that will talk to the specifics of the resolution. >> good afternoon exercise, edgar lopez with public works as jeff mentioned the resolution before you would enable public works to implement fast deployment of shelters by allowing us to cut it takes to pre cure construction contracts for us to order trailers, tents, and bring in site utilities to bring in water and power and sewer and able to cut period time it takes by at least a third and i would be happy to answer specific questions that you may have. >> i see no questions and we have a b. l.a. report. >> good afternoon chair yee and analist office yes as we talk about on page four of our report , for the emergency declaration for 440 turning street the estimated cost of the is 7.8 million in renovations and legislation calendered for wednesday december 13th budget and it would approve the funding for this project and there are more details presented to that committee and for the emergency shelters mr. lopez i think comments on the two sights looked at right now that are one at fifth and bryant and one on 13th street that ar

edgar lopez with public works. our agency would be the one who would be implementing the work doing the tenant improvements at 440 turk street. if you were to approve this resolution, it would expedite the amount of time it takes to procure contracts, implement the design. we estimate it would save any from 17 to 30 months, we would mobilize as early as january 12th to start abatement of hazardous materials while design is being completed and run lots of different things in parallel. so if -- for -- if this gets delayed, we're losing day by day, and if we were not to do it through an emergency declaration, again, it would add seven to 12 months to the construction schedule. >> supervisor safai: from when that was awarded -- so it would have to be a bidding practices. >> yeah. we would have to go through a bidding process. >> supervisor safai: so i would ask the district chair to -- maybe she can say exactly what her prerogative is. what i was trying to do in committee yesterday was the idea that the department woul

that was led by city architect edgar lopez. several of our project architects, magnidina royal. i also want to thank our talented construction crew and construction company, clock construction, who did a very, very good in delivering this. and, of course, k.m.d. architects, the designers of the facility. and, most important, our client and partner, dr. hunter, and his staff. and i can tell you, with all of the projects in this city, none of them would be possible without the leadership of our mayor, ed lee. who, ed, before you became mayor, you were at the city administrator's office. you will hear from the city administrator today also. but his commitment and his dedication to making sure that we invest in capital improvements, especially towards our infrastructure project. and he has made that a top priority of his administration. and through his leadership, a lot of projects that the city desperately needs are actually happening. so i'm not going to say a lot of great things that ed has done, but let's hear from him, our mayor, ed lee. [ applause ] >> why aren't you going to

. >> ok, we have director kzinski for department of homelessness and edgar lopez to present on this item. >> good afternoon, tempt of homelessness and support i have housing to discuss the emergency declaration related to the property of 440turke street and we'd like to talk first of all about the proposed use of the site at 440 turk street and it will be the head quarters of the department of homelessness and supportive housing and office space for 105h.s.h. staff which is not all but the majority of our staff and thank you so some excellent design work by public works and we've been able to design the site to accommodate everybody we need to and we'll be active monday through friday 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. roughly and as the first floor to make this in to a resource center primarily a services focus site and after getting feedback from the community that we have changed how we're going to use the facility and again it will be primarily our main offices however there's an access point on the first floor of the building and meaning anybody who is experiencing homelessness and that wants t