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they all have all sorts of percentage. thank you. next speaker please. before you start, let me call a few other speaker cards. richard vancura. lance burton oscar grand and survante and denisc titan and king, and dr. seler titwell. good morning, members of the committee, my name is darrel davis and i am the president and ceo of davis and associates communications. and i am also contractor on the jc proposal. i was really surprised to hear from the airport speaker that lbs were not considered a consideration in the proposal. this is very surprising to me and i would like to know why that is. that that was not a consideration of evaluation of the proproesal. jc (inaudible) went above and beyond and they included our firm in the proposal to provide advertising. that is an authentic partnership that we have with jc dco that we rarely experience with large companies and we are glad to be on this proposal and i hope that you take that into consideration. because it giv ....
that in the past. we are trying to be really consistent with the city s policy to limit the expansion of advertising on the city-owned property and so that is a part of what was taken into consideration when we moved forward with the mag only. i understand that the budget analyst has concerns with that, which you will hear about today. and i am sure, director martin will be happy to come back and answer more specific questions around his thinking in this. thank you very much. colleagues, do you have any questions of the airport at this time? okay. supervisor avalos? just i know that we are going to have this come back and maybe when it does, you or john can touch about how or whether they are inside of the rfp there was a question to support local businesses. because that has been coming up in conversation that i have with people that one of the contractors is better at than and i am not sure if that was part of the scoring that went on and if you could touch ....
and i would also note that there is actually the director of planning has noted that they are pulling administrative support staff from the permit division into city-wide planning. and that is why they want an additional clerk position for city-wide planning. i would also note that there is actually three quauters of a vacant senior clerk in the permit processing. so if they are pulling additional staff from there, there is actually other vacant positions there. so that they should again, fill their vacant positions first, before they add at additional positions. thank you, supervisor avalos? i think that is reasonable for the budget analyst perspective and we are actually going to be voting today most likely to approve 8 positions, moving forward. and i just hope that we are having the budget process that is going to start very, very soon. i think that those 8 positions can do a lot if we are able to hire, you know, fairly quickly, can help with the backlog and the ....
for opportunities to expand and we have not had good luck with that in the past. we are trying to be really consistent with the city s policy to limit the expansion of advertising on the city-owned property and so that is a part of what was taken into consideration when we moved forward with the mag only. i understand that the budget analyst has concerns with that, which you will hear about today. and i am sure, director martin will be happy to come back and answer more specific questions around his thinking in this. thank you very much. colleagues, do you have any questions of the airport at this time? okay. supervisor avalos? just i know that we are going to have this come back and maybe when it does, you or john can touch about how or whether they are inside of the rfp there was a question to support local businesses. because that has been coming up in conversation that i have with people that one of the contractors is better at than and i am not sure if th ....
have cathy winer here. and government affairs, and manager for the san francisco airport. and let me say miss winer and to members of the public that are here as well as to the budget analyst, i think that we are likely to continue this item and that is the plan here to give mr. martin, who is the director of the airport time to come back as this one has some discussions around item number 7. and so i would ask that we actually keep presentations brief. we will open up to public comment, and members of the public comment. but, given that we will be hearing this item again in the near term future i ask that we keep the presentations shorter than perhaps thought of. understood. chair, farrell, cathy with the airport. i will just briefly layout the lease that is before you for the airport and clear channel for advertising at the airport. the proposed lease is a new lease for advertising at the airport it has an 8-year term. and it has or carries a ten million dollar mi ....