secured $10 million and the project had not included the parking lot, 19th and georgia street to, or a sediment up. we selected a consultant team. this slide shows what the overall schedule was. we looked at beginning construction in 2014. we retained them to do park master planning and cost estimates for the total area of the park. we are going to go into detail design and bid an award for construction. the planning and design his gradual is an enlargement of the green phase and that is where we had awarded the company to do. for its existing conditions and opportunities and constraints. to improve the due diligence we had done for the preferred master plan and planning.

develop alternative park master plan concepts, developed a draft plan and phasing plan, again, our estimate was $30 million. we knew that we did not have $30 million so we had to work with the consultants who had a cost estimator on board to determine how we will spend the funding we have in place. how will we scale the project based on the funding that we have in place. and then finally, identification of a first phase of construction we awarded the contract for $700,000 to do that initial work also recognizing that san francisco public works wanted to retain the right to do the detailed design work, should they have the capacity when we got through the planning process again, the award of the contract recognize that the scope may expand.

jumped to may of 2013, we were successful with the 2012 bond. we added 11 and a half million dollars to the project, utilizing 2012 bond proceeds. we had completed the park master plan alternatives through the consultant team. the total park cost, which are outlined in blue, had then gone up to $45 million. that cost increased -- increase was due to increased site of site due diligence in better understanding of the coastal conditions. adding scope including 19th street and georgia street and understanding some of the shoreline cleanup conditions and site conditions. based on the 21 and a half million dollars, the porch

worked with a consultant the consultant team to identify what would be an initial phase of the project. this was a slide that we presented to the commission in 2013. we identified that brown brown area as the initial phase and that the northern shoreline to the north and the area in green to the east would be a later phase of the park 19th in georgia street was added to benefit not only the park, but all of the pier 70 project, providing more direct access to the ship repair operation, pulling trucks off of 20th street to improve the orton project, a continuation of the blue greenway and connections along 19th street for added capacity to support the pier 70 special use project.

again, this shows how we match the scope of the project with the funding that we had in hand. jumped to march of 2014. we still had to go through design review process with both the city's waterfront design advisory committee and bcdc resigned review board. through those design review boards and community pressures, our project was consistent on getting permits by having to deliver the northern shoreline area. i will jump back slide. you can see here in the brown, we did not have that northern shoreline. here the project was conditioned to get permits and there is also a strong community demand and desire that the project provide access to the bay because of the limited access to the bay that occurs in the southern waterfront. what we did at this point in time was a look at how we could

deface certain areas east of the slipway and to reach two areas to the north to get the northern shoreline. if you look here, we have building 109, building 110, the areas east of the foot way. here we jump and add areas to the north for the northern shoreline. we also delete building 109, 110 and those areas east of the slipway. in doing this, we eliminate voting 109 and 110 in those areas, received approximately $5 million by pulling those projects away, by the addition of the northern shoreline, as you will see a little bit later, was an 8 million-dollar cost, which also includes the sediment cap. as part of the northern shoreline project. in march of 2014, recognizing the additional funding that we had, we went to the department of public works and said we are ready to move forward with a detailed design. at that point in time, they did not have the capacity to move

forward with the project. so as a scope was originally written in the request for proposals, we returned and amended the project a first time to meet the cost of the increase in budget from $10 million to 24 and a half million dollars and to move into the detailed design work. if you look at the budget and fee, they are roughly a 10-12% based on the total project cost. i go into more detail later as we get onto the project. in april of 2014, we pursued a grant with the california coastal commission for bay trail improvements along 19th street and georgia street. as part of the project to improve the bay trail and blue

greenway, we were awarded a 1 million-dollar grant. what that grant did is it allowed us to use funds that were going to go into the 19th t project to be used to help with site preparation for the children's product -- playground we took funding that was intended to go to the roadway, pushed that to advance the project to deliver a children's playground in the northern shoreline area. that increases the project budget to $25.5 million. the source of the funding was the m.t.c. bay trail grant. in october of 2015, the port commission approved the park plan and the bond sale. let me bring your attention to the date. april 2014, we were at the commission back october 2015. eighteen months have gone by, in

retrospect, the portrait have come to the commission in the 18 month period and shared with you what was going on with the project. we did not. that was our staff mistake. i apologize. but during that time a few things happened. we were delayed in getting our permits from the army corps of engineers. time had gone by, escalation at the bidding climate increased. we can attribute that to about $3 million. additionally, through that process, we determined that building 49, which is in the centre of the project, needed to be added to the site. it includes important park infrastructure and utilities. it includes the park restrooms that we need for part of the park of magnitude and be added that back into the project. that back into the project.

