bike share pilot. if there is any way we can in our attempts at communication or media, if we can -- if you will consider putting together something that speaks specifically to residents and how will this improve my overall community during and-or [unintelligible] the event would be helpful. just to build off of the director's comments, it would be exciting to see lots of way finding and i hope you will consider in addition to pointing the way for pedestrians but also putting in how much time it will take approximately as a pedestrian so if it is going to take 10 minutes to get to a destination from where a sign is marked, it would be good to know that. when people are making decisions

and they see the next bus will take 10 minutes for the vehicle to get there and they think, the sign says i could walk there in 10. i need the exercise and it will be good for us and everyone would benefit. if you will take those things into consideration. chairman nolan: members of the public? >> andy is the last person. >> good afternoon, directors. from the sf bicycle coalition. we have been working with the team now for several months. it is gratifying. people said bikes will be important and not just as an ornament. it will be important as to how this event comes off and the bicycle coalition is eager to take advantage of this to help more people moved around by bike. lots of great programmatic

stuff. let me speak to how we move people around and we're very keen on making sure we take advantage of this next couple of events to try some great stuff. and build on that. to the director oka's comment. let's take advantage of an embarcadero that most people beyond just these events -- moves people beyond just these events. we have to make sure that the event day is really wonderful and shows the potential and takes us on to an embarcadero that is a great-great straight for breaking. a great street -- a street we have been talking about compulsory. looking at the parking map you see that we have the civic center that is in a prominent

location. people will buy canned park there. how we get them up the street matters. polk street is key. we want to make sure we can take people on the shared paychex upholstery. you will hear us talk more about trials and moving people. it is a bicycle priorities straight. accomplishments i.n.s. -- van ness. we love the idea of combining that. the team is talking about this. when i walk up to sign there are many choices. let's give people some good information and they will what can buy. >> our next two speakers. >> board of directors, i was in auckland where tehe last america's cup was.

i reviewed the environmental impact reports. very familiar with ceqa. what i would like to impress upon the city is that we have four rooms in the various neighborhoods so that the people understand exactly what this all means to all san franciscans. what is happening here is in 18 months, we're trying to fast track allot. i hear you are saying somehow that you understand this. but when we talk to the engineers and the people who are involved with construction, they find it difficult how all this

is going to be fast-tracked. we have to do it somehow. we do have some impediments. if you watch the planning department and they're talking about this building or on washington street, the condominium, coming at the same time as our construction on the wall that will be done, all these things have to be taken into account. as has been stated today, we need to get people quickly to the events. and again, i am encouraging whoever is -- to bring the people and explain to them the logistics' think you -- the logistics'. thank you. a one thing i have noticed

with sunday streets, it comes up public transportation. it took me an hour to get to a destination where it normally took 30 minutes. and what i am wondering about is if this event is not going to inconvenience people who are not participating in watching the america's cup event. how is it going to affect other public transportation lines? are people going to be really inconvenienced? will people be able to get downtown if they are conducting business? what will happen to the president's surrounding this area? this really has to be factored in. in respect to the bicycles, the bicycle traffic is going to increase heavily. that means there is also

increased concern -- there should be increased concern about pedestrians. i remember where a pedestrian was run over by a bicycle italy on the embarcadero. i do not want to see this event repeated again. the chances of repeating this again occur with greater bicycle traffic. what is going to be done to address pedestrian safety? these are really concerns we have to look into. this is, it will raise money for the city and it may be approved -- a blueprint for bicycles in the city and the rest of it but you have a responsibility to the citizens of san francisco and the pedestrian to walk the streets. this is not a utopia. these are hard questions that have to be answered. i think the residents of the

neighborhoods definitely have a stake in this. thank you. >> last person who turned in a speaker card. >> i assume the presentation is on the mta board website or will be? great. although i have avoided being involved in america's cup and intend to continue to avoid being in its planning, i have a brief comment. i sort of agree with mr. winer on this one. to the extent that there is additional muni service added to this event, i very much hope it will not take away from their existing service elsewhere in town. this event is primarily corporate much in the northeast quadrant. the other three quadrants should not suffer less service as the results -- as a result. other lines should not lives

service. i hope in the planning and implementation of this, john haley and the operations group will continue to provide service elsewhere in town because this clearly will not be the only event happening. one of the reasons i have not been involved in planning here is there is capable and competent staff from mta and other city departments and planning. thank you. chairman nolan: anyone else here? just the board. this is informational today. >> this item will be coming back in february 7. chairman nolan: this will be the ceqa report. thank you very much. >> it would be appropriate as you move into closed session whether to do so. chairman nolan: any further discussion? we're in closed session.

thank you. >> 10 minutes. >> public comment on closed session. >> once again i note that one of the closed session matters involves an employee in a settlement. i would hope that the board in closed session would be asking careful questions about the hr policies and practices and management and supervisory training as to avoid such settlements for employees. this is the fourth settlement that i am aware of. it seems to me there is additional management and supervisory training that would be warranted so as to avoid these situations. i hope the board would consider that in your closed session discussion. chairman nolan: we do have a

motion and second. we're -- we have a request. we will be back at fiveon. the mta ard of directors met in closed session to discuss the cases with the city attorney. the board of directors voted unanimously to settle both cases in the revised amount. there was no discussion of anticipated litigation. we have a motion to disclose or not disclose? >> move not to disclose. director nolan: for the discussion? what time is the director? >> 3:09. director nolan: let's edgerton. motion to adjourn? second? all in favor? way to go.

