comment, any member of the public that would like to comment? and seeing none, come forward we will close public comment and have another roll call vote. >> 6, avalos. >> aye. >> breed. >> aye. >> campos. >> aye. >> chiu. >> aye. >> cohen? >> absent. >> farrell. absent. >> kim. >> aye. >> mar. >> aye. >> tang. >> aye. >> weiner. >> aye. >> yee. >> aye. >> aye. >> the item passes. >> item 7, introduction of new items this is an information item. >> colleagues, any new item issues to come before the transportation authority? >> seeing none, we will go on to public comment on this item. >> and seeing no member of the public come forward we will close public comment and go to the next item. >> 8, public comment? >> okay. >> general public comment is now opened. and seeing no member of the public, we will close general public comment. >> and our next item? >> nine, adjournment. >> okay, colleagues we are adjourned and we want to wish, everyone a happy holiday. thank you. >> >> welcome to "culturewire." today we are at recology. they are celebrate 20 y

the moment right? >> we're just going to have public comment on all of them. what's your pleasure? do you want to do the ruling right now? >> individually. are you going to speak about alternatives or just one. >> just one and i have a photo. >> oh great. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. chairman nolan and members of the board i've lived on telegraph hill since 1979 and i parked on telegraph hill boulevard at the perpendicular spaces in and on and off for years i get the immediate neighbors would prefer to limit the public parking but the truth of the matter is when they bought or built their homes that the public parking didn't exist i have a photo here of planters that they have put in the public right of way for years to make backing in and out of these perpendicular public spots difficult and there's a history of painting the area red across from these planters to discourage public parking un authorized red not once but multiple times over the years. most recently 14 feet not a foot here or there but 14 feet of red so i filed an online concern with the sfmta about this un a

stabilization of the hillside to provide public assess by an unused street right-of-way that is presently inaccessible and to prove the amenities to the neighborhood. >> any questions no and the public we appreciate our willingness to do the work thank you, judge. >> ma'am. >> morning supervisors i'm donna the former director and former president of the t pi a the twin peaks association we help to maintain the strip between clarence ton and along the with twin peaks boulevard a go scenic drive our neighbor edith started the garden area and helped to maintain it along with the city judge walker has the corner of racking coon and twin peaks boulevard this is a steep slope i live on glen broke slightly above the property it is dancers e dangerous during the rainy season and will be very, very supportive beyond supportive to have someone maintain the strip there is a preservation it just happened many years ago on the corner of crown terrace and twin peaks boulevard. >> thank you. >> any questions i'll be happy to answer the neighborho

(laughter) i'd like to call to order the special meeting of the public utilities commission today november 12, 2014, roll call please. commissioner caen commissioner vietor commissioner moran we have quorum >> very good commissioners you have before you the minutes of october 28, 2014, are there any he addresses or correction. >> all in favor, say i. opposed? the motion carries. >> at this time, i'd like to call for public comment i would like to is a two things at this point you know we really appreciate you all coming here to discuss things in front of us you're not paid for it your representing feelings and organizations that you belong to its very much appreciative i think back i've served on this commission for seven years i can count on one hand houch how many times someone has thanked me for my public service i'm thanking e thanking you although i might disagree from time to time its important for this commission to get public comment i say thank you to all of you i also want to add in that vein at this point is the time to talk about general ideas concerns that you have once we get

the easement. >> questions? >> i'll move it. >> second. >> any public comment? i'll call for the question those in favor opposed? the motion carries >> thank you. >> so i said we do not have closed session today. >> correct. >> very good other new business? commissioners? seeing none, i do want to announce that the meeting of november 11th has been scald because that's veterans day and there's been a new meeting called a special meeting for november 12th at 1 o'clock in the room this room and note the different time >> so seeing no other business this meeting is adjourned at >> director brinkman director heinecke is exterminated director lee director nolan director ramos directors please be advised many borne and director heinecke will not be here devices. item will be removed from the consent agenda and will be considered separately. approval of the minutes of october 31st. >> so moved little i's have that. >> directors please be advised there will be no closed session today. >> thank you. >> item 6 introduction or new business. >> i ask we adjourn the meeting f

