and we are very thankful for the faith that you have shown in us and excited about accomplishing great things together. >> thank you, any further public comments? hearing none. comments from commissioners before we take a vote. >> i would echo the thanks that jack just gave out to everyone for everyone who worked so hard. i agree with mr. bear that we are all better for it that everyone has had a hand in making suggestions and i'm sure we'll have a number of significant changes coming as we move forward as well. i would like to thank everyone, particularly at port staff because i know how hard everyone has worked and john martin, i know you just put in

countless hours on this. but i'm excited to see this area expand and as we episoded up with a park here and absolutely excited about having the park open and expanded. one thing i do want to note with the park that there is an existing park there and i'm pleased to see it. it's almost tripling in size as a result of this project. so looking forward to seeing a very vibrant and interactive park space there. i will say one more time i appreciate a dog run if possible. i think this is an area of the city. many of us have been involved in the changes in almost decades but i think what this project offers is some diversity of businesses and activities in the area. so

as one of the members of the public stated, it would be nice to have more restaurants and stores and other things and nighttime activity going on in the space as well. i'm excited to see this moving forward. i know we'll have a lot of further discussions an is we draft for agreements on this specific sites. but i look forward to seeing the project in its final form. thank you. >> i want to thank jennifer for thanks everyone who has been involved in this project because it has been a great team everyday and i love this first slide. every time i see it with the port and mission rock, i just smile because i think it's such a great team and you have done such a wonderful job in bringing this altogether. it's gone through so much and probably will continue to go through a few more things during the entitlement process. i just

have one question regarding the expansion of the sites and wondering what that entails and is there additional cost where that was? >> let me get to the slide. the expansions are best shown probably on this slide. first one we mentioned was parcel b 20. before this site what is admissioned for development. as this project came to fruition, it didn't make sense to obtain that from that industrial site from lot 337 and mission bay. so we are working to expand the

site to include at a sliver of land. it makes the site better and opens up bridge view street which would otherwise be park and creates access to the sight and the other parcel that is proposed to be added is this parcel here. it's currently utilized for meritime purposes. there are vessels here mainly barges and west side marine, but there is some i improvements to be made. so it

wouldn't be additional cost adding them. we've already been planning those cost as part of our analysis. >> okay. thank you for that and i think the giants have just been just great neighbors and gradient great tenants and wonderful to work with and they have done a great job with labor and various community groups and hiring from the local community. i think this project can be a model for the rest of the projects that are coming to us at this level because i think this is besides at&t park this is one of the largest developments we have done. i think this could be a model in our lbe or our local

and disadvantaged hiring program to make sure everyone is included in this project and as we vote on this today it won't come back to us in 2-3 years. i hope we can get quarterly or biannual information on what is going on with the plan in the sustainability plan so that 2-3 years later we can be updated in the process and i would appreciate your support and model and moving forward with complex projects like this. >> and i'm looking forward to work wth giants because they are great corporate partners and great tenants. thank you. >> i won't go through all the

thank yous. i do have a small question and a couple comments. i appreciate that based on the comments of last week that you have given us some answers or possible solutions to the open space phasing so today what i heard is maybe we'll be looking at geo bonds and other bond issues. the question is the open space and the type of financing in place. what is the anticipated timeline to go to the park issue since we just did one last year. i just wanted to know what the timing would be before we would go back out and get funding in place before the open space. >> special projects manager, the city through its capital planning committee maintains a schedule of plans general obligation bond issuances to go before voters to fulfill the

capital needs of the variety of public safety departments. the most recent news proposed from unitransit. i think it was $150 million proposal that really came about because of munis lack of capital funding and the availability of additional bonding capacity and the city tries to issue new bonds as old bond are being paid off so the tax rate stays the same for property owners and right now, we don't see the capacity for general obligation bond for parks as the economy improves and their new sales and assess values grow. there may be

capacity. so we would be identifying a time line to get it in phase one in the project would be in that 2016 timeframe. >> i thought that was probably the answer but it's important that we have the right expectations in terms of understanding what the time lines can practically as much as we all want the open space. so i think this is a great project and i want to echo that everybody has worked so well in terms of the mayor's office and the giants. this is a very ambitious project and we have placed a lot of good faith in the execution and that only now is the work is going to begin and the execution is so critical. we've looked at this many ways from sundays and from

the ports point of view the everything works out ideally, this is a great project. now if we should incur delays or other issues in financing, there are risk that we are going to incur and i'm not suggest that go we are going to but we have to go on record to recognize that there are many challenges ahead in terms of making this project become a success and we must be very conscious and work very hard to overcome what will be a few bumps as long as the road. but be mine full of the fact that there is also risk not just for the developer which we've heard a lot about, but also for the port involved. we are going into this with our

eyes wide open. that's all. thank you. >> two other points. just that constant continued work with the community is so important on a project of this size and appreciate all that's been done on that. also too, i think as commissioner pointed out with the local hiring and other aspects that service as a model, i appreciate this is a model for other projects to determine how the port will be sharing in some of the upside with the developer an i think that's something that we really need to look towards as was noted earlier that the port certainly needs an income stream and i think this present is an opportunity for to us share on upside of that entities on the ports property. i'm interested to see how that will play out and utilized

other in other areas as well. >> we should vote. all in favorite? >> aye. >> good evening, i'm here to ask for an amendment that the port has for a development group for the 23 historic

building of pier 70. i want to take us back in february of last year, the port commission selected the team and in april of last year. he directed us to go into an e na, that time we thought we could really hustle and get all the way through term sheet and board approval and be done in 9 months. what we did get done in october you endorsed the term sheet to rehabilitative the building. almost a 20 million square foot and a really exciting structure that the port will share in the pros proceeds and be able to

incentive the project. we need more time and we are requesting a change in how we handle the transaction cost. the additional time will take between a 9 month to get passed the negotiated and approval. by the end of 2013 we can be an approved and moving on with construction. we feel we hope to beat that schedule. we wanted to give ourselves the time to make that schedule. the way our exclusive negotiating agreements are structured is the developer pays us a negotiating fee which they have paid $75,000 and which they have paid $80,000 of port cost. where the port will end up paying on the margin,

the equity investment will accrue at 14 in a n in a year. that it will not return on the cost can investment. that modification that we track and count all the time and the port will get repaid from the project revenues when those float. those are the two changes to the exclusive negotiating agreement we are here to ask for tonight and ask for approval to make those and executive that agreement. >> so moved. >> second. >> public comment? >> corn wood. i support the extension. we all wish it were going to go sooner and i

support the deferral of the fees and hope you will approve them. thank you. >> any other public comment? >> hearing none, all those in favor. aye. resolution no. 1311 is approved. >> any public comment on the new business. >> item 13 public comment. >> when i was here the last time we were talking a little bit about how the port would accommodate the history of san

francisco along the -- and i thought somebody would contact me on some of the issues that i raised. for example, when the director came to me with some information on the exhibit, she really talked -- for those that were here for 5 thousand years. they were really here more than 10,000 years. we need to give the real sense of the history as the tourist and others walk along embark der oh. those like the african americans. what is considered black and they had a pretty

high position. that i mention about the buffalo soldiers. i really want the ports to give a real context to what's really happened in san francisco including the chinese fisher men who were way back in 1850 and later on the other blacks that came. i say this, like you said, when we deal with these projects we have to work very hard. it's very very important that when we put out some information out there that we do our homework. we don't take it light ly. the history of san francisco. this is a real history of san francisco and to

do the research and we do have the national service. we do have the museum on 3rd and mission that has all the photographs. so it's not that they have to go hunting for the information. this is why i came here today. i would like to meet with somebody from the port because i work for the national park service, i understand a lot of this factors. i would like to work with a small team on the things that i brought forth at some meeting which nobody contacted me. somebody should contact me. thank you very much. >> thank you. is there any further public comment. hearing none can we have a motion to residents recess and go back to closed session. >> i move to reconvene in closed session. >> we be good.

aortic valve i move to reconvenes in open session. second. all in favor. aye. i move to an adjourn. second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> thank you.

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reminders for those joining us this is the rec and park meeting for march 21, 2013. we welcome you today but we ask that you turn off electronic devices that may go off during the proceedings. we ask if you have a secondary conversation take it outside for the meeting to run as efficiently as possible. unless announced by the president of the commission each person has three minutes to speak under public comment. as a reminder we have public comment on item four and then -- and that is for 15 minutes total and then again continued on item number 10. please address your comments to the commission during public comment on items. in order to allow equal time to

all neither the commission or staff may respond to questions. the commission may ask questions of staff after public comment is closed so with that we have one announcement and that is item eight, the america's cup permit at the marina green and small craft harbor has beeny removed and not heard today. with that we are on item two, the president's report. commissioner. >> thank you very much. very briefly. complements to our general manager on taking over shawn elsbernd and a benefit the department and we are raising money every way we can to get it back in line. congratulations on a successful event. moving forward on something that is of

interest to me i am determined that we get to a paperless commission so we are looking at ipads and a system that will put the agendas on the ipad. we had a run through of a system yesterday that looks promising and used by the airport commission and i want to talk with the commissioners to make sure they're happy with that system and if that is the case i'm going to move forward and find the money and make us a paperless commission so with that be warned those like me are technically challenged. we will overcome those challenges w that that concludes my report. >> okay. is there any public comment under the president's report? seeing none public comment is closed. we're on item three, the general manager's report. >> good morning commissioners. i do have a number of items this morning but i want to start

with a presentation from the new chair and we going to get into the routine and having linda present. >> welcome. >> thank you general manager ginsburg and good morning commissioners. we passed a resolution at the last meeting they would like to read into the record and it's in support of question sartrack and we talked about that and we brought it to the members and we had all but four members present in all of the membership and that is a really resounding support of our resolution. whereas the track was installed in 1991 and whereas this type of track is known to have a useful life of 15 years, and whereas the track replacement has been a listed

item in the budget request to the mayor's office since 2008 and whereas the track is used by at least 22 middle schools, 10 high schools and many community individuals and user groups, and whereas the track has exceeded its life span by as much as seven years and whereas the track is now in a condition which makes it possibly unsafe, and whereas delays in restoring the track is continually increasing the cost of restoration, now therefore be it resolved that we join the community, the advisory committee, haight-ashbury neighborhood council and other groups for the recreation and park commission to work with the mayor to find the necessary funds to restore the track to the original standards. passed

unanimously by the members on this date and submitted by myself, chair. >> thank you very much. >> this week i got to spend some time in washington dc at the in fact recreation and park conference for urban park directors and i joined them in meeting members of the interior and transportation and white house to talk about the park system and federal legislative priorities and the meetings were productive and i think we are developing a better handle of existing federal grant opportunities particularly those in urban development and for bikes and open space and we going to be developing those in

the months to come. i wanted to let you know about the three legislative priorities that urban park systems are advocating this year in congress. one is full funding for the water and conservation fund. the department of the interior is preparing their spending levels and the president is about to introduce his budget. the water conservation act is authorized at $900 million but never fully funded and we're asking to allocate 40% of that and through the program how the money trickles down to local jurisdictions. the fund and program has invested millions of dollars and funded local projects in san francisco and mclaren