with that i'm going to ask kerry mcclellan if she wants to add. she's our ceo and frankly knows a lot more of the details on it if you have questions. >> thank you. i appreciate your taking on this unenviable pledge -- >> thank you, supervisor. [multiple voices] >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> mr. buell, before you go, you're on a plane, you were on the east coast early this morning, thanks for being here. >> yes. >> colleague, i was there at the beginning of the stages when the event happened with the authority, and the discrepancy between local authorities and national advertisers was going on. i know the targets are short of where they were originally. we'll get into the holistic picture of. this i do agree with mr. buell, commissioner buell, you have many titles at city hall. i just want to say thank you for your time and effort. colleagues, i think it's hard to see how much time mr. buell has put into this personally. >> i appreciate that very much. >> you have a lot going on. >> that's been expressed by the other members of the boar

we have to support mark buell and kerry mcclellan and the mayor. i appreciate mr. barkley staying for the whole hearing as well and all the information that's been shared today. i didn't want to lose the issue of making sure that the back pay is addressed and that in the future as we look at private or private projects or other projects like this that we have a very clear system so that prevailing wages adhere to if that is a commitment that's been made. i think the suggestion from olse and others and from the public that testified, i definitely would like to see an investigation of penalties or some way to enforce, to go beyond good faith efforts to make sure that we have better monitoring systems and really can ensure that workers are paid their prevailing wage and we are monitoring and make sure this does not happen again. so, i appreciate the hearing and look forward to working to the to make america's cup successful. >> okay. and we have a motion to continue to the call of the chair. and we can do that without opposition. [gavel] >> for those of you watching o

with that i'm going to ask kerry mcclellan if she wants to add. she's our ceo and frankly knows a lot more of the details on it if you have questions. >> thank you.

. >> thank you, good afternoon, i'm kerry mcclellan, ceo of the america's cup organizing committee. i'm going to sort of take these in order in response to your question about the opportunity for local corporate donors. we launched late last year a program called 1sf celebrating the cup, hiring two additional fund-raising counsel that had expertise with working with the local corporate community. and we're now in the market on that and have a number of verbal pledges. and i have to say that both mayor lee, but also lou ten an governor newsome and senator finestein and leader pelosi and others are leaning into that effort. i'm optimistic that just as we have worked hard to bring philanthropy i in to find a program that is appealing to local advisetionv to support and help the city be successful, we have crafted those messages around what the city is creating around community and legacy benefits. ~ and as we have traveled from all of this being hypothetical in projections in 2010, we're now at the mid point where we can see what ha the city accomplished and capitalized on this effort