that dates back to 1978 and enterprise is in the process of applying a grant to expand the program year round on saturdays. i wanted to say thank you to enterprise and the kids that volunteered in our parks this tomorrow. talk of summer brings us into our fall season. this marks the beginning of our fall season under our new recreation model. staff and managers have been working nonstop over the last several weeks to get the new model off of the ground. wonderful training sessions i have attended over the last week. i want to thank and commend them for their efforts so far. as you know our new model moved from an outdated mod toll one more flexible. we have city wide programming. and we are actually optimistic that even with fewer staff we will offer more programming than we have in the past and will have more community input on what the programming needs

are at our various recreation centers. we have the fall season broken up into segments as we build our new model. phase one just started with after school enrichment programs, early childhood development programs. phase two begins the first week in september after labor day going into the first week of october. the green machine, you might have seen yesterday we had a demonstration held for staff and supervisors thanks to a partnership our first of its kind green steam machine. it is the first one in the united states. it is an alternative for weed

control. it further reduces the use. tell provide cost savings over time. >> seems to me we ought to get publicity on that. >> we did have publicity about it and we will keep pushing it. our park scores are at a 19 average. the highest that they have ever been. it is also a testament to our very successful effort and partnership through the job now program. we had over 100 individuals participate in our jobs now program who have been instrumental in our park

maintenance. outside land. i wanted to take a quick opportunity to update you. another plan estimates 80,000 people over the course of the two days. it was a terrific event. i think those that were out there felt very good. this was our smoothest year ever. how the event went during it is weekend. had year we had a great partnership with the san francisco pld. i want to commend martha and the department of park and traffic.

>> i always used to be able to hear it from my house and i couldn't hear it this time. >> this weekend marked a special day for swimmers and non-swimmers alike. he was sorely missed. i was in berkeley at a craigs list foundation boot camp. upcoming events.

there is optional camping and all meals are provided for volunteers. on saturday from 9:00 a.m. to noon we will host a meet and greet event. an opportunity to meet staff and each other to learn about the plans and enjoy light refreshments. golden gate park the second annual horse shoe tournament. our annual show in the county fair buildings with our great partners. it is there, please join. sunday is sunday streets in golden gate park. we have a very busy weekend. last thing i want to remind you all around the corner on

september 15th is the party for the parks. it will be held at the japanese teagarden in golden gate park. the very last announcement is i am very pleased and proud to report that our concourse fountain project is coming to an end. if you have been out there, they are testing the fountains now. you can actually see them on. while we may do a soft opening sooner, we will have our official turn on the fountains celebration on september 10th at 9:30 in the morning. and that concludes the general managers report.

>> is there any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> thank you for arranging a tour of the outside lands. i got a chance to see the set occupy saturday. and then i came back on sunday evening and the one thing that i noticed was the size of the crowds. the size of the crowd on sunday was significantly larger than the size of the crowd on saturday. and i was wondering, given the headliners on saturday and sunday why did they not have their bigger day on saturday and have the headliners on saturday and the lighter night on sunday since it ends earlier and the next day is the first day of school.

have a lighter turnout? that is maybe something that we should think about as you are moving into next year. the other thing that i saw was the overall the event was well run. the interesting thing i saw on monday was in the chronicle, the video of the fence jumpers. every year we see almost in the same spot. they tend to attack the fence. you can see the kids running in. i was wondering if this is something we can address next year since it happens every year since the festival started. they kind of hit the same spot. maybe that is something. >> thank you for both comments commissioner. somebody who was tired and bleary on monday morning. i appreciate your comments about sunday night headliner, which was terrific. kings of leon.

i am not in the music business. we leave the booking of talent to the event producer as i am sure you appreciate there are a myriad logistical challenges. but i will pass along the sggeds that we try to have a bigger name entertainers on saturday night. and i think this year with respect to security they had two lines of fencing this year. my report although you might have seen incidents of febs jumping. that will likely happen at any event or concert. i am told by the san francisco police department that this year the crowd was well behaved and security was thoughtful as it has ever been. >> my comment regarding sunday is the sunday night it did not move as freely as saturday. there were many more people.

the cut off was earlier. that is a direction. and finally i saw on the report there were two homicides on park property in the last month or so? is that correct?>> in july we ht involving two homeless individuals. we had an incident in boy in a visa, but that was on the street in front of the park. >> was that typical?

>> these were very unfortunate incidents, but i feel confident our parks are safe. we do not have anything resembling the level of violent crimes. our officers are doing a terrific job. we have people travel all of and down the coast, so we are extra diligent. >> that concludes the general managers' report. >> we're on item 14 which is general public comment. would anyone like to make general public comment? this item is closed. seeing none, public comment is

closed. we will move to closed session. >> we might as well do it here unless it is >> we will elect whether to make it disclosed what was discussed. >> i would like to make a motion not to disclose what was discussed. >> second. >> item 19 is commissioners matters. >> i want end of day -- an update on the garage. >> they you want to put it on for next meeting for a report on it? >> are there any other commissioners matters? any public comment? item is closed.