the park. we are looking for public access to the space and what will continually engage the public for a term. we are interested in a central entry way concept. bernard may back, the architect of the building envisioned a connection between a lag oon and the rotundum. we are interested in proposals that include restoring and retaining and operating the palace fine arts theatre by the theatre group. we have two mandatory requirements, one that it must be a recreational purpose. that will be up to the commission to interpret. the commission in the past has interpreted restaurant uses, museum type uses and theatre use among many other interpretations. the new tenant must be able to finance the required structural improvements to the building. those required improvements range from about $8-15 million the reason for the large discrepancy is there are some recommended improvements as part of the study. the billion -- building was seismically retrofitted. depend og on the use, they may want to put those infrastructure in, if you touch the wall, you trigger seismic code update. that's the reason why

congratulations this is the start of hopefully, some trust and good faith efforts from the part of the public and part of the department to work together there's no fast i looked at it to john telling us we're having our results going up we cannot wait for the commission a day before saying we didn't get everything on time we need to look at the vacation and time lines so thanks everybody we did it. >> commissioner johnson. >> thanks i just wanted to you people that doesn't support a stuns i did that's a rarity it might be 4 to 6 weeks but i'm happy we're able to see progress and hope the lesson learned to do what we can to get to the point earlier and now we need another 4 weeks in the end why not in the beginning the only thing to the public comment i definitely will understand the sentiment and yes, ma'am emphasis having a check back but a clean to seven and eight i propose we set a look back to the end of the process rather than a day to day i know we're going to be at 12 months tb the article 8 if he were to say december of next year saying what the impact is that's the only thing i agre

how big is the public library and how many employees, etc.? >> guest: it combines the largest circulating bridge system bridge system in america, 88 inches in every neighborhood as well as for important research libraries this one being the crown jewel at the center of the system but also the schaumburg center in harlem and library for performing arts in the business library. there's about 2100 employees and we have a budget of $280 million operating about half comes from the city of new york largely to pay for the circulating library system in new york. the other half comes from the billion-dollar endowment over the private foundation. we raised between 80 and $100 million a year. there's also in the vicinity 40 or $50 million this year of capital improvements and again mostly coming from the city but can also come from private sources. it's an amazing system. almost unique in the world combining a great research library system like the library of congress and the public library neighborhood system. in washington, d.c. the library of congress

comment is closed. >> to the members of the public i believe a number of you are here for the next item i want to let you know we'll be taking a break after this section. >> commissioner antonini. >> i agree with commissioner richards i'm going to be supportive of a continuance bogging because i'm somewhat confused might have i appreciate all the hard work that staff is doing trying to simplify the cord by aaron starr those are complicated issues but some of the things we can focus on the continuance there are charges made that there's a bordering between what is in residential and what is in residential commercial is there any validity to that and no there is not. >> the other thing interests charges that a lot of things are being allowed in the neighborhoods as a right that are not as a right now they've liltd sro's and student housing and group housing and mcds and whole laundry list of things they've interpreted that are going to be allowed in the neighborhood that are not allowed now. >> i was thrown off when i had the meeting that meeting is like meeting wit

but i think it actually serves the public well. it creates interesting checks and balances and says that history was started all the city were at 205 branches >> what is the history of this building with iran? >> guest: this building is 103 years old. with the support of the citizens of new york as private dollars. it was built to be the new york public library. it is fair to say the most heinous library building in the world. it was built on the side of the original westergaard new york city. so before the library was built, a little over 100 years ago, there was on this whole area by the library and brian parked behind it off the area in midtown was the reservoir built here because it was the highest point in midtown. so as you can imagine, that helps is gravity sending water down to wherever it needs to go from the reservoir. they took the reservoir down. they built the library and about 25 years ago under bryant park 37 feet down at the reservoir and built their the largest basement in atlanta is manhattan which we as tasso for

