Waste Program, a long-term program for managing the city's solid waste. This included "reducing waste at the source, separating waste for reuse, continuing mass collection, processing and converting waste to energy, and finding a landfill site for sanitary disposal of wastes that could be converted or recycled". He also oversaw the development of convention facilities, including the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the long-delayed $128.3 million Moscone Center, built in 1981. The action by the Board of Supervisors in approving the construction of the busiest convention center in the country was "a triumph for San Francisco" and one of Boas' greatest achievements. His political achievements also include leading the South of Market revitalization and spearheading the BART link to San Francisco International Airport. In the 1980s, he produced a report discussing infrastructure, in which he correctly predicted that "unless the aging under surface infrastructure is dealt with properly, such street problems would reoccur at an ever-increasing rate". In 1987, Boas ran to succeed Feinstein as mayo but was defeated by Art Agnos. His campaign posters still "dotted the city" the following year when, during a police sting operation that broke up a widespread teenage prostitution ring, Boas' face was recognized by one of the prostitutes as "a man who had been soliciting the ring for three years". Rape conviction Boas pleaded guilty on October 22, 1988, to seven counts of statutory rape involving teenage girls, with twelve more counts dismissed in exchange for his guilty plea. On November 19, 1988, he was fined $100,000, and sentenced to six months of community service. 1980s to death Boas was a long time member of the Concordia Club in San Francisco. In the 1990s, he taught an Urban Studies Series at the Fromm Institute at the University of San Francisco. He is the longest-serving member of the Friends of the Fromm Institute Board of Directors. In May 2011, he was honored at the 35-year anniversary of the Fromm Institute in which he presented a lecture entitled "The Last 35 Years: Progress or Decline". In November 2011, Nicolas Sarkozy, the President of France awarded Boas the Legion of Honour at a Veterans Day ceremony in San Francisco for contributing to the Liberation of France. Boas died of natural causes in his San Francisco home on February 10, 2017. References Bibliography John Roger Boas, "Democratic State Central Committee Chairman, 1968–1970," an oral history