supervisor mar. on page 23, we note that the total project budget for the lower cherry aqueduct project is 18,$100,000 and that includes 14 million for the contract ~ and 4.1 million for the associated project costs and that's shown in table 4 on page 23. and then regarding the sunol valley water treatment plant, the total project budget is 8,5 13,000. and that's shown on page 24 which includes the not to exceed 5,137 contract and 3 million 376,000 for the associated project costs ~. and again, that's in table 6 on page 24 of our report. ~ 137,000 we do have a number of recommendations, supervisors, on page 25. we recommend that you amend the proposed resolution that is file 1405 86 to reduce the ton exceed contract amount by 2 million from 16 million to 14 million. we recommend you amend the proposed resolution 5 14 08 71 to specify the public work contract being approved is emergency contract, is a contract between the puc and monterey mechanical for construction management general contractor servi

supervisor mar. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. that item passes. item 6 >> item 6 appoint ramona smith to the advisory committee. >> seeing no names on the roster we'll go to public comment any public comment on that item on item 6. if there's a medical cannabis please come forward >> sometimes in the western they ponder the chinese map i mean, of course, about 7 times 7 is 49 actually, it's the 15 body 349 usage application and wonders in the charge 7 charge and 7 enforcement yeah. >> they make a mighty professional. >> is there any further public comment on item 6 seeing none, public comment is closed. madam clerk call the roll >> supervisor avalos absent. supervisor breed. supervisor campos. supervisor chiu. supervisor cohen. supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. supervisor mar. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. that item passes >> okay will you call item 7. >> approval the prop k this is an action item. >> seeing no names on the roster we'll open this up open this up for public comment any public comment on tha

supervisor mar? >> not a question, but just a thank you, and to the parks alliance, especially matthew o'grady [speaker not understood]. it's really great to see that moving forward. i can't wait to ride that. and lastly, the golden gate park community gardens, the edible vertical garden is going to be amazing. i was there for the ground braking. ~ groundbreaking. and i wanted to thank all the advocates for urban farms and environmental kids and education and learning with our parks and community gardens, but also urban gardens as well. i think a 10-foot high wall potential food is pretty amazing. that should be a great visual example of what we can do in urban setting to grow more food. so, i wanted to thank yellow pages and ecomedia for that great project, but especially the rec and park staff. thank you. >> thanks, supervisor mar. so, mr. rose, can we go to your report on item number 3, please? >> yes, mr. chairman. on item 3 on page 13 of our report, we report that the budget of 499,670 and that

the surface of mars.tation has proven that we have the technology to get to and from mars and to live on the surface. there is more testing to do. a lot of the propulsive and life support is in place. there is that last step of getting to the surface of mars and back off the surface. >> spacex has been talking about going beyond mars and dominating the solar system by 2100. do you think that is possible? >> i would never want to estimate elon musk. they do amazing things. i hope they are not the only ones. it would be a shame if there was this one a monopolistic company that dominated the solar system. i would hope that in good american tradition that several companies would be competing. they are certainly leading the way. >> that was the chief technology officer for inspiration mars. that does it for this edition of the best of "bloomberg west." you can catch us monday through friday. we will see you next week. ♪ .. >> web.com's mission is to help businesses succeed online. we provide the marketing solu

supervisor mar. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. supervisor avalos. supervisor breed. supervisor campos. supervisor chiu. supervisor cohen. supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. there are 11 i's. this ordinance is passed on is first reading >> item 62. >> a resolution for an 19 period to clear the distinction in the planning code and affirming the planning department's environmental determination. >> colleagues, can we take that without objection same house, same call? without resolution with that we have results back for our two special p.m. i know we've called the first could you please announce the results of ballots. >> yes. mr. president, for the lower polk was 68.23 percent and the return ballots voting against was that 1 percent 77 percent further indicating there was no majority protest. >> it's been described i want to thank the community for all their work and no majority profits we can precede with the vote to adapt the resolution to establish the lower polk benefit district roll call vote. >> item 46. supervisor mar. supervisor tang. supervi

