at&t, lennar corp.. they stepped up and said this is such a wonderful idea of a public-private partnership aimed at making sure that hot spots along the t line and san bruno were going to be safer. to have 12 residents of san francisco, many of them living in district 10 speaking a total of eight different languages and communicating with not only the operators of our municipal transportation agency -- i see deborah johnson here this morning. thank you for being here. 311 as well as department of public works, the whole sfmta organization, police department, board of supervisors, city administrator's office, working together, have produced an opportunity in a public-private relationship to hire these 12 individuals. we have done a pilot program and the results are stunningly positive. when you engage the public, when you engage the ridership of muni, engage people in the community and ask what they are most concerned about, public safety is always on their mind. along with the board supervisors, we work

we have a great program for them all set up with a new lennar development at candlestick park. i think they will recognize that and come back. >> was there anything magical that happened in your district as a result of the world series? >> i imagine there were a lot of districts in district 7 he sat and cried when they watched the celebration like i did. i think those are the magical moments. a lot of parents and children region that whole week of the world series was one i will never forget, particularly the day of the parade. it was not just my district. that wasa magical time for this region. >> in your regdistrict, deal have any particular projects to give us insight on? >> one was a basic infrastructure thing that was a big deal. san francisco circle. not a lot of people realize that more cars travel through one of those intersections than any other in san francisco. we had to shut that down and completely rebuild the intersection for the muni winds utilities, and overheads. we pulled it off. we got through it. now we have pedestrians walking through safely. we have the tr

it really relates to the local hire percentages, and a great news we have here is lennar is working aggressively to secure funding for the vertical rays, and we anticipate there will be more work soon, and we are definitely expecting to see a trend upward. currently the redevelopment agency as a whole is working up 47% local hire. we're working to exceed the city's 20% and look forward to continuing to do so. supervisor campos what is the interaction between work force and office of economic development? if you could talk a little bit about the interaction. >> certainly. we work very closely with office of economic and workforce development, project early on the local hire side of this. it is the single source our free-for-all, and they work with the community and with all sentences go residents to make sure they're being able to be responsive to contractors and fill the worker response when they come in. the way this works is that the redevelopment agency itself has a contract compliance division that has about seven staff, and we do all the monitoring of the equal opportunity policies from con

with over 37 million sandbags, at 342 pumps, 5500 rolls of pauley shading, 275 linear feet, and 1280 lennarapid deployment flood walls. -- linear feet of rapid deployment flood walls. during the 1927 flood, the mississippi valley region had a haphazard system of private and public levies. the result was 72% of the lower valley was under water. more than 26,000 square miles were flooded, 500 people were dead, and another 700,000 were left homeless. after the 1927 flood, the nation of the rise and funded the mississippi river system that included levies. during this year's 2011 flood event, flood flows were greater than those experienced during the 1927 flood. because of the project, only 38% of the area that flooded in 1927 flooded in 2011. not a single life was lost. for the first time, three of the systems floodways were placed on simultaneous operation to leave the enormous stress on a levee system and reduce the danger to people, their homes, and businesses. over 800 personnel were engaged with more than $76 million of funds allocated and over $59 million in fema money. bowater said appr