thank you, john updike. [applause] >> supervisor kim: i was wondering where my croissant is. ughter] mr. updike, john, thank you for your years and years of service to our city and county. you have a tremendously important job, which is how to invest our public dollars back, to see how we can provide effective, city services. you've been grilled many times on this mike. so it's nice to honor you today. my office has had the pleasure of working with you on so many projects and you've had to sit and wait in front of our office so many days and hours on a lot of different moving pieces. it's an immense amount of work, managing the portfolio, leases and ownership and it's not an easy job to do. i want to acknowledge the depth of your understanding, of all of our issues, needs, wants, in terms of what we want to see in our portfolio. managing all of that along with the politics and the dollar signs, it takes an extraordinary set of skills and patience. i want to congratulate you on an incredibly well-deserved retirement and acknowledge your team that you lead every single day. [app

gish jen, you wrote in 2009 that quote john updike chose me as his successor. i i never got to ask him why. >> guest: i know. >> host: successor to what? >> guest: what happened was it was a magazine in london and they were doing this millennials special. it was the turn of the century and so they asked all these people who they felt were preeminent in their fields. to name their successor for the 21st century. kate twiggy chose take moss, and john updike for reasons i never understood chose me. so here's this incredibly auguste man i've never met. i did not even knew my name. we had our picture taken together but i never got to ask him why. >> host: are you a fan of john updike? >> guest: of course i am a fan. but i would not of said he was a major influence on the accept for somewhat indirectly. indirectly he was an influence on us all and that's because here i am, i've immigrant roots compare interested in america. i see america, everything. i think updike gives the idea that's what the novel was for. the novel was for capturing america and writing america,

we have john updike presenting on thi item the 5-year lease from the department of public health. >> thank you. before i get into this, if i may take a moment of your time to introduce my successor who has joined me today and working with me fothe last couple weeks to ensure a seamless transition and transaction andrew panik. >> supervisor cohen: welcome. >> thank you, chair cohen, members of the committee. i have giant footsteps and to updike but i look forward to working with you in the future. >> supervisor cohen: we look forward to that too. mr. updike, when is your last day? >> 31stof m last >> onto business. seeks authorization of a 5-year lease of 1305, 1309 evan at inressddhat health.y c is primarily for administrative and clinical counseling offices for youth and family services. the lease negotiated here is a fixed for rate the term, for the 5-year term of 6 a square foot per year. it has one year option at 95% fair market rent. as noted in the budget legislatianwas month to month for sothing just short of forever, over a decade. however, over the past four years we have be

and so john updike and for reasons i never understood, chose me. i have never let him i never even knew he knew my name. we picture taken together. never got to ask him why. >> are you a fan? >> of course. but i would not have said he was a major influence on me i was an influence on us all. that's because like me have immigrant roots and seen america -- think they could give us the idea that that was what the novel was for. the novel was for capturing amera. it was part of the adventure of inventing america. they wanted to capture america in the books. that was his project. i think he understood that there is more to america than just what we saw.and maybe h saw me e o is going to carry on that project. >> there is also something else interested. of all the things he valued in fiction, he valued people who had a relationship with the world. he called it glass quality. there is nobody who has their nose pressed more firmly to the glass than the daughter of immigrants. so there is a way in which he was hugely influential. although, i would not have

were preeminent in their field to name their successor, so kate twiggy 12's-- chose kate moss and john updike for reasons i've never understood chose me so here's this incredible man of letters. i had never met him and did not know he knew my name and we had our picture taken together, but i never got to ask him why. host: are you a fan of dog updike? >> of course i'm a fan, but i would not have said he was a major influence except indirectly, i mean, indirectly he was an influence on us all because i have immigrant roots and i see america the way a tuberous sees america. and it give us the idea that that was with the novel was for. the novel was for capturing america and writing america and is part of the adventure of inventing america. the idea was to capture america. that was his project and i think he could see in me someone-- i think maybe he understood there was more to america than what we saw in the rabbit book and i think maybe he saw me as someone who would carry on the project and he was right. he was right. something else interesting about updike and of all the things he valued in