mosconi is too small. when we build mosconi's center, we thought it would last for ever. 10 years later, we had to build a mosque on the north because demand became so strong. we thought we could go on forever. then 10 years ago we open the mosconi west. soon after that, the demand started to fall. we have to look at how we can maximize the space we have to optimize the potential that we have in business. oracle is just one group. we are going to close howard street friday afternoon because they cannot fit anymore. luckily, we have the resources to do that. lots of groups say that they're about to come, but we are so small. so we are looking at obstacles to expand. we had one of the highest occupancy rates anywhere. we put together a task force a couple of years ago to look at options where we can expand. we know we want to stay in the neighborhood, in the heart of the city, a retail community. we have basically two options. here is the layout of moscow and the north, south, and west. unfortunately, they a

one is to build mosconi east, which would be adjacent to mosconi south, and also contiguous. the other option -- the beauty about this is it would be contiguous exhibit space from south, under third street. the other option is connecting mosconi north and south under howard street, making it one contiguous building where you can have meeting space and an exhibition space. let me tell you briefly about mosconi east. located between howard, full sun, third street -- folsom, third street. we could potentially building a 100,000 square foot exhibit space that could connect to mosconi's out under the street. an above-ground public space, 133,000 square feet of meeting space with a mixed use development, which would be a unique public-private partnership. it would be a tremendous opportunity to expand mosconi and improve the neighborhood. it would improve the entrance to the neighborhood on third street. right now, stoney is a very unattractive entry into san francisco -- mosconi is a very unattractive entry into san francisco. the other would be the north-sow 3 configuration, whic

mosconi station will be the first undergration station traveling north. it will have a -- an entrance. we are acquiring the property. that property is in this area right here. this is where the surface entrance to the station is going to be. the station will be designed to have a concourse and a center platform designed to accommodate both two-car trains and the mosconi station will be located on 4th between howard and folsom. the union square market street station will be the second underground station traveling north. it will be the deepest station because of the bart tunnels that we will be closing. this station will be two entrances at the surface. one entrance will be near the existing apple store -- i am sorry. i am struggling with the mouse here but it is at the far left of your screen. but the other service entrance will be at the union square plaza. there will be direct entrances at the union square grand jury at the north end. our third station of course will be the chinatown station. the inset picture you see is the property we are acquiring to

the best opportunity is mosconi east in 2008. that would be a perfect time live from what we believe meets the demand that is growing at the moment. the last thing i want to talk about his proposition j, the proposition to increase the hotel tax. it increases it two points, 14%. it just went up 13% two years ago, so we would have a 25% increase in hotel taxes in just a few years. it is important to know that the customers pay this tax. san francisco would have the highest hotel tax in the country. new york did the same thing a few years ago. new york had the highest rate in the nation and the business collapsed. hotel spending went down, they lost meetings, conventions, and in an emergency situation, they lowered the tax. in new york budget office said that when they had a lower hotel tax, it generated more revenue because more people came into town. we have had five groups presenting $110 million in book business that said if we increase the hotel tax, we may have to reconsider. it would result in the loss of 2000 private-sector

mosconi will have the more surface disruption, because it is a cut and cover. we'll bore down and then squa videogate back up. there will be a lot of disruption around that one. our utilities contract that is going to be going out in september will uncover and reroute major utilities, and then place back so that we can restore traffic on a temporary means. then we are going to mine from there down and then build back up. now the struppings will be mitigated considerably, but there will be some surface disruption to make the final closure and initially to make the utilities opening. the chinatown station is going to be mined completely. we'll bore through and then set up and mine inside. >> so we could probably come back to you with specific time lines in terms of how much disruption at each location, if any. for example, minimal at chinatown, but definitely at union square. we have a very healthy community relations group as part of this project. there are a lot of elements that are working with the union square merchants and dealing with those issues. but we c

process for construction trade packages and for the renovation and construction for the georgia as mosconi convention center. president chiu: we will take a roll-call vote on this item. clerk calvillo: [roll call] there are 10 ayes. president chiu: this ordinance is passed on the first reading. item 16. clerk calvillo: item 16, the timing in standards for the comptroller to review and adjust the cigarette litter abatement fee. president chiu: colleagues, any discussion? we can take a roll call on this item. clerk calvillo: [roll call] there are 10 ayes/ president chiu: this item is passed. item 17. clerk calvillo: item 17, a management agreement for the harding park golf course. president chiu: colleagues, can we take this same house, call? this item is adopted. item 18. clerk calvillo: authorizing the department of public health to enter into contracts for out of county behavioral health services in the foster care system. president chiu: colleagues, can we take this same house, same call? it is passed. i 19. -- item 19. clerk calvillo: the planning code, rehabilitation and maintenance of

the mosconi station only has two commercial use tenants. in addition to these, there are various underground easements. earlier in july, the transportation authority approved the impact relocation study. it addressed how the 55 residents of chinatown will be relocated. they need to be provided comparable housing. that was approved. right now, the mta is negotiating the acquisition of the properties. they should go to bid by march of this year. also part of the project is an arts program, which is in accordance with seven to discuss city policy. -- san francisco city policy. the purpose of this is to commission some of our local pieces. right now, the budget for this portion is $14.5 million. basically, it is intended to enhance the rider's experience. you notice the station we have on market street right now are rather bare, except for advertising -- utilitarian is a better word. to that effect, in july of this year, two artists were selected for the project. they are now in the development stage. mta submitted the report for the new starts

. >> i am a parent of the mosconi student. >> [speaking a foreign language] >> i have a first grader and a second grader in the bilingual class, and due to the budget cuts the first grade bilingual teacher has been cut. >> [speaking a foreign language] >> therefore, my first grade daughter has to be trained in a combination class. it is a combination of kindergarten and the first grade together. i feel the teacher does not have enough time to teach the first grade and the second grade students at the same time in english and also chinese. >> [speaking chinese] >> we are not happy about the cuts to the chinese bilingual teacher. it is not fair to have additional cutting, loss of a teacher, and a loss of other resources. >> [speaking chinieese] >> at the end, i would say i feel like we are being punished because we are being good. it is not fair to us that we have to pay for everything by ourselves. thank you. [applause] >> good evening. i would like to thank you for the opportunity to be here. i am speaking on behalf of bayview community and thurgood marshall academic high school. fir

the mosconi station only has two commercial use tenants. in addition to these, there are various underground easements. earlier in july, the transportation authority approved the impact relocation study. it addressed how the 55 residents of chinatown will be relocated. they need to be provided comparable housing. that was approved. right now, the mta is negotiating the acquisition of the properties. they should go to bid by march of this year. also part of the project is an arts program

setting the best to last if you're mosconi interest in the subject of science you must come to this next venue the moscow political museum is the largest of its kind you russia and takes back to eight hundred seventy two. anything else the museum is fascinating in terms of the inventions claimed by russia. all the rooms are crammed full of interesting artifacts exhibits some from the complete is to space travel you can see how russia heavily contributed to the world of science but this whole here is dedicated to the technology behind mining and who can see this one to ten scale level of excavator as it's called the writing. matter how big it will be realized. this next will bring up a child in all of us it's hands on all the way. from laser beam musical or. the scientific themes games and puzzles galore exhibits leave you. amazed. seat of details as you see this. sort of idea so when you sit on this chair you don't feel any pain because your wages evenly distributed between the numerous nails of a bus and there are more than a thousand and that's just one of the. museum collections conta

. >>> intel's annual developer forum is bringing thousandses to the mosconi center.tionally it is a time when they take revolutionary technologies. richard hart has a sneak peek in the drive to discover report. >> recognize anyone? the computer does. that's what it is doing with the white scarce that frames the faceses in the crowd. the crowd is seeing the opening night of intel's annual developer forum. and the camera is designed to be mounted on a rear view mirror. the face the camera really wants to see is the driver, not to recognize who is driving, but to tell whether the driving is texting, distracked it or stressed. recognition also plays a role by a phone powered by the newest adam chip. here it recognizes landmarks such as bridges and churches and using gps data that represents information about your surroundings. this 3d camera recognizes what it sees on your kitchen counter. it knows this is a steak and then it projects a menu to any surface and responds to touch commands. does this mean the end of screens? >> can you imagine living in a world where everyt

we have a successful school in mosconi that is successfully closing the achievement gap, serving their population and begging to maintain the program. i wonder about doing it this way because it doesn't feel purposesful or strategic to me. >> mr. sander son, maybe you can explain in some of the questions here that have been put before you. also, is there an evaluation mechanism for this program that we can give feedback to that i would like to hear about? i think that would answer quite a few questions that folks have. i am interested in understanding what that looks like. i do know that we had school site staff come before us at public comment a few meetings ago and speak to how much they appreciated this particular work that was happening in professional development at their schools. i think i would like to hear from you. >> there is an internal and external evaluation of this. the internal evaluation is done by research planning and accountability. you got the summary of that evaluation in a report that i gave you about three weeks ago in a white notebook. i have the full evaluation

we have the mosconi center that probably will expand. we have s.f. moma that will expand. 149 new montgomery, which is approved right across the street for residential. we have even the palace hotel that may or may not get condominiums approved. and with all of those things, that neighborhood -- our neighborhood will be "developed." of course, there will be more changes, but we're in a transitional stage right now. as a neighborhood it's really only been 10 years with residential down there. the residential is great. you see people walking their dogs. you heard mention of kindergartens. you see life on the weekends. ironically a lot of people who work in this building will also live in the neighborhood. so to me it's part of building a neighborhood. i think the exceptions are relatively minor, and if you were to build a project strictly by code you'd have a worse building and not a better building. and that's the reason that you ask for exceptions. and ironically i think a building half the size would still have -- generate a lot of the complaints ab

today, larry ellyson addressing tens of thousands at mosconi center's north hall. >> larry el yison says it's been quite a week. >> we've announced more new technology. more innovation this week. than any time before in ora cell history. >> he went on to outline innovations in computing and micro processors. >> our annual invest smt going to feed $4 billion per annum and why stop there? >> reaction from some of the 41,000? >> this message is that he's trying to go all out? >> he's talking about prospering. >> how do you think he did? >> well... fairly good. i think. fairly well. i'm in the market, and we'll determine that. >>> this week, settlement of a lawsuit allowing former hp chief mark heard to become ora cell's president. and he still owns 1.1 billion shares. forbes put his net worth at $28 billion. his two sentence bio says he founded the company in 1977, and sails yachts, this is a picture, he flies planes, plays tennis and guitar. his yachting interest led him to challenge and win the america's cup. he told me he would like to see the 2013 america's cup held in san francisco. >>

oracle open world 2010 at the mosconi center runs from sunday through the thursday september 23rd.t closures will go into effect tomorrow, so again, howard between third and 4th, that is going to cause a lot of slow traffic in the south of market area. you might want to use public transportation for the next few days in that area. >>> 5:25. let's go back to the desk. >> sal, thank you. >>> where pg&e says it is riskiest natural gas pipelines are located right here in the bay area. >> reporter: we are live in san bruno, we have been talking to the ntsb, we will tell you why they are looking closely at part of pg&e's response. >> they are testing out video cameras worn by police officers. find out where they are coming up with the half million dollars to pay for it. >> westbound traffic looking good up to he high rise, we will tell you more about what is going on with your morning drive to work straight ahead. >>> good morning to you. welcome back, this is the ktvu channel 2 morning news, the middle of the week, wednesday, september 15th. i am dave clark. >> good morning. i am pam co

willow argue to the fact that howard street is closed between third and fourth in front of the mosconiracle a world still show started loading and it will be closed for days it will tie up traffic south of market. >> chris are working and to restore power to thousands of people in new york city. look at the roof damage it may have been a tornado there was a violent storm either way, killing one person left thousands without power. the head to clear will railroad tracks. there is destruction is going on this morning 26,000 people without power right now. weather service is investigating to see if it was a tornado. the roof has been ripped off the building. powerful storms ripped across ohio of yes men last night damaging winds and hail they had reports of tornadoes. it is south of columbus this is one town of several towns the reported tornadoes it damage storms trees were snapped in half. no word of any injuries here in ohio. following >> the latest in california this one in the kern river canyon. they say they have called off the evacuation order so they are getting the upper hand on