i've been in construction and i know how much [speaker not understood]. the parking lot would do. >> thank you. >>> [speaker not understood] the farm for us. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is william pickle. i'm the executive director of west bay housing and octavia court, inc., west bay was the co-sponsor and is the co-owner of deputy of the court, hud section 81 1 property which provides supportive affordable and accessible housing for 14 households, person with developmental disability and also an on-site arts-based day program and open gallery which had its first open community event just last week. the project would not have been possible without tremendous collaboration amongst multiple city agencies, tremendous support from sfra, now mo. also tremendous support and advocacy from hayes valley neighborhood association. i'd like to second peter cohan's comments around imperative to really keep the conversation open around the funding available for affordable housing. it is a terrible time statewide. octavia court had three major sources of f

we look forward to construction starting in 2013. thank you. >> thank you. is there any public comment on this item? seeing none commissioner moore. >> mr. teague, i have a question. assuming that the commission is considering extension wouldn't the number of dwelling units be changed to 348 and parking to 269 to match what was presented today? >> that's a good question. the extension is proposed for the project as approved. every project that is approved has condition of approval that basically says major changes can occur as long as in general conformity with what was originally proposed and determined by the zoning administrator, his review of the project, so the difference that you're referring to is that difference that can occur what is entitled and what is actually built and not a request to change the original approval to meet those exact parameters. >> i need to make a comment here and the comment has something to do with the fact that this project has been on the books for some some time and the major change that occurred when it was first approved

they contributed $500,000 to the construction of the park back in 1999. in 2010 they contributed another $400,000 toward the construction of the eco center and played a role in the development of the bike way with additional $70,000 so i wanted to introduce amy hudzel from the coastal conservancy to talk a bit about these projects. [applause] >> thank you and thanks for including me and the coastal conservancy in this event. we are honored to play a role in the work going on here at heron's head and i am also reporting the san francisco bay trail, a close partner of ours. the coastal conservancy -- we are a state agency and our vision is a beautiful and accessible coast line and i think this project really epitomizes what we're trying to achieve in our vision. the passage of park bonds at the state level most recently proposition 84 in 2006 has allowed projects like this to take place around the state, in the city, in the bay area, and along the coast of california, and it allows local organizations and agencies to leverage their local funds, and make tho

you will see it later in the construction of that project and that's what you see often with the construction projects. there's not an even use of lbe's throughout the contract time. in most cases -- we strive make sure they meet the mandate but you will see that vary quarter to quarter and especially with the construction you don't have necessarily a smooth use of that, so overall we paid almost 14 mundz in the quarters and 2 million went to lbe's. we're required to report on local 21 personnel transactions during the quarter so we had one separation and three payments and one was a full time position and two were interim positions. we currently use dpw and have 26 projects they're wholly managing or partly managing for us so in conclusion -- it should be why we didn't meet the 20% goal in this quarter. we actually expect the contractors to meet their lbe goals. we spent $2 million that money went to the contractors and we are currently working on streamlining our contracting process. if you have any questions that concludes my present. if you have questions i am happy to answer them. >> i j

no construction, this is an example of a construction truck right in front of harvison row. blocking, i mean this is not as big as a food truck. sidewalk issue. >> the other thing that i want to say is last year the food truck operators realized that they had a problem and they started all of this press started, negativety. eating into business profits they are trucking the food in and trucking the money out. the city is losing money. coffee, is coffee. hamburger is hamburger, and a milk shake is a milk shake. thank you for your time. >> do you care to state your name for the record? >> karin smith. >> thank you. >> the next speaker, please? >> hello, my name is hillary cronenberg and i am a san francisco resident and i also work in the area. i happen to think a little differently than what has been going on here. i think that if i were to come to where the coffee truck would be, i would be eye opened into other restaurants, and places that i had never been before. because i am here checking out the coffee shop. so i might as well grab some lunch or bring a girlfriend back h

