and my thanks to veroinca and others for hosting the event and we look forward to working with the lbes that were in attendance. >> next, also good news, on july 22nd, the san francisco board of supervisors unanimously approved the lease agreement between the port and the orton development ink for the pier 70 historic buildings, and they plan to renovate, 6 of the buildings with more than a quarter of a million square feet of renovated use. and the board also unanimously approved the issuance of the city of general obligation bonds for seismic rehabilitation of those same buildings. and so, this moves the orton transaction forward and they are hoping to begin their construction later this calendar year. and which will take about 18 to 24 months. and during construction, we expect to see 250 full time workers and there after, 400 to 500 permanent jobs when the project is completed and leased and so i want to particularly acknowledge jonathan stern and rep and phil williamson and brad benson and elaine forbes for the work in getting this item through and i apologize if i forgot anyone, bu

naomi kelly reported back a couple months ago, have done -- have conducted some outreach workshops to lbes to get their recommendations on ways of which to improve and make it easier for lbes, sbes to do business with the city. the formula retail, so, the planning heard both of the items at the thursday, july 17th meeting. the planning commission is going to continue to support the planning department's recommendations around the number of entities that will trigger formula retail. and at this point i think there will be two kind of parallel pieces of legislation for the board of supervisors, then, to finally bring together. the planning department formally introduced their ordinance last week and, so, technically this should come back before the commission and i will, you know, let me know if you'd like to hear it again. if you don't, you don't have to. but that's to decide in the next week or two. and then i have a list of recently introduced legislation that should be coming before you at our next commission meeting and then a status of different pieces of legislation that was heard by

at the board of supervisors i want to thank the staff and the budget committee their hard work led lbe their fear also leaders supervisor farrell and he can go home earlier to spend time with his kids in the evening supervisor farrell. >> (clapping) >> thank you president chiu and mayor ed lee it's maiming two years in a row we've passed this out of the committee and the board of supervisors. when we started this process i think mayor ed lee and i had a commitment to have an open and transparent process that did as is mayor ed lee respect to every be district to meet with the committee heads and we had a town hall online meeting so people could weigh in we want to make sure our budget protects us for the future it's not talked about we're the only city in the united states that passed pension reform and things at the battle we're setting ourselves up in terms of our physical headquartered we wanted to make sure we worked with the board of supervisors and my colleagues, i want to shout out to all my committee members supervisor avalos and supervisor mar and supervisor london breed and c

expand the opportunity for the contractors and the department of public works has increased their market lbe set aside a program and actually doubled it to expand the opportunity, and moscone has expanded the program and pipeline and so this is really the framework for something very, very successful. in terms of what we wanted to leave you with, suggestion and recommendations and we know that those of us who deal with the equity world, we understand the fatigue and we want to thank you the supervisors and we want to thank you for your continued attention to this issue as mr. jordan mentioned, we think that we could utilize an equity lens as we look at the transient tax goes forward and we are in conversations with the mayor's office of how we can think about a budget that was just signed, and where those dollars are going and how we are really looking at our budget through a racial equity lens and we think that there can be dedicated resource and many of these things are cost neutral to expand the type of partnerships, and it takes time and resources to share information, on a legislative a

coming up, what's being said and will the president make statement st wh , 'lbe back. >>> right now pope francis is in south korea. the pope is urging north and south korea work toward reconciliatn and called for stability on the korean peninsula. the countries have been divided since the korean war more than 60 years ago. pope francis is the first pope in 25 years to visit south korea. he'll e the rest of his trip visiting wit some of t country's fi million catholics. >>> russia is sending supplies to eastern ukraine today to help people impa by the war. a russian aid convoy included 262 trucks of canned meat, portable generators and baby food. the trucks will pass through an area contro by the pro-russian separatists. russia will deliver aid to a checkpoint where it can be inspected by ukraine and the red cross. ukraine says it's also preparing to send its n . >>> and now to the crisis in iraq. u.s. forces say the conditions on mt. sinjar are not as grave as first reported. army special forces dispatched to the mountain say there are far fewer refugees than they believed. according toh