the role of recreational facilities. at the same time, it emphasizes that the naturalistic landscapes should be protected and renewed within the bounds of its character. it also states that vehicle traffic should be minimized. finally, the primary function of the part is to serve the recreational needs of all san franciscans. the implications include that the proposed improvements really trouble the recreational capacity of the field within its existing footprint. the synthetic turf lighting do represent a change in the nationalistic character of the field. the ceqa findings, the environmental review highlights that conflict here finally, within the western shore line, the western shore line offers conflicting policy direction as well for facilities such as the soccer fields. it states that we should improve the western end of the park for public recreation. it is currently considered to be underutilized and is deserving of improvement. it similarly emphasizes the naturalistic landscapes qualities at the same time encour

the bathroom facilities need a face lift. there are few stal doors on the interior of the restrooms, making it unfriendly. no changing tables for kids and there's no other amenities at the facility like children's play areas, picnic tables, barbecue pits and such. next? so the proposed benefits for this project as mentioned previous reply by another presenter, we anticipate we're going to triple the amount of play time at the facility with this project. currently we have 4,700 hours of play. we at this. being north of 14,000 once this is rhone vated. we're going to provide a family friendly facility and provide more field time on the northwest side of the city for children and adults playing sports. proposed improvements, obviously the core of president project is synthetic turf and life. we are proposing to add spectator benches and seating for all four fields, a children's plaza and play area around the structure, we're going to renovate the restroom, create safe walkways to and through the site and create new picnic and ba

to consolidated storage and disposal facilities when such facilities become available. the current system of standards and regulations governing the transport of spent fuel and other nuclear materials appears to have functioned well. and the safety record of past shipments of these types of materials is excellent, particularly with respect to the w.i.p. transportation system. that being said, greater transfer demands for nuclear materials are likely to raise new public concerns. the commission believes that state, tribal, and local officials should be extensively involved in the transportation planning and should be given the resources necessary to discharge their roles and obligations in this area. historically, some programs have treated it as an afterthought. no successful programs have done so. seventh is support for advances in nuclear energy in workforce development. technology have the potential to deliver an array of benefits across a wide range of energy policy goals. the commission believes these benefits in light of environmental and energy security challenge

or facilities. the establishment of a first in line priority for the movement of spent fuel and other material being stored at permanently shut down reactor sites to those licensed, consolidated storage sites, and the prompt initiation of programs to coordinate federal, state and local efforts to plan for the transportation of this material to consolidated storage and disposal facilities. the blue ribbon commission noted the success we enjoy with our citizens advisory panels at the yankee companies that help demonstrate how a community-based process works to address issues in meaningful discussions that yield results. some summary, the blue ribbon commission agreed that it makes no sense to keep this material scattered around the nation. we believe that fy '13 efforts should even more aggressively advance the resolution of issues identified in the brc report. we are pleased to see the department has committed to restore funding for the regional transportation planning groups, is beginning site speci

ages, to enhance these facilities. the port knows -- if we know anything, if the do not spend money on maintenance, you have to defer to capital needs. that is something we want to avoid with this facility. we want to keep it fresh and updated but there is no financial mechanism in place that would do that. after talking to redevelop the staff, -- redevelopment staff, when we first heard the we were taking over -- and i have to say, this transfer occurred in february. we found out in march that suddenly the facility would be on report control, on top of the america's cup, warriors, and a lot of other things, and we are suddenly taking on a 700-slip marina -- and we are thrilled about it -- but it is coming down the pike quickly. if you told us, walking in the door, we should have raised rates years ago, but we did not do so. the pork hired, through the city's real-estate division, a certified real-estate appraisal company. he did it a rate analysis to estimate the rental values for marinas located in the day -- bay. th

facility to replace the current facility. the problem was financing. to undertake this new structure, the marine unit was an essential piece of this. through a homeland security grant of approximately $1.8 million, we were able to secure the construction, which the port approved here approximately one year ago for the joint operation security building, the jos building. this was an essential piece to getting this building constructed. the building is located there. this is an example of what is contained in the marine unit. they will occupy roughly half of the facility. the project was started nearly a year ago and we are happy to report that a project was not only completed on time, but within budget. a very nice job to those two. the grant was secured and and now we have completed the building and we are here to have the mou for approval for the police department to occupy approximately half of the building. here is the new structure. and here is the floor plan on the last page. by approval of this mou, we feel there are si

