districts, lighthouse for the bright and visceral and visually impaired. some of them are here today. i would like to say thank you for all of the great work they have done. also, as i mentioned, our staff will go out to the different neighborhoods and senior centers to do the educational presentation and outreach. there neighborhood including multiple neighborhood located including chinatown, bayview, mission and tenderloin. our audience we reach are very diverse and non-english speaking. and then the presentation, the presentation is translated in cantonese, mandarin and spanish to address the language barriers in the community. at the same time

during the presentation, we take the feedback from the community and then share that with our city panel agencies such as mta. here is a picture of our staff talking to the seniors at their safe streets for seniors and tenderloin. [inaudible] also, our safety for seniors program educational materials, one for safety for seniors brochure, i believe everybody has one in your hand. also, our senior outreach card and both of them are translated into foreign languages. we give this out to the seniors during our presentation, and community panels. the seniors really love them, because [inaudible] the people say they

feel much safer and helpful as they go out. i also have the sample i brought here. if you feel - and feel free to reach out to me for more if you need it. here is my presentation on our program. i am happy to answer any questions you may have. thank you. >> any questions? just a real quick one, i noticed on your presentation you have high injury neighborhoods that you are covering for your presentations and outreach. are you doing any at "all lives matter" one the sunset or ocean avenue area. the sunset area we have several presentations before. we don't have the main

focus there. we have one scheduled july 11 with our group called senior power. that would be another presentation in the sunset area. we would also like to schedule moore one the area. thank you. >> if you need help in my district anyway, district 7, there is quite a few senior programs and i know, you look at the stat over the last two years, even though sometimes you don't consider high injury area. you look at the stats and see how many seniors are actually being killed and you will see that it is pretty high, relative for everything that happens in the city. i think that is

something we shouldn't ignore. i could rattle off exactly where they were killed. >> thank you for the comment and we will follow-up. thank you. >> any public comments on this item? educational outreach. mr. wright. >> the program that you are reaching out, i would see - like to see you reach even further than that. you have a city college situation here where students can go to college for free. it seems like a good program that you demonstrated the negative gas flow. i would like to see reach out to the board of supervisors, all of them in order to get legislation

for people that is economically disadvantaged and families of all nationalities including asians that are on your welfare care not cash program. in order to receive those type of benefits you are not permitted to go to college it's unconstitutional. it's a violation of the 14th amendment pertaining to due process and equal protection under the law. you have a situation enjoyed by one set of people that can go to college for free and another set of people that can't go to college and educate themselves and for free as well. i would like to see you outreach to the board of supervisors, to see if you can get some legislation for people debtors seeking not only disadvantage, not only in your own nationality of asian people, but all nationalism - - nationalities of people here in

san francisco and on the economically disadvantaged program. by the same response, this chancellor i believe is very scandalous. he says he find me $50 million asking for a $50 million bond plus a $2.5 million additional bond, and you claim that you're going to be with a surplus. the truth of the matter is you are in debt and you're getting $2.4 million so you increase the debt up to $52.4 million in debt. he is scandalous. first he told us he was $11.5 million in debt. turns out it is $32.5 million. you can outreach like that. >> thank you. next speaker. come on up.

>> good afternoon commissioners. i am from curry senior center. i am one of the vision zero grantees. in here there are letters that we have drafted, and on the letters it says dear city, in san francisco, half of all pedestrian deaths resulting from deaths is persons 16 and older. make industries of the tenderloin safer for pedestrians. we urge you to address the issue listed below in a timely manner so we as older adults and adults with disabilities can safely utilize the sidewalks and crosswalks in our neighborhood. by making the intersection at leavenworth a pedestrian scramble to lessen unsafe sidewalk congestion at the corners. by stopping left

hand turns on church street. in leavenworth with red lights and by posting speed limit signs to post traffic. addressing these issues should be a priority for any cd leader that values the lives of older adults making these changes now will allow us to live longer and healthier lives. thank you. >> any other public comments? public comment is now closed. >> mr. clerk call item number nine. [reading items] >> good afternoon. my name is victoria truong i am one of the program planners at the safe streets evaluation program which takes a look at some of our key bicycle, pedestrian projects. i want to showcase some of our highlights of the program specifically 15 new projects as well as a few citywide safety treatments. we just released our year end reports, this may, and i have some copies here if you're interested. we talked a lot about our safety proposals

