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Today . That i am aware of board of directors in more old business . Seeing none we can move to the executive directors report. Good morning directors and members of the public and just a few announcements before we move on for our construction update for today. It is now displayed to the public at the academy of science and that will run for a number of months. So we would like to thank the California Academy for putting on display the mammoth tooth. And we will be looking for a new home in 2013. And finally on october 17th we had number one of our regularly Schedule Committee meetings to provide a construction update to our neighbors. So everything that moving along well. Now to give our construction update with steve turner. Good morning, directors. Steve, ru, with turner construction, construction oversight. I dont know. Is that up . There it is. Another good month, of work or almost a month and a half since we filled you in on the last period. There were no recordable incidents. W
Extraordinary successful collar collaboration with the San Francisco Planning Department staff and so the design that you are going to be seeing i would characterize as the result of a very, very healthy collaboration with staff and we are quite proud of it. So i just need this here. And this is an image, several images that you are going to be familiar with. It simply puts the towering context and this is clearly one of the most important building complexes and we do see the Transit Center and the tower. And with the center with the roof, top, park and with all of its services and amendies, adjacent to it, is the large tower. The tower of course is a key participant in the financial district of San Francisco and we think that it represents the best thinking in the United States about transitbased development. The transit city tower is on mission street. It is address will be 101 first. And i will show you in a few minutes how that is going to be worked out. It is just north of the Tra
Fiduciary to our beneficiaries, not as a fiduciary to the citys general fund. So i would strongly disagree with no. 6. Supervisor chiu i would disagree jqkbu well. Supervisor elsbernd finding 7, again this is like no. 5, studies show that public funds with low risk Investment Policies performed as well or better than those with risk studies. That. Other studies say the opposite but yes this statement is factually correct. Supervisor chiu i would disagree with that statement. I think the suggestion of that statement is that we should be looking at low risk Investment Policies and im not sure if im comfortable with saying that. Supervisor elsbernd fair enough. I appreciate it. We will disagree with that finding. All right move to the recommendations. Recommendation no. 1, San Francisco employees retirement system board addresses the 2 billion underfunding in the San Francisco employees Retirement System Pension Fund by forming a High Level Task force a panel of experts and Community Grou