>> i am one of the board members for the burning man project. welcome to the plaza and the launch. [applause] we are so thrilled to be here in the tenderloin. we're thrilled to create relationships, to work with other people, and make something crazy and magical happened here. we're also extremely happy to be working with the san francisco

city itself, with the reinvigoration efforts happening. we have two esteemed people with us from the city. we have mayor ed leave with us. [applause] -- we also have mayor ed lee with us. and from the board of supervisors, david chu. please come and join us. [applause] >> thinks ank you. it may be premature, but welcome home fellow burners. it is great.

there are invitations going on for that burning man. i am going to call our board president, david chu, to come up here and join us. he plays a mean violin already. i am also going to invite supervisor eric mar, who is the only one of us who has been to burning man. i will say this. the burning man project has been a wonderful contributor to our central market cultural district. working with our office of economic development and the wonderful staff, you are working

with the arts commission trying to liven up and insight the arts community -- excite the arts community to look at where we have vacancies and put life into them through art. there is so much to do. art is about life, activity, and people. it is about creating relationships. i want to thank all of you for being here to share your wonderful friday with us. we have the music to keep the center. now we can go crazy again. i not only have an announcement the burning man launched tonight, but there are so many other wonderful things being attracted to this area. i want to thank hal for the

camera work. you are around the corner. that is because you are working with will and maddie thatcher. they've come to work together to enliven the effort to create a place where the underserved youth can learn about camera works. this is been on my mind for a long time. do you know the old original joe's place? they have brought in a theater piano fight. that is a wonderful addition. it will be starting this fall.

the dugan family will locate in north beach. i have been a patron of the original joe's for many years. i want to specifically thank the piano and fight -- piano fight theater. thank you for starting the wonderful theater. i know you will be asking for a grant. you have been a wonderful partner in looking out for the start-ups and helping them along, helping to identify where they can be and how they can get started.

we both started the arts foundation at the corner of sixth and market. there are so many people to thank tonight. i wanted to begin with this list, the freshest efforts to start up. it is a signal to you that we want to thank you all for reinvigorating this central market with your arts activity, innovation, enthusiasm. there is not going to be a store front available in the next year. it will be filled with arts, people, and businesses, and residents who will come to celebrate this. thank you very much. [cheers and applause] >> it is friday. who is excited to be a san franciscan? it is wonderful to see everyone here.

i want to acknowledge my colleague because he is the only member of the board of supervisors who has gone up to burning man. i know that will change. mayor lee and i were joking that we were thinking about going up there to resolve and worked out all of the issues with city council up in the desert. what do you think, mayor lee? whatever it takes, bringing people together to get it done. that is what we want to do with burning man. san francisco has been a beacon to the entire world for creativity and innovation. i want to thank you all for representing the very best of what that is all about. i also want to welcome you to this neighborhood. the tenderloin and mid market area is so grateful for all the changes we know will happen in the coming years.

this year alone, we are bringing twitter to this area. we're bringing artists and theaters. we're bringing new hamburger joints and we are bringing burning man. i want to thank the burning and project for being on the edge of creative culture. you represent with the greatest partnerships are about, what happens when you bring the public and private sectors together. i know this project will be reaching out to children in the tenderloin. and want to thank you for doing that. i also want to thank burning man for one of the quality we like here in san francisco -- one other quality we like here in

san francisco -- experimentation. a few blocks away from here, we have been experimenting with what it means to close market street, to take back parking spaces for parkland. i want to thank the transit advocates here. hats off to burning man because you are leading the way. without further ado, it is my honor to introduce one of the founders of the burning man project. where is larry harvey? come on up. [applause]

>> i did not want to speak to the "post." i am not here as the founder of burning man. i am representing the burning man project, a new nonprofit. our offices are down the street at 995 market at 6th, right in the hearth of the mid-market district. there is no better place to commence this effort in san francisco, our home town. [applause] we know a thing or two about building a diversity and culture from the ground up.

the key thing was expressed by the great jane jacobs. she said cities have the capability of providing something for everybody only because and only when they are created by everybody. care this is the principle that will guide the burning man project. working with the city of san francisco, we can do many things. you have noticed all of the vacant shop fronts along market street, i am sure. we can begin to change this. pardon me? anyway, we can change this by making it easier for artists to occupy.

working with our sister organization, we can install public artworks. if you look behind you, you will see two of them freshly installed. we can also do what all of us are doing here today. it can mean celebrations. we certainly know how to do that. we can do more. everyone of you here can participate. let's broaden the scope and think about more than just market street. after all, cities have the capability of providing something for everybody when

they are created by everybody. let's look beyond the central market corridor and the neighborhood, the community that already lives here. if you go down to the project office, you will see the gateway to the tenderloin. we do not mean to merely decorate our city's main street. that would be superficial. we want to help change lives. [applause] we want to do what we do best by inventing truly interactive art. we want to work with the residents of the district, creating art made by and for the people.

we will need volunteers in order to accomplish this. burners know exactly what i am talking about. we want you to pay attention to our website, burningmanproject.org. the burning man private even may be sold out of tickets, but the project is destined to fill a much larger canvas. to participate in that, you will not need no stinking tickets. [applause] i already hear people referring to where we are as u.m. playa. [laughter] to repeat with the mayor has already said, welcome home.

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>> good morning. today is wednesday, january 18, 2012. this is a meeting of the abatement appeals board. np to turn off the electronic devices. the first item is roll call. [roll call] commissioner romero is excused. we have a quorum. the next item is the oath. all part is giving testimony today, please stand and raise your right hand. do you swear the testimony you are about to give is to to the best of your knowledge?

thank you. you may be seated. the next item is item c, approval of minutes, discussion and action for the meeting held on november 17, 2010, december 15, 2010, and april 20, 2011. commissioner lee: are we able to take all three at the same time? commissioner murphy: motion. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> the minutes are approved. we're going to begin with the appeals. president lee, would you like to explain the allotted time? ouacommissioner lee: let's do te continued appeals first. is there a special