, moving people in and out of one training facility to get their training? >> senator, as we talked about when we met, the faa, when we were evaluating our training needs, we had developed an approach which included two components, one was to enter into some sort of arrangement or lease for a facility and then the development of the training itself. in light of the fiscal challenges we were facing, as we were doing our work in that project, one of the things that we had some concern about was entering into a long-term lease, given the fiscal challenges that we knew we were going to face in the future. at the same time however, we -- we were hearing that there were alternative models to conduct training where we would contract for services from entities that would provide the training and facility. so it was in that -- it was in that spirit that we suspended work on the -- in looking at a training facility. all of our options are on the table as we look at the review going forward of what is the best way to conduct training for the faa's needs. we are a very

the nif is a national resource, national ignition facility. it has the potential to achieve ignition, although there are still obstacles in the way of that. we think they can be overcome, and that they should be overcome. so we remain committed to the use of that facility for that purpose as well as others. >> my time is up. i'd just like to say, dr. holdren, it is a delight to have you here and to listen to your wisdom. thank you. >> chair recognizes mr. brooks, gentleman from alabama. >> thank you, mr. chairman. in a state of the union address, the president reiterated his call to congress to pass a clean energy standard which would require utilities to produce and sell electricity from expensive sources such as wind and solar. you may also be aware of department of energy has undertaken numerous analysis of the impact of obama's clean energy standard on electricity prices, including one requested by our own chairman hall, and another requested by senator bingamon. it would significantly increase electricity prices and result in heavy econom

facility. i can list just a couple. one was that the federal government in the end was willing to negotiate legally binding agreements with the state government that clearly defined a set of regulatory authorities, but the state helped. and in essence gave state leadership hands on a steering wheel or at least ability to put their foot on a brake. and i think that was a key element of creating confidence that the facility, that the facility could be operated safely and that they could assure its citizens that, indeed, it would be operated safely. >> so instead of my way or the highway, federal government calling the shots, you've got the state in the car? >> yep. >> one of the front seats of the car. >> that's correct. >> and with the ability to put a foot on the brake. almost like in driver's ed when i was in high school, you'd have the student driver on one side and the instructor on the other side, both with a steering wheel and the pedals and everything. so -- >> right. and i believe the next panel others are likely

environmental stewardship and cost-effective facilities for our customers. to that end we have begun to utilize the roof tops in our portfolio for the installation of the systems. these face the sun and are adjacent to the grid. they generate no additional benefit. they provide a renewable source of power for the communities where the buildings are locationed while providing an additional revenue stream to the shareholders. going become to 2006, we begin having conversations with different manufactures and financing sources about the potential for future roof top solar installations. since that time, we installed 78 mega watts of solar on about 18 million square feet of roof tops. in january of 2010, we put out a tender seeking solar finance partner to lease the roofs and respond to a potential california utility request for proposal. one responded to our tender was solyndra who identified bank of america and merrill lynch as their financial partner. we selected them in 2010 and jointly responded to the utility. that utility selected us in july of 2010 to pr

at other facilities.

interim storage facilities will face. so whether it's the cost of shipping the waste and building the storage facilities, whether it's the siting of the facilities, whether it's the transportation routes for the shipment of the waste or the environmental impact of shipping and storing the waste or the bureaucratic red tape of permitting the project across multiple governmental entities. none of these issues have yet gone away. even while advocating a new consent-based approach to siting the waste, we -- which we'll explore today -- the commission itself admits the crux of the challenge derives from a federal, state, and local issue that is far from unique to the nuclear waste issue and no simple formula exists for solving it. so the commission is attempting to solve this problem and offer solutions to the siting and storage of waste. i've cited examples in new mexico, finland, france and sweden where there are possible templates for us to explore. i look forward to exploring these examples and see if we've found something