and plans to projects. how are we doing generally on those projects? overall we are performing well in locations where we made upgrades we have lessons learned. people feel safer and more comfortable walking and biking in locations where facilities were upgraded. vehicles are traveling at safer speeds with the reduction of a traveling and traffic measures. more people are biking on streets with newly upgraded bike lanes specifically protected bike lanes and lessons learned include the mixing zones generally help the conflict but don't necessarily solve the problem. following the implementation of folsom street where we put in a protected bikeway along with other pedestrian amenities. we did a survey with people on the

corridor and we saw that people walking felt generally more comfortable and i think it's also important to note that to people even driving either felt more comfortable or had no change at all which was about 88%. specifically on seventh and eighth streets we saw 16% decrease in in vehicle streets on seventh street and a 9% decrease in vehicle speeds on eighth street. even a small reduction in speed can dramatically increase the probability of surviving a crash. on church street this is a great example of a new bike facility that has led to a lot of success in bike counts. we saw a 287% increase in bike counts in the evening commute time. also a large increase as well in the morning commute. with folsom street we also saw

80% of people driving yielded to bicyclists at mixing zones. we saw 4% of observations at mixing zones resulted in close calls or near crash instances. i will talk a little bit more about alternatives later in this presentation. >> aside from large corridor project we also looked at localized spot improvements and tools that improve safety. specifically we did look at tainted safety zones, flashing beacons and daylighting. generally we see when it comes to making pedestrians and feel safer, painted safety zones work. flashing beacons increasing yielding to pedestrians in san francisco with a lot of pedestrians do not

use them. daylighting improves visibility and reduces collisions between drivers and pedestrians specifically in tenderloin. for painted safety zones we saw that motorists are generally turning at slower speeds. they are yielding to pedestrians more often and they are also turning out a further distance from the curve on the sidewalks. at rapid rectangular flashing beacons we saw 16% increase in vehicle yield rates, 13% decrease in close calls and we have also seen the average use was only about 84%. over the next year we will be evaluating more flashing beacons as we install more on the different types of roadways in san francisco. lastly, for the localized tools we also saw for daylighting specifically in the

tenderloin district we saw 14% fewer collisions within the tenderloin district. on top of that we have been leading the way and continually looking to innovate our street designs over the last year, or past years we have implemented a number of parking protected bikeway's. we installed the first protected intersection at night on division street that was well received by the community and also a number of separated bike signals to improve that movement at mixing zones. for parking bikeways we saw 88% fewer loading violations on church street compared to the prior position. on 910 division st. we saw vehicles are generally yielding to bicyclists as well as pedestrians and also turning at a speed either below or under the speed limit. for separated

bike signals we have looked at two so far and we will continue to look at them as they are implemented. we see 86% of bicyclists comply to signals generally vehicles are also complying to the signals and the close calls compared to mixing zones are almost reduced to only one in those instances where we saw that. the bike signals themselves or reducing the likelihood between bikes and signals. lastly we have a couple of before and after shots of seventh and eighth street here where we have reduced a vehicle lane and implemented a protected bikeway. 17th st. where we removed the parking and installed a protected bike

facility. so that people on bikes and wheelchairs were no longer getting stuck. a folsom street we implemented a protected bike facility as well as curve management to work with the merchants in the general area. as we continue on with our evaluations we will likely come back again at another time to report back on the different types of improvements we are making in san francisco. thank you. >> thank you very much. any questions? icing on. as we implement more and more of these daylighting situations, i don't know if you have the capacity to

study more areas in which we will be implementing in a systematic way. >> i think we will be looking into yes evaluating daylighting, as we do moore one the city. >> the young lady that came up for public comments, before, mentioned leavenworth and turk. i noticed in your presentation you talked about some other places that was of interest to improve in the tenderloin but did not mention that particular intersection leavenworth and

turk when they are making left-hand turns. is that something you can look into. i actually would love, there is a bunch of petitions here, not sure who to give it to, maybe mta could look at that corner to see if we could have a left-hand turn signal there. okay? >> thank you. >> any public comments on this issue? >> i will be brief. i really

want the law of this last section, i think daylight assessment taken. i would like to ask in addition to that, one comment, daylighting; some of you who have been here for a long time may remember, in the past it was 10 feet from every intersection was already day lit and then we passed the law that eliminated it and then the cars were parking up to the curb. this is not a new idea. this is going back to a safe idea that worked for decades. for that very reason i think it shouldn't be something that needs to be justified. it worked very well at that time. the second thing is, one of the pictures showed a picture of taking away the parking on a roadway that had tracks on the middle, one of the most dangerous things as a

