mr. blackwell? i think it is fruitless to talk about saving redevelopment. i would like to know more about what kinds of projects -- president olague: we need to be informed of what is going to be effective. >> it might also be good if mr. shoemaker or somebody from the office was here. commissioner moore: contrary to some other commissions, to stay away from making this a right of the governor -- president olague: i think it is deeper than we even have a sense of, so we need to be proactive. it is about budget, staffing, and these other things. commissioner moore: and priorities. >> now that we have clarified we are not having a discussion on that item -- [laughter] okay. thank you. commissioners, is there more on the board of supervisors? >> we made some changes in the department recently, iran will be spending some of his time -- aaron will be spending some time helping ann marie. he will be giving the report. >> march 7 through 11, there were three items at the land use committee. it was a correction to the market and octavia plan. it would reflect the a

mr. blackwell for being here today. at the narrowest interpretation, we are looking at the first stage of the shipyard moving forward. what other planning areas do we noknow the narrowest definition? >> you mean the language that was introduced today, if it is not modified, what will move forward? the only thing that we think from a large scale development point of view is probably mission bay. that one is even on the line. the reason i say that is because there is language that suggests you might be able to issue debt on a go-forward basis. they need more certainty than is in the language right now. there may not be a market for the debt that we would issue a given the language that has been put out there. it is not clear, the language is mushy. it has a three-year statute of limitations of where the state could review the issuance and say it's invalid. i would say that that project is the most likely to move forward. >> becausupervisor kim: becausef the debt is issued in thtat area? >> we do not have substantial compl

mr. blackwell for being here today. at the narrowest interpretation, we are looking at the first stage of the shipyard moving forward. what other planning areas do we noknow the narrowest definition? >> you mean the language that was introduced today, if it is not modified, what will move forward? the only thing that we think from a large scale development point of view is probably mission bay. that one is even on the line. the reason i say that

mr. blackwell that if it is funding projects like yoshi's, perhaps there be a different position. thirdly, i would like to see the projected deficit by the mayor's office, i would like to know what assumptions he made regarding the june ballot initiatives. are they based on the initiatives passing? and we can have a clear understanding of the validity of the deficit. supervisor chu: next speaker, please. >> i'm a district 6 voter as well as the chapter organizer for californians for disability rights. the proposals coming down to eliminate in-house services for individuals will bring a lot of people into nursing homes and possibly the hospital system's at laguna honda. one of the reasons i got up to speak was because i believe that despite the fact that there is a large group of people that are retiring, there are also huge amounts of money being spent in the city for pensions, i believe that there is opportunities for generating and come. and a necessity to look at what it's of parking areas to produce funds for road repair. or the potential of, i believe i read in one of the ame

mr. blackwell to come out and provide you a brief update on where things stand today. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am going to go into a bit more detail on things that miss howard raised and give you an update. hold onto your hats. in summary, the proposal basically says 3 1/4 innings. one supposes the -- three or four things. at the same time, it acknowledges existing commitments that are held by the redevelopment agency'ies and cls for -- calls for creation once they are abolished to carry out those applications. the last piece of the proposal that has not received a lot of attention is an effort to reduce from 2/3 to 55% the amount of voter approval needed to approve things like economic development. that is briefly what the governor's proposal is. both the assembly and budget committees met last week. the senate committee decided to go along with the governor's proposal. they decided to score $1.7 billion and left room for negotiation. what is happening now, they have formed a conference committee to reconcile the differences between the decisions that were made in the senate an

mr. blackwell, if he has the time available, and others, so that we have a robust discussion about what this means. the physical project and these other issues are around public benefits. [crosstalk] >> i think that's fine, but it's like they are all in house people. it would seem that there might be some other expertise around who can look at it from a different perspective. i don't know who those people are. with a little searching around, i think there are outside consultants, somebody that has some perspective other than the redevelopment agency staff. >> since we are having a discussion on this and linda is starting to get nervous, i am talking to rich about getting someone from outside city government to talk to us on april 7th when you have informational hearing on treasure island. i don't know who that is, but the first one done in the city was here. that was the first one. there are people out there -- commissioner antonini: maybe someone from the governor's office would have a perspective on it. a couple of items -- many of you may have been watching the n.c.a.a. division one men's