to acknowledge supervisor jane kim whose district this arena is being planned for and hopefully constructed on. and take the quality time it takes for all the environmental aspects of this project to be put forth and i -- thank you supervisor. as you know i emphasized job creation in the city being so incredibly important for both the present and the future, and as our economy continues to sign signs of improvement i'm not going to forget where the jobs go and for the people in terms of hope for the city and of course working with laborers, with our construction contractors, with the labor council. tim is here together as well and mike and working with everybody we have unprecedented announcement today and 100% locally financed project close to $500 million of private investment signifying that they wish to on their volition to be working with the city to hire 25% of their construction work force with san francisco residents. [applause] this is a wonderful, wonderful day. and that as part of that percent goal they are opening up themselves to working with us in an enforceable obligation on

so the construction timeline is 2015 to 2018. and again, the term of district itself for the assessments goes from 2013 to 2045. so with that, i am happy to take questions. it was a really quick and brief overview. i know. but we are really excited to work with the hotels and the tourism and hospitality industry to make this happen. we think this is a really great project for the city because it's improving the city-owned asset, the convention center, as well as increasing taxes for the city's general fund and a lot of jobs. so with that said i'm here to answer any questions that you have.

but construction -- beltway construction has wrapped up. my line. no delay. construction crews up their -- out htere. >> thank you. it is 4:43. >> coming up, an emotional gathering for a -- to remember >> we want to check in with julie. the latest on the bombing in iraq. >> at least seven are dead and 15 have been wounded after a car bomb exploded near a military base north of baghdad. troops were leaving the base this morning when that car bomb went off. at least three soldiers are among the dead. this happening just a short time ago. we are checking the latest reports out of iraq. as soon as we get information we will update you. >> thank you for that report. let's check our top stories. the candidates have made their case. now it is time for voters to have their say. president obama and republican mitt romney made last-minute beaches -- pitches in key battleground states. besides tousing people to represent them in washington, maryland voters also deciding on key ballot questions. in state as tuition rates for the children of illegal immigrants, legalizing

and recently sailed back to the hunter's point area where it was originally constructed. there is an all day celebration that is happening at the eco center today to acknowledge that history, and that celebration is being sponsored by a number of entities and i will just mention them. the california historical society and the stanford university and others and i wanted to invite someone up to speak on behalf of stanford university and the celebration of the alma. [applause] >> welcome folks. it gives me great pleasure. i have the honor of serving as the executive director in 2007 and pleaded to introduce you to this area. the alma came by just now and john was going to announce the project and year of the bay with america's cup as well as the opening of the bay bridge and lots of other interesting things happening. we actually want to have a ferry terminal here in the basin so we can have taxis to outside areas and may our visions come true, and i wanted to share you with as was point out and california historical society and other partners have come together so we have t

it would bring you to the other side of the station and where we would construct a new key stall and demolish the existing and the new and work closely with mta on this and that is element number three is the new key stop. element number two would be a cover to the new walk way and nice in the elements and it's going to look nice and not just functional and esthetic is the intent and then you will see -- i will point it out, from essentially item number three to item number four is a salmon colored linear figure on the graph or the picture and that is going to be a new walk way so we will bring people over across bart for free and it will be a true ada constructed or accessible constructed and new improvement for the site and gets people walking where it's not such a great area to walk so that is our intent and that is our project. we are 35% complete on the engineering design. we have an estimate and design drawings and we are coordinating with mta on this. we started small but i guess i am pleased to announce beyond the $2 million of life line money approved by this body for this p

as far as the construction goes, yes, we will probably see more construction, but think about all the construction projects that have been put on halt. think about all the buildings in downtown manhattan that they were building for new apartment buildings that they can't work on right now because they have to deal with flooding issues and the cleanup. granted, people will come in and they will make money on the cleanup. but the overall net probably leaves the economy in more of a loss than a gain. >> you talked about how slow this has been going. trish, the recovery has been slow and hard fought from the start. and you add sandy and all that has been interrupted. some economists say that this could mean a half percent hit to gdp. >> absolutely. >> how long will we see and feel the impact of this storm? >> depends on how quickly we can start to turn around. i think they're absolutely right. we will see an impact to gdp. the last thing we need, victor, as this economy is in a very, very fragile state. the good news here is typically when you have an event like this, things do turn aroun