>> you have to. >> i move that we adopt the minutes as written. >> public comment in >> all in favor. >> aye. >> opposed. >> hearing none, that motion passes. executive director's report. >> i will make this quick. you have an attachment that shows the tech community comments on our new ballot measure dash boards, i want to add that we sent them to the other california commissions in san diego immediately set out to copy in and think that it is fantastic, and we are also sending them to jurisdictions outside of the state and seattle has moved a copy of it as well, and so i tried to help them out and so there is a lot of buzz in the tech community. >> and the only other thing is that i wanted to say, is, we are moving right along in implementing the new lobbyist rules and that is coming along on schedule. >> great. thank you. >> public comment on the executive director's report? >> the next item on the agenda is items for future meetings? >> at a recent meeting, commissioner hayon asked for an update on the (inaudible) requests and so i went back a year. and put these out, just so you

was a member of the city family that was killed we've got people coming from all over to attend the public meetings i want to make sure we're doing what we can to make that intersection safe if we could some point get an update. >> director reiskin and the short answer yes, we are. >> the next board meeting that traffic incident will be before you. >> item 78 director's report. >> good afternoon director reiskin. >> good morning members of the public i want to start out with a special award ask tom to recognize one of his employees in that transportation management team. >> good afternoon, sir. >> good afternoon. i want to too john knox white that is on a sfmta management team for about a year and a half the go to percent for safety education he led the street campaign with bus attorneys and enforcement starting this month he conducted the workshop for the safety advocacy and operating vehicles to improve safety on the streets and now for the vision zero program and marketing and transportation policies so as a unique prospective on issues getting our safety messages out to our constituent

>> the ones that vote now are the planning department and public works. the ones that don't have voting is the public utilities commission, the gold national gate recreation area and the last one is is redevelopment. redevelopment has been vacant since the resolution of the redevelopment agency. it requested that those four members become voting members and changed the redevelopment seat to port authority seat and ggnra seat but if it does not provide a member that allows the presidio trust. >> thank you very much for the summary. supervisors, any questions? seeing none, okay. any public comments on this item? on this item. focus >> something to containment a connection to the higher level >> is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, thoughts? supervisor campos? >>supervisor david campos: thank you for coming forward. i would like to move this forward with a positive recommendation. >>supervisor norman yee: the changes that you are making seems to be straight forward and i'm glad you are doing this. there wa

comment, any members of the public that would like to comment, please come forward. and seeing none, come forward, we will close public comment and go on to our next item. >> number five,award a three-year professional services contract, with an option to extend for two additional one-year periods, to sptj consulting in an amount not to exceed $550,000 for computer network and maintenance services and authorize the executive director to negotiate the contract payment terms and non-material contract terms and conditions. >> this is an action item. >> colleagues, any programs? >> okay. seeing none we will go to public comment. any member of the public that would like to comment? and we will close public comment. and we will just do a roll call vote. >> and commissioner avalos? >> aye. >> breed. >> aye. >> campos. >> aye. >> chiu. >> aye. >> cohen. >> aye. >> far ril. >> aye. >> kim. >> aye. >> mar. >> aye. >> tang. >> aye. >> weiner. >> aye. >> yee. >> aye. >> item passes. >> great, we will go to the plans and programs committee items item six. >>

and seeing no member of the public, we will close general public comment. >> and our next item? >> nine, adjournment. >> okay, colleagues we are adjourned and we want to wish, everyone a happy holiday. thank you. >> >> good morning. welcome to the board of supervisors land use commission percentage i'm scott wiener the chairman of the committee to my right is supervisor kim and supervisor cowen will not be joining us today and supervisor kim can i have a motion to excuse without objection supervisor cohen is included our clerk is andrea ashbury and i want to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting today is hearing jessie larson and jonathan madam clerk, any announcements? >> yes. cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the december 9, 2014, board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> mr. clerk, call item one. >> the obligation of the priority for the conservation area and supervisor mar is the author of item one and planning department is here for item number one. >> good afternoon, supervisors matt with the pl