jump to 2017. our project permits were continue be to be deplaye delay. we had promised to the community that we would deliver the project at the end of 2018. we stepped back and said how can we move the project forward without the permits. get the project moving. keep the project on schedule to the extent feasible.

we decided to break the bid packages from two bids to three. we started with two because the coastal conserve grants that we received from 19th and federal funding in them and procurement of construction projects with federal funding as a different process we always knew they would be two projects. we said let's break the package down to three packages. start with site improvement that we can do without the existing permits. we prepared a bit package with an estimate of $5.6 million. we awarded the bid for $1.4 million and in the end, the commission approved an amendment to that contract for a total of $4.8 million. still well within the engineer's estimate of the project.

after we bid package one, we then released bid package 2 in mid 2017. the original estimate was $20 million, $100,000. bids came in at $27.2 million. we did not accept these bids and did not have the funding in place to do them. we stepped back and said what can we do with the funds we have in place. we did value engineering, descoping components, eliminating alternative options and decided to propose to bid building 49 separately. we expanded the contractor outreach and all of it required

a package because the bid package 2 had to be broken apart into multiple packages and descoped. we knew there was still going to be a shortfall for delivering the landscape portions of the park. we want back and said wa can we do for the project? we had $500,000 in federally economic development administration funds that had to be spent o pier 70 that's a clok ticking and needs to be spent by the end of the year. we decided that doing hazardous material abatement to building 49 was a good expenditure to those funds. e.d. a. approved that. we had $2.5 million of capital funds in an account for a phase

2 of a sediment cap between the park and the ship repair operations and we decided to put that into the park to get to the projects that we felt was deliverable and what we had promised to the community. here is a summary slide of those expenditures and budgets overtime, starting in 2008 with our 30 million-dollar estimate and our $10 million of 2008 yield bonds. leading to today, where we have $36.6 million for the project and the roadway and the parking lot. it's complex with a lot of steps and a long time. i wanted to summarize that all in one page. this shows that between 2008 and

today, we've been to the commission 17 times with both approval of amendments to consultant and contractor contracts, approvals of bond sales, approval of the parks design and again, we were to do this over, i think there were times we could have been articulate about how the project cost and budget were increasing overtime. between march of 201 2012 and at of 2016, we have had meetings. i've been out to the community for project updates three to four times a year including to the cwag, trail high school hils and updates to the city's

general obligation bond over sitovershi'ite committee. in the community outreach, over the last 10 years, we've secured 11 actions or permits to support the project starting with bcdc design review board approval. city design approval and nepa where edmonton a review for the project. 11 different actions that we've had to -- permits with the support of an extensive port staff team and consultant helps. with that, i'm going to introduce erika peterson who will discuss the bit packages in detail. the cost by parts components. the expenditures by dates. how we can control costs moving

forward. project costs. when she completes, erika and i will be available for questions. >> good afternoon, i am the port's new project manager. i'll be discussing the cost analysis of the park and our path forward on this project. this is separated into items that will be delivered starting over on the right with item one in orange, 19th and georgia street. number two in blue, building 49. number three in green, the 19th street parking lot and the slip way. the northern shoreline. number six in purple is northern uplands. number seven, multi purpose green. number eight, building 49 plaza.