our facilities were built for a different standard of care. you heard a doctorate drescher before about licensed beds when the standards of care was upwards of two to four people in a room. we no longer have that standard of care. and this is more and more technology. technology requires space. this is viable, whether it is keeping people alive, diagnostic technology. it is vital to say for care and processes, and i would add that it is vital to more efficient processes. as we look towards rebuilding cpmc, i asked you to approve this program. it has been diligently thought out, and we stand before you and submit it for your approval. thank you. supervisor mar: thank you, mr. veracruz. >> i run an arts organization in san francisco. our main forecast -- focus is on the african-american community, but we provide art for anyone. one of the big issues that we deal with our issues that we are facing in our community, and health is one issue that is facing our community quite significantly. as part of our community engagement, we get involved as a w

and an agreement to host either a repository or an interim storage facility. after many years of efforts, that task proved unsuccessful and i believe it was in 19 -- 1993 that congress decided to get rid of the office of negotiator. certainly the idea was a useful one and other countries have tried it. with success or not? >> not so much. >> okay. all right. fair enough. thank you. for mr. orrell and commissioner wright, the blue ribbon commission recommends pursuing consolidated storage facilities in parallel to a disposal program. some in congress believe we can pursue interim storage first without also pursuing a parallel disposal program. based on your experience and knowledge how easy or difficult would it be to get consent at all levels of government if interim storage is pursued without pursuing a disposal program. that would be for you, mr. orrell and mr. wright. >> well, my personal -- >> again, i'll ask you to be brief. >> my personal opinion is at the moment, without a robust discernible repository development program, the enthusiasm for moving earl

. >> ksp is kentucky's only maximum security facility. group of stone masons from italy teamed with inmates from various prisons to construct the castle which opened in 1889. >> when they first built it, they had a sign up over the front door that said, "abandon hope all ye that enter here." they wanted this place to look pretty menacing and it still looks menacing even today. >> i think the penitentiary is unique in many respects, just because of the foreboding appearance that it has. it's a serious place where serious things happen. this is a prison. >> the castle sits on 90 acres and has seven cell houses for its 900 inmates. nearly 40 inmates are secluded on death row. fewer than a dozen of them live in a minimum-custody facility. more than 200, those considered the most dangerous, are locked in solitary confinement in the segregation unit. >> basically, there are very few inmates that come directly to the kentucky state penitentiary. for the most part, inmates come to the penitentiary via other facilities that those inmates have eith

>> my husband and i live across the street from this facility. what i can tell you is on the roof of this address, they have installed two antennas already. what does at&t have to concentrate all the antennas in one area? second, i do not have pictures, but i just explain to you, these antenna, they look very ugly. how you can do this, i do not know. and all our neighborhood tis against this installation.

as i mentioned, the proposals that we had received on the training facility

for the development of new facilities at the lab in your state. and i expect that there will be positive developments coming out of that. we are not giving up on high energy physics, although, again, we are con strapd. everybody in this room knows the budget challenges under which the government is operating. and within those challenges, we intend to continue to invest in cutting edge high energy physics in the united states as well as in the participation of our scientists in cutting edge facilities elsewhere when that's where they are. >> well, again, talk is very important, but action is even more important. we've seen significant cuts under the president's budget to many of our laboratories. significant increase going to some applied science that obviously the president supports. dr. holdren, i know you were able to train at m.i.t. and stanford here in the united states, and also taught at harvard and berkeley. you have a very distinguished career. wouldn't you have differently about your own career path if you didn't think there was an opport

it's a hard core, hard lock facility. >> the segregation unit is a controlled unit. know, the people in here they have assaulted staff in the past or they have -- you have overt sexual behavior, stealing, theft. there are some murderers that we have here. they are violent. we've got chaos going on constantly. >> this inmate's rage in general population brought him time in segregation. >> i got in a fight and gave somebody 15 stitches in his eye. i got an anger problem. i don't really think before i act. that was the main problem. >> every anarchy of prison you can think of with adults, we have the same sub-systems here. >> with as many as 48 violent teens kept in a confined area of the facility, the segregation unit has a society all its own. where cell phones and ipods are replaced by a fast paced secretive process called cadillacing. >> sometimes it takes awhile. you got to tear a hole in your mat. then put string about it. put some paper around it. make it in a square. slide it out your door. so you can pass food and notes. >> the strings come from the mattresses.

