questions, we would be happy to answer them. >> dawn, did you want to say something? >> i really wanted to compliment the friends of mountain lake playground and say you have been absolutely lovely to work with throughout this whole process. many community groups approach us and say how do we get our project done quickly? and i say you should be organized and collaborative and that is the sure path to victory and you took that advice to heart and set the standard for many of our project groups and i want to make you mentors for our other groups because you have done such an excellent job. you have been to proactive and thoughtful in your approach to the project and we're looking forward to working with you over next two years to deliver this project. so thank you very much. >> why don't we entertain public comment on that note? >> we do have a speaker card. [ reading speakers' names ]

>> good morning commissioners, and director of capital and planning. dawn kamalanathan, thank you very much for those kind remarks. i am claire meyers and this is kate and thank you for your time and reviewing our project. friends of mountain lake park playground is comprised of three momss who started to meet three years ago and we're thrilled and honored to be able to present this project to you for a number of reasons. first it's a wonderful design and sensitive to its surroundings and challenge children for generations to

come. the second is the natural setting. mountain lake is a stunningly beautiful oasis in our city and as you probably know the lake itself is recognized at the birthplace of san francisco. being the only freshwater lake in the area, the site was an important place for native-americans and the first settlement. plans for the presidio and the mission for san francisco were laid at mountain lake in the late 1700's. we the lake's current neighbors have a vision for the playground that is keeping in with its very special natural and historical context and we have a strong desire to design a unique playground that is inclusive and stimulates and delights children. the larger community has been supportive of our efforts, and in over two years of public design meetings and community events there has been an evolving positive dialogue

about this project. our community and our project partners agree this is a wonderful opportunity to consciously improve the playground space with an emphasis on meeting the needs of children of all ages and abilities and to create a connection between the playground and unique natural setting. our project partners include friends of mountain lake park, the presidio trust, presidio heights association of neighbors, neighbors for presidio planning, the san francisco department on the environment, our supervisors mark farrell and eric mar who have been skeetingly supportive and our most committed partners the recreation and park department and the san francisco parks alliance. as abigail indicated our budget is $3.15, of which $2 million has been award by the park bond. $350,000 has already been made

in in-kind donations thanks to our architect and we have $750,000 left to raise to close the gap. we're going to look to our richmond district community and also neighbors from other districts who use mountain lake park and at all times during the year the park is very active and many districts not just ours will benefit from the improvement of this playground. we have come so far since our meetings three years ago in local coffee shops and we feel really excited and encouraged and we hope you approve our project so we can get to work. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> is there any other public comment? >> good morning commissioners, meredith thomas with the san francisco parks alliance and i agree with dawn these folks have been on-point and doing

all the right things to get their playground renovated and we're embarking on another set of bond projects that are going to involve a lot of community leveraging, and neighbors sweat equity and these folks are really demonstrating that to a tee. so the san francisco parks alliance joins the recreation and park department in having a high degree of confidence this will be a spectacular playground and i want to thank them for volunteering their time for doing this, when i know busy and have other things in happening inhir lives. their lives. >> thank you. >> thank you, any other public comment? being none, public comment is closed. >> commissioner levitan. >> i want to say that i have said before i live in the house that i grew up and mountain lake was my park and i don't think you have to be an arithmetic genius to know how old this park was, to tell you that the play equipment was

there when i was a kid and it's long overdue and i want to thank them, because it shows us how organic this process can be and how right it can be. you see a need and you want to fill it and they have done a great job, as dawn has just said. and what has changed as claire said is that the demand for this park was grown a lot. when i was growing up, the presidio was a military base and nobody really used mountain lake except for the people who lived right there. now you have the presidio as a park. you have new housing at the health services hospital. you have a much more ambulatory society and mountain lake park has a tremendous demand and it's not just serving one neighborhood, but serving the entire city. so i think the process has been commendable. i am pleased to be involved, much, much on periphery and i am looking to seeing this come to fruition and so thank to the

friends of mountain lake park and thank you to the department for all of your help. >> thank you. commissioner bonilla. >> let's see, i don't know if i can get close here -- i would just like to take this opportunity to thank the -- i think it's bcj design services for their gift. i think this shows an extraordinary commitment to this project. that you would provide your services to this project and i just want to say i am really impressed with that, and want to thank you whole-heartedly for doing that. >> so noted. seeing no other questions from the commission, entertain a motion. >> so moved. >> second. >> moved and seconded. all those in favor, say aye?