number nine in blue and number two preparation and number 11 building 30 relocation. this pi chart is associated with the previous slide. it shows the estimated cost of each components. park. it is design project management and construction support and hard costs, which is construction. the grand total for phase 1 is $36 million. the slip way repair is a significant estimated cost. this is due to the need to construct the new foundation. the northern shoreline is also a significant submitted cost because of the need of a sediment cap. preparation was $4.3 million. part of that cost was for surcharging the soil and preparation for the park and the

roadway. this shows a $9.3 billion. a significant amount of money that has spent on the cranes as mentioned before and foundation work as well as site preparation. this diagram shows how the project is broken up into five bid packages. i'll talk about the cost of these bid packages on the next slide. package one is 2740 to perform site preparation. construction was started in november of 2016 and now complete. package 2 in red will construct most of the park along with the 19th street parking lot. package three in green will complete the roadway along 19th street in georgia street. it is federal funding that needs to be bid separately as david mentioned and consistently with federal bid standards. package 4, in orange, will provide hazardous materials

abatement for building 49 and package 5 will complete the rehabilitation of building 49, including public rest rooms. this table summarizes cost of the five proposed bid packages. costs are divided by design and planning cost and completed construction bids, construction management, and a total. bid package one is site preparation and it is complete. combined cost for this contract were about $6.2 million. bid package 2 will construct the park along with the parking lot and we currently have bids for this contract. the estimated cost for this package is $25.1 million. bid package 3 is to complete the roadway along 19th street and georgia street. we're expecting to have this completed by the end of 2019. the estimated cost is $1.5 million. package 4 will provide hazardous materials abatement for building 49. it has federal funding and is estimated at a cost of $372,000.

bid package 5 will complete the rehabilitation of building 49 including public rest rooms. this is anticipated to be a bid in 2018 and completed in 2019. and the estimated cost of this is $3.4 million. port staff researched recent projects of similar scale and complexity and determine costs per acre were similar to other projects within the city. can you see that the park at the bottom has an estimated cost of $4.3 million per acre. which is well within the range on the table. it's similar to the $4.2 million for bay view gateway. the two parks here that are lower cost per acre, were not new parks. projects of this size and complexity are at risk of change orders and cost over runs. port staff will implement the following strategies to control costs. we'll work with the contractor

on delivery methods and phasing to control change orders and budget. we'll closely monitor the progress during construction. and if needed, during construction we'll try to continue to value engineer. we will keep on schedule. once completed it will be ex siding showing connections with the shipyard roots. it will have a beach and sediment cap, lawn and plaza areas, the slip way with stabilized basis. site wide developments, building 49, 19th street, georgia street and the parking lot. there are two components of the project that are currently not budgeted for. the children's play equipment and the crane cabs with an estimated cost of $4 million. their locations are circled here in pink. the san francisco alliance has agreed to assist fundraising for

these items. they believe these items are strongly supported estimates of the park and that a fundraising campaign, being led by the community in parka liance would be successful. should the court commission desire, opportunities exist for future improvements using private funds, bond funds or pier 70 infrastructure financing proceeds. these could include areas listed and outlined in blue on this slide. also, which is a dog run. next step. port staff seek to work with the port commission and the public to deliver the park and the surrounding roadway and parking in the most efficient and effective manner condition a judge of of $36.6 million. we wish to build upon the prior investment and achieve the park improvements in alignment with 10 plus years of planning and community engage. in accordance with the general obligation bond and grant funding requirements. thank you for your time. and we'll be here to answer any questions that the commission may have.

>> do we have public comments? toby. and then rusty. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm the co-chair of the central waterfront advisory group. needles to say, this is a much studied project at seawag. although i have to confession, we haven't seen too much of what has been just explained, at least in terms of the funding. as you all know, this is extremely difficult. it has everything in the world that makes things difficult. it has many agencies involved. it has many different goals.

it has strange property full of toxic materials. it's just -- plus, we have the goal of trying to reflect in an honest way the historic nature of the park. i think that all of this, combined together, could cause people to be exasperated. at the same time, it's a beautiful plan. i think a few days ago, i was over at 113 and 114. i hope you all have been over there recently. it is to die for. not that i want to die. it is -- i remember at first how awful it was. you couldn't imagine it would be something beautiful. now it is practically a work of art and certainly it's a work of fine engineering and

architecture. that project was also quite ago va visitingaggravating. i think this is one of those situations where you just have to hold on, look for the end of the line where we'll have something beautiful and important for the city. try to get the port to do the things you want them to do to make it efficient and cost effective. this plan is worth the following. thank you. >> thank you. >> rusty, please. >> good evening, rusty with hosely corporation. it's a pleasure to be here for the second time o.

