos, will join us shortly and to my left is supervisor maria cohen. >> please silence cell phones and all electronic devices. items acted upon today will be on the april 21 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you, madam clerk, please call item 1, please. >> item no. 1 is a hearing to consider appointing one member to the bicycle advisory committee term