the developer is asking for major facilities in terms of height, rezoning. they are preparing to aggravate -- replacing the tennis court with a soaring poll is of no benefit. currently, the club is within reach for most people. and when it is all said and done, it will be out of reach for most people. there will be a lot of profit for the developer in this deal. providing public goods for this deal is completely unreasonable. do i still have 30 seconds? thank you. the other aspect that i want to bring out is that we are dealing with people who have avoided -- legitimately -- using loopholes to pay taxes on the transfer of the project. please look at the financing for the second transfer in the transfer fees. chairperson chu: aye. -- chairperson chu: thank you. next speaker. brecht's i'm here on behalf of the housing action coalition. -- >> i'm here on behalf of the housing action coalition. despite the payments, which we think are complex and a pretty extraordinary for the city, what is really before you is a simple land use decisions. what becomes of seawal

the proposed facility would consist of 11 roof staff -- roof-mounted antenna as. the cabinets would be located within an equipment room inside the building at the ground floor. the project sites two locations. to date, the department has received 36 signatures from neighbors opposed to the project, citing primarily health concerns with the facilities in missions. however, we have reviewed the r f report and determined it complies with the current fcc guidelines. the project complies with the applicable requirements of the planning code and general plan policies. it will be compatible because the antennas will be screened from view. it will improve at&t's wireless mobile phone coverage and signal strength in the immediate area. this concludes my presentation and i'm available for questions. thank you. >> any public comment? the project sponsor. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm here with the consulting engineers who conducted the radio frequency tests and analyses. the report is in your packet. i'm also here with a consultant. approval of the gop will approve a

recreation facility in the infrastructure. then the last two sections point to two specific plan areas that are for the west end of the park. one is the west end plan. the other is the richmond-sunset treatment facility plan. both talk to each other in that section. the west end plan briefly reflects itself back to the other plan but essentially what it's saying is that the west end doesn't have the activity it should. we need to bring more positive activity to the west end and activate that space. the master plan considers adding a fifth soccer pitch where the treatment facility used to be. it also recognized that a 30 to 40-car parking lot should be added at that area. it contemplates the addition of a 2,500 square foot pavilion which would be a community space, a place for roller skating, bike rentals -- those are all great and we think that our project dovetails with that goal. obviously with our field -- field and increased use the need to expand another soccer field to the south isn't necessary, adding an additional park

it's a large facility. we're on over 500 acres of property. the perimeter is approximately a mile and a half around the facility. we have maximum security, medium security and minimum security offenders. what probably sets us apart is the different segregation units. >> offenders who assault staff or other inmates are moved to the secure housing unit, a prison within the prison, known as the shu. >> there have been discipline problems, they've been assaulted and they've had issues at other facilities. so they send them here. >> designed to look and function like pelican bay, a maximum security prison in california, the shu is composed of windowless, concrete cells measuring 7 by 12 feet. of the 288 inmates housed here, 179 have been diagnosed by psychiatric staff as mentally ill. >> i heard the horror stories of this place back when it first opened up. >> sergeant dan haskins is a veteran of the secure housing unit. >> out of sight, out of mind. the outside world, out of sight, out of mind. they don't -- probably don't want to know what goes o

i said at the main facility. well, they didn't care for that too much. they did know friends of the family that had two sons in here that got killed during the riot. hadley, i'll be back to talk to you when i have some more time. i do not have time right now. >> when? >> tomorrow. >> when? >> i had a few higher administration tell me i wouldn't make it. that i was going to be bringing in drugs, having sex with the inmates, doing something, and that made me have more ambition to prove to them and myself that you know, you can't base what you're thinking on my looks, and that's what's kept me going all these years is that i'm here to prove them wrong. >> as our cameras were rolling, we saw firsthand how unruly inmates continually challenge the staff. inmate toby gonzales, convicted of second-degree murder and armed robbery, refuses to remove his hand from the food port. >> do you want to us do 22 or 23? >> this morning when he got his first meal, he refused it, stuck his hand out the food port and he's had his hand out ever since. >> we have an extraction

