michael cohen phoned me up the next day. can we cut $40 million out of this project?one person more responsible than any others, it's tony irons, was the architect that was responsible for the revitalization of city hall who came to my office and said, we cannot abandon this. we can't walk away from this project. we have an opportunity to really take a lot of our values and principles, particularly raising the bar as we did as a city on our green building standards, mandating the most aggressive green building standards for private construction anywhere in the united states. and showcasing them in this new building. >> the city for the sfpuc, it was critical that the building stay as a lead building. the easiest thing to do to cut out millions of dollars, let's just go from lead platinum to lead gold. but that wasn't the objective. this needed to be the best example of energy conservation of any office building in the united states. >> we became involved in the san francisco public utilities headquarter project during the time when the project was at a stand still for

michael aquino, kevin cohen. i'll give you some information in a dvd.important thing is [speaker not understood]. and we have people here calling and complaining upon you. no, you're not the problem. and you're not the answer. you need to maybe do a few more things, but the answer is with the people that are complaining. they're the ones that are allowing the misery of the animals and as far as the gentleman before me, the plagues are already here and so are the storms. so, i invoke in your heart a greater love to come forward and step forward and [inaudible]. >> thank you very much. thank you very much. thank you very much, sir. thank you very much. thank you very much. next speaker. >>> supervisors and the public, my name is doug malar, public investigator of crimes against children covered up by law enforcement. i'm addressing the issue of domestic violence which we all are for, but also the fact that lieutenant colonel mike aquino lives here in the city is involved in human trafficking and sacrifices. he's been exposed in eight states by over eight

cohen was not accurate about this. would appoint almost a year ago michael simmons, affordable housing developer who lives and works in the western addition. i think that, it would seem to me that given the time that has gone by, and given that the lgbt center does provide an awful lot of services to extremely low-income people through both the economic know the programs and elsewhere, i would suggest that at a minimum would put this forward with no recommendation and see what the full board thinkgs. >> supervisor kim: i am not ready to do that now. i am open for a motion to continue. i would like to spend time speaking with mr. wolf. i would like to articulate what you would be representing and i did not hear that. maybe with time we can sit down and have that level of discussion. i would feel comfortable with the motion to continue; i would not feel comfortable with a recommendation. >> i am of the same mind. i would continue and seeif other applicants come forward. >> i disagree but given that i'm in the minority i will suggest we continue to the next rules committee meeting. >> supervisor kim: is the first thursda