public comment . if there is any member from the pub protected bike -- public wishing to speak. let's hear from our rebuttals. >> supervisors, thank you for listening to us. we could have potentially resolved this much easier had the problem been approved. i think there is a problem with trust. why do we, the community not trust at & t? how come, why can't they get our trust? not just us, not just our community, each of your communities as they apply, not just at & t but the other carriers they are going to the same same thing. he said she said type situation where it doesn't of to be like this. the wts siting guidelines, i think the spirit was excellent back in 1996, but somehow that wholen at the present time has the focus has been lost. there is no accountability to us, the citizens. you are our leaders and we look to you to help us. district 1, with supervisor mar is our leader and each of you have your own constituents. this is going to be a problem. we need to find solutions, residential areas are not where antennas should be. they should be as indicated in the guidelines o

comment on that item on the consent calendar. >> okay seeing none, publicment is closed. >> wait. >> you'd like to remove item 9 off of content that is well, sir if you want to make a condemning comment we'll have to remove it off the consent calendar very well. >> commissioner antonini in this case move to approval 7 and 8. >> do i hear and second and on that motion to approve items 7 and 8 under content excuse me. commissioner antonini commissioner johnck commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner fong and commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes amazing 7 to zero and places you under commission matters the definite minutes for october 16th. >> any public comment on draft minutes. >> i presented a statistic two weeks ago that over 70 percent of our public space was for single occupancy traffic and this is on the draft minutes. >> on the draft minutes two weeks ago we didn't mislead anyone but thought this was of interest the infrastructure senior citizen vs. our green open space thank you. >> an

if it is demonstrated that comments by the public will exceed 15 minutes, the president may continue public comment to another time during the meeting. 12341234 >> i have a new philosophical thing as i heard from the web the book said of the diary of king napoleon once said. i shall not waste my energy, therefore i would rather be, i shall not waste i shall always find time. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. in the lake of the world series victory which should have been caused for --? san francisco. instead it served as a sad reminder to see how ill prepared and in adequate staffed we are. on wednesday evening the world witnessed our city shamed and embarrassed. residential process damaged. defacing businesses with graffiti. public urination. fires being discharged illegally. physical -- altercation and gun violence. thesen suing post game mob scenes in san francisco painted a different source, the san francisco police department in a run away shutdown. what did our city government do about this? they rewarded the city and fans with a victory parade, of course. go figur

the public in terms of the public has not traditionally been involved in public pry vart partnerships other than as funders perhaps through other mechanisms. now we see individuals participating in activities to increase community resilience. i will turn it back over to susan. >> i think that was a really good preview of the types of models we're going to try to provide for the legal community. of course, when we do it, we will also have very concrete examples. we will try to put it in terms of the kinds of questions that lawyers are asked by their clients at the state, local as well as those dealing with the federal government. our third speaker is here to kind of bring us down to earth. from the abostraction of the models to the working relationship between the public and private sector. colonel robert stefan is the executive director of griffin scientific. his career in government began with a 24-year air force career where he commanded two elite air force special tactic squadrons and worked on contingency programs across the world of troubl trouble. and had a very distinguished ai

didn't exist i have a photo here of planters that they have put in the public right of way for years to make backing in and out of these perpendicular public spots difficult and there's a history of painting the area red across from these planters to discourage public parking un authorized red not once but multiple times over the years. most recently 14 feet not a foot here or there but 14 feet of red so i filed an online concern with the sfmta about this un authorized and november 5th i had a response indicating the 14 feet in fact un authorized but noting there was legislation to make 8 of the the 14 feet legally red and i was told at today's hearing. nobody ever informed me of the public hearing it was almost a month after the day of my initial online concern. i answered that that november 5th e-mail the same night and said i'd come today to oppose the legislation. ironically my e-mail was forwarded to the proponents of this red zone at 845 the next morning so it took me 45 days to get a response to my concern and they heard within 12 hours i'd be here to oppose it. >> time is up

