ideas because these conversations have been ongoing and because our poor deputy city attorney elaine warren has been drafting so much, we actually don't have the language ready for us here today. but what i would like to propose, colleagues, is i think we're pretty much there and i'm prepared at this time, once i go through those [speaker not understood] and we have a little bit of chance to talk about it, to hopefully pass both of these versions of the legislation out to the full board. my intention is to offer a set of amendments at the full board. it's likely that one of these issues will require a trailing piece of legislation that hpc and planning still need to weigh in on having to do with the review of potential modifications. but at this point given how many meetings we've had from my per spective, i think we have finally doth ento a place where we're ready to move forward. ~ so what i'd like to do is first take a moment and summarize the potential ceqa amendments that i support in concept at this time and obviously they still need to be drafted. let me just go through these areas,

her staff -- and your staff are facilitating the lengthy discussions with city attorney elaine warren and planning staff sarah jones that got us to the point where we are today. i want to thank supervisor chiu for incorporating thea amendments into the set of amendments today. we hope supervisor wiener will see these amendments as fully compatible with his own arguments for need for ceqa clarifications and certainty. the response is some concerns raised earlier about prioritizing other projects. there are no other projects with as complicated a funding structure as affordable housing. i wanted to respond briefly to director ram's comments of prioritization if any, should not be codified or they can simply be done through a director's bulletin. in fact, this prioritization is already codified in the government code and there already exist a planning department's director's bulletin. but this is not working. as members told us repeatedly, sometimes it takes six months to get an initial determination whether a project will need a cad ex, negative declaration or e-i-r and sometimes planni

>> elaine warren, deputy city attorney. i'll have to look into that because i haven't been informed on that. >> [speaker not understood]. ken rich from the office of work force development i believe will be presenting. >> good afternoon, supervisors. ken rich, oewd. i am very happy to be back in front of the committee. and we have hopefully a fairly brief presentation for you today and i was going to have this lobby from the planning department start you off and i'll come back on and do the rest of it. in answer to your question, i think we'll have the city attorneys who are working on this project up here in a moment. but i think you are correct that it does have to pass without recommendation because we are in a cu appeal period. so, with that i'll turn it over to ms. waddy. >> thank you. good afternoon, supervisors. elizabeth waddy with the planning department. and if i can have the powerpoint, please. since the board has heard this presentation on the physical aspects of the project several times, i'm going to go throug