>> okay, aerfb wn thank you so much. that brings us to the end of honoring small business here in the city and county of san francisco. as you can see we have amazing

small businesses. a lot of folks who not only run their business sw hire locally and give back to the community and they are the reasons why san francisco is such a great place to live. i want to thank you for taking time and comdown here and hear about the different businesses in all the district in san francisco. i'll tip towing to district 10 to get my nails and toes done pretty soon so again thank you for being here and thank you regina. i see moneta white is a business owner in district 1300 on fill more. i get hungry in business week when they talk about restaurants and next time restaurants are required to bring food. other than that thank you and we'll continue with the agenda and go back to our appeal. thank you

and congratulations . madam clerk can we return to our regular business and finish with our appeal inand know that we already heard from the planning department and we now at a point where we can hear from the project sponsor which will have up to 10 minutes for a presentation >> good afternoon again president greed, members of the board. charles [inaudible] public works project management and

responsible for the earthquake safety and emergency response programs. we have a small presentation to offer today regarding the project. my colleagues sam [inaudible] has hardcopyies of the presentation if you wish to see it in hard copy form. a few components to this brief presentation, first off would like to offer a very quick recital on [inaudible] as you know we passed 2 bonds under this rubric june of 2010 and june of twen 14. june of 2010 provides fund frga rea of neighborhoods fire station projects among them station 16. it is one of 4 seismic replacement projects, 5, 16, 35 and the station on treasure island which is

partially funded by easter funds recollect number 48 which rfs inogierated today and in operation tomorrow. we invite you to visit that station if you would like. as a mentioned [inaudible] in addition to the 65.1 made available through easter 20s 10 we have another 85 million being brought forward to address fire station needs. we are addressing 23 station under the 2010 program and intend to address the balance of station through 2014 bond program. what i would like to do is to introduce chief [inaudible] lombardi with the fire department to speak to the matter of operational characteristics, this facility and come back to me for closing remarks. thank you

>> thank you president breed, boretd of superizvoors thank for having us here today. speaking to station 16, it serves the marine aneighborhood bounded by pacific avenue, van ness and lieen street. if you look that map in front of you you see the area is full of liquefaction which makeatize a unique fire house after a seismic event such as loma reeta and the big earthquake down there. part of the easter bond is to when we do a rebuild it is to make the fire housing a central facilities and that should make them fully operational up to a 7.5 earthquake where not only will be they be standing but we can go to work immediately after with full power and operation of the doors, which in a area like this makeatize essential for us. as you know, san francisco is unique special when it comes to fighting fires outside the

liquefaction. we have 44 fire houses in various neighborhoods throughout the city. the reason for so many fire houseicize to respond immediately to fire. we have a zero lot lines and the toapography make a unique for rapid spread of fire so that is why we have so many fire hows throughout the city. this fire house in particular houses 1 engine and one truck with a total of 9 members working 24/7 with over thert members of the house. combine the engine and truck last year ran over 3500 runs out of that location there. the fire department-we also do jet skies and water rescue out of this area. they keep