constructed and live our lives. i want to say a special thing about plasticity but that is the son of a process -- that is that the processes in place are reversible. we have studied this, and it demonstrated this to be so. these studies begin by looking at something like an animal like a rat that might be any prime of life, upper left, and a rat that might be at the end of life, below. we know this rat is old, because he has white whiskers and white paws. so if you see a red with white paws in a garage, i'd like to say be nice to him, because he is old. of course, we're also even more interested in a younger or older adult human. what we're interested in our differences in the brain operations of the old versus the young. we have looked at this in science. we have looked at it in almost everywhere you can think of of the operational characteristics of old and young brains. what we see on average is that everything we look at is different. you could say, well, how many of those things that are different, physically,

construction starting today on that very busy 880/280 interchange in san jose.t's going to be a little ugly. new exit and flyover ramps will eventually ease the congestion there near santana row and valley fair mall. construction expected to go on for the next two years. >>> san francisco firefighters knock down a major fire at a home in the monterey heights neighborhood. the home is undergoing renovations. no one was inside at the time. no word yet on a cause. >>> this one might be a little scary for some parents. nestle recalling more than 200,000 canisters of nesquik drink mix because of a possible salmonella contamination. the best used date on the bottom of that canister is october, 2014. some of those containers have a promotion for the disney movie "wreck it ralph" on the side. so check that out. >>> no comments from redwood city based electronic arts after news one of its new video games may cost members of the famed s.e.a.l. team 6 their jobs. >> scott mcgrew, they were paid to help design the game? >> yeah. i'll tell you right now that is not unusual.

business enterprise requirements for construction projects issued by the city. so in the past five years, there was a similar assessment district that was called the tourism improvement district. and that district also assesses hotels throughout san francisco. and a portion of that assessment district funds the renovations to the moscone complex, which are finishing up now. and we're very successful and -- based on that partnership through the private funding mechanism and public process, in terms of it being moscone convention center, we feel really confident we can move forward in the same sort of manner with the moscone expansion. but the renovation included efficient heating, ventilation, air conditioning, 24 new restrooms, energy-efficient lighting, free system internet and improved way-finding and graphic decorations to improve the structures and the livability within them. it's a leed gold certified renovation and those have been finished; the assessment portion of the first moscone district will term out next year and there will be continued assessments

kind agreement ensuring that a minimum of 25% local hire will take place on the project in the construction jobs that are so important to us gathered here. what's more we are agreeing that 50% of the apprentice level work will go to local residents and launching the program that the mayor talked about and the returning veterans and the construction jobs created at this site. we are grateful for all of our friends and especially labor, and the trade representatives and the community advocates and the public officials and those represented here today. a landmark deal like this doesn't get done without the involvement of all the parties. thanks for having us here and it's our privilege and it's a great day. thank you mayor. [applause] >> so local hire would not be the law of the city if not for the board of supervisors. i want to acknowledge the members that are here today. supervisor eric mar. [applause] -- the architect of our local hire law john avalos. [applause] and our board president david chiu who i would like to say a few words. [applause] >> good morning. on behalf of the board i am

we don't mean it as a factual construct. we don't mean that there is actual an idea that someone has free will and has made a conscious choice and that we can somehow measure it. i think that in the criminal law, what we mean by free will is essentially a conclusion. it's not a premise, it is a conclusion. we have concluded that the person should have and will take responsibility for their action and therefore they had free will and they're going to take the consequences for that. the problem is when we start actually believing the rhetoric, we actually start believing what we're saying, if you think that, if you use free will normatively, used as a value judgment about when somebody should have to take responsibility and you use it that way in the criminal law, what happens is it starts bleeding over into what i call thequasi- criminal law which is civil commitment. in the civil commitment area, we also use this notion of free will that we generally call volitional control, but we use it in the classic example today because

