next. andrew narvag no, catherine orgman. followed by catherine ross. are they here? i think catherine orgman left, i am catherine ross. i am a long time resident, i live directly across the panhandle from masonic. i ride a bike. i have nevered own a car. anyone who is complaining about parking spaces, has been using the parking space i have not used in the 25 years in san francisco. i don t take up a parking spot. i don t have a driver s license, they can thank me after the hearing. but now masonic is my north/south route. and other streets go straight hill and dead end. if there was another option for bikes, we would take it. believe me. and the conditions on masonic are completely unacceptable, not just me but the people that have been killed there that i am totally heart broken about. and to me that takes such precedence over parking, and the fact that people are complaining about the loss of parking spaces, and in the light of the slaughter on this street. it s sha
agreement with cooper pugeda management for the laguna honda hospital replace placement program, from 16,196,764 to 16,805,733. thank you. who is here to speak on this. representative from dpw. okay. i believe they want us to continue this to next week, since the representative is sick this week. why don t we hold off on the budget analyst until next week. why don t we open this for public comment. are there any members of the public who wish to speak on item five? seeing none, closed. general question on this one. there was increases to this contract. seemed like well, from the budget analyst report seems like increases should have come to the board of supervisors for approval. what are the consequences of this department going into contract amendment without getting approval. i mean, is there any consequence or penalty? how do we monitor that to prevent it from happening again. madam chair, members of the committee, supervisor avalos, i don t think there are any con
the hiv prevention section formerly led it now it s led by tracy packer who is here in the crowd. (applause) and stacey leads an amazing team of people. they not only oversee and set the priorities for hiv prevention in the entire city and serve as really, again, one of the flagship prevention programs globally in making decisions about how to have the biggest impact on driving down new infections. but they re also a world class research organization that does research on testing, on linkage to care, community viral load, treatment of substance use as a way to prevent new hiv infections. and she, again, has a very difficult verse and very talented team and we re really excited to work with them as well. (applause) and then finally i want to introduce my staff. we were formally known as the hiv research section. but as you can see we have these other world class research organizations housed in our same institution. so, we ve renamed ourselves bridge hiv. and i m going t
competitive basis the initial amount was about 600,000. now we are up significantly to $60 million. in this case we agree with the method the department used. it was always stated to the board of supervisors that after the competitive process they would adopt a plan, a work plan each year for the contractor to do the work. so that is why there s been i think 16 modifications to this particular item. i think that the process the department used is reasonable in this case. okay. thank you. thank you, supervisors. should we open public comment and kles public comment. colleagues, do we have a motion to continue this a week? we have a motion. we will do that without objection. thank you. item seven, please. resolution approving contract number cpt631. planned rehabilitation between city and county of san francisco and complete work to rebuild major systems and components on approximately ab standard diesel buses in amount not to exceed 19,105,885 not to exceed six years, li
time. made a lot of friends here. crisises part of the 2008 clean neighborhood park fund, and this is so important to our families. for many people who live in chinatown, this is their backyard. this is where many people come to congregate, and we are so happy to be able to deliver this project on time and under budget. a reason we all agreed to name this memorex center is because it is part of the history of i hear to name this rec center, is because it is part of the history of san francisco. they took off from logan airport, and the call of duty was to alert american airlines that her plane was hijacked, and she stayed on the phone prior to the crash into the no. 9 world trade center. i would like to claim today the center and the naming of it. [applause] kmer i actually challenged me to a little bit of a ping pong the mayor actually challenge me to a little bit of a ping- pong, so i accept your challenge. it is an amazing spot. it is a state of the art cen