you on item 13 for case the urban forest master plan on november 6, 2014, after hearing and close the public comment it is continued and commissioner hillis and commissioner fong against. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm john sawyer with the department staff at our hearing on the uttering plan street trees the commission directed the staff to return the first was a glossary of key terms in the urban forest plan and the second a motivation of property and non-property based mechanisms to fund a citywide street tree program both were included in the memo in our packet this included did glossary for trees street trees and uttering and under story and vegetation and are greg greening and economical funding those suggestions were made from the uttering definition and others defines from the public works code and the better street plan the funding sections we included the property and non-property mechanisms we've identified on the property based the parcel tax and on the non property general funds and urban forest joint powers authority and based on the plan to make sure that the plan focused

the public in terms of the public has not traditionally been involved in public pry vart partnerships other than as funders perhaps through other mechanisms. now we see individuals participating in activities to increase community resilience. i will turn it back over to susan. >> i think that was a really good preview of the types of models we're going to try to provide for the legal community. of course, when we do it, we will also have very concrete examples. we will try to put it in terms of the kinds of questions that lawyers are asked by their clients at the state, local as well as those dealing with the federal government. our third speaker is here to kind of bring us down to earth. from the abostraction of the models to the working relationship between the public and private sector. colonel robert stefan is the executive director of griffin scientific. his career in government began with a 24-year air force career where he commanded two elite air force special tactic squadrons and worked on contingency programs across the world of troubl trouble. and had a very distinguished ai

the public that would like to comment. and seeing none, we will close public comment and we will take a roll call vote. >> avalos? >> aye. >> breed. >> aye. >> campos? >> absent. >> chiu? >> aye. >> cohen? >> absent. >> farrell. >> absent. >> kim? >> aye. >> mar? >> absent. >> tang? >> aye. >> commissioner weiner? >> aye. >> yee? >> aye. >> the item passes. >> go on to the next item. >> item three, chair's report, this is an information item. >> thank you. colleagues, the election early this month, marked two important milestones, for transportation in san francisco. first voters sent a strong supportive message about the transportation funding and policy with the passage of propositions a and b and the transportation bond and funding measure and with the defeat of prop l, that sought to hold back the long standing policy, the transportation joins with the san francisco transportation authority and other city agencies in thanking the voters of san francisco for supporting much-needed investment in our city's local and regio

, to the future public access way. as you can see, it's not in very good shape. some of the [speaker not understood] has actually been removed. it's really in pretty rough shape. >> where it says condemned? >> condemned, exactly. we've been scrubbing the paint. this is a close up of some of those openings. you can see that it's not really a credit to the brannan street wharf or to the condition of the waterfront. therefore, our intention is to repair that facade and put glazing into those very large, very gracious openings. we will do appropriate historic treatment which is actually to rollup the rollup doors where they still exist and protect them while creating a grazed opening and allows light in and see into the historic structure and will look i think really nice. this is similar images of windows, the new window. actually this is pier 1. in contrast, the openings in pier 38 are much larger, will be much more dramatic. this is the front facade, the west facade, the entry to the building. it retains virtually all of

comment, anyone want to speak from the public? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you, so much for the great presentation. mr. stamos call the next item. >> 8, introduction of new items. this is an information item. >> any items? >> i see none, public comment? >> anyone want to speak from the public. >> seeing none, public comment is close $ment >> call the next item. >> item ten, adjournment, thank you, since there is no further business before us, the meeting is adjourned. thank you.