>> aye. >> we are now on item 8, closed session. conference with legal counsel, existing legislation. is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed and we need a motion. >> we need a motion to adjourn to executive session. >> moved. >> >> is there any general public comments? being none, general public comment is closed. we're on item 10

"commissioners' matters." >> commission low. >> following up, sorry, i'm still getting over a cold. following up our hearing at the joint hearing, with the planning and rec and park commission, i do want to have a hearing in september, trying to develop a structure, where there are opportunities for project sponsors, particularly in those districts where there is high need for open space and recreation to draw a nexus between the need for contributions by the project sponsor and their development. and i think that presentation should be both by planning department staff, of course rec and park staff, as well as the mayor's office of economic and community development. and i would like to have that hearing at -- accounting for

the summer, in september, to give both departments enough runway so that they come prepared with an analysis and a proposed structure of how that might be developed to have those opportunities presented to project sponsors,, as well as the implementation. >> i assume you want that before the full commission as opposed to a committee? >> correct. >> and i just want to second that and thank you commissioner low for doing that, because i think if there is one thing imminently clear with the development boom, we need to work on that very quickly. >> does staff understand the request? >> yes. >> will you make sure we get a response to the request to schedule that, so we know it's moving forward? >> yes. >> thank you. seeing no other comments. >> is there any public comment on this item? being none, public comment is closed and we're on item 11

"new business, agenda setting." is there any public comment? being none, public comment is closed. we are on item 12 "communications." is there any public comment? being none, public comment is closed >> it's so lonely in here. >> i know, we're officially on item 13, adjournment. so moved. >> thank you. >> meeting of the mta and board of directors and the parking authority commission. >> brinkman >> present. >> heinieke is anticipated. >> lee? >> present. >> director nolan >> present. >> ramos.

>> present. >> rubke. >> present. >> rubke, present. >> pr chairman and directors you have a quorum. be advised that use of sound producing devices are prohibited at the meeting any person responsible for one going off may be asked to leave the meeting. be advised that the cell phones that vibrate cause microphone disturbance so we request that you put them in the off position. approval of the minutes for june fourth. >> approved. >> closed session was canceled. >> recently sworn in as a member of the retirement board and on service on that already and will not be on our board any more.

and i have asked him to come to be recognized by the board. and can't go to a meeting until august. >> at that time we will have the recognition of her, wonderful service to this agency. >> thank you. >> any other? >> six, introduction of new or unfinished business by board members? >> board members? >> rubke? >> i was wondering if we could get an update on where we are with the electronic information with the taxis. i know that taxi items but a speaker asked about the progress of the development of an application based on the information that we are gathering. >> okay. >> are you asking for a report on that? >> yes. >> okay. >> members... >> director ramos? >> yes, thank you, chairman. i have been hearing a lot about the castro street improvements and i am wonder ifing we could expect an update on that any time in the near future and if we could plan on one?

>> are you planning anything here? >> i don't think that there is anything planned right now. the planning department is project managing this phase, the planning phase and we can provide an update to the board on the status of the project. >> i know that a lot of people are talking about that. >> anyone else. >> seeing none. >> item 7, director's report? >> good afternoon,. >> good afternoon, nolan, and members of the board and public and staff. a couple of to report, one, i may have mentioned this previously, but as you know we have four goals of the strategic plans and the fourth goal is one that we have probably talked about the least since the plan was adopted by this board back, i guess a year and a half ago. and that has to do with strengthening the organization and what we need to do internally to support our workforce to develop and grow the workforce so that we can

deliver on the rest of the goals of the strategic plan. so to that end, one of the things that we are doing is gathering some base-line information on kind of the pulse of the workforce. and we are doing that through an employee survey that we launched last week, and at the end of the month. and we are giving employees an opportunity to give us feedback on that, a number of different aspects of the organization, and their role in it and the support they feel that they get from the organization, and things that they think that they need to help them do their job better and that is available to all employees, not just those at a desk, we have an internet version and also a phone or a paper version and we are going to try to make sure to reach as many of our employees as we can no matter what the work location or schedule. >> once we get results back in august, we will subsequently come back and keep the board updated on what we have learned

