commissioner walker: i want to thank a.t.c., capss, mrs. seek and the work that she has done. this is a vital step we have taken forward with the bold cooperation of the commission, i'm going to make a motion to support the extension of the capss as requested, the capps contract as requested. as it was stated, there is the report which is important, and i think that we've put enough urgency under this issue to get some closure on some of these reports. but now it is up to us. we have the information. we have a broad group across all stakeholder groups that came together to talk about this issue, to be able to identify where we are at as a city, what steps we need to take to better prepare so we can avoid the kind of disaster that we know is coming. and i think that we, unfortunately, lost the opportunity in this last election to actually fund some of our most challenging building seismic upgrades. hopefully we can come together and find ways of funding these with the help of fema, but also we are going to come together and go to the public and actually get support for this. in

initiative and i'm excited to be here talking about this initiative and its relationship to capss. i hope there's an opportunity to come and do a presentation about resilient s.f. because i think it is an internationally unique program looking at all of the possible ways the city and county of san francisco as a government entity can make sure we can do ast many projects as possible. it is sponsored by the general services agent under the director of ed lee our city and the director of d.e.m. it is based on a harvard kennedy school acting in time initiative and it is a neat program. we have enjoyed working with the capss group because they have given us the data the we needed to be able to determine and assess the areas that the city and county of san francisco need to work on and projects we need to work on to implement these programs that are part of resilient s.f. it has given as you baseline for the earthquake narrow yourselves that we can build all of our plans on. baseline for the earthquake narrow yourselves that we can build all of our plans o baseline for the earthquake na

item six, the discussion of possible action regarding a request for extension of capss program. >> deputy director administrative services. in the absence of other staff, i want to just remind the commission that the item that was here last meeting was to extend the contract to the end of december. the action that was taken was to extend it to today's meeting and to discuss it further. we have processed a the amendment to the contracts to extend it to today. and absent any other action on your part, we will not pay anything that has not already been finished as of today. i think the contractor has some comments to make, if you want to entertain those. >> yes, we would like to hear those. >> i will turn it over. thank you. >> thank you, pam. >> mr. president, members of the commission, i would like to reiterate that the contractor has requested an extension through december 31 for the contract.

item six, the discussion of possible action regarding a request for extension of capss program. >>