last time we were trying to get an award for back lines pier 94. we will break ground here in the next week or so. it's going great. this is a really cool project. it is complicated but it really is going to look nice in the end. i just like you to know that i think you have an excellent team on board to do this project. we've been doing a lot of work since i've got here and spoke with you last time with the community. we understand how important it is to work with the community. i work with hal since the early 80s. he was actually my project manager when i got out of college. he is the kind of guy that has a lot of smarts. he can help with the design and short cutting costs, if that's what necessary. i've spent many hours through the night in the arizona desert coming up with some pretty neat

schemes and ideas for projects with him. i'd like to say the team that we have and working under gordon, i don't know how you can do much better than that. thank you. >> thank you. >> hal stobbeer, president gordan ball. i came here because i want to make sure you understand, it takes a company to put something like this together. to put a bid together that is the lowest bid presented and then as your staff has determined, is the most responsive bid. it takes a company to do that. i wanted to make sure you see a face to the company. a smiling face. we put a team together that can put this together. my company is well poise to do

this. we were the first contractor in and first contractor out on the bay bridge. we built the touchdown on the eastside and the oakland end for the bay bridge. we did all the site work around the tunnel. everything outside of the cul decot tunnel we did that. we were the contractor that moved a million and a half cuber yards at hunters point mass grading parcel a. we did all of the shoring, wall work, exterior work, at the devil's slide tunnel. and then we've just, in context of just completing all the demolition, heavy grading, and the finished concrete work that you see right now at trance bay terminal, we're well poise to do this. we have a great team put together to do this. i understand the needs and wants of the community. we are working with them now and we have not been awarded the

project. we're on this, we can do this and we are your contractor. i'm very excited to do this. it's a great-looking project. we can do this. we've got a great team that can do this and there's more of that team that would like to talk to you. >> thank you. >> i would just like to let everyone this is about the park and the staf status of the park. it has nothing to do with contracting at all. next speaker. >> ginger jones. >> gregory. >> how are you guys doing. i'm here on behalf of the corporation. it's been a real good challenge for me, you know, experience wise at the age that i am in given the opportunity to work

with guys on the construction team. i just like to see things continue and this to go forward. so i can continue to learn. hopefully i can retire real soon. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> james price. and then karla tucker. >> james price. no. >> karla tucker. yolanda jones. >> >> my name is karla taber. in the bay view and i am in total support of holesly corporation and it's companies like these that are in our community that gives small businesses like myself that is a up and company coming like' wor-

>> do you want to say anything about the park? >> do i want to say anything about the project. i think it's going to be a great project of the i was born and raised in san francisco. it's projects like this that see that become developed before my eyes. for all these years to add a beautification for the area that i'm very familiar with. to see it being just developed in such an intricate matter i'm proud of it. i'm looking forward to seethe enseeingthe end results. >> thank you. >> yolanda and beau barnes. >> yo la da jones.

>> i'm here in support of the gordan wall in being the contractors out there because they truly work with the community. i just want to say that. thank you. >> thank you. >> beau barnes. and then marine gaffaney. >> hi commissioners. my name is beau barnes. i'm a kayaker and wind surfer and all that. i'm a water guy. i wani want to put crane co paro a bigger perspective in a boating community which includes high school training for out rig ar k canoers, kayakers, whale boats and the whole magnitude. i represent kayaks unlimited, a volunteer kayak club that is

also associated with and work together with the dragon boat training club. so we have a bunch of high school kids out there. we have a lot of energy. my other hat was -- bay access. this is an idea 10 years ago that we said we should start a san francisco bay water trail that will be like a spider web all around the bay so that people can move here and get in there and put out there and take here. it's not a lynn y'al linear tra. with that in mind, we started off slow and we discovered bcdc, and then we discovered may bag and then we discovered california coastal conserveancy

