from san francisco apartment association. i want to thank you supervisor chiu and the rest of his sponsors. i think this election is a good piece of legislation to create an migration to a difficult problem. i want to encourage this to allow private owners to step in and help anti amending that law so we can help out where there are no fault evocation to help getting people stabilized with unit for a year or two. i hope you employ that creativity to help us all house people that need to be housed. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please ted from san francisco tent e tenancies. this is a good piece of legislation one person getting evicted has no place to go. it, it's an epidemic when tenant are being evoked and having to sign up for huge long waiting lists. the lee's were applying for tenant space and only had one year and were not close to getting a place. the people needing residence are in need we need to keep people in their homes as opposed to trying to help them out after the fact. we need to stop those

i'm with the san francisco apartment association. thanks to tom and other members for reaching out to us on both of those pieces of legislation. i know that some of them have been pending and thank you supervisor avalos for listening to some of our concerned about fine tuning the legislation. we have some outstanding things about october 24th. it's our general belief that a law some be specific whether signed into law and unintentionally punishing people who were operating open be one frame of mind in november when they didn't know this law was presented. also the planning hearing was properly noted and we're not communicating with the public well about the effective date we want to see it thirty days after the mayor signs it into law. thank you for take into account

san francisco. i'm very proud to submit this piece of legislation and ask my colleagues for their support and i also want to thank the san francisco apartment association. we have approached them to make sure their side is taken into consideration and we have incorporated some of the suggestions they had. i think this is something a long time coming and something that will provide an additional tool for us to ensure that we protect tenants in san francisco and i respectfully ask for your support. i want to thank my colleagues for cosponsoring and for their work on this piece of legislation. president david chiu: supervisor mar? supervisor eric mar: thank you for addressing this legislation and the budget analyst report that you did and the humanist stories that came from many organizations and individuals that came to tell their stories iechl want -- i want to say this is setting up a fair and impartial setting and mechanism that will allow those to be heard. when we have such a crazy and over heated housing market that the hearings have shown that sometimes it's illegally forcing the tenants out through intimidation and harassment. this process create

i also want to note we have reached out to the san francisco tenants - apartments association and we appreciate their comments and their input on this legislation that's been incorporated. with that, colleagues, i would ask for your consideration and specifically ask for your support of this legislation today. thank you >> thank you supervisor campos. supervisor kim. i want to thank supervisor campos i'm so i can myself for all you all who worked on this legislation. it's been a long time coming too the supervisor brought this back and also supported it on the ballot several years ago. of course, there were complications so i'm glad we're able to fought this. while there are many perimeters that prevents landlord from rover the unit and protects the tenant. how to deal with harassment and supervisor campos listed many examples we hear about from constituents. so i want to again reiterate my support and am glad we're able to have a foufrm by which to manage those types of complaints >> thank you, supervisor. there is a presentation from department or do we go to - and a okay open this

in orange and as well as other improvements on the road associated with the tie-in to the new san francisco oakland bay bridge, separate and apartependent with separate funding construction phase is funded with federal highway bridge program and proposition state one the seismic retrofit program to the tune of 77.5 million dollars. we have completed the plan specifications and estimates and certified the right-of-way for construction. we also received approval to construction funds in july of 2013, for 77.5 million. we have been working in partnership with tata for six years in developing this project and have executed all of the agreements that we need, and we have hired and retained a construction management firm back in july of 2013 to go ahead and be a representative in the field. and the to over see the activity and we are ready to administer the contract with the oversight with cal transand let's talk about the advertisement process. this is our item here today. you know, we issued an invitation for bids in september third of 2013, we blanketed and we felt the construction community as much as we could, 14 builder exchange

san francisco planning and research association understands the apprehension. >> people are really afraid especially renters like me if you lose your apartment, you have to move of the city most likely. >> reporter: speaking of moving, st

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san francisco planning and research association understands the apprehension. >> people are really afraid especially renters like me if you lose your apartment, you have to move out of the city most likely. >> reporter: speaking of moving, a just released mayoral task force report estimates the city will need to spend $10 billion on roadways and transportation just to keep pace with the growth. >> we are going to be in for a world of hurt if we don't start aggressively investing in transit. >> reporter: are we looking at gridlock? >> yes. i'm already seeing it. >> on muni now, it has $2.2 billion in unfunded deferred maintenance. >> reporter: the building goes on and on and on with the next big project being the planned warriors arena on the waterfront which is enjoying a growing support despite critic charges that it's too big and will be a traffic nightmare. according to a new kpix 5/surveyusa poll, support for the arena is up 5% to 64% with the biggest concern being that the arena will take space away from the public and small businesses. but these days, the city overall seems to be thinking big. very big. and that's a far cry from just a few years ago whe