warriors on a potential transaction that would allow the team to construct a few from the waterfront facility. this is merely the opening tipoff. the action before you is limited in scope and authorizes only the following preliminary -- finding that the competitive bidding policy in the ad man code does not apply in this coast and allowing the city and that in detailed discussions with the warriors' organization on a potential real-estate transaction, recognizing oewd as the leader for negotiating the project, working with board staff and at the direction of the commission, urging all parties to engage in our reach to all affected and interested neighbors and stakeholders, including the san francisco giants, urging oewd and teh port to work closely with the state lands commission and urging staff to make this project a high priority. the authorizations outlined above are the full extent of the proposed action in front of you today. nothing in this resolution approves or endorses any aspect of a potential future real estate transaction with the warriors. i would like to take this opportunity b

the proposed projekt involved the portfolio of three different geothermal facilities. >> alsz, facilities would provide power using the proprietary technology. that has been used in geothermal power plants in our system around the world. a combined total of cleaned power. we welcome the d.o.e. for our partial guarantee just you should a year later in june 2011. we believe that this project is a strong fit with the objectives of the 1705 program. economic condition at the time of our application made it difficult to secure commercial data to develop these fa silties. the d.o.e. loan guarantee enabled us to declare more plants and create more jobs than we would have been able to achieve without it. the two-phase report submitted with the investment as its overall success did not change entirely on the success of one facility. a total of up to $350 million in debt financing has been approved to our financial partner, john handcock. our first loan occurred in october, 2011, of approximately $151 million, which is only a portion of the total budget for the projects. indeed, as of the second qu

is doing even for experiments taking place for facilities abroad. i'm confidence that u.s. researchers can continue to be at the forefront of the scientific disciplines. you really didn't answer the question. not only did you not answer the question, you seemed to imply that wield be just fine without having world-class facilities in the united states. that is troubling to me and i want to ask for clarification if on that if i'm misunderstand. does president obama believe that we should build large-scale world leading physics facilities in the united states as we used to do or is he satisfied in spending the scarce research dollars in solar panels and wind turbines while the next generations of students are forced to study abroad for fizzecs. >> let me start, and the space formulation that the united states has fallen from first to third by any respectable sentiment. it issest hat number one in space and intends to stay that way. on high energy physics, it is not true that we are not content to lead the future of high-energy physics for doing that to the rest of the world.

tell me what you know about the level one facility. >> it's a work facility, work camp. it's more freedom. and it's just able to walk outside and breathe the air whenever you want to do it. >> right. which is a privilege. >> right. it's a privilege that i feel i've earned. >> okay. >> in the long run. because county -- i've been in prison for a year and a half, but can the with county it's been almost 2 1/2 years. >> ever received a misconduct report in any of that time? >> no, ma'am. >> never have any problems with anybody? hmm-mm. >> are you anxious? scared a little bit? >> scared and anxious, both. a little bit of both. >> okay. well, from all outward appearances and reviewing your file and talking with you, mr. morgan, i'll make my recommendation to the committee. and i think you are a very good candidate for level one. so the committee will give you the final decision. the recommendation will be made to central office to the classification bureau, and my recommendation will be that we send you to level one. >> all right. thank you. >> you're welcome. >> i appreciate

seven years later in 1996 they had just such a facility. and rob roth was there when it opened. >> reporter: this is bar, 000, -- barbie a california sea lion recovering from an infection. today barbie was the sole inhabitant of the emergency care facility which officially opened this afternoon. the $200,000 project is sort of like an emergency room, especially for animals caught in oil spills. it has seven different pools capable of handling oil soaked marine mammals. >> we can keep oiled animals, healthy oiled animals separate from sick animals. we can keep them separate. and the past there was no way of doing that. >> reporter: marine wildlife officials say the need for such a facility became apparent during the exxon valdez disaster. 11million-gallons of oil poured into the alaskan sound, killing thousands of sea gulls. >> what tends to happen is the facilities aren't that good, they're built really quickly. a lot of times the construction occurs while the animals are in place. that's an extra stress on those animals. a lot of animals d