20 is new business. is there any public comment? item 20 is closed. communication, is there any public comment? public comment is closed, and item 22 is adjournment. >> unanimous, thank you. directors and parking authority commission. >> director beach. director beach: present. >> director lee. director lee: present.

>> oka. director oka: present. >> director nolan. chairman nolan: present. >> you have a quorum present. the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound-producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. any personal responsible for one going off may be removed. please be advised that cell phones on vibrate will cause static. approval minutes of the july sfmta. chairman nolan: is there mokes to a-- a motion to approve. >> second. >> minutes of the march 2, 2010, parking authority regular commission. chairman nolan: is there a motion. >> second. chairman nolan: those in favor

say aye. >> aye. >> item five, communications. i know of none, mr. chairman. chairman nolan: ok. new unfinished business. ok. that's not me. ms. boomer. excuse me. ok. thank you. a couple of announcements, communications. we have a special order in today's agenda and that's at 1:00 this afternoon or as soon as possible thereafter but not before. the board secretary will call item 11 about the taxi issue. and if the board has another

agenda item, they'll complete that and then go back to that and then we'll continue the agenda as regularly scheduled. and also on september 21 this year the board of directors will be holding a workshop rather than a regular meeting. the meeting will begin at 9:00 in the morning and will be held in the conference room at 1 south van buess. secretary boomer: item 6, introduction of new or unfinished business by board members. chairman nolan: director heinicke, did you want to raise the issue under this section? director heinicke: sure. is that ok with you? chairman nolan: sure. that would director heinicke: what chairman nolan is referring to is something that will come as no surprise to those in the taxi community as an area of interest to me. and that is briefly with now sort of us having wrapped up or

begun to wrap up the switch in the medallion issuance process, i think we need to look very carefully, as i've discussioned, with director ford and chairman nolan and the deputy director is the issue of peak time taxi cabs and how we use the flexibility given to us by prop a to meet what i view is two very significant demands, related demands. one, there is a huge demand for consumer usage on friday and saturday nights and other peak times, certain holidays, certain event days. and given that demand there is a demand for drivers who want to drive that shift. and so what i suggest we do much in the way before to have significant community and industry input but to look at how we can together put a

proposal, molding medallion drivers to drive those peak time shifts and allow the color schemes become corrective to meet the needs of the consumers who want cabs at those times. so i look forward to working with the chairman and staff on that. chairman nolan: would members consent or perhaps we could schedule sometime the next meeting the discussion about taxi priorities? >> that will be fine. i will take it one step further and even lay out some road map of some sorts in terms of how soon we can get there. chairman nolan: thank you, director heinicke. director beach. director beach: chairman nolan, members of the board, in putting together a budget of this year and next year, one of the things that was a key component to that was the math -- was the m.t.a. being the only parking permit. if staff could bring back a status of where we're at of being the sole issuer of

parking permits. this building was surrounded by permits we didn't issue. and my travels throughout the issue i see other parking permits issued by other kinds of public agencies. if we are going to in fact control that we need to get with that and -- because it was a key component of our budget. chairman nolan: would members consent? mr. ford, could you bring something back to us? director ford: yes. chairman nolan: any new unfinished business? seeing none, ok. ms. boomer. secretary boomer: item 7, executive directors worm report. >> good afternoon, mr. chairman, m.t.a. board and the public. i begin by recognizing our staff for the contributions they have made to the agency for the month of august. under our transit division we have two awards that are very, very special. as you know, our civic center station is one of the busiest stations within our transit system and it serves as a transfer point for many of our

riders within the san francisco bay area transit network. on two separate occasions m.t.a. employees that we are recognizing, the two m.t.a. employees that we are recognizing today responded courageously in preventing harm or life-threatening injuries to two of our patrons who had fell into our mini train tracks. our first award goings to aramedes rivera. could you please step up to the podium? come right up here. arcamedes has been with the agency for over 12 years. on june 12 he witnessed a visually impaired man fall into the tracks as his train was approaching the civic center. because of his quick reaction he was able to stop the train and avoid any harm to that individual. his outstanding dedication, determination and excellence in train operations proved invaluable during this critical, life-saving incident.

