Where i was over the weekend among the headlines and there were a lot, a warning about potential risk for the u. S. If Tech Companies decide not to do business with the pentagon. My view is if big tech is going to turn their backs on department of defense, this country is in trouble. That just cant happen so we have to, it is up to the Senior Leadership to say i understand these are emotional issues, we dont have to agree on everything, but this is how were going to do it we are going to support the department of defense. This country is important. Meantime, heavily redacted 103 page document that was just made public a short while ago, amazon says President Trump launched, behind the scenes attacks against the company, which led to it losing out on the major jedi contract for Cloud Services that we have been covering so closely. Guys, in general the bottom line from jeff bezos at the event this weekend is amazon, you could make the argument origin, the Space Company looking for Nation
Inspection required which is to have what they call an inspector of record, which is an additional cost carried by the project sponsor to make sure the work is done according to the specs and these employees need to be certified by the state as an inspector of record. Okay. That would be some money. Joe, a couple of questions. Back on the Community Health centers, i think you mentioned but i didnt get it. Were working on mission and maxime hall and regards to chinatown and Infrastructure Improvements, are there still budgets for those or theyre going to be deferred to a future bond . Very good question. For chinatown Public Health center, the team is working with our consultant to better understand the seismic scope. We have learned that i think one of the best things to move forward with the next round of projects is to understand the total project scope. One of the things we learned earlier for both were identified as tender project when added to the bond program but since then weve
Planning committee and the citys chief resilience officer is a good resource. Hes sort of i dont want to say a toll collector but kind of organizer for a lot of the discussions. I think that would be helpful. And he will be here in march. We can bring it up at that point as well. Would you be up for writing a memo . Maybe the Controllers Office can help draft this. I guess do other members feel strongly that a memo sent by this committee to the Capital Planning committee to express our concerns specific to this bond and how the broad nature of the bond has ended with possible problematic ways for us as we oversee the spending of the bond. Would the controls office help us draft i think what we would like to do is have a memo from this committee to the Capital Planning committee to share with them the problems that we are encountering as a result of the broad structuring of the bond. Youre welcome to send a memo if you like. Im listening to your conversation and clearly we need to do a
Centers, i think you mentioned but i didnt get it. Were working on mission and maxime hall and regards to chinatown and Infrastructure Improvements, are there still budgets for those or theyre going to be deferred to a future bond . Very good question. For chinatown Public Health center, the team is working with our consultant to better understand the seismic scope. We have learned that i think one of the best things to move forward with the next round of projects is to understand the total project scope. One of the things we learned earlier for both were identified as tender project when added to the bond program but since then weve had to encure the cost of the seismic retrofit. Were working with the team to identify the scope and identify other needs for that project so when we do move forward with chinatown Public Health center, we have a much more realistic project scope. For the infrastructure project, we are moving forward with that scope. Its a costsharing between the project t
The director of the Capital Planning committee and the citys chief resilience officer is a good resource. Hes sort of i dont want to say a toll collector but kind of organizer for a lot of the discussions. I think that would be helpful. And he will be here in march. We can bring it up at that point as well. Would you be up for writing a memo . Maybe the Controllers Office can help draft this. I guess do other members feel strongly that a memo sent by this committee to the Capital Planning committee to express our concerns specific to this bond and how the broad nature of the bond has ended with possible problematic ways for us as we oversee the spending of the bond. Would the controls office help us draft i think what we would like to do is have a memo from this committee to the Capital Planning committee to share with them the problems that we are encountering as a result of the broad structuring of the bond. Youre welcome to send a memo if you like. Im listening to your conversation