and that is very dramatic when you can see where the water level is now and where it could be, etc cetera. kudos to your team. if mark is still on the call, as brian was pointing out, this is going to be a huge project for the city and seems to me time is of the essence and can't happen fast enough but there will be vast quantities of money going out for it. mark in the controller's office, the audit team, i presume you'll really kick into gear to make sure all funding is proper since we'll have a lot of contractors involved and giving the public assurance that the seawall bond as much or more than others given the massive size of the project we're talking about here, you guys are on this. >> that's right. member post, members of the committee, yes. the 2018 seawall safety is next step in line on our work plan for expenditures audits. we're working on one on affordable housing, i'll give you the details in the update. but definitely noted and we have this on our work plan. >> thank you. and again, great work and keep going, keep moving forward brad and carlos, thank you for the presentati

on issues including utility service, communications, garbage services, certified payroll system, etc cetera. other things from the island, treasure island museum met with tida staff last week and some outside volunteers they have. they're working on preparing a virtual exhibit on sea level rise and the work that is being done on treasure island as part of the development to address sea level rise. rubicon landscaping is performing work on yerba buena island, subcontractor potential and removing invasive species from areas that were done as part of the ramps project. san francisco department of environment has a new intern that is working on a project monitoring site in the ybi west woodlands damaged by a fire. tida will be soon installing no wake zone signage in clipper cove. and near the marina and sailing center facilities as part of our ongoing management of the navy remediation site 27, which was the former skeet shooting range over the cove. we have not had outages since october 14th. there were a total of 10 outages in 2020. and during one of my presentations, i'll provide a further u

over the last one and a half years i have fought for the right to access data of who e-mailed who, etc cetera. for years unlike this board and pier cities, san francisco refuses to disclose the information and this morning public works produced for the first time e-mails and calendars in compliance. this took months and five sunshine ordinances and year of effort by chief information officer willing to work directly with a random anonymous guy to include public access information security. i thank all of them. if you fight hard enough and long enough, you can fight the bureaucracy. it is sad it takes so much work for the change but this board should support such work. thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you. operations, next caller please. >> good afternoon. executive director of library users association. in light of what has recently happened in our country, it is urgent that the library commission and administration take some actions that make the library come alive instead of being almost dead to the public with respect to information that the public needs to understand what is going on.

sought partnership from stakeholders via town halls, surveys, thought exchange, working groups, etc cetera. we have captured here some of the high level themes that were consistent within and across groups. regardless of the time we collected the data and as we continue to it rate on our return to in person plan, we'll continue to get feedback and engage users. next slide please. in addition to the stakeholder themes, the plan is informed by assumptions, restraints and dependencies that keep health and safety for students, staff and family as priorities. assumptions are factors considered to be true for planning purposes, real or certain without proof of demonstration. we assume that our babies, especially elementary students will do best in space that they know and with staff they know. we're trying to assign students to school of record. a constraint is a limitation placed upon the work ahead of us in areas we must work within. these are fixed and defined for us. so an example of a constraint is physical space. our schools and classrooms are only so big and have so many rooms and our con

etc. and our customers are the small and medium businesses. so plumbers, electricians, pharmacies, ceteras, a number of different options. you chose the uk as your first base outside of germany, and that was during the brexit process. tell us about that decision making process. it was in 2018, 2019, we have been the market leader in germany and we have asked ourselves what's the most attractive market in europe on the long run? and as you mentioned, we often shortlisted different countries. it was france, it was italy, it was poland and the uk. and the brexit was already going ahead. but despite this, we chose the uk as our first market because we believe that it's the most vibrant, the most attractive market on the long run from a pure economic perspective and more attractive in comparison to italy, for example. ok, so that's interesting. you use the phrase in the long run a couple of times, you're obviously looking ahead and beyond any immediate teething issues. it's more paperwork on our side and also we are all our employees, all our twistex is in is in berlin. all our logistics is in