authorize the mou and recommend the appropriation to the board and i am here with large brown and -- laurence brown and megan and we can answer any questions. >> so moved. >> any public comment? hearing none, commissioners, questions? >> i would like to say that once again, the staff seems to have risen to that challenge and some -- found creative ways to meet that challenge. accommodation to you and your staff for figuring out how to get this done. >> i agree. it is an organized plan to go forward given all the changes. thank you. >> i want to thank you for the hard work. i did not understand that projects were being defunded to make this happen. can you give us a little bit of a strategy on how you will refund these projects? >> and some questions along that line. if you could add to that any potential exposure we might have by defunding these projects. the strategy for refunding is always the most challenging. the southern waterfront project we defined it, the back lands was a hard decision to make because there is revenue potential at the other side of that project to the tune of $1.80 million.

authorize the mou and recommend the appropriation to the board and i am here with large brown and -- laurence brown and megan an

technology making your right easier every day >> good morning i'm laurence cornfield chief building inspector and like to welcome you to our brown bag lunch we do the third thursday of every month at the department of building inspection. we invite you to participate so call for information and join us. our next talk is on decks and balcones. today we will talk about commercial restaurants in san francisco. we have a lot of people in the audience who are restaurant exe experts and architects and industry people. i should talk about commercial restaurants and how to get permit issues resolved and problems resolved during lunchtime. is probably not a thing that's going to attract a lot of people in the commercial restaurant business because they work at lunch and they are not here. hopefully we can broadcast this and may be if there is an interest we will do it at a future date. another thing, perhaps we should do this at a restaurant because we want to support restaurant necessary san francisco. we did last year have lunch at town hall restaurant we will do that again later this year. we have a lot of topics to cover today, befor