supervisor mar absent. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. that item passes >> thank you item number 3. >> item 3 the chairs report an informational item. >> i'll be providing this report on behalf of the supervisor avalos. fall first of all, thank you to the board of supervisors for unanimously voting to place the $500 million for transportation on the ballot it is tremendously important to invest in the transportation for all modes of transportation across the city is will learning four or five times the value for recreational fined for example, the metropolitan transportation committee will consider exploring the new local transportation revenues that includes the transportation one day the restoration of the vehicle license fee we hope will go into the ballot in 2016 those recreational and state partnerships will help with the investment that is necessary to move our city forward. speaking of partnerships thank you to the california transportation state bryan kelly for leading the transportation and caltrain staff to tour san francisco's

and with that roll call vote. >> item 17. >> supervisor mar. supervisor mar. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. no. supervisor yee. supervisor avalos. supervisor campos. supervisor chiu. supervisor cohen. supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. there are 9 i's and one no >> the ordinance is passes. >> item 18 for the libraries and the coalition for a better north beach playground filed only january 27th a settlement of a lawsuit. >> roll call. >> on item 18. commissioner mar supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. supervisor avalos. supervisor breed. supervisor campos. supervisor chiu. supervisor cohen. supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. there are a 11 i's. the ordnance is passed item 19. is an ordinance for the police code for honorably discharged developers who file a refund claim on or before july 15th before january 2007 >> item 20 and 21 are. are the two ordinances to appropriate approximately $106 million in a earthquake safety and general obligation combondz procedures for the fiscal years 2014-2015 for necessary repairs and seismic improvements. same house, s

chairman, supervisor mar. on page 39, our recommendation based on the budget submitted by dph, we recommend that you ~ amend the proposed legislation to reduce the contract not to exceed amount by 4 million 8 89,334 from the requested 69 million 451,787 to [speaker not understood] and we recommend that you approve the proposed resolution as amended. >> okay, thank you very much. why don't we open this item up to public comment. anybody wishing to comment on item number 10? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel] >> so move approval of the amendment. >> approval of the amendments -- >> public comment? >> we just did public comment. no one is here to speak in public comment. so, we have it a motion to approve the amendments. excuse me, dph, did you have something to say? >> no, sorry. >> all right. we'll move approval thev amendments. we can take that without objection. [gavel] >> and the underlying item is amended, we can also take that without objection. [gavel] >> madam clerk, can you call item number

it is, i think, an important one. >> host: what was the moon-mars program? >> guest: the moon-mars program was initiated by president bush in about 2004. to use them as a steppingstone to get to mars, to build the infrastructure that would allow us to utilize resources off planet, an extra terrestrial resources, if you will, in order to not have to carry some much stuff with us when we explore space. so the program was designed to build in a step-wise fashion. our current knowledge from the station to the moon again and then also a way to go to mars and about 35 years. now, their cost was very high. i think that it was an ambitious program. it did not garner a lot of enthusiasm because people did not understand it well. again, that was another reason for trying to lay out the problems in a relatively simple language. what we need to do to really begin to leave low-earth orbit where this station is and actually venture into real space. >> host: and dr. claude piantadosi, but are some of the concrete benefits that we have derived from manned space exploration?

>>supervisor eric mar: thank you. i would like to appreciate that we have give gsh guillermo rodriguez. about five 5 years ago when the federal government had stimulus funds going to cities like ours creating green jobs and initiate efficiency and sustainability block grants, we commissioned a study with budget and legislative analyst office with san diego, portland and other cities and how they were ensuring equity and plans for these stimulus funds coming into city. this is an effort in 2014 now to work with our grass roots committees to ensure the city is doing everything possible to improve global warming and working very pro actively to reduce greenhouse gases and increase our efforts to build a sustainable future. and building these homes is a critical area and will bring expertise in the seven 7-person task force that will be created also with advisors from the critical departments of our city. the coordinating committee's goals are to comprehensiveively catalog all energy fisherty programs efficient cy and ide

to get to mars. to build the infrastructure that would allow us to utilize resources off planet. extraterrestrial resources if you will in order to not have to carry so much stuff with us when we explore space. the program was designed to build in a step-by-step fashion on our current knowledge from the station to the moon again and then ultimately to go to mars in the period of 35 years. now the cost were very high. i think it was an ambitious program and it didn't garner a lot of enthusiasm i think because people didn't understand it well. again that was another reason for trying to lay out the problems and in a relatively simple language of what we need to do to really begin to leave lower orbit when the station venturing into real space. >> host: dr. piantadosi what are some of the concrete benefits that we have derived from manned space exploration? >> guest: well i think the most obvious one to everybody would be aviation safety. if you think back to the 1950s and 60s, aviation was still a rela