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>> good morning everyone. we have a full agenda today. i'm going to report on one item, preparatory school in palo alto shadowing us and they are from grades 6-12. all of these students graduate and go to college. i want to thank you for attending. that concludes my report. >> thank you. at this time we'll move to item # 6, which is a public comment. >> we don't have anyone who wishes to comment on this item. thank you, patrick from san francisco. i know you are looking for areas to save money, i think you can save money in position decisions which include buildings that is right goi...

>> you are correct, director, that these were provided for context as kind of additional component of the budget discussion that we weren't able to touch upon in prior meetings, but to provide the board with some background. in making the decision particularly as it relates to the rba, we are not committing to the budget increase at this time, but we thought it would be helpful for the directors to have some context of the types of revenue and potential amounts of revenue that we were planning to pursue to augment the current budget. >> right. it's helpful and we are not authorizing ...

ing. >> i believe it was the december or january board meeting we brought to you a modification to the appellee contract and that match the contract budget in anticipation of several changes. so this would fit under that contraction authorization. >> okay. thank you. i guess what i would recommend, we consider along with the approval of this is that we ask the staff to evaluate, we ask the staff and design team to evaluate the possibility of designing these additions maybe not the awe ning system building, some the package and we incorporate the value engineering process into design ...

>> maybe we should have bob goes through the numbers. that's what i'm interested in. >> i wanted to give you the process rational so although we are looking at the protection requirement we put together a world class team of engineers. each experts in fire protection, fire alarms, communication, structural design, hvac, so as recommendations came in from urs, we could not only validate whether they were rational, we looked at the team that they were assembling and with their very specific expertise in these areas try to find the best solution to achieve a rational set of protective d...

complexity of this on the right hand corner of the screen you can see the series of lines. this deals with from the district that tdr's can get -- generate and that's where the downtown plan development should go. >> until that area is selected is that because of the district plan or the transbay terminal. it looks like it's howard to folsom? >> it looks like it's howard street is where you focus the development to happen. >> for the most part, it's the general area. forgive me, i'm not qualified to speak. it's part of the 1982 work. this effort predates the thinking that we have gon...