and a plan came about. one of the planners is there and i don't want to step on if he says anything. it started with mission bay. we worked with katellas and rehabilitation -- and we made the mission bay -- it came out really nice. our next step was the first bay, san francisco bay water trail site was in 2015. it was the first one in san francisco. it was pushed by us. now there are now six. candle stick park, which i know is not part of your venue here, is and the crem de la crem, the

crown jewel of this whole plan that's been going on for 10 years, and then there's crane co park because it's a safe manner, in a fun manner, and -- i'm up. >> marine gaffaney. >> i'm with the san francisco bay trail project and i'd like to just give each of you -- >> it's a trail around the san francisco bay running through

all nine bay area counties and all 47 cities. 355 miles are currently in place. and the bay trail is the green in the blue-green way. we have been a part, from the outset, we have been a part of the extensive community outreach that has gone into crane cove park and pier 70 to date. it's no small feat, as you will know getting a very involved san francisco citizenry and dedicated stakeholders to agreement for that we congratulate the commission and staff and the community. while the bay trail at crane cove, this is how it gets built. it's rare our trail openings are counted in miles. while miles are great, it's often the closure of just a couple hundred foot gap that gives us the most momentum. new public access on this part of the waterfront is one such

place where a fairly small number of linear feet will have an out sized impact. given how long this part of the waterfront has been given closed to the public it's not surprising how much passionate interest there's been. i'm the planner for san francisco, marin, napa and slano so i'm obligated to those places by my favorites. i have to say one of my favorite places on the bay trail is the shipyard 3 in richmond. i've always envisioned crane cove park at pier 70 to be similar to that. it is combination of history, industry both current and historic, the bayfront views, recreation and alternative options for the richmond community is very similar to the crane cove park vision. i'm really happy to report how well-loved and used that park and segment of bay trail are

over there in richmond. we encourage and thank the commission and staff for moving full steam ahead to implement both park and bay trail at pier 70. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> good evening. my name is ben, i'm planner for the san francisco bay area water trail. beau gave a great introduction. it's non motorized launching and landing points. the port has been a really fantastic partner since the water trails inception and even before that in providing some of the most premiere facilities throughout the bay area. cane yellowknife park promises to take tha -- cove park.they hf water. beach launches are hard to find throughout the bay. they're ideal for all sorts of different sorts of watercraft

and find a way for people that are just beginning or experienced to come get onto the water. a place like this also provides a particularly welcoming place for programs with san francisco rec and park having swimming programs for many schoolchildren. the san francisco to be a model for the country for providing access and expanding access, not just through swimming but also to the bay and get more of the citizenry out onto the water itself. so thank you for all of the hard work and time spent plannin plan this project. it's embraced by the boating community and i appreciate your leadership on this project. >> thank you. >> >> impart ner experienced san francisco. this is my first time presenting before this commission.

thank you for the opportunity. the park's alliance is a large non pliance supporting and public's spaces as you may know. serving of and working with the city to develop new and innovative spaces and under served areas of the city. together, with our partner organizations, parks land is millions to improve cities parks, playgrounds and open spaces and there was an example i believe in the presentation. today, i am speaking in support of the completion of crane cove park and emphasizing it's important to the city and the region. the park is regarded as an important blue green way project and regional and neighborhood park resource, which is mentioned. the park's alliance is a public convenience and partner with the city to realize a blue greenway vision of trail, connected open space and recreation along

13 miles of the city's shoreline from at&t park to candlestick park. the waterfront have been disconnected from their adjacent and a joining neighborhoods. they help to reconnect residents and visitors to the maritime industry with accessible and attractive public space with the added benefits of shoreline clean up and stabilization. this project is still in completion has been mentioned is a priority for the parks' alliance and we hope you will join us in continuing to move the project forward. thank you. >> thank you. is there any other public comment on this item? come on up. >> my name is ted troy. i operate a business called city kayak in san francisco. i am on a dock.

