Good evening and welcome to kqed newsroom. A report criticizes the port of San Francisco for the management of the scewaterfront, including americas cup and the washington Street Development proposal and says the Mayors Office has too much influence and the Port Commission should seek more public input. Here to explain are San Francisco chronicle city hall reporter and elaina smidt. Welcome to you both. Thank you. Elaina, a key finding is recent activities have been strongly influenced by the Mayors Office. What are some of the critical projects that have been strongly influenced and what impact has that had on the public . I think that the influence, the projects that weve looked at recently were the americas cup, 8 washington, the Warriors Arena and when we looked at it, we were looking basically to see how they were developed in terms of who came together to kind of create the project, what was the dollar flow in the project, what did it mean to the port, and what we found was that
Good evening and welcome to kqed newsroom. A report criticizes the port of San Francisco for the management of the scewaterfront, including americas cup and the washington Street Development proposal and says the Mayors Office has too much influence and the Port Commission should seek more public input. Here to explain are San Francisco chronicle city hall reporter and elaina smidt. Welcome to you both. Thank you. Elaina, a key finding is recent activities have been strongly influenced by the Mayors Office. What are some of the critical projects that have been strongly influenced and what impact has that had on the public . I think that the influence, the projects that weve looked at recently were the americas cup, 8 washington, the Warriors Arena and when we looked at it, we were looking basically to see how they were developed in terms of who came together to kind of create the project, what was the dollar flow in the project, what did it mean to the port, and what we found was that
Good evening and welcome to kqed newsroom. A report criticizes the port of San Francisco for the management of the scewaterfront, including americas cup and the washington Street Development proposal and says the Mayors Office has too much influence and the Port Commission should seek more public input. Here to explain are San Francisco chronicle city hall reporter and elaina smidt. Welcome to you both. Thank you. Elaina, a key finding is recent activities have been strongly influenced by the Mayors Office. What are some of the critical projects that have been strongly influenced and what impact has that had on the public . I think that the influence, the projects that weve looked at recently were the americas cup, 8 washington, the Warriors Arena and when we looked at it, we were looking basically to see how they were developed in terms of who came together to kind of create the project, what was the dollar flow in the project, what did it mean to the port, and what we found was that
Ambassador altidor. [applause] i know we had to leave shortly, but will turn to the next panel for judith to take over. Thank you very much, ambassador altidor for those remarks and being so candid and open with us and passionate about the future of haiti. Thank you. So now, we are going to turn to a panel of people who will bring some experience they have encountered working on the ground to tell you about some of the important accomplishments and challenges they are encountering. But pamela coe, have a coffee break at the end of it. At the panda will go for about an hour. Each of them will speak for about 20 minutes and then have a joint question and answer for both of them. You have their biographies and a section of paper attached to the program, so i wont read it all to you. But just to say that to my immediate left, its a great pleasure to have Elizabeth Lake with us who is Senior Vice President for advocacy and Governor Affairs for habitat for Humanity International. Youve all h
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