all san franciscans deserve world-class facilities. the time and opportunity for miracles are fleeting. we see miracles, but they do not happen on their own. they start with world-class facilities. time is precious. i encourage all san franciscans get world-class medical facilities now. thank you. supervisor mar: thank you. i will call a few more names. christopher, dennis, laura. mr. flores. >> i am from local 22 of the carpenters' union. local 22 is committed to seeing the local construction workers have their fair shake on the job. you have my word on that. supervisor cohen talked about women in the trades. in our apprenticeship program, it is mandated 20% of the class has women in that class. it is no secret. i will come out and say it. we are low on that. we need more women we're doing as much as we can on outreach. we're working with the sheriff's department of san francisco. i did not know existed. let me get this right. women's reentry -- reentering center. it is great. i have a group of women i am talking to. they are interest

the facility is working as expected. what is before you today are two new agreements for the second $150 million. assuming that action is taken today, we will have the four agreements in place of $75 million each. the slide shows a little bit of a comparison and i want to share this with you. what is being proposed is, in the first column, for union bank agreements for $150 million, it is 0.65%, $975,000 a year. the fee will be covered by the waste water capital program. the term is for three years. i will speak a moment about the downgrade protection. the other two colonies show you a comparison of the agreements we have with j.p. morgan and u.s. bank. also with the prior agreement of the water enterprise. as it relates to the bank hundred protection, that is an important thing. they provide us with the ability to terminate the agreement. i want to pause here to reiterate the importance of adequate bank ratings. you may have heard about moody's downgrading several banks last week. we have an agreement with bank of ameri

teatro zinzanni's facilities are full of human-scaled facilities.with 14 feet on the perimeter buildings, the tent peeks at no more than 32 feet. we believe this reflects the pedestrian scale of the 19th century vintage coast which we are trying to recall here. so that is what we're trying to do. >> commissioners, regarding the next up of teatro zinzanni, i wanted to outline those. we expect to go to the waterfront design committee in june. we expect we will be going to the historic preservation commission sometime in late july. there is also out reached to neighborhood groups that are necessary in we anticipate coming back to the commission in the fall of 2012. that concludes my presentation. >> is there any public comment? commissioners? questions, comments? >> jeff, a quick question. are you expanding of its capacity in this configuration? >> no, the tent capacity, i believe, is 375 persons. i'm sorry, i try to expand it. 285 persons. >> thank you. >> so this is a tent that will be restored, and existing tent. >> there are two of them. one in sea

one, we are actually learning how to use this new facility and what it requires. that is inevitable with such a transformation. the other is something you'll never guess, and that is we design the aquarium to rely on it seawater, that it comes from the beach. after all, you would think if you're half a mile from the pacific ocean, you might be able to take advantage of your natural resources. the only problem is the pacific ocean is too polluted, and if we pomps the water directly into our tanks, our fish become exceedingly unhappy and think about floating, as i said. so we have to make our own seawater. this is a reflection of issues having to do with the sustainability and issues with the environment and so forth. 100 years ago, we would have pumped water from the pacific in our fish would have been happy. 100 years later, the runoff from the land police the ocean near the beach where we can actually access water. we cannot do that. so we may see water. for a while we were purifying the pacific ocean. we cannot do that anymore. now we have to make our own seawat

and a lot of our facilities suffer. there's a controversial ballot measure about clay tower. i think a lot of people feel there's a lot of needs within our recreation and park facilities that we need to deal with and we don't have enough funds or resources to deal with those things and that is a reality and i don't see that's changing in the near future. i, myself, played soccer. i wouldn't prefer to play on turf. i would prefer to play on grass fields. that's what i played on. doesn't seem appealing to me to play on turf but as a former soccer player and as a stepmom to a soccer player where i spend my weekend at soccer tournaments, when you play soccer, you care about playing. a lot of people would prefer grass fields because it's a great, rich experience but at the same time, if the choice is to play or not to play, you would always choose a turf field because it provides an opportunity and as a person who has watched a lot of games, the games can go on as a consequence and there's passion and lessons in life kids learn through playing sports that can't be underscored enou

