dpw does not recover the cost of running the program. supervisor chu: on a side note, i know that there were a number of news racks stalled in much of the downtown area and other neighborhoods across the city. there was also a plan to have clear channel continued to provide news racks in other parts of the city over time. every year a certain amount was to be added. how is that program going? >> they have been meeting their goals. basically, 100 units per year that we provide quotations for. hopefully, one of the changes is to downsize and consolidate existing units in the downtown area. union square, for example. there might be an abundance of patteson amounts per intersection. by allowing this proposal, in the residential corridor areas we have 100 per year. supervisor chu: how many? >> 702. supervisor chu: this is headed into the third year of that program? >> no, supervisor. the clock started during the first five years. the sixth year started when there were 585 units in the downtown area. so that we were able to start in seoul -- i

also, $1.75 million which will fund the mta, dpw, transportation authority project oversight work. commissioner alioto-pier: in -- commissioner maxwell: in the beginning, we kept on coming back to the well with parsons. was there an initial scope of work, initial price, so was it done in phases? it reads like there is more. >> we have an original contract and not with parsons from 2007 when we initiated the environmental work and product development. you can see the total amount before you in the presentation, $1.7 million. this included environmental analysis on two alternatives, 12% project development. we did amend the contract in 2009 and it + 2 @ scope to the environmental work. fortunately, as a result of the scoping process, we did need to add another build alternative analysis into the mix. we also needed to build in the scope to address the caltrans approval process. the project report, we were able to negotiate with caltrans on a streamlined process, so a combined report instead of sequentially. we feel it is still something we need to do. the reason we added that later w

what perturbs me is dpw, and i know there are some people here from dpw that know me pretty well. if somebody comes and puts a little graffiti thing, they will find you about $300. and you have these nasty, dirty looking things on our electric poles. they are disgusting. lowering the property value. they do nothing. we need to find out what is the relationship between the service providers and dpw? and secondly, who gives them the right to go inside somebody's house, even though it is public right of way, and put these nasty things on these electric poles that in the first place, such things should never be put. these are huge boxes -- not all of them, but most of them. you have heard here from eric brooks and others that we can do this underground. we can use fiber optics. the city lost eight years ago when we allow comcast to do the underground, and we did not do

project manager of dpw, responsible for this project. i want to take a few minutes to explain this better before you this morning. this is for the architect- engineer agreement, and modification to an interim agreement that was begun subsequent to their selection in 2009. it was a competitive process by which we selected the firm of hok. they began their work subsequently through the interim agreement. that agreement was to take them through and arrive at a reliable description of the project and a cost estimate that we would have confidence to pass onto a bond measure for the voters. in that regard, it is city's practice to elaborate major couple -- capital work to the lull of specificity to inform a revival number that we have passed the vote. certainly, we do not want to find ourselves lacking in regards to the budget we have identified as we proceed to deliver the project. in that regard, our efforts were meant ahead of the bond measure to prepare sufficiently for that measure. the total fee inclusive of the sum for the services alre

staff, dpw's street design team is here. i will just say, the city has invested already in these two projects. the supervisor feels it is appropriate to finalize and assert our commitment to this effort for which this appropriation would accomplish. the library has had to borrow money from their preservation fund, which they need to restore, and a supplemental would make dpw complete. the undergrounding of utilities on a leland would help with leveraging and attracting future dollars. happy to answer any questions. supervisor avalos: thank you. >> i have an overhead that i want to show. good morning, supervisors. i am the chief financial officer of the library. i am here to discuss the public library portion of this request. the total developer contribution of the branch library was deemed to be $2,169,900 as part of the branch library improvement program, property was acquired, a new branch library was designed for completion in june 2011 the board of supervisors approved in advance $2 million from elaborate preservation fu

they work with dpw on the pickup of items that are dumped.y do have a dispatch service in the area seven days per week for businesses, property owners, and residence where they can call services if they see something. from 2006 to 2007 -- excuse me, 2006 to 2009, also funded as the patrol special extra safety services in the district. they also do business attraction, an active campaign they have had for several years for bringing new businesses to the area as well as helping existing businesses expand and grow in the district. they have marketing promotion programs with a neighborhood beautification safety plan. detail in the planning process with a plan on where to invest capital resources for improvement throughout the district. they have also participated in the payment to parks program and have been one of the main sponsors with the city on the castro plaza. activating it for community benefit. the office of economic and workplace development comptroller's office reviewed the market's reports and financial reviews. cbd has submitted all