steve, ru, with turner construction, construction oversight. i don't know. is that up? there it is. >> another good month, of work or almost a month and a half since we filled you in on the last period. there were no recordable incidents. we did have one near miss. but, brought to light some issues with the excavation process of sight lines and so that has been dealt with successfully. and allowing the excavator to work while the folks down below were able to position themselves appropriately so they are not in the way of it. we have 550,000 craft hours now, about 60,000 since the last update. 157, chefs, and i will show you the chart for that in a little bit and the excavation continues into zone three, and 1, 2, 3. some of the other activities, have been awarded and submitals have begun. and the final utility, relocation package 4.2, the aux silry package is under way and we will work through the holidays on mission street and will continue on early into 2013 and because we are doing the first levels of excavation in zone three. the archeologists have been on call and

some improvement ideas emerged from those studies and are under way or construction but there are more to come and there are funding decisions on those potential improvements, so just a quick update on some of the work that is being completed already. about a year ago the west side walk way was open and on the image to the right. that project was sorely needed and allows pedestrians to access the station from points north and west to get to the bart part of the station. the remaining item there is get those pedestrians to the muni light rail boarding areas and there is a project actually under way to make that final connection that bart will be talking about in just a bit. there has been a new crosswalk installed at the intersection of the 280 northbound on ramp and ocean avenue to help pedestrians access the station from points north and to the west. i mentioned before that there have been previous studies by the agencies involved to really think about how we can improve this area and this facility. some of them have been funded by the authority and they have resulted in improvement i

what you see on the left photo there is construction of the five new filters at the plant there. the -- valley water treatment plan is much further along. we're 90% done over there and we anticipate to reach substantial completion in march of 2013. i've also been pleased with progress being achieved on our two ongoing tunnel projects. two-thirds of the half mile tunnel has now been esexcavated. it has dried out allows us to achieve a bigger production rate. we can see more groundwater inflows, but overall i'm very pleased with our moving there. on the bay tunnel, 90% of the tunnel has been excavated now. the total boring machine did cross all the levies. the last levies under the salt ponds on east bay without impact to the surface so we're pleased with that. what you see on the right side is the receiving shaft in newark. so work there has progressed very well. and if all goes according to plan we could be achieving break through -- hole-through rather early in 2013 and this of course would be a major -- is going to be a major milestone for us. now, the remaining slides deal wit

proposed construction costs are close to a billion. if you include hard costs -- >> supervisor avalos. >> sorry, to go back to the last slide. we are talking about net new jobs. i know there's been a discussion about existing workers that work for warriors coping to work here in san francisco. talking about new workers in addition for permanent employment jobs. >> that's correct. >> 1,712 new jobs on top of -- >> on top of what would be considered the transfer jobs, yes. >> great, thanks. >> proposed construction costs of close to a billion. i want to take a minute to pause and say it is our work through research and consultants it is unprecedented to have a sports facility be privately financed. the sports facilities you see built and rehabed around the country really to one include direct public subsidies from state and local governments in order to finance the arenas. we are talking a billion respond, contributing only to substructure, only to the portion we own. the proposed funding, the city will reimburse warriors for improvement

. >> the project is currently under construction. it began in june. we were held up with the apellant's appeal of the first permit, which basically slowed down construction progress. this is the second appeal and we are trying to catch up. but at this point we anticipate a delay of one to two months for completion of the project, as a result of the first appeal. to extend this one any longer, would most likely extend that. we're trying to recover by accelerating perhaps, working on the weekends, but a lot of this hinges on our ability to do that given that we're now in the winter. our opportunity to speed up is diminished with the winter weather and we're interested in getting this work crapped up. >> is there other work not related to this permit? >> there is other work going on, but one thick that happens this work is in the center of the park. so you can't do a lot of work around the periphery, it doesn't give us the ability to do it efficiently and effectively since we'll have to plan to bring in equipment at a much later date to complete the scop