Contracting to make sure all of our interests are protected. Can i make one suggestion to the information that you asked for you asked for the high and low bids and you also want the winning bid, which may not necessarily be the low bid okay. Taking that into consideration there are other issues, too. The initial bid is different from the final bid. Its probably what i am trying to get at is our history with engineering estimates. How they comport with the market . Because people bid what they bid for all different kinds of reasons. In some cases they just know that they have a strong position and can charge more and in other cases they really need the work and will bid less or the cost of materials goes down or they have a good supplier or whatever it is. So there are a lot of reasons for variation in there and i want to test of the proposition that an engineering estimate can be an effective costcontrol mechanism. Understand. Thank you. That concludes my comments. Any other comments
Residents are uniting to help the victims of hurricane maria. This morning an organization looking to help the people of puerto rico is holding a donation drive in oakland. Kron 4s Camila Bernal is live at the jamtown Basketball Center with more on how they plan to help. camila good morning marty, as we have reported, the people of puerto rico are suffering. Many lost their houses. They dont have water, food. Thats why a group of bay area Puerto Ricans formed a coalition called sf for pr. They plan to do as much as possible to send money and donations to the island. Many of these bay area residents have family members in puerto rico who have been directly affected by hurricane maria. Sf for pr is asking people to donate things such as bottled water, canned food, firstaid kits, blankets and more. Theyll be at jamtown from 11am until 4pmtheyre asking people to help as much as they can by bringing these donations. Reporting live in oakland Camila Bernal kron 4 news. marty thanks camila. W
February 2, 2017, meeting of government did it and oversight committee. We have supervisor aaron peskin and supervisor london breed . I would like to recognize leo daisies and from sfgovtv. Org. They provide transcripts to the public. Madam chair, would you like to make any announcements . Yes, please silence all cell phones and any copies of your speech should be submitted to the clerk. Thank you, madam clerk. I have acknowledged all in todays meeting. Please call item 1. Clerk hearing on existing building standards in seismic safety zones, including infill and waterfront neighborhoods; and requesting the department of building inspection to report. Supervisor jane kim thank you, this item is to continue to discuss the structural safety concerns at 301 Mission Street. Will for clarification purposes, todays hearing is related to file no. 161299, a motion passed by the board to issue a subpoena for professor jack moiler. A Structural Engineer who designed the 301 mission as a third par
Quorum but we will take the other items okay. Communications. I have two. One is the question is do we want to make the election of chair and vice chair do we want to postpone until supervisor john kim has asked that it be postponed and arguing in favor is that chairs are supposed to serve a year and i was appointed in february. So we could do that, too. I dont care. What is the boards preference . To postpone it . [inaudible] [off mic] we will postpone that for a year. The other thing that is that until next month . Yes. X month i suppose. I just i apologize for my voice today. I spent the last few days in washington at the Transportation Research board. It was extremely cold and i came back with some sort of cough and deep throat. It was very interesting about that meeting was the overwhelming interest now. You could not get into a room that haven to do with Autonomous Vehicles. Everybody in the industry is trying to figure out what to do with those things. And of them that i attende
Is excused. Our next item is item 2, president s announcements. Good morning everybody and welcome to the big meeting march 15, a couple of days before st. Patricks day which is going to be a long weekend so happy st. Patricks day to everybody as we start the meeting here and congratulate the director on the fabulous green tie here. Hes the only one that actually wore one want all right. I take that back. Commissioner lee as well. Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the march meeting Building Inspection Commission meeting. Congratulations to commissioner chang yu that retired after years with Public Service with dbi and did pw and awarded proclamations and a dinner in honor my his colleagues and well done. He will be missed and what a great city servant for 30 years. On the andrea ruizesquide on the. Dbi seismic and the commissioner commiss went to the graduation and yet another class grateod february 24 when 65 seniors received graduation certificates of emergency and surviv