dpw has been contacted to investigate and demand to remove that equipment. this example shows a disregard for the existing committee process. finally, it seems the telecom community is putting all their resources into miniaturizing the loans but do not put the same focus on minimizing the size of support equipment needed for these phones, even know they're bulky equipment terrorizes the public. they tout three g and 40 coverage. -- 3g and 4g coverage. oh gee -- how can we raced to >> good afternoon, supervisors. outside counsel for verizon wireless and at&t. quickly, it is the retroactivity that was introduced last time. i think it is going to create incredible legal problems for the city in that you have facilities that were approved two or three years ago that are now going to fall under this new regime and simply will be protested or brought before the board of appeals and you run the risk of having to take down facilities that were approved a few years ago in violation of our clients' constitutional rights to taking a property without constitutional righ

our partner at dpw. thank you for doing this. >> thank you to all of you all for being here, helping to make the project going forward. thank you from all the companies who are here. webcor, thank you for helping us. amd, all the unions that are here. janitors, carpenters, laborers and operators are here, too. thank you to all of you. also to the mayor, he is the one that started the jobs program, here in san francisco. i want to let you know how the program works. the program is done september 30. now we have these four guys coming out of there and we have to give them a chance to go forward. they want to do something good. that is why we have these three apprentices here. more than 50% of these guys are san francisco residents. i do not know about the rest of the projects, but this one we have more than 50% from san francisco. thank you for helping us to make this project go forward. >> thank you. [applause] ok, benji, let's talk about community support. i did not know there was such a robust community

i did work with dpw. i love all of them. i could not have done this without them. in fact, we had to redo the ramps. it actually came up in the record, do not touch this place until you call me. what do you want to do to my crosswalk? i became very possessive of it. there was money available to upgrade the ramps and the city is still working to reduce the yellow striping, but it all but put back. supervisor mar: the crosswalk almost feels like it is brick. >> it is correct. there are several ways to do this. we could have done something in the middle. in portland, they did a cool design in the middle of the street. that prevented people from barreling through an intersection. in philadelphia and baltimore, they used duratherm and it worked well. the upkeep on duratherm -- it is embedded in asphalt. essentially, you have to route out four inches of asphalt, and then they embed the duratherm in the asphalt. this is similar to something they do in london. supervisor mar: i think they do this in hong kong, too. >> it has been well appreciated in the neighborhoods. we p

. >> this is a dpw corporation yard. i work for the bureau of street environmental services used to be street cleaning. we are a new age. >> here we are. >> here we are. >> clean. >> these are our communications dispatchers. hi. okay, no problem. you are welcome. bye-bye. >> all the information about the location, the nature of the complaint and we dispatch it. >> near the steps. >> by new they have started a hundred calls for dispatchers. >> once a get a request if they are not on the air i will page that unit. these are the radio channels. we have 14 channels. i will give a service request. >> there is a lot of expertise that goes into a call. i think we can have you dispatch and track. >> 448. >> 448. >> 19th at california. >> can you give us a little bit of a view. >> we have the city broken up to different districts. we will go to zone e. we will go to iowa street. put me to work. >> okay. >> bend it over like that. we chop it. >> while you do this if you come across something that looks hazardous, material wise, >>

dpw they have inspectors that are going out but can't catch everything. basically you are the eyes and ears for city government and using that 311 is really important because it gives you a tracking number and it's like a work order number. anything you can do. look, listen and you can make a phone call, for example, we are working on a project in the marina that deals with it came to our attention some person who is a bicyclist noticed and timed one of the lights and discovered it was out of sequence much we got that over to dpt. they are correcting it. also in the course of correcting there were 2 contradictory work orders one with the state and city. you discover those things. van ness and lum bard are state highways. >> i will ltd. regina talk about that. well, the mta they have a specific traffic calming form you need a certain amount of residents that you send in. and they will come out and do a traffic calming analysis to give recommendations as to may be doing bulb outs or what have you. caveat is it's not necessarily one the most expedient method