i enjoyed to my right by sean elsbernd. to my left, ross mirkarimi. mr. young, can you share with us your announcements? >> please turn off all cell phones and pagers. if you wish to speak during public comment, please fill out a speaker card and turn it into myself. items acted upon today will appear on the board of supervisors agenda on december 14, 2010 unless otherwise stated. supervisor avalos: thank you. colleagues, today is the last budget committee meeting of the year. it has been quite a year, and it will be quite a meeting, i'm sure, especially with the america's cup discussion. that, we will probably get to, for those of the waiting in the audience, probably about 12:30, 12:45. since we have a long meeting, i expect a short break after that to get to the latter items on the agenda. could you please call item one. >> item 1. ordinance appropriating $2,385,068 of visitacion valley infrastructure fee revenue from the visitacion valley infrastructure fund, including $2,169,200 in the public library for the visitacion valley branch library project a

we are joined by supervisor sean elsbernd and ross mirkarimi. mr. young, could you share your announcements? >> please turn off all cell phones and pagers. if you wish to speak during public comment please turn in a speaker card to myself. items after today will appear on the board of supervisors meeting on december 7, 2010 unless otherwise stated. >supervisor avalos: thank you. we have the city that the attorney here. good to see you. please call item one. >> item 1. resolution authorizing the director of public works to execute an amendment to the professional services agreement for the design of a new public safety building under the earthquake safety and emergency response bond program to increase the not to exceed amount from $3,997,600 to $17,205,152. supervisor avalos: very good. representative from dpw? >> good morning, chairperson of love, supervisors. project manager of dpw, responsible for this project. i want to take a few minutes to explain this better before you this morning. this is for the architect- engineer agreement, and modificat

i enjoyed to my right by sean elsbernd. to my left, ross mirkarimi. mr. young, can you share with us your announcements? >> please turn off all cell phones and pagers. if you wish to speak during public comment, please fill out a speaker card and turn it into myself. items acted upon today will appear on the board of supervisors agenda on december 14, 2010 unless otherwise stated. supervisor avalos: thank you. colleagues, today is the last budget committee meeting of the year. it has been quite a year, and it will be quite a meeting, i'm sure, especially with the america's cup discussion. that, we will probably get to, for those of the waiting in the audience,

jim lazarus is smart and talking to our colleague sean elsbernd. last time this happened, jim was sitting in that seat over there, so he knows what is going on. if you have ross mirkarimi, david chiu, david campos, john avalos in the back watching tv, you have seven members left here, and four of these members could vote to adjourn the meeting. i mean, that is it possible outcome of the mechanism we have in front of us. not everybody thinks in worst- case scenarios, but if you have been around in politics long enough, you start to think like that. colleagues, i have passed out two pieces of paper. one is a clean version. another is a version with strike throws and underlines. it is an amendment as a whole for the proposed process that was just laid out. the fundamental difference -- there is lots of little differences, but the fundamental difference between the amendment as a whole that i will move is in lieu of opening nominations, of taking many different names, including possibly from this board, who would then have to recuse themselves and then