a man mad-made structure. with the crane cove, what is interesting is it's going to be a beach. when you have a beach, it invites people with lots of watercrafts, not only kayaks, stand up paddle boards and whatever it can be, it's also inviting to families and beginners. so i think it's going to be great feature to the city, where at this point, you don't have a lot of beaches in san francisco. you can go to aquatic park, but this will be the next nearby beach access to, especially people in the southeast area. it's going to be very inviting. for that reason, i think it has a lot more significance for

people so i am in support of this project. >> thank you. is there any other public comment. come on up. >> hi, my name is catherine. i'm a member of the seawag group. i also live two blocks away from the site. i've been there for 20 years. i've lived there since i have my daughter who is now 14. i've been working on this park and hoping it will come to fruition since she was four. she just started high school two weeks ago. part of me is in a state of disbelief that it's still not done and it's extremely frustrating. i also am working on a lot of other community projects as we watch the cranes go up and

unending pile driving and building all around us. i'll all for density, but i also think the city has fallen down in giving us the amenities they promised when they rezoned the eastern neighborhoods in 2008. we're looking at tripling of our population to 5,000, which isn't huge, this coming year, but by 2030, with the projects that you all, some of them that you saw today and of course your well aware of pier 70, and then it's not even counting what the giants will be building. we're going to be near 18,000 people, only in dog patch. and we have no new open facilities and new open space the city is contributing to. they always point to you and the port and say they're providing it. this is it. and so i really hope it's happening now that the building is nonstop 24/7 including the warriors stadium in mission bay. that you will please make this happen as soon as possible, maybe even before my daughter

goes to college. thank you. >> thank you. >> is there any other public comment? seeing none. public comment is closed. commissioner. >> my point of view i don't think it's a commitment to the park. i think it's a money issue and a timing issue. i don't see what is here is a full business plan to get the job done for me. for one, i don't like asking the community to go out and raise the money because we're short. i think we should figure out what to do with building the park with our own money in our own resources. >> all done?

[laughter] >> commissioner. >> well, i'm having set on this commission since 2012, actually 2011, i think i can share some of the frustrations from the community. i don't think there's any we all believe in the mission and value of crane cove park. it's been a very torture us path, which david, i will commend you for being honest in tracking all the development and changes and everything we went through. it's not a path that we would say was the best path and there are many lessons learned. hopefully we can adopt from projects in the future because this has taken much longer and more than any of us have had expected. but it is as someone mentioned, it's expected to be -- we can

figure out what we could have done better. i think right now, the important thing is to figure out how we go forward as quickly as possible. and i guess, understand what we can do in terms of the budget going forward to complete this park. i'm not sure i still understand the percentage of completion. so we spent $9 million but i'm not sure and i hear 2019. i'm not sure where we are in terms of the percentage of completion. in terms of where we're going to fault all the funding issues related to it. i think staff i'm sure having gone through this process of having to present it today, it's probably you've already gone through a lot of self-examination so i don't need

to get the whip out any further in that regard. i do think we want to know what the path forward is in terms of the percentage of completion at this point is there any danger in some of the days you've mentioned and how are we going to find the rest of the money? >> is that a question? >> yes. >> we believe that with the $36.6 million we have today we can deliver. if we had another 4 million we could deliver the children's crane tops but those are two things that we felt and the community felt parks alliance felt that were good components that could be delivered through

giving through the community. there's a bid that is good within 2% of the engineer's estimate to deliver the remaining portions of the park with the exception of the 19th and georgia street. and building 49. however, the park could feasibly operate without each of those components. as erika mentioned, we know there's no more funding to go into the park. what we would do a control cost is work closely with the contractor to phase the construction of the components to meet the project budget and if required, continue to do value engineering. deliver it in timely manner meaning to make decisions quickly with what we have.