bicycle is a parallel tracks in case you have to cross a particularly if they are wet. extremely dangerous to try to right next to those tracks. if there could be a general program to try to do that everywhere that those tracks are there, it would make a big difference in safety. thank you very much. >> any other public comments on this item? public item is now closed. please call item number 10. [reading items] >> yes, talking about daylighting, is something we passed recently at the board of

supervisors to implement programs that would make it easier. i don't know what the words are. i was asking mta to daylight as many intersections as possible to come up with a plan to intersect daylight - how many was at? i asked her daylighting in a year. was it 500 corners? i don't remember. >> good afternoon, chair e. it

was 500. we wanted to make sure that we could commit to something we could actually get implemented. are aspiring to at least that. we are limited by resources and capacity >> i did not great i just could as we saw with the tenderloin project it, in did we will get at least that type of result, if not better. i since that there would parking is impacted. you

know, it would personally respond to people that think it is better dave parking spaces. the point is here on the future, for a future item that strategy be read this committee. on tuesday, the board of supervisors passed which expanded telematics vehicles is an advanced x speed baking and so forth. with the significant buffets including increasing safety. since 2017, more than

40,000 of our cities, telematics will be expanded to nearly 1000 public safety vehicles requesting a banana and audit and have the safety benefits presented to this committee in the future. for introduction? i add and elect comments on introduction >> i would like to have you add to the new item of a possibility building affordable housing around the particularly focusing in on the who sleep and use that facility has a shelter because they have nowhere else to go the income and your reservation systems are yet have you address

that, because where they consistent. i would also like will to the millions of dollars the target you never see multimillion being addressed advantage people in san francisco. i would like to have you include that in your future plans and organizations, have these house rehabilitation locations where the behavior all can provide permanent locations for these people who live and have treatment at the same respectfully. >> any other public comments is not a clerk, let's call the next

item. >> item 11, general public comment. >> okay.

>> this is a reminder to silence all electronic devices. this is the regular meeting of the fire commission of wednesday

, dune 26, 2018. item one, roll call. [roll call] item two, general public comment members of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes on any matter within the commission's jurisdiction and does not appear on the agenda. speaker shall address the remarks to the commission as a whole unknot to individual commissioners or department personnel. commissioners are not to enter into debate or discussion with the speaker. the lack of the response by the commissioners are department personnel does not necessarily constitute agreement with or support of station -- statements made during public comment. >> thank you very much.

at this present time, is there any member of the public who wishes to give public comment? please approach. seeing none, public comment is closed. any questions or discussions for the commissioners at this time? >> item three, approval of the minutes. discussion of possible action to approve the meeting minutes from june 12th, 2019. >> any member of the public who wishes to give public comment on item three? please approach. any questions or discussions from the commissioners? [indiscernible] >> i wasn't at that last meeting

>> and also, president cleveland asked that it be changed that he was present and it says excused on there. i have changed that to show that he was present. >> okay. that is duly noted because i did want to acknowledge that as well that commissioner cleveland was here. >> yes. >> are there any other comments from commissioners? public comment is closed on this item. i need a motion to approve. >> so moved. >> seconded? >> seconded by vice president or -- right -- vice president covington. all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> approved. thank you very much. >> item four, presentation on the overview of department facilities. they want to provide an overview and update on status of department facilities undergoing

renovations and information regarding the fire chief residence. >> thank you very much. welcome again. thank you very much for coming to our commission meeting. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm the program manager of the earthquake safety and emergency response bond. thank you very much for this opportunity this afternoon to present a high level to you our bond program. certainly any specific question you may wish to ask, we would be happy to answer that within our capacity here. with me this afternoon are my two project managers, both of whom are intimately involved in the day-to-day workings of the

particular fire projects under our offices. a little bit about for background, if you would, the legacy. we passed two bond programs since 2010. both with a resounding support from the voters of san francisco we are among the highest that has embraced bond programs that have been advanced to the voters on a modern -- in modern history i think that speaks very well to the support for our first responders, the fire department certainly, as well as other projects in service to the needs of san franciscans. in these two particular bond programs, we have done approximately $140 million -- hundred $50 million to fire facilities.