he takes great pride of performing his job as a transit operator and has a great attendance record and safety record. he is dedicated to his job and always places safety first. before you have john haley, our director of transit authority, to present the award. chairman nolan: good afternoon. >> thank you. i'd just like to point out to the board that we regularly report to you when you review on a regular basis and evaluate our safety performance. and obviously the key to that is the performance of the online and front line troops. in this particular case you have an individual in our rail -- and our rail operators are challenged to be alert in two different ways. one set of rules and auto train control in the subway and yet another set of challenges while they operate on the service. both require constant vigilance and alertness. in this particular case through

the actions of mr. rivera, who by the way may have been named after a philosopher and mathematician but his decisive action in this particular case belies that namesake. essay allowed us to call him archy. his act in this -- call him archie. his act in this particular case causing -- not allowing injury to this particular patron really reflects the best of the performance of our agency. so it's a pleasure and -- for us to recognize him. [applause] mr. rivera. >> all i can say thank the lord for guiding and protecting us during our work and in doing

our work. i just say hello to my family, my wife, lydia, my sons, lawrence, and roberto, who is working with -- and just to say thank you to each and every one of you for giving me this recognition award. i hope that all of our employees there working do their best to be safe there out there. thank you. chairman nolan: thank you, mr. rivera. on behalf of the board of directors, do thank you for your outstanding work. [applause] >> our next award goes to melanie martin. melanie, could you please step up to the podium? melody is also a transit operator at our green division and has been with the agency for over 11 years.

she's receiving this award today for her courageous actions of saving someone from harm or possibly saving their lives. on june 21, melody witnessed a man fall into the tracks at the train station at civic center station while she was pulling in. she worked very quickly and safely to stop her train and avoided any contact or harm to that person. her keen awareness, observation of her surroundings and her skills as a train operator was invaluable to this incident. i'd like for john also present the award of appreciation to melody. john. >> thank you, mr. ford. once again, truly extraordinary performance, and i learned earlier today that actually this is somewhat routine for melanie because prior -- even prior to joining the agency she had been involved in helping someone who was down in the subway tracks be brought out safely. so we're pleased to have her use that effort to come onboard

and continue her outstanding performance. so congratulations, melody, to you. [applause] >> i'd like to thank the board for this recognition. >> thank you for your stout standing work. thank you, ms. martin. chairman nolan: congratulations. director ford: our next award is a group award and will be presented to christine kayaya and sheroline. i apologize for that challenging name description there. sorry, folks. working as a team, both christine and sheroline is part of our employee and labor relations section and are being

recognized with their steadfast, dedication and the success of m.t.a.'s partnership with the public employees committee during the concession discussions and negotiations. it was christine and sheroline's laborists efforts that would have red line versions of documents and letters of agreement ready with little to no advance leave time when a concession meeting needed to happen. the dynamic duo took the lead in collecting all contract data working with the city's attorney's office to get the memoranda of understanding approved as to legal form and as well as coordinating with the m.t.a.'s webmaster to make sure these documents were accessible to the public. and these include our low-vision individuals during the sunshine period. the cost savings that the m.t.a. achieved as a result of these discussions may not have materialized without their support. christine has been with the agency for four years and she is a hardworking and dedicated employee who takes pride in and

is a team player who is always willing to mentor and assist others and is willing to learn new things. sheroline has been with the agency for two years. she's the ultimate team player who assists her colleagues without hesitation. her technical skills are part of her attitude. both are tremendous assets to their division, their agency and the city as a whole due to their unrelenting commitment to those they serve. debra is here to present the award to christine and sheroline. good afternoon. >> good afternoon. thank you, mr. ford, members of the board. it's with us team pleasure that i stand before you today and recognize these two employees. as you all know for the past several months i've been coming before you, briefing you about our discussions and our partnering with labor. and none of this would have been possible without the commitment, without the support

of employee and labor relations and these two individuals. i would be remiss if we did not come before you and acknowledge their hard work during these troubling times and we had to make such difficult decisions with less. so with that it gives me extreme pleasure to stand before you and present these awards. if i may just really quickly, one is with christine and the other one is sherline that says in appreciation of your dedication to improving the quality of lives for the employees of the municipal transportation agency and the residents of san francisco by the san francisco municipal transportation agency given this day, august 3, 2010. so congratulations. and congratulations. thank you so much. >> i would like to thank the board for acknowledging our efforts. we would not have done this without the support.

>> it's been a pleasure to work with this team. they are great team players. it just makes it a lot easier when we all work together. chairman nolan: i want to say thanks on behalf of the board of directors and their work on behalf of all of us. thank you so much. [applause] director ford: ok. on july 29 of this year, the mayor hosted the signing of the city's fiscal year 2010 and 2011 annual budget. and despite the many challenges that face city departments, boards and commissions as well as our political leaders during the budget process we were able to compromise and work together as a team to balance the city's budget. on that note i would like for our chief financial officer to come now and present to you and update the modifications that were made to the m.t.a.'s fiscal year 2010 and 2011 budget as well as the 2011 and 2012 budgets post your