Testimony today please stand and raise your right hand. Okay. No members at the time there is someone . Im sorry. I cant see up there. Do you swear to tell the truth to the best of your knowledge . Thank you. You may be seated. Okay. For the record, the department will present their case. Each side has seven minutes. Then, the appellant will present their case. Next, theres Public Comment, and each member has three minutes to speak. Lastly, theres rebuttal, three minutes for the department and the appellant. Next, discussion of minutes for the meeting held on july 17, 2019. Okay. Are there any corrections or comments regarding the Meeting Minutes from the 17 . Okay. I move we accept. Second. Clerk okay. A motion and a second. Is there any Public Comment on the minutes . Are all commissioners in favor . Any opposed. Okay. Minutes are approved. I also wanted to announce that our first item, case number 6861, 49 drum street, has withdrawn their request for appeals. Okay. Thank you. Clerk
My confusion is why is it so low . I understand the specialty. I know there are areas that we can use lb e. We have looked at those scopes and have made okay, but three point nine shoreside construction, but we only have eligible work or two point eight. Yes. The component that has no participation is 32,000,000 dollars in the project. Okay. The balance at 15 percent which is what we see in a normal package brings us to when you take the 32,000,000 dollars specialty back out. Getting crumbs. As usual. [laughter] im not supporting it on just giving the raw numbers. So we all understand it. There is nothing else we can do about this . We can once again, director forbes, i feel sorry for her having to listen to me over, and over, and over. I just feel sorry for her. [laughter] we do millions of dollars in project. Over, and over. Walkers through why the 32,000,000 dollars participation . Walk us through some of the suppliers, where the suppliers are, what makes them so unique so we unders
Okay. We have construction, and thats about 4,000,000 that could be given to lb e . I guess my confusion is why is it so low . I understand the specialty. I know there are areas that we can use lb e. We have looked at those scopes and have made okay, but three point nine shoreside construction, but we only have eligible work or two point eight. Yes. The component that has no participation is 32,000,000 dollars in the project. Okay. The balance at 15 percent which is what we see in a normal package brings us to when you take the 32,000,000 dollars specialty back out. Getting crumbs. As usual. [laughter] im not supporting it on just giving the raw numbers. So we all understand it. There is nothing else we can do about this . We can once again, director forbes, i feel sorry for her having to listen to me over, and over, and over. I just feel sorry for her. [laughter] we do millions of dollars in project. Over, and over. Walkers through why the 32,000,000 dollars participation . Walk us th
We would urge every other neighborhood that is facing such a major disruption to business to follow our footsteps. Get involved, and make sure we are actively involved with whatever the department and contractors that are involved. Yes, i have attended the dumb festival in chinatown. It is organized dumpling festival in chinatown. It is a promotion for the businesses in chinatown. Many of the restaurants participated by providing different types of dumplings. Delicious. I mentioned previously, i been working with oewd on a possible concert for jobs area that continues to progress. I just want to drop while everybody is here. When it hopefully pops up down the road, we are already to jump in and be supportive. Any other commissioner comments . Do we have any members of the public that would like to make comments on Commission Reports . Seeing none. Next item, please. Item ten, new business. Allows commissioners to introduce new agenda items for future consideration by the commission. Di
2019. Roll call, please. [ roll call ]. Before you, you have the minutes of june 25. Are there any additions or corrections to the minutes . I move approval. Second. Any Public Comments on the minutes . All those in favor . Aye. Opposed . The motion carries. The next item, please. Item 4 is general member of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commissions jurisdiction and are not on todays agenda. Mr. Di costa. Commissioners, i want to talk on a number of issues, and i was watching one of the committees the board of supervisors. Two of your consultants, one who deals with iso, electricity, and the other one is, i suppose hes an engineer that i havent met before. So im very much interested in how you commissioners are going to be dealing with the transmission line from the 75 megawatts. So i had to do a little bit of investigation, and i see that the digesters cannot go forward unless they have steady energy, electricity. So why dont we have this convers