there have been funds spent on the emergency firefighting water system which is, of course, an asset dedicated to the fire department's use. as you can see, we have also been in service to other first responder targets around different departments. so what we have here, at a high level, we have project data points, if you will, and i will speak to these broadly since you certainly can see the particular data points offered to you on the screen. fire station 16 long-awaited, was finally delivered earlier this year, and so in that respect, we're happy to have that under our belt. it took far too long. i think we all know that. we are pursuing what we call liquidated damages against the builder for having taken this long and without the sanction, if you will of public works

towards completion of the project. that assessment will be, in a sense, paying back to the city its cost for having supervised and managed the work over the period of time that was in the unexcused time that it took the builder to complete the project. those are the proceeds that make the program whole, so to speak, and there were of course, many expenses as a result of that extended time from the city and from associated others participating in the project. fire station five, another wonderful project just recently completed. you all know it, having been there at the inauguration. we are very happy with this project, inasmuch as it sets a new tone, a new template for how we will approach other projects,

especially replacement projects, so we are certainly learning quite a bit from any station to complete and take that knowledge forward to other projects that we expect to be doing in the coming years. fireboat station 35, let me see if i can get this. fireboat station 35, and exciting project. i know we are all looking forward to seeing it come to fruition. there are particular things that have been accomplished in recent times that have given us some momentum here, the clearance with the approval, but most recently, i guess you could say, with the bay conservation development commission. we have given notice to proceed with the project construction. the float is being constructed

in shanghai. it will be coming to the city effectively at the end of the year and the construction of pier one at treasure island will initiate in the first part of 2020. we will be completing that construction towards the end of 2020 and subsequently inaugurating the facility. both the demolition, which would indicate here starting september , and the. one construction beginning in the fall of 2020 are cause for celebration, perhaps in what we provided -- what will be provided by the fall of 2020, perhaps early 2021. very interesting, very unusual project. we are very much looking forward to seeing it realized. twenty-six, you all know very quickly, this was an interim, is

meant to be an interim home for the birthing of the fire boats while the project is under construction. if you know the firefighters and crews will continue to rely on fire station 35, but for the sake of the birthing venue or location, it is no located at p. 26. now i will talk a little bit about the projects which are the literally dozens upon thousands of alteration projects meant to address the deficiencies of the defects at all the fire stations that present the possibility of some imposition on the readiness of the firefighters to deploy from these stations. this particular slide depicts both the ese our bond and the public health and safety bond. i would say here at this juncture, that joe chin who is

the program manager for the public health and safety bond is here and he will be speaking two particular components of that bond for which he is responsible , specifically the ambulance deployment facility and the particular focus scope of the work. as you can see here, and i don't need to go through every one of these, but our intention has been, as i said, to shore up all of that, which could possibly compromise the effectiveness of firefighters doing it is that they are meant to do. as we go forward, i will be talking about that in a little bit. we are going to do more robust interventions that are meant to improve the seismic worthiness of the most vulnerable stations. i will go through this somewhat quickly because i think it is the type of project which i am certain you are most aware of.

it is been very important. it is literally where things start and end. in that respect, we have been very methodical about going about replacing all the doors that we can with the funds available to us. we began with, and it is not depicted here, we began with a more modern folding doors as we have it with fire station four, fire station 36, fire station 15 , but we have come to the conclusion that those doors are somewhat appropriate for new facilities where we can ensure the appropriate safe working dimensions and distances from apparatus, from firefighters, for maximum safety. that is not the case with many or most, perhaps. we have transitioned to different doors, the telescoping of the rolling doors that are as effective as securing the

facility and are safer for an operation. one of the benefits of that is while we have budgeted for more costly for folding doors, by virtue of this change in direction, we will earn back some savings that we will hold onto until we are clear of all of the outstanding expenses and our low result from the close of this component of the bond. we have been doing shower renovations, somewhat, sort of pedestrian -ism improvement, but very critical to the firefighters and their health and safety to be able to rely on serviceable showers that don't leak, that provide proper water pressure and so forth. another key improvement within the focus scope category of work

generators are another component of the work we are doing to address that which is a need of showing up and improvement. generators are very important, obviously. we need to be able to rely on emergency power should there be an incident that takes us off the grid. these are all being brought to modern standard for emergency power. we have also, in addition to the generator, it for example, fire station three which was desperately in need of work at the rooftop, we replaced the generator, did heating and ventilating, air-conditioning related work, and a roof replacement. this was the facility drastically or dramatically in need of intervention and that is a project that we completed a couple of years ago. i will stop here -- actually, i will do this one, joe, if you don't mind. i will ask you to do ambulance deployment.

