memoranda -- amy devon -- many volunteers and all of our speakers and panelists. would like to thank the co- sponsors, and the bar association of san francisco. i would like to thank them for their help and support. it is my pleasure to introduce the president elect of the bar association of san francisco. they provide conflict attorneys to handle cases when a defender is not available. >> i am the president elect of the bar association. we're very proud to co-sponsor the justice of it. on behalf of the 8000 members, and all of those who -- dedicate their careers -- we are very fortunate to have his leadership with top-notch legal representation. for those who were charged each year who are innocent. an important part of the mission is providing equal access to justice. this is shared by his office and all the public defenders. we're proud of the conflict panel that he described, and we also provide the top-notch representation in matters that his office cannot handle. we applaud you for what you do and for those of you who could not make it, thank you very much.

we've entered into a memoranda of understanding of city billed it is underway.his is the golds of 5 periods of time disadvantaged plaintiff's businesses and 5 percent so to 0 come of the local market and 24 had been replaced >> so it's a 50 percent local hiring. >> 50 percent of all imply hires is to be for this project. i'm happy to a answer any questions >> colleague any questions and the public, private partnership this is the first time we've used this and it streamlines and moves it forward quickly. >> it's the first time we've fuse in california. i'd say from the right project the ppp can be both efficient and provided early capital funding that might not be otherwise available. their track intensive and not appropriate for smaller projects >> thank you and we have the gentleman from the mta that seems the biggest project here. >> good morning commissioners. sherman i'm the program director and pleased to report its subway is fully funded and under construction >> before you this slide is basically depicting the existing t line. introducing much faster tra

most significant risks after they were weighed for probability and impact were categorized as high, memoranda or low risks and 40 of them being high. at this point is when we take those inputs and put those into the models. as i mentioned the approach identifies a beta factor. each element of the program which represents a assessment of the risks associated with that scope. and you see here a graph that the further a package is the lower the beta factor it's supposed to have and the higher beta fact is here. based on the design of the front and when the packages will be bid over the remaining duration of the project the construction was assessed. in the bottom up approach there's more a quantity active approach looking specifically at the design status of each scope the change order, potential for each scope, the potential of each scope to have conflicts with other trade packages that might result in plains as well as the prospective number of bidders. we expect to get 3 bids we feel like we could get more bids that would have a slightly less risk associated with it. if there's a one bid that

expense containing hundreds of pages of graphs, technical transportation analyses and redundant memoranda that would inform no one. at the time the washington developer wanted the full text of the measure to be included to make it harder to gather signatures. since we knew or we know now that our city could incur enormous costs for these massive handbooks, both supervisor wiener and i had introduced very similar legislation to reduce the amount of material required to be included in the ballot handbook. the legislation we have in front of us would allow the department of elections to not include the full legal text of ballot measures whose text exceed 100 pages and only require the printing of the first 20 pages of those ballot measures with the remainder of the information to be provided either in our local libraries, online, or at the department of the elections or to be mailed to voters at their expense. just want to mention the elections [speaker not understood] and are supportive of what we're doing. the one thing i do ask is after we adopt this for this election cycle, after the ele

. >> guest: when you dig in the notes in the library of congress, the memoranda, the notes back and forth between justices that are available, and a lot of stuff is available, you at least -- i'm not a lawyer. i plead not guilty, but i was just fascinated by the human side of it. in many cases justices come you can see justices have reservations about capital punishment. >> guest: one case, willie francis, martin, you did although the research on that case. >> guest: it look like a dry supreme court decision. could've stayed make a second attempt on capital punishment? you discover it is all kinds of ingredients. the year is 1946. louisiana has a traveling electrielectric chair. it would take it from parish to parish, county to county. they would display the electric chair on the county courthouse at noon and invite school kids by the classes to come and make a field trip and look at the electric chair. don't do bad stuff, this chair is waiting. they then would take the chair inside, hook it up to a generator on the truck and invite the victim our mandate the victim into the chair. in thi

supporting key strategic partners, israel, fully funding the memoranda of understanding, this subcommittee understands how critical it is to support israel, whether it is the ongoing threat from iran pursuing a nuclear weapon or the instability that continues in the region, israeli security faces serious threats and support from congress has never been stronger. the subcommittee understands the risk and what is at stake for both israel and the united states. the bill supports our critical partner and ally, jordan, including the requested $660 million for economic security assistance, their economy is under tremendous strain, dealing with the spillover from the conflict in syria. jordan needs our support and we included the issue of funding for the cost associated win hundreds of thousands of have welcomed into the country. -- with the hundreds of thousands of refugees to have welcomed into the country. mexican security has a direct impact on our national security. we want to work with the government to address our shared concerns and build a lasting security economic relationship that bene

you debate internally and through memoranda. the court goes one way or the other. i never felt i lost a case or that i had won a case. we were both working to the same end. we ended up where we ended up. as a practicing lawyer, you do when or lose. you have to make the call to the client because it does not want to hear that we hope the court reached a resolution. they want to know whether they win or lose. it does give an edge to your work. it is a wonderful bar at the court these days. it was when i was practicing as well. you tended to be on the same side as your fellow appellate practitioners in some cases and on the opposite side in others. you were able to work together well. i enjoy it. i have no great desire to go back. >> sometimes i feel like writing a letter to losing lawyer to say i know you lost the case, but you gave the better argument. too bad it is not moot court. that would be of small comfort because you cannot take a letter to the client. >> it is a funny business because we are not picking the best lawyer. you are right. i know the best argumen

you debate internally and through memoranda. the court goes one way or the other.e or that i had won a case. we were both working to the same end. we ended up where we ended up. as a practicing lawyer, you do win or lose. you have to make the call to the client because it does not want to hear that we helped the court reached a resolution. they want to know whether they win or lose. it does give an edge to your work. it is a wonderful bar at the court these days. it was when i was practicing as well. you tended to be on the same side as your fellow appellate practitioners in some cases and on the opposite side in others. you were able to work together well. i enjoyed it. i have no great desire to go back. >> sometimes i feel like writing a letter to losing lawyer to say i know you lost the case, but you gave the better argument. too bad it is not moot court. that would be of small comfort because you cannot take a letter to the client. >> it is a funny business because we are not picking the best lawyer. you are right. i know the best argument i ever thought i gave