their own approximate 8,000 acres of land -. -- cargill holdings. the agreement before you is a simple $650 payment for nearly two acres of rights, underground, in addition, an ability to pay up to $8,000 additional cost incurred by cargill in processing the transaction. that includes escrow fees, legal fees, and other associated title document that they have to work through so that we do not complicate ownership. happy to answer any questions. we also have the upuc staff her. supervisor avalos: thank you. we can go on to public comment. >> walter paulson. is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. we need a pipeline. it is going to do some good in a special way i am so glad we got it underneath the bay good day pipelined it is going to keep on a shining supervisor avalos: if there are no other members of the public that would like to comment -- seeing none, public commen

for purchase and sale of real estate to obtain two permanent, exclusive, subsurface easements from cargill inc. for the purpose of constructing the same -- san francisco public utilities commission water system improvement program. commissioner chiu: the resolution is adopted. >> item 30, authorizing the director of public works to execute an amendment to a professional construction management services agreement for the san francisco general hospital rebuild program. commissioner chiu: this resolution is adopted. >> item 31 is a resolution approving the two specialty store lease. >> colleagues, same house, same call? this item is approved. if you could call items 32 and 33. >> 32 is a resolution authorizing an amendment to the public utilities commission contract for sunol valley regional construction management servicesitem 33 is a resolution authorizing an amendment to the public utilities commission for a regional construction management services in an amount not to exceed $4 million for a total agreement not to exceed $26 million to fund restoration services. >> these resolutions are a

a lot of artists and writers and people you might call bohemians at the time went to cargill. it was an artistic place to hang out. you have people going out, maybe getting into landscape, maybe just partying. >> but wasn't there some push back? it had an unsavory reputation. >> in 1913, the lead was settled, and it was supposed to be sold, and a lot of people did not like it because they thought there was a lot of romantic rendezvous happening there that perhaps should not be. they had a ceremony there to burn the car out of cargo, so they have a big bonfire. it was the fourth of july, so they threw some fireworks in, too, and they were trying to announce that it was a new neighborhood. it was respectable. that is essentially the last and best carville house on the highway. two cable cars that are joined together. they took out the walls and connected the rope and of course, as a bedroom. and i would like to buy it. >> i think we have a photograph of the inside of one of these cars. >> yes, some of the original cable car bridges are still on the inside. it is a wonderful plac

. -- cargill is one of the big ones. and of course, you have tysons, j b s, as your life -- a large packing companies. host: and even though we have fewer farms than in the 30's and 40's, there is certainly no shortage of food in this country. guest: there is certainly not because we import more and more food each year. we import a parks on the 15% of our food. host: why does the usda, our tax payer dollars, still subsidize farmers? guest: because farming is unpredictable. you and i may have a job and guarantee that the electricity will come on, but i cannot guarantee the sun is going to come out in a certain way or that there will not be hail or ice or something like that. there needs to be somebody to help underwrite the risks associated with food production. host: we are joined by martin in dayton, ohio. caller: i am not a farmer, but i do live in a state who has quite a bit of agriculture. when i drive around farm roads all you see is basically two crops, basically soybean and corn. one goes to processing and the oth