various entities including churches and health-care facilities as well as welfare facilities have a significant number of customers who are dropped off by motor vehicles and to facilitate that, we have asked the city through the transportation agency to establish a white zone. that is essentially a passenger loading area at the streaker -- street curb fronting the area. when you ask for a white sound, you are required to pay a fee, attend a public hearing, and the matter of request for the creation of a white zone ultimately has to be approved by the city's traffic engineer. we have seen as we have studied this issue that there are many benefits to having wide zones. one of the obvious benefits is that they reduce the number of vehicles that are double parked on city streets. i think anyone who has used our streets knows that this is a recurring problem throughout san francisco. another benefit of having a white zone is that it alleviates the need for drivers to circle around for blocks in search of a parking space, which is not only bad in terms of traffic, but also bad for the environment. th

[bell rings] let's build this facility. i am waiting to receive another pin during the groundbreaking ceremony. let's build it. supervisor mar: thank you. next speaker. >> hello. i am a community organizer in the tenderloin. we need more jobs in san francisco. over the past several decades, there has been a mass exodus of working-class families that can no longer afford to live here. it is one of the most expensive cities to live in in the world. so we need to make sure that we secure funding and opportunities, economic resources, towards low-income working class families, residents of san francisco. how could it be that the nurses are against a hospital being built? there should be something that clicks with that, sutter that help -- that sutter health does not support the nurses' unions and others. they have had to start to get fair wages for themselves. we need to make sure that we are hiring locally. 5% of all the jobs coming into the city to the new hospital is being built is really a census to san franciscans. we need

backstage support spaces, and a green room, which are our rental facilities. the san francisco opera will be making an investment of $15 million to complete improvements on the fourth floor, including building two new event rehearsal spaces that will be used by the opera for a portion of the year, and the war memorial will make those spaces available to arts groups for the balance of the year. as previously mentioned at this hearing, the san francisco arts commission is targeted to relocate its functions to the war memorial, as well. i would note that using the job creation estimation methodology that is used by the pack -- by the capital planning committee, it is estimated that 850 private sector jobs will be created from the veteran's building project. i have also provided to you a schedule, a high level schedule of the veterans building project that does, again, reiterate that we will close in july 2013 for a two-year time span. i also wanted to touch on our language access program. we are a tear two department under the language access ordinance. we have p

inside the jail's nashua street facility is a housing facility for those units who have given them aamong other inmates, a reputation that could result in grave consequences. >> special housing unit, what we call the shu is typically what most people refer to as pc, protective custody unit, the people who go to protective custody or special housing are those whose charges make them difficult to place in population, quite often it involves some sort of sexual crime charge. that individual is generally not welcome in any housing block. >> these inmates become targets in general population where other inmates consider it a badge of honor to attack them. george shipps has been in this special housing unit for ten months now. >> i am here for downloading child pornography on my computer. that's my charge. >> shipps has not pled guilty, to charges of distribution of possession of child pornography is in protective custody not only because of the nature of his charges but because of the notoriety. >> the day i walked into the jail there was a television on and i was on the tv, that's why i'

project -- existing dechloramination facility project. the total cost impact of these changes is $7,487,700, and the overall program schedule and cost remains the same. >> you should all have a copy of my power point slide. if i could be connected to the system, great. my apologies for not having these in your packet. i just decided this morning that it would help put things in perspective to have a presentation for you. i also wanted to point out that included in your packet is a letter from bawsca in response to our proposed changes. before i get into these proposed revisions, i wanted to highlight once again for you where the program stands as of today. the program as a whole is 50% complete, based on expenditure. you can see on this slide a breakdown of where each of the 81 wsip projects is at. at this point, we have completed construction once again on 2/3 of our projects, and we have 19 currently active in construction. we will be seeking approval today for a new construction contracts, so that will bring our number of projects in c