the event authority has stepped forward. in the time since we met in september, i think the project has come to greater definition, both in terms of the bricks and nor are -- mortar at the port and what the events will look like on the water. that has helped the event authority build more detail about what they're trying to do. we will hear a lot more about that today. i want to extend my office's an appreciation for their efforts in engaging with the community, city staff, and with everyone that wants to see this event be a success. as you describe it, it upholds the spirit of the leila boroughs corporation -- local hire ordinates and despaired of their broad jobs plan. it is exciting, and want to see the america's cup be a way to kick this into high gear. i think this dialogue today will help us do that. i will hand it over to laura luster. supervisor avalos: thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is dr. laura luster, a consultant to the america's cup event authority. i have been assisting them with crafting th

and she promotes other authors. when you look at camera bsafe hypatia to you so-and-so has it coming out of one month. if the relationship she has with her fans, other writers and all the different platforms. she's really very shrewd. >> whether of a conventional public arrangement or not. >> embrace social media. i know that some of us don't want to. i hear all the time from france and authors, i do want to be unfazed. i don't want to do this twitter thing. >> facebook and blogs and tumbler in interest in the list goes on. >> the bottom line is it is not an option. there are natives now who grew up on these things and this is how they communicate. you have to have a buzz factor. it doesn't matter how incredible your book may be if nobody knows about it. so you have to embrace social media whether you like it or not. it goes back to if you really want to jump in the game. if you want to jump in the game it's a must-have. it's also called transmedia, which means as writers we are creating original content. the conten

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the transportation authority was raised by commissioner elsbernd, where a authority is delegated. given that was a pretty divided vote at the full board it does make sense to put this forward without recommendation for debate by authorities. is that a motion, supervisor or commissioner? is there a second? second by commissioner chiu. colleagues, can we take that motion without -- actually, open up to public comment. any members of the public who would like to comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, can we take that motion without objection? that will be the order. item five. >> introduction of new items. this is an introduction item. >> any introductions? public comments? seeing none, public comment is closed. item six. >> six, public comment.

item 13. >> authorizing a lease amendment at 1390 market st.. president chiu: can we do this same house, same call? this resolution is adopted. item 14. >> approving the housing opportunities for persons with aids program and authorizing the mayor to accept and apply for the hopwa program. president chiu: can we do the same same? this is approved. item 14. >> approving the home partnership program. president chiu: can we do this same house, same call? this is approved. item 16. >> approving the emergency shelter grants program and authorizing the mayor to apply for, accept and expend the allocation of the shelter grants program entitlement in the amount of 507,000. president chiu: can we do this same house, same call? this is appropriate item 17. >> approving the combat -- community development block program, authorizing the mayor to accept and expend the community development block grant program entitlement. president chiu: can we do this same house, same call? this is approved. item 18. >> authorizing the adult probation department to accept a

do you have sufficient authority to inspect compounding authority of pharmacies, yes or no? >> no. >> we please submit to us it to us what authorities you need so that we can see that it is done? do you have the authority to access all records when inspecting a compounding pharmacy, yes or no? >> no. >> please submit to us the information on what you need so that we can see to it that is given to you? do you have authority to require compounding pharmacies to register with the fda, yes or no? >> no. >> would you please submit to us the authorities that are needed so that we can address that problem? do you have the authority to require compounding pharmacies to report adverse events through the fda, yes or no? >> no. >> would you please to submit out us what authority you need in that area? you heard earlier my question about whether or not you have the authorities to define who is a compounding pharmacy and who is a manufacturer. do you have authority to do that or not? yes or no? >> yes, at a very technical level. >> if you need reform or that authority please submit that

