i consulted with charles sullivan. there are some additional changes that staff at puc power want to continue talking about. we intend to continue the dialogue with the city attorney, charles sullivan, to confirm that they could make them prior to the sf puc's approval and we plan to continue the dialogue. additional clarifications were made based on the feedback from finance staff. specifically, the biggest changes are monitoring and implementation of how the credits and the subsidies would be received. we want to make it workable with the new cards. secondly, any remaining funds from the program that are not used for transit subsidy passes -- a change was made to make sure that they enhance the proposed plans on the project site, things like the low emission struggleshuttles and cr sharing. i'm available for specific questions, if you have them. supervisor mar: thank you. questions, colleagues? seeing none, let's open this up for public comment. thank you very much, mr. yarne. >> thank you, colleagues. i want to than

eileen molly, charles sullivan, john malamut, andrea esquita, our city attorney's office. [applause] thank you also to your boss for giving you the time to do this. from city planning, john ram, i do not see him here. kevin guy, rick cooper, city planning, thank you. from the mta, i want to thank matt ford for his staff. [applause] from the puc, ed harrington, thank you for allowing us to work with mark -- michael carlin. doug schumacher, thank you for the great work you did on the office -- from the mayor's office of housing. then there are great members of our board of directors. they include, for many years, claudine chang. larry delcarlo. larry mazolo jr. lord richardson. john paul samaha. [applause] to members of the treasure island citizen advisory board, countless hours from our citizens involved in every way, especially the president, karen knkowles pierce. [applause] she has worked so well with the other island residents including becky hoge, john conners, and bnetty lettington. we have our organizations on treasure island, who have been working so hard for us, an

eileen molly, charles sullivan, john malamut, andrea esquita, our city attorney's office.se] thank you also to your boss for giving you the time to do this. from city planning, john ram, i do not see him here. kevin guy, rick cooper, city planning, thank you. from the mta, i want to thank matt ford for his staff. [applause] from the puc, ed harrington, thank you for allowing us to work with mark -- michael carlin. doug schumacher, thank you for the great work you did on the office -- from the mayor's office of housing. then there are great members of our board of directors. they include, for many years, claudine chang. larry delcarlo.

. >> i will ask charles sullivan to address that. >> the amendments were actually discussed and agreed upon by the developers. the point of what sherrill said earlier -- cheryl said earlier is that this was a contract. the board can condition approval of that contract. they cannot force the developer to address those -- to accept the changes. it would require that the developer consent to change the contract, ultimately. the question is are the changes being proposed something the developer would accept. if not, the board could pass a resolution approving an agreement that never enters into. supervisor avalos: since the developer has already accepted that agreement -- >> the developer discussed the changes introduced by president chiu and agreed to those. supervisor avalos: and on the tenants side, they do not have a say? >> we are entering into an agreement with the developer, not the tenants. supervisor avalos: that is some catch-22. supervisor campos: let me first of all respond to supervisor elsbernd. that is one of the fun things about having all of these lawyers on this board. fo

the national journal i want to thank david bradley, john sullivan, who i don't think could be here today, charlie greene and my former editor, charles, now that the "washington post" where he's doing terrific work. patrick really was sort of just a partner with me for five years in reporting so many of these stories and was a constant companion and advocate so thank you. now my new home at washingtonian and my very dear friend and now my boss who has charted an ambitious course for the publication and a year ago asked me if i would like to come over and write a good magazine stories and have that be my full-time job and i said that's a great, i'm glad that job still exists. [laughter] so think you very much for setting a high standard for us to follow and for being there to support me. i share this with all of you. thank you very much. [applause] >> this is a new thing we're doing this year and our panel on defense asked that we do this and it's kind of an honorable mention for a group that really stood out, and this year we want to just recognize them and ask them to stand and they did such fine work. the gerald ford reporting on n