if we delay it's my sense it is going to increase cost delivering less of the park. not delivering on what we have all promised the community. and promise the voters with the bond funds that we've secured from the voters. >> i think that this is something we need to complete. i think it's a very important project and it will also add a lot to all of the neighborhoods,

not only to one living in dog patch today but in terms of the new neighborhoods. all of the other open space that we've talked about today is very exciting. i think we have to be committed to complete it. and i think that we will look back and hopefully look at the lessons learned and figure out how we go from here. >> thank you david for the presentation. i too don't feel a need to unpack the history or how we got here today. rather focus on moving forward. i conquer with the comments. i want to say i definitely think like everyone on the commission, we need to deliver this park to the community. the fact it has taken this long is disheartening. i hope there's not other projects that follow a similar path while i sit on this commission. and i think we should deliver it. i do, though, well i agree with commissioner that we should find the money. i want to actually sort of do a

shout out to the parks alliance as someone who lives across the street from joe d and went throh the construction and saw what the parka liance was able to do. i think it brought more community investments to the park -- from about what i've seen. i'm excited to have them partner on this. if there's anything the port can do or help with those efforts, you should discuss as a commission to get this project done. date david, thank you. i really appreciate this presentation. this was very in depth information. it's a great summary of what has

happened over the last 10 years. i think i agree with everyone else that this has taken a long time. i really want to thank you for involving the community throughout the process and trying to keep this thing moving with whatever funds we can pull together. i think that it was app ambitious project for us. i think somewhere along the way it's gotten a little away from us. i think this will be a crown jewel. i think it's something we have to deliver. i'm just really concerned on how we're going to deliver it and with the phase 1 package, bid package, i'm still not sure of

what exactly we're delivering versus what we promised. i'm having a hard time with where our budget is now and what we're trying to deliver and there is no margin for error anywhere along the way. we've already experienced that we're in a very high development cycle. and if one of these phases goes over just a little, we're back to square one. where are we going to get the money to finish this. and so i thought that maybe we can just, since you guys have done so much work here, just step back a minute and say ok, what can we really deliver within $.36 million that we have but leave a little bit of a

contingent' just in case. with this plan, there's no margin for error at all. we have to deliver this park. we have to deliver it responsibly. that's my two cents. >> that means you should have a 10% contingency. [laughter] >> that's what we do with the other contracts. >> well, yeah, we do. we always have a contingency. >> that would be the way we proceed with other contracts. that is how you would eliminate the risk that you are suggesting. what is being proposed is we have a direct hit without a contingency. >> also the fact that some of the things that are funded that are outside of the park should be done. it shouldn't have to wait for this. that can go ahead and be done. what we're actually delivering

to the community, we really need to be proud of that. we can't just put something out there because we made a promise. we have to be able to put something that we think is going to be beneficial to that community that we've made this promise to. >> just to reconfirm the project cost in estimates by those bid packages includes a 10% contingency? so that contingency is in there? i will note that in bid package one, we did have to come back to the commission because we exceeded that 10%. if you go back and look at the notes, the bid came in under the engineer's estimate even when we exceeded the 10% contingency we were still under the engineer's estimate and we gotta additional benefit out of that project. >> i'm not sure what was in bid

package one but i know they came back four times. it's what he with promised in 2011 and i think what we have now is maybe half of that? maybe? >> well, so, we amended the contract three times and that was -- >> right now i'm just -- >> in the beginning we understood that that scope would expand because we started with 10 million and we're about to get the 2012 bond approved and so we meant for it to expand. when we went to the community in the very beginning and started the process, we knew that it waa 30 million-dollar project and we thought some of the funding would come from some of the development parcels that were now parked today. we never promised to the community, i can go back to the

slide. delivering everything in 2013. we told the community that this is what we can deliver with 21 and a half million dollars. we knew it was $45 million. so it was an evolutional process where we said this is what we can deliver. we got push back. the community said we need to have access to the bay. we pushed the expansion to the north and restricted it from the east. i believe for the design stands today, meets the commitment we made with the community and the stakeholders. and also includes benefits to the larger project itself, including the parking lot, 19th and georgia street project. but i also understand here the commission's concerns.

>> i guess -- like the other commissioners i don't want to vote. this is how we got to how we are. i want to commend and you all the communities who have been engage in this for the last 10 years. it is a very extensive project in a very high development period. the cost of this spark escalating every day. right now. my opinion is we need to deliver something that we can be proud of, not something we started 10 years ago and we're trying to piece together now with the funds that we have. i want to make sure within the funds we have, we are able to produce something that the community wants to be a part of. it would be beneficial. but not