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So, theres 450,000 cap for his outofpocket expenses. Theres an allowance of up to 1. 5 million for construction escalation costs. So, thats basically the fact that if to the extent that if he were to go out today and build his approved project, that same project may be more expensive in the future just because of the cost of inflation. So, were agreeing to hold him to keep him whole in that regard up to a cap of 1. 5 million. There is also a cost he will incur once were done with the site. What well do is go in, demolish the building, excavate and build our shaft. Well remove the tunnel Boring...

This company has blood on its hands. Hes talking about chiquita, the Banana Company which paid nearly 2 million in protection money to a murderous Paramilitary Group that killed or massacred thousands of people in colombia. These were extortion payments. These were payments that had to be made to protect the lives of our employees, and so its one of those situations where you just simply had no other choice. Either you pay or your people get killed. And you decided to pay . And the company decided to pay. Absolutely. [ticking] billions of dollars is coming from this office to help bail out the...

So, that i think summarizes what we have before you. I just want to thank the many staff and the mayor and the board president for their work to get this done, and happy to take questions either now or after public comment. We can certainly ask members of the public to come forward at this point. Do we have some names . Yes, for item 11 greg gi ber, howard wong [speaker not understood]. Those are the first three. Good afternoon, sir. Good afternoon. Thank you for allowing me to speak here. Just now and again at the january Public Meeting on north beach, director reiskin assured us that this bo...

Mark gruberg followed by [speaker not understood] zamud. Mr. Gruberg. Again, to continue and conclude along the lines i was speaking of before, despite the fact that the cpuc has a rule making proceeding going on, you still have jurisdiction over people who are providing illegal services in San Francisco that are, you know, the equivalent of taxi services. If you didnt have that jurisdiction, you couldnt stop somebody in their private car who was picking up on the street either. So, all the drivers in these companies which are violating the law, the drivers themselves are also violating the la...

So, thats the item before you. As the board president referenced, there have been various concerns by various members of the community, surrounding various aspects about this. I think theres one category of folks who have consistently not supported the general project and theyve raised a number of concerns that we have been able to address in writing and i sent you a copy of that last wednesday night. There are i think some very legitimate concerns of the immediately abutting Property Owners. Now that were not on the public rightofway, the impact, construction impact to the great majority of n...