you may be paying $30 a month for electricity. thank you for inviting me to come. i am still going to be there. i want to be part of the committees set up talking about solar and the rising of the see coming into my area. that area is landfills. people do not want to realize that it looks good, but it is not good. thank you very much. [applause] thank you for your dedicated energy to help us achieve this goal through the closure of those power plants. to wrap things up, we have those who have made this building what it is. the manager of sustainability programs for the academy of sciences. we want to congratulate them for recently achieving double leed platinum status, the largest such building in the world. [applause] thank you for joining us this morning on our living rooms. it is a bit of an exaggeration to say i am responsible for this building and all of these excesses of the academy. i can only take a small bit of credit for what we do. we are honored the mayor chos
thank you for joining us. i m katherine sharp. we are very excited today to have a press release from the mayor and have him join us. this has been an amazing experience for those of us from the very beginning. we look forward to sharing that story with you. without further ado, mayor lee. thank you, katherine. thank you very much for being here. i wanted to join this great moment of celebration for fibrogen, which is more than a serial. that was what i first thought when i saw that name. i want to congratulate fibrogen and all the companies that have spouted up. i had the creation of this experiment with bioand life sciences here in mission bay. now a few years later, it really began in 2009 where there were five companies that started in this building. today, there are 23 of these microbusinesses that are doing biotechnology research, clinical laboratory research as well as applications for that. right here, the three areas of work that they re doing. they told me
they told me they re here because of the talent, the graduates coming out of berkley and stanford and the school systems are really feeding the kind of talent that they re wanting to have in their companies and the industries are growing, and they re growing from different kinds of bio research to clean tech research. so our formula that began there, and again, i want to publicly thank former mayor newsom for this, as he had that vision. now as of today, mission bay is 64% built out. as you can see right across the street. the hospital is almost halfway there. more than halfway there. under $1.5 billion build of the medical center. that is another attraction and it s attracting the microbusinesses that come here. their square footage tenfolded right in that very same time. i think the companies here, from what i can interview, they re very excited to be here. they really feel the cross fertilization of talent that s coming in within the building. that, again, reflects not on
when you are still mayor. as for mayor lee, i guess we ll find out in a few weeks. we are going to open it as quickly as possible. we certainly hope by late 2013, or sooner if possible, and let me conclude, if i could, because we d be introducing brian peterson next, the project manager, that i sure hope now that we ve got all the steel in place, we can really put the pedal to the metal. congratulations to all the workers who have gotten us this far and let s get the last stretch done now. thank you. before i introduce our last important speaker, i want to close my comments on a safety note and acknowledge other partners that are here, the california highway patrol. i do know that seward is here for the california highway patrol and i want to extend my appreciation to them. at this time, i would like to introduce our last speaker, the project manager for this great project. brian peterson. good morning, everyone. it is a very exciting day. i appreciate the attendance we h
this. what do you think? and that process goes on until it includes a majority of the members, and then you have an unlawful seriatim meeting. one thing we have cautioned board members a lot is that it is very easy to have email exchanges turned into an unlawful meeting. someone sends an email addresses it to all board members, and the members start replying. they hit reply all, and then it becomes a discussion among a majority of members about an item that is within the board jurisdiction. that discussion is not taking place in public. the public does not know. today, we re not talking about public records, but i also wanted to remind you that when you use technology to communicate by email or by text or other means, even if you are using your own, personal device, if you are communicating about the public business, it is at least possible the lot is not very well developed on this issue, there have been a couple of cases, but we have not been given enough guidance yet, b