Outside vendors and the interpreters and the neighborhood prep people and about a one and a half percent for materials and supplies. We are just about a third of wait through, just a little more than a third of the way through the current budget year and we have already collected about a little more than a third of our projected revenue, so i am as i said optimistic that we will be doing well this year. It is still early to know, of course, and we are doing what we can to monitor our expenses so that we can stay on budget. We did reduce, you may remember, when we looked at the budget for this year, we reduced the city work order to try to have it reflect more of what our Actual Expenditures were so the cushion that we have had has diminished and it is important to do what we can to try to monitor our expenses. I, did hear a few comments from Vice President fung about the report. He had suggestions that one revision that needs to be made is that the dates that we have in the report for
In 2010 the public process has not been very good. Many of the people have been very concerned and pioneers of ceqa were not even noticed of these changes. The state legislature as you may have known was in august of this year there was a proposal at the last two weeks of the state legislative session to also frankly ram through ceqa legislation that was not vetted well. The state legislature decided to not take up the measure, but will be looking at ceqa as a much more holistic way in the coming legislative year. I suggest that and we suggest that San Francisco take a similar approach that all means by which projects are approved or moved forward need to be looked at. Ceqa in itself is not the only approval that projects require are you speaking to the continuance or the actual topic . Okay. I will support we support the continuance. Thank you very much. And thats basically the message, but the measure i think is different from what was proposed in 2006 and 2010. It needs to be looked
Director metcalf. In the long run i do not think that it is clear if the fourth and king cal train station will remain a station or if there will be other alignments that we all end up believing would be preferred. I think that we need to be undertaking a process, with all of the partners. That will be necessary to pay for and get this project completed. And try to see if we can come up with an alignment and a design that everybody can agree to. I have concerns about spending money on ir that has a likelihood of having to be redone. I know in the scope of the project, a Million Dollars may not be that much. But there is. I wonder about the wisdom of proceeding. Four and this king will be. Will stay as a station. However, maybe not all trains will stop there. Because, and that whole Mission Bay Area is very important to the cal train right now and as far as the yard, only looking at it as someone who has been in the business all of his life. We will have to have some storage. Because yo
Species decline and biology of birds and that is very useful for lots of purposes. But i think it is also important to try to pull at the strings inside people. Missing is not just about specific extinct or endangered species. It is about absence and a more fundamental level of not knowing what we are losing and we need to link species loss to habitat loss and really focuses much on the habitat. Of course the Overall Mission of the academy has to do with two really fundamental and important questions. One of which is the nature of life. How did we get here . The second is the challenge of sustainability. If we are here how are we going to find a way to stay . These questions resonated very strongly with maya. On average a species disappears every 20 minutes. This is the only media work that i have done. I might never do another one because im not a media artist per se but i have used the medium because it seemed to be the one that could allow me to convey the sounds and images here. Me
Still, both sides agreed to end the walkout and get the trains rolling and then go back to the bargaining table. Union leaders admit they are rolling the dice. The public needs to use the trains. We needed to go back to work. We were willing to take a risk. Reporter does that make you lose a little ground when you dont have this over them . No, because we still have the right to strike. And if the deal falls through or 30 days bart feels like they bought time and dont take it seriously, we have that tool. Its a much more friendly atmosphere with the trains running so theres not that ticking clock as we approach a deadline. We now have 30 days and hopefully we can get that done. Reporter at least one returning worker showed his frustration. I wish we would have a contract. I wish we didnt come back the way we came. You know . Well see what happens the next 30 days, huh . Reporter well, the truce officially ends on august 4th. But the chief negotiators as well as the labor secretary beli