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Today officials voted to open the new eastern span no later than tuesday, september 3. That is the morning after labor day. But its not going to be easy for commuters because in order to open the new span, they have to close the bridge for a total of five days to allow all work required to connect the new eastern span to the rest of the bridge that. Is why they want badly to close the bridge or a holiday weekend. That means crews have better access to the bridge on labor day. Meaning more likelihood we can pull it off under the schedule is also, i think, another reason to move forward. Transpo...

And. Existing bridge is one folks ought to be worried about. That is the one they should bt be trusting. And there is no contest between which is safer it you had wont be completely finished. The bike path will be tear f youre expecting a big opening ceremony, well, its not any time soon they say theyre going to cut a ribbon and get on with it. And to get the bridge open, the shut down will be long, five days and impact on businesses will be significant in many parts of the bay area. Were live now with that part of the story. Leanne . Talking about five days not just the weekend. People we tal...

For a disaster. By way of background, the citys existing program was 100 million. We utilized about 80 million. The board has 80 million cop and we have saved about 4. 2 million in a few years since the program is up and running. We have 760 million that we would use this program for. It is 45 basis point. And its very low and attractive compared to the fire program when we started which was about 125 basis point. The cost of issuance is approximately 450,000. The fee of 620 million. The program is working as we anticipated. We would like to increase it as we are moving along. Because its a le...

Have a contract would not be an option. Okay. So come january 1st, kaiser, if they provided service it would be complete risk of nonpayment . Thats correct. Unless we amend the current contract. We would need the agreement of the contractor. You dont think that maintaining the health care for 40 thousand people in San Francisco is not incentive for doing that . That is a question of the contractor. I would think that it is. Its not just amended the contract. We need to know what the rates are now so the rate guides are sent out by this month. Its not just a question of waiting a few months to ...

A contract, how would we get billed and how would we pay . What do we even pay . Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, without a contract, the controller has no authorization to pay. In fact, we would not pay if we did not have a contract. We are correct in that area. We have the ability to continue an existing contract but that would need to be amended and an approved to continue beyond the plan year. Okay. And at the same time in time, if it wasnt agreed to to be continued or amended, we would not pay, but at a certain point well be charged if they continue to provide health care for our m...