the seismic tower removal is that which is necessary to avoid the collapse of those towers onto the house and which would obviously pose a life safety risk, so we have discovered particular stations that need to have those towers removed in order to ensure the avoidance of that kind of scenario of a collapsing tower back onto the house. one of the necessary obligations that we are following is, and it was imposed on us by planning, which was to rebuild the hose tower and fire -- in fire station 15. that was done because that era of station represents a historical asset or resource, and they felt as though they

could allow us to demo all the rest of them, but they wanted us to retain one tower that was demonstrable of firehouse design from the midcentury. so that kind of up things and i won't go into the weeds on this, but we are finally clear on that we are past planning, we are now going to the building department to secure permits so we can set about doing that work and the related other projects. i am talking about emergency generators, so i won't delve into that further. at this point, i ask joe, the project manager for the public health and safety bond to speak to the ambulance deployments facility. >> before we do that, madam secretary, we have a commissioner who has joined us. thank you very much. >> good afternoon, commissioners imo i am the public works program manager. i will quickly go over the public health and safety bond program as compared to the easter program.

public health and safety is a $350 million g.o.p. on program that includes funding for three client departments and includes line shares for department of health, and also the department of homelessness and supportive housing, and there is also a subset that is for the fire department, which is the 58 million that is of the $350 million that is allocated to fire department -related projects. charles had gone through the focus scope that is included as the bond program. i will quickly go over one of the key projects that is underfunded by the public health and safety, which is the ambulance facility project located on gerald street. it is currently in the early phases of construction. we issued a construction start to the contractor towards the end of 2018. we are currently in the piling and the foundation phase of the

project. at this point, everything is still on schedule to complete by september of 2020, and would move in 2021. at this point i will turn it back to charles to finish up the presentation. >> concluding this presentation with a depiction of the 2020 bond program. as you no doubt to know, the total project budget being provided for the fire department is $275 million. that money is meant to be assigned to a variety of different projects. the only one that we could probably say with some certainty is the fire training facility. the other ones are perspective. we do have a range and array of projects which we discussed with the fire department, but were --

we are precluded from committing to those as projects until we have achieved our ceqa clearance they will be within the realm of the focus scope projects. we still have many improvement projects that -- at existing stations that are needed to bring that quality of life to the stations. separately, we have seismic reability asian work that i mentioned to you earlier, which will either mean rehabilitation of existing facility where possible, or replacement where not possible. often with structural upgrades, the existing facility can't support that in a sense that often it requires a certain dimensional reality that isn't possible. we lose the ability to the structural improvement. the only way to do it is with a new facility. that was the case in large part with fire station 16. fire station five also benefited , as you can see, it is

a nice, rumi facility and appropriate to help people move around safely on an apparatus a floor. two other potential projects we are looking at is a bureau of equipment replacement. we are thinking that we would seize on the completion of the adf, and its departure from 1415 evans to provide a venue for a new bureau of equipment which is desperately needed for those of you who know where they are currently housed. as we mention, the new training center at a location yet to be determined, the city's real estate division is working very diligently seeking to find a venue that is appropriate. perhaps you will remember from my last presentation, we're looking for parts of about 7 acres. which if you know what is available, it can be a tall order. the schedules are to be determined. certainly what we seek to do is

to get very quickly to a scope judge resolution so we can begin the project of pace, you know, escalation is not our friend and it is hard to know what will happen in the construction market in the coming years, but generally speaking, things don't get cheaper as the years go on, barring some financial collapse. we can expect the cost of construction to continue to rise we will work with a variety of partners as we deliver work. certainly our greatest partner in this endeavour is a fire department, with whom i think i can hopefully say without fear of contradiction that we have had a marvellous working relationship throughout the first two bonds and we would expect no less a going forward in the third bond. but we work with designers, architects, engineers, we work with some of our own staff if they are appropriate to the work and have the capacity and capability to render the work. we work with our own. the first bond sale, which brings the real money, is likely

to occur in june of 2020, a few months after the passage of the bond. i figure we have about a seven year window of opportunity to deliver the work. as i said, you know, time is of the essence. we like to get work underway sooner than not, but we are mindful of the department's operational realities in regards to closing any one or two or three stations at one time. some maybe our excuses -- exclusive to that, but we know that we will work with the department to set up a proper trajectory of projects so we are not creating any unnecessary burden on the operational realities of the department. i do want to conclude here with the fact that we do have a bond report. the cover is shown here on this particular slide. and we have what i think is a wonderful webpage.

on this webpage you will see as the header of that shot, virtually any information you would wish to know or to have for us to better understand these bonds, how they have fared over time, you know, the particulars, if you will, we try to be as transparent as we can. certainly that is of great benefit when we go about seeking voter support for bond programs to be able to demonstrate that we have always been a very forthcoming about what we are doing, how we are doing it, what the costs are and such. there is clearly other oversights that we accrued that is the citizen's general obligation bond and it offers up all of that which is very important for accountability sake. we go through audits, we have a myriad of folks who look in on the work that we do. we like to think that it does, and has stood up to the scrutiny

of those different entities and that it will continue to do so. with that, we have come to the end of our presentation and we would invite any comments or questions you have. >> thank you very much. before we have the commissioners ask questions or comments, i will call for general public comment on this item number 4, presentation of overview of department facilities. any member of the public who wishes to approach the commission. commissioners? public comment is closed. commissioners, i'm not sure if the roster is working so i will just call you by acknowledgement [indiscernible] >> is this thing on? i just have a couple of questions. you mentioned there are some savings in the switchover from the roll up and closures to the

full up -- full up and closures. are we still satisfied with the safety of those in case of a power outage as opposed to them being able to open those if there was some sort of power outage? or the shifting of the building? that was the understanding that i had as to why we actually went to these folding doors. chief, his or someone in your staff that can -- >> i would ask sherry to join me here at the podium to speak to that point. >> good evening. yes, they operate manually in the event of a power outage, so it is easier -- the mechanism that makes them go up and down i think is very easy for the firefighters. >> is that the opinion of the fire department that these stores are just as effective and

just as safe as the other doors? sorry to surprise you. >> yes, i know the assistant deputy chief has been a point pursing in this, and yes. >> and he has the ability to ko any bad ideas in regards to -- >> absolutely. absolutely. he understands first hand first-hand what our operational needs are and yes, he has been our go to person on this. >> great. okay. as far as a savings, i know there was also some liquidated damages in regards to station 16 , and it was a subject of conversation in earlier commission meetings as you may or may not know. how much in liquidated damages is the department seeking? >> approximately $470,000. >> and are those liquidated damages going back to d.p.w.? >> they come back to the fire department and the neighborhood

fire station component. the project needs to be made whole, in other words, that is what the assessment -- it is not a fine or a penalty for finishing late, it is more to recoup the cost of having administered the work over the duration of time that, in a sense, wasn't sanctioned by the city, and wasn't compensable to the builders. therefore, they put us on the hook for those expenses. that is money to make us whole again. >> i think my question is more along the lines when you say make us whole, are you talking about your department of public works or are you talking about the fire department? i understand what liquidated damages are. >> there are a variety of expenditures that range from public works staff who administer the project and we have full time resident engineers who are responsible for providing the oversight on the work. we have some percentage of two

fire positions that belong to the administration of the bond program. they are expenses that are generated by the participation of those individuals to participate in all projects for that matter, but certainly some percentage of their time accrued against this particular project, so these are all expenses that have transpired or occurred that we need to be made whole and that is why we assess against the builder. >> as i understand liquidated damages i have some experience. they are an estimate of expenses that would otherwise have damages that would have been encouraged by certain entity that would do them. in this case you were saying that you are employees of d.p.w. , but is there any of that money that is going back to the fire department because this is dragged on for over a year.

we had firefighters that were living in three other stations that were spread out throughout the city and three other stations doubled up, and i am wondering, for an extent of an additional year, and i'm wondering, when those firefighters got back to station 16, they found themselves having to pay for all sorts of new equipment and kitchen wares and stuff like that. they could have easily come from that type of funding. my question is, you guys were put out, but we've got members of our department that were put out for over a year living in doubled up situations. and i am wondering if any of that money is coming back to the department, and if so, how much? >> let me call magdalena. she has been spearheading, so to speak, the termination of the cost of assessment. just before she responds, the liquidated damages is in part

indicated in the general conditions of the contract of the particular some each day through substantial completion and another some, 2500 before substantial and 500 if i am not mistaken through substantial and final. that all adds up against the -- across the span of time that has not been found to be acceptable to the city. the costs are all that, which is on behalf of the department. we do appreciate the imposition and inconvenience for the general discussion of the project. these are monies that are meant to speak to the capital improvements of the project, not to other expenses that don't belong to the project proper. we had a separate fund for furniture fittings and