is that correct, or is it for the expenses by the havana authorities raided by the event authority -- is it for the expense of the event authority. >> it is dedicated to infrastructure work. we have not planned development of these sites. there is 8664, which provides the state's share of tax implements. those will be available to fund other facilities along the waterfront. >> i want to clarify that again. and i do actually want to talk about taking of a lot, but i will talk about five out a later point. -- talk about that at a later point your go. >> i have had numerous conversations, and it is not easy, because we have a different understanding of what an account is. we are talking about a hard asset accoucap, on where you can draw from in an asset perspective. there were a number of us who had a concern that if there was not a cap you would be able to dip into the general fund. would it be possible to put in languages that clearly states it would never accrue to the general fund or other capital streams, i understand this language said it is exclusive, but just to make it abundantl

i should say this is all the city is obligated to reimburse the authority for, but should the authority to construct a vertical development, presumably it will have an opportunity to recover some of the costs through the regular development process and the kinds of profits it might receive from that development. >> could you repeat that? >> the city has a finite bucket, so that is as far as the city will go, but the authority itself has the ability to recover additional funds. >> they can increase the value of those assets, and if the value could increase, they could be reimbursed for additional costs. >> there is the sale of condos, but it will not be at the expense of the general fund. cracks in no way with they have an actual claim -- >> in no way would they have the authority to draw from the other sources to? >> not under this agreement. supervisor kim: is there a cap about how much of the bond proceeds, or is it about any of those we are putting forward today their mo? >> i got this one. it is all of the net proceeds issued. >> is any and all proceeds? >> the concept is the infras

in 2003, the authority authorized execution of the contract for an amount not to exceed $5 million tovices related to monitoring the navies of environmental remediation activities at treasure island. the contract has been amended nine times and currently has a budget of $1,799,000. the contract consists of both oversight of the navy's remediation program as well as the -- as well as assisting the authority and property negotiations with the navy. this is an increase of $238,400 from the previously authorized amount. amec geomatrix is expected to work on items related to oversight of the navy's remediation program at a cost of approximately $20,000 per month. the contract will continue to be paid on time and materials basis and turmoil be extended through june 30, 2013. the budget analysts has recommended approval and pointed out in the report that the contract was previously governed by titlist purchasing. in january 2012, the board of supervisors rescinded titus as a development agency and they're bringing it back into compliance with the city purchasing policy. we're asking this com

i'm not a best-selling author. my books are actually -- i guess they're all academic, and they don't sell many copies and don't generate much income. so, whenever you're dealing with the issues of -- whether it's literature or any kind of writing, there are two basic interests you have to consider. one is the incentive of people to create the art and so on, and that is what scott stresses, what the authors guild obviously is interested in. but the other is the distribution of these works, and the access of people to these works. and it's distribution and access that has been revolutionized by computers, and in that revolution, which i think is tremendously good thing -- but it does have a negative implication for some creativity. i think it's a scandal, myself, that google has been frustrated in its efforts to digitize all works ever published. they ought to ought to all be dd and ought to be available to anybody in the world. otherwise you're just withholding from people, their access to the great body of human th

it would dramatically improved high-speed rail authority authorization, so that they would be able to speak with all of the agencies in santa francisco. they were able to reaffirm the high speed rail authority, excepting the transit center as the ultimate terminus for the project. we identified maintenance facilities at the bayshore station and established consensus for an operation to accommodate both cal train and high-speed rail operations on the peninsula. specifically, high-speed rail authority agreed to three options from the technical working group to agree with the option that 16th street. the three options developed by the working group involved placing high-speed rail and a short tunnels under 16th street. the graphic that you see, number one is short. it is slightly to that -- to the south, near mariposa. option number three includes land use elements. it would involve a portion of the 282 freeway, as it terminates in the city, replacing it with a boulevard. the business plan from the high speed rail authority was replaced in november of 2011. it is -- it is the continuatio

there is no one standing behind the event authority. i am troubled by this project that is being classified as just a development deal. at the end of the event, what will happen is that the fed authority will have the right to get its money back, provided it only spends about $80 million. after that, it won't get its money back. after that, it has the rights to go through another entitlement process to see if they can develop anything. i think that accurately describes the deal. >> thank you. supervisor kim: no further questions. i know there are a number of other items we would go through in terms of budget analyst recommendations, but i want to open it for public comment, if we do not have additional questions at this time. i am going to read from the cards. each individual will receive two minutes of time. rubin hechanova, peter stoneburg, jim lazarus, louise renny, paul erickson, norman perce. -- perce -- pierce. >> my name is peter stone berger, and i and the commodore of the st. francis yacht club. we have 450 members. we are a sm