each member of the public may address the commission for up to 3 minutes. i have no speaker cards. >> is there any general public comment please come forward. >> oh, high i'm anastasia i came out of i came to speak about natural areas and the significant nature management plan, which i think i believe now will come 0 under your consideration in the beginning of next year. >> i hope i ask you to invite 90 san francisco store o first alliance to look at this matter just because the program is a little bit bad and it effects everyone in the city and the plan is awful it calls for the elimination for the 8 trees within the park the san francisco parks and they cut trees all the time here on the this piece of paper an example of the work it happens in 2002 what happened they came to put the natural habitat and starting with i think 25 cutting them down maybe a little bit more the neighbors were upset and protest and the cutting stopped and after that, the - they gave the neighbors 25 trees to planting those 25 trees went ♪ the area problem out of the 25 trees onl

comment. >> public comment seeing none, public comment is closed. >> let's go to the next item. >> 6, public comment. >> general public comment is open. >> okay. general public comment is closed of >> is there anything else. >> there is item 7, adjournle. >> thank you, this meeting is officially adjourned. i'm the president of friends of mclaren park. it is one of the oldest neighborhood community park groups in san francisco. i give a lot of tours through the park. during those tours, a lot of the folks in the group will think of the park as very scary. it has a lot of hills, there's a lot of dense groves. once you get towards the center of the park you really lose your orientation. you are very much in a remote area. there are a lot of trees that shield your view from the urban setting. you would simply see different groves that gives you a sense of freedom, of being outdoors, not being burdened by the worries of city life. john mclaren had said that golden gate park was too far away. he proposed that we have a park in the south end of the city. the campaign slogan

comment, anyone want to speak from the public? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you, so much for the great presentation. mr. stamos call the next item. >> 8, introduction of new items. this is an information item. >> any items? >> i see none, public comment? >> anyone want to speak from the public. >> seeing none, public comment is close $ment >> call the next item. >> item ten, adjournment, thank you, since there is no further business before us, the meeting is adjourned. thank you.. >> really happy to have you all here the other great thing about to brag about in san francisco we have a great mayor, i is that in part as a resident i live here my family is here i work here but also in particularly as the transportation director we have a mayor that understands the infrastructure understands transportation and design understands how these things are important to the quality of life we have here in the city and to the economy of the city he understands us number one in part because of is the public works sdooshg which

transit, and in terms of the mta's effort and if it is efforts at the public utility's commission with respect to the energy efficiency and we are tracking and making sure that we are on top of those and then again, of course, appeared before the public works department for example, as well as we track idealy what we do with a lot of that information is that if there are items that are coming before the board then we will flag those and either meet with the sponsor, at the board of supervisors, and give our comments to the process, or we will actually attend and support those items and most recently as our director shared with you, we certainly are tracking the safe ordinance that is one that our department is prioritizing just this week. and for example, as well, the other item that we we were tracking is the renewal and there are about three others that we are talking that have not yet made appearance at a hearing, but one is on clean construction that supervisor. and the mayor introduced last week, three resolutions that will allow the city to join, to the

hearing was held by the department of public works and the director of public works recommended this for approval we request the approval and like to inform you are the project sponsor is here to answer any capital questions and, of course, i'll be here to answer any questions about the permitted. >> supervisor cohen anything additional before public comment. >> okay. we'll opening it up for public comment to item 4 police department come forward. >> supervisor couple a day ago i was in san francisco i was driving from japan center and between van ness and market i say young young young kaiks men fighting each other so i can tell for them to there's what a aspire competition story way to handle fist fighting to handle one another, however, i mean actually this war we don't chief in terms of the we are powerful because we exist for good friendship for people how they handle people and treat people everyday in life this is necessary to be in a tough position being difficult if someone charges you and everything those young kids they may not have a leader of society to m