and what actions we will take in further of goal four. so that is something that we intended to do once the strategic plan was adopted and that is moving forward and this data will set a base line for measuring the progress going forward. >> the next thing, we wanted to remind folks that the america's cup. the event starts just in a couple of weeks, and starting on the july fourth weekend, the first race is on july 7th, and it will run through mid september, and the first part from july to the end of august is the (inaudible) cup and i think that it is like the playoffs and then the finals the america's cup is what happens in september. and the people plan, that we have given you some updates on and that is what the transportation strategies for the america's cup is called. and will be in place for the events as we did last year, what with some modification and learning and improvements for

this year. and we will have pedestrian and bicycle wave finding which will be installed in the next week or so and a lot of enhanced transit not just muni but other transit providers as well to make connection between transit, between, key, transit hubs and key location venues. and there will be special america's cup 511, pages, on the 511.org website for consistent up to date information. for a call we have a flexible plan that we can flexion up or down depending on the demand, so the real time information from sources such as 511 will be important and we are developing as we did last year, a visitor prosures on transportation options and we got the feedback from the hotel council and sf travel that those brochures were well received and found helpful to get to people coming in from out of town, as we did last

year, we will have the on street ambassadors to help direct the members of the public where what transportation options are available to get to whatever, event they are trying to get to. we will have a bicycle facility and still working out details including the one way or twot way and how much of it will have, and probably have it in september, when the finals which when the biggest traffic is expected and also, piloting the taxis and para transit zones at key locations, our special events team that is led by leontelo will be in charge day-to-day implementation and we will continue to make adjustments as-needed to make it successful. i think that the experience from last year will help us a lot in insuring the same kind of success this year. so good progress on that. and moving on, i wanted to mention that sf park, was once

again, we can niced by an independent agency in this case, it was named the most innovative parking program in the united states by the international parking institute. and the ipi survey that is membership to identify the cities that are trend setting and progressive in the approach to parking and chose sfpark, ipi was founded in 1962 as the world's largest association representing parking professionals and the parking industry, so this is kind of the group to be weighing in on parking and just a brief excerpt from the report. it provides real time information on parking availability and cost and reduces double parking and circling and congestion and improves the parking and ease in convenience. allowing the sfmtv to provide real time data and maintain contractual control and devalue ate the pilot's various

components. one of the bravest steps was requiring the city and government employees to pay for parking, something that i hear almost daily from our own staff and the other city departments, it remains extremely unpopular, but i think that it is appropriate but nevertheless, and it goes on to say that the move was designed to bolster the program's credibility before asking to change parking management. so very honored to be honored and the work of somali and her team, and achieve another, this is one of a dozen national or international recognitions for this program. it is pretty impressive. and finally, i wanted to let you and the public know, that in july we will be hosting the bay area will be hosting two american public transportation association workshops, at the lead trade organization if you will for the transportation industry.

and they are going to be having two of their workshops here at the end of july, on july the 29th through the 31st, we are joining with sam trans, to host the multimodel workshop and it will provide planners and schedulers in the latest in scheduling, facilities planning and advances and rapid transit so this is geared towards the folks and kind of on the front lines of planning and design who are doing all of the innovative work across the country in multimodal transit. and so that should be a fun group. and july, 28 to 30, so they overlap, we are joining with bart of the sustainability and transportation workshop and in this workshop we will feature environmentally and energy efficient development and practices to advance, the public transportation role in sustainability, and both will be held at the saint francis

and excepting 300 people between the two conferences and relatively small but we are still happy to be the host city, and working with our partner agencies to host and we will as the details develop, in terms of what events or opportunities there will be, we will be sure to let you know. but i believe that the registration is opened for fwo*egt both and hopefully we will get a lot of good attendance and good information out of the workshops and that is all that i have. >> thank you. >> members of the board? questions or comments? >> members of the public? on the director's report? >> okay, seeing none, thank you. >> item 8, citizen's advisory council report. >> welcome back. >> thank you, very much. >> well that is a change. usually it is i who...

>> we understand that i should be by the microphone. >> we understand that you are stepping down after eleven years of the chairman of the citizen's advisory committee. and the group that created prop a that created the beginning, how much that we appreciate everything that you have done, and your reports are always thoughtful, and we really appreciate your work especially the work of the entire citