mr. updike privately. i asked to speak to me about the rational of this and so forth and i am very appreciative for you to come and meet with me to actually explain what the process is, and what kind of latitude you had in your decision making, and your explanations to me were logical to me, but what came out of that discussion was we could tighten up the language administratively in terms what we could ask your office to do and not do, and i understand that these type of situations don't occur too often, but when they do occur we should probably have some policies around it where we could give you guidance. it seems like there is very little guidance at this point, so because of your explanation and because of the situation we're in and because of the latest concept you came up i will be supporting this. >> thank you. supervisor cohen. >> thank you very much. mr. updike could you tell me what activity is going on there now? >> yes supervisor cohen. we are currently using the property for storage of materi

mr. updike. i have a fundamental problem with this item because what you have here is you have a proposal for the city originally to pay $16 million. now the amount is down to 15.$4 million to buy a property that our own appraisal through the process that we completed noted is worth 11.3 million. in other words we will be paying more than $4 million more of taxpayers money than the appraisal that we requested shows. i just don't think that we should be engaging in that kind of a transaction where we are using taxpayer money to over pay for a property to the tune of $4 million, and so can you explain to us what happened here? how is it that we got to this point? because on its face this just looks horrible. >> thank you supervisor campos. through the chair john uplike director of real estate. i appreciate the ability to clarify where we stand on this item today. i would take issue with the potential that we're over paying so as the budget analyst noted there is more recent data that we believe spe

mr. updike thanks for being before us again today. we had this at budget committee and the dialogue we had last week. it's real and i think everyone is uncomfortable with the aggregate numbers but no alternative and costly thinking about alternatives as well talking about today and quite a bit this year. public safety is an increased issue in the city of san francisco so the use isn't relevant and i will be supporting it and i want to say i appreciate all my colleagues comments and mr. updike thank you as well for the willingness to talk to my colleagues and incorporate our comments into the future here at the board of supervisors. >> thank you. supervisor cohen i will come back to you since supervisor mar hasn't had a chance to speak yet. supervisor mar. >> i want to say this is 'deja vu' of the conversation at the budget committee several times and i want to shout out to harvey rose for raising these issues early on but i feel all of the questions have been answered and i feel obligated to support this as well given the alternatives