there are things that we can provide to the public and there are things that we can't provide to the public based on the process that occurred, the process set by the city and county of san francisco. >> i want to be clear. i'm not asking for the actual bids. i was with a public candidate for a substantial part of my career, i know that we had vendors provide a public response and one for proprietary. i'm not down to that detail, i'm just suggesting that upon conclusion of a project of this nature it would be helpful to know who the panel was and what the criteria were used to make this selection. it's very simple. i went on the website trying to find this document and spent couple of hours trying to do so and i couldn't find anything say all claims data base. >> i think we get kicked out of here at 4:00. >> i'm sure we can do this in the future. i think it's a great idea. i think we need to think about before we bring contracts to you because there are many, that we provide all the information to make it so that you are informed, and i totally agree with that. i don't mean to be argu

. >> i'd just like to point out and just let the public be aware that we appreciate that the port is facilitating the opportunity to create added park space in keeping with so much of the park space we're providing an open space along the waterfront. this is really a nice added opportunity to provide for the green areas for the public here in the city. so, i'm excited about that opportunity as well. >> we'll make sure that the commission gets invited to the ribbon cutting for the park. [laughter] >> any further comments? >> we're ready to vote. >> seeing none, all in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? that motion carries. thank you, brad. >> thank you very much. >> item 13, new business. he >> not sure of any new business aside from the open house suggestion. ~ >> [speaker not understood] going in for a tour soon. we'll certainly reach out to larger groups when the tour of the cruise 7 terminal. >> i'm not sure there is any new business. so, is there a motion to adjourn? >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> meeting is adjourned with proviso of go giants. [adjourned] >> 7:00 p.

there will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission, the public, or staff so requests removed from the consent calendar and considered as a separate item at this or a future hearing. 11 action work by the provision engineering for the contract approving the modification decreasing the contract by 8 hundred thousand plus for consequence calendar days and authorize the final payment to the contract and b accept the work by the provision engineering approve the modification to decrease the contract by $900,000 plus and authorize the final payment to the contractor and c accept the work by sharp pipeline by w w-63 approving the modification decreasing the contract by $12,000 plus with 28 consecutive days and the next one will increasing the contract by 56 thousand 8 hundred and 6 with consecutive days and authorizing the general manager to execute a mou mia for the inside garden f authorize the joint fund with the geology local survey for $900,000 plus with a duration of 5 years. >> oh, thank you do you have any requests to remove an item commissioners an

the public provided some support for what congress was doing and now the public is absolutely against it. you had a majority of the senators that have been up for election on the democratic side in the last two or three elections that supported oobamacare have lost. and that reality is not forgotten as this thing goes to be debated. now, the president can always block things by not signing the bill. but if republicans and some democratic friends start sending some pieces up there to adjust this thing in a constructive way, we may, at least, begin to unwind it. and i think what gruber did his deception, which, in my opinion, was sanctioned by the top, is part of the momentum to be built up to do that. >> the thing that bothers me is we had this one guy lack of transpinner apparently. >> you mean the president? >> no, talking about gruber. anybody doing it of course the president ran in 2008 on transparency. but the fact that you deliberately use it to try to deceive the american people is just like -- because someone thinks he knows best or he is the know it all, that he wants to impos

you will see the purely private, private with some public support and the purely public. this is a bipartisan act of congress. every federal agency can issue challenges and prizes in lieu of traditional procurement up to $50 million of prize money. that was through the america reauthorization to compete act. a bipartisan handshake that led to the handoff to those entrepreneurs and innovators that say they can solve this in a more clever way. >> this book when you read it sounds like it could've been written by a republican. >> sure. i honored one of the policy advisors of father bush, president bush, james pinkerton combining with elaine camark who was a wonderful policy advisor to al gore. we came together and said why don't we work on these issues regardless of who's boss wins the election. if father bush was reelected or if bill clinton would be elected, let's put an agenda together that says let's move beyond this left, right divide and let's modernize. there should be plenty of debate of the role of government in society but once you make the decision that government