i am a consultant to the event authority. -- good afternoon. i believe that what probably will be most useful to you is if i review some of the modifications that have been made to the workforce plan since we last prevented -- presented to you on february 1. what we did represent changes we made to be responsive to the concerns and issues that you raised, particularly with regard to their being very clear consequences if contractors and businesses did not really fully participate and did not perform according to the workforce development plan. so the first thing i need to do is give you a new version. however, i have to tell you that as of this afternoon, there is one change in this version. supervisor kim, i apologize. i have four copies by new york office has a coffee -- i know your office has a copy. >> i appreciate your work on this. we have had a couple of hearings on this very topic since october. the last we had there was a discussion about the appearance of what the consequences would be meted out in the past. the consequences kicked in

of military authorities flowing in. and most significantly, we're represented today with the commander of northern command, general jackoby. as you know, defense report to civil authorities is not a primary mission area for the department of defense. we have codified it in policy over the years and certainly things have advanced since 9/11 and hurricane katrina, but there has been a real gap in detailed preplanning for emergency response, particularly as it works its way down the chain into the tactical forces that would respond, most specifically i think those on active duty. this is an area that we don't tend to pay a lot of attention to and very often when it comes we tray to look the other way. i believe that we have been reasonably responsive in immediate response, immediate response by doctrine and policy are military dod authorities moving out their gates into their neighborhoods when a disaster hits right next door. i mean, that seems to make sense. we have good relationships at our bases and stations and the ab

that negates some of the risk on the event authority. i keep hearing the event authority is taking on risks. that is not clear to me. nobody has been able to articulate to me what that risk is. >> jonathan stern, from the port. i received a similar inquiry from the port commission. i had prepared this slide on the screen. in the interest of time, we did not give a full presentation like we did the port commission. there are a number of risk factors, if i could have the slide above these -- up on the screen, the we have talked about in terms of development. the first test to do with it -- taking this out of order, to cut to the construction and costs risk we of talk about, the budget analysts have pointed out a number of ways and the supervisors have pointed out the ways there are cost risks and cost reimbursement risks, and whether the standards should be a practical cap. based on the estimates we are showing, that balance between $88 million in the present value on the engineering estimates for cost, which third-party engineers have alr

that makes it the rest to the authority high. -- the risk to the authority high. they say we will get repaid by revenues but because they don't know the uses or magnitude, this is a big risk they're taking. this is a risk profile that is advantageous. this gives them flexibility and they have 10 years to try it out. it is hard to assess. on the construction side, the normal side has to do with time and money and how much it's going to cost and time over run. i'm confident they will be able to perform even on the tight schedule that they had. they are responsible stories all running down the center those big beautiful green stones toward the end of march 2nd r block to three and the metal fancy grade to the color of those green and red are the most direct attempt to give very dark in and ask large we have from donna for three important green diamond ring next monday in the invisible sub work to be in the five wrote and thens

those authorities are being used. congress can't ---mile-per-hour indications for americans privacy, the executive refuses to excomplain. the little that we do know about the executives use of the act is troubling. >> records obtained by the aclu show that the act has been violated repeatedly. the "new york times" reported in 2009 that the nsa had intercepted private phone calls of americans that went beyond the limit -- we strongly urge congress not to reauthorize the act in any form. thank you again for giving me this opportunity and i look forward to your questions. >> i want to thank all of the witnesses for staying within the five minute time limit. the chair will withhold his questioning and will start by recognizing the gentleman from california. >> mr. jafer, do you ha jafer, problem with -- procedures that are used by the intelligence conduct these programs, that is if the programs have an annual review? >> i don't think the question is one of competence, i think it's one of to the security's as the court bee

authority. correct? >> i would say it is in excess of that, because there is the organizational -- supervisor kim: there is also the get to set was committed to before june 30, and are there any other amounts that we expect >> yes, there are, and i need to get back to you on that. it is another couple hundred thousand. supervisor kim: so what is planned on being advanced, the pledge of $1 million, that we would have over $9 million as of june? >> yes, i think 9.3, but i will confirm for you. supervisor kim: and this is how we expected to be for the fiscal year? >> yes, and i will get with them and see where they expected to be. supervisor kim: and i think you mentioned this earlier. if this event happens, that we will be able to see the $30 million come forward, and i know that our share of the group has agreed to fund raising, so i think there are a lot of folks invested to make sure this is a success. the question i have, from our perspective as a city, the less we are expected to pay, it is not so muc

[laughter] you know if i had to sum up what i have learned from conservative authors, female authorsand businesswomen, that i have had the privilege to work with over the years, i would probably sum it up like this. this is what they have taught me at least, to value and nurture the relationship you have and if you want others to trust and support you, be trustworthy, be supportive. so as they leave you today and you go back to your jobs and your friends and their families, do this. embrace the success breeds success mindset. help others randy be successful. you will be more successful in our happy. be a problem solver, not a problem spotter, which is a good first step but not the whole story. be a problem solver. find a good husband. most female celebrities will not tell you that piece of advice but i think it's a very important piece of advice. i think if you find a good husband it will again, make you more successful because you are more happy. and while we are at it, be a good wife. i talked to my daughters a lot about this. i think that is one of the things that got lost in the

that makes it the rest to the authority high. -- the risk to the authority high. they say we will get repaid by revenues but because they don't know the uses or magnitude, this is a big risk they're taking. this is a risk profile that is advantageous. this gives them flexibility and they have 10 years to try it out. it is hard to assess. on the construction side, the normal side has to do with time and money and how much it's going to cost and time over run. i'm confident they will be able to perform even on the tight schedule that they had. they are responsible for some of the cost overrides. the most we can reimburse them is we are evaluating that at about $88 billion. we have no obligation to reimburse them. on the port side, there are some flip side risks and i would say this is a big benefit. we do not have $88 million to make improvements to the waterfront. we are getting short term venue's back. the current space on revenues is the current amount we would try to release is about $200,000. we have to get new tenants when a short-term sites return to us. the

the clerk of the authority is erika cheng. i want to thank the following members of sfgtv staff who are covering this meeting. mike freeman and jesse larson. madam clerk, if you can please call item number 1, roll call. >> roll call, [speaker not understood]? present. chair campos? >> present. >> commissioner david chiu? david chiu absent. carmen chu? present. elsbernd absent. [speaker not understood]. commissioner mar? olague absent. commissioner westerner? wiener? >> present. >> please call item number 2. >> item 2 is approval of minutes of the july 24, 2012 meeting. >> there is an action item. is there a member of the public that would like to speak? seeing none, public comment for item 2 is closed. you have before you the approval of minutes for the july 24 meeting. [speaker not understood]. can we take that without objection? without objection. item number 3? >> chair's report, this is a commission item. >> i have a brief report today. this is our first meeting coming back from the legislative recess of the san francisco

that is a separate issue that the housing authority should address. i am not familiar with what they do. they used to have a separate #. i do not know if they use that or 311. that is not something within the purview of the department of building inspection. i also want to make known that we have a housing rights commission, one of our vendors who works with individual that live in housing authority properties with respect to out reach and to assist to make sure items are corrected. unfortunately, sarah was here but she had to leave. she is the director of the organization. it is my understanding that we have some entities that intersect with her and that we do have some things under the con fines of dbi. i understand that he addresses some of these issues as well. this has been a successful program. as you can see, we have been getting very quick response from the housing authority. a lot of times, we are getting complaints from individuals who tell us one of the reasons for contacting us is that they want to use our documentation for purposes of per

in the authority and contract in england say -- the authority it is contrasting with multiple design teams. i suppose you will be seeing those soon in the next couple of months. we have very key pricing initiatives. we anticipate we will have the mobility management agency designated for treasure island, with more than 8000 residential units. that organization will be implementing the pricing and transportation programs required on the island. the core mission of the agency is expected in the spring of 2012. this will give us an opportunity to further reinforce the case for the treasure island transportation project, along with the northeast corridor project, as top performers in the original transportation assessment with the mtc. we have a seminal study on 19th avenue transit that we are

the copyright term is now 75 years from the author's desk, so the author might have died at the age of 75 and might have written his best work when he was 20, 55 years earlier. 55 plus 75 is 130. >> it wasn't the author skill that was out there asking for to be extended. >> seemed to be compressed like five years. why do we have 75 years? >> because it's mickey mouse. >> mickey mouse, mickey mouse. but partly it is sonny bono, because sonny bono skied into a tree and killed himself whereupon he became a national hero and he had famously said -- though he had famously said that copyright should he forever. and so his widow went to congress. copyright should be forever but if you want forever, how about 75 years? so between the martyred sonny bono and mick e. mouse, we have this ridiculous term. it's ridiculous also because very often, suppose you wanted to reproduce, republish something that had been written a century ago but was still copyrighted because the author had died. if it's an obscure work he might find it impossible to find out who owns the copyright. then what do you do? if

as it relates to small housing authority or any housing authority that applies under the act earlierthis year, we're not asking for a recent mission. reprocess starting at point where hud made its first mistake which was our did a poll. a lot to be very clear, as written it makes a point. it said, we will do a data pulled from our database that looks at that year-long number of families registered under the family self-sufficiency program at any particular housing authority. we will post that data on the website, and a link is there. if you click on electronically and automatically take you to the posting. in addition we said, please check the posting to see the numbers we have for your particular housing authority. if you disagreed with that number please then submit a supplemental or an ad hoc report to accompany your submission. we use that submission as the way they calculate the funding for those housing authorities that submitted the ad hoc report even with that, how did a poll was a point in time as opposed to an entire year. and so it didn't take into account. you might have

participation they are asking to require the authorities to retain peers 20 and 28 unless the authority expenditures don't require those assets. this is a leasing risk and interest risk. their thinking is the port would have difficulty releasing those in the short term and we ought to be making payments to the authority infrastructure to avoid that sitting there and accruing at 11% per year. with that, i will turn it back to jonathan but i will be able to answer any questions that you have. >> thank you. starting from the budget analyst recommendations, i'm not going to go over this again but i want to reemphasize that these are a very sound recommendations in terms of thinking about financial risks. every real estate deal is a negotiated deal, so i would be happy to answer any questions about that. before i respond to any questions about that, i thought we should talk about the project benefits and the extraordinary risk profiles. to me, that answers the questions of why there might be extraordinary terms, partially because this is an extraordinary deal. the event has a dramatic lift o

county transportation authority meeting to i am ross mirkarimi, a chair. i want to thank sfgtv for their ongoing excellence. madam clerk, would you please read the roll call? >> >> supervisor avalos? present. >> supervisor campos? present. >> supervisor chiu? present. >> supervisor chu? present. >> supervisor cohen? present. >> supervisor elsbernd? present. >> supervisor farrell? present. >> supervisor kim? absent. >> supervisor mar? absent. >> supervisor mirkarimi? present. >> supervisor wiener? present. we have a quorum. supervisor mirkarimi: very good. item number two, please. >> approval of minutes of the november 15, 2011 meeting. this is an action item. supervisor mirkarimi: any discussion? any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. roll call, please. >> item number two. >> supervisor avalos? >> supervisor campos? >> supervisor chiu? >> supervisor chu? >> supervisor cohen? >> supervisor elsbernd? >> supervisor farrell? >> supervisor kim? >> supervisor mar? absent. >> supervisor mirkarimi? >> supervisor wiener? item passes. supervisor

it does not have that legal authority. the port commission does not have that legal authority just by virtue of the lda. that is one time pressure. the other is just the need to perform the work. the real driver here is piers 30-32. the minimum estimate for the time to complete the 30-32 improvements is about three months. walking through the timeline of the ordinance, if the board of supervisors has a first read on the ordinance, april 3, and then a second read april 10, the mayor could sign the ordinance as early as april 10. there is a 30-day window before the ordinance would become effective, bringing the dates to may 10. that is just a few days after we expect the issuance of a major permit for the piers 30-30 to work. we are still working with the regional water control board to make sure they can permit within that timeframe. and that is about the time when we expect to -- i think april 27 is the current due date for the final construction drawings. that would allow informally us to bid the work for 30-32 and potent

besides the fact there is also a major housing -- the housing authority, physical housing authority -- san francisco housing authority built a brand-new senior disabled development along this corridor * years ago at the haight valley. and people depend on -- people from haight valley dee pend on the octavia boulevard to get them safely to and from where they have to go. also remember there have been a lot of standing -- a lot of accidents at market and octavia regarding bicycle sort of thing. you have to have someone look into that. and -- so they can cut down on the number of fatalities along market and octavia. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. and we again thank the citizens advisory committee for the work that they do and their insight to the authority. any other member of the public? seeing none, public comment is closed. and the house has changed, so, if we can take a roll call. >> roll call. on item number 9, commissioner avalos? >> aye. >> commissioner campos? >> aye. >> commissioner david chiu? >> aye. >> commissioner carmen chu? [speaker not understood]? elsbernd

in the first, the housing authority partnership, we have long been working with the housing authority to give preference points and provide priorities for families who are in a homeless shelter system, priority for public housing units. what that means is that if the family has applied and they are on the waiting list, they get a certain amount of points that moves that family of on the waiting list to get into a vacant public housing units. over the last week, 10 days, we have been coleen the waiting list for public housing, along with the waiting list for shelter, as well as the 79 families were in shelter currently, it is who meets that criteria, who is on the waiting list. i got some numbers yesterday, sunday, and we're going to be referring 51 families to the housing authority for processing for beckham public housing units tomorrow -- for vacant public housing units to market a 37 of those families are from the waiting list for shelter. 13 are from families who are currently in shelter, and there's one family in the transitional housing program. supervisor avalos: all those 51 f

we don't know the s under which fisa authorities are used. we would recommend enhanced reporting and have additional suggestions as well we think would improve oversight and transparency o parnsy for the review. there check there is and reporting to the public is inadequate. we would urge you to consider the changes before reauthorization. >> thank you very much. mr. jafr? >> could you please turn your mike on. got it now. >> thank you for inviting me to share the aclu's concerns about the fisa amendments act. we urge you not to reauthorize the act in its current form and not to reauthorize in any form until the government discloses more about how the act has been used. in essence this allows the surveillance of americans international communications and it bars the government from intentionally targeting people who are inside the united states, it places no restrictions on targeting people overseas. even if they are communicating with u.s. citizens and residents. the act is to give unrestricted access to the international phone calls and e-m

the authorization to refund bonds comes in a couple ways. the charter allows us to bring forward savings to the ratepayers when it makes sense, that is what we are presenting you today. we have recently approved authorization of the board of funding without additional board approval, so we are presenting to you today this refunding authorization and we will not need to bring this to the board for their approval. the forms of agreement are almost identical to what we showed you a month ago. unless there are questions, i will take your questions. president moran: any questions? any public comment? can i have a motion? it is moved. and seconded. all those in favor? opposed? the motion carries. the items 15 and 16. >> authorize the general manager to enter into separate agreements with the following commercial paper dealers for the waste water enterprise commercial paper program. a u.s. bank, city grew, wells fargo, and morgan stanley. the agreements combined include annual costs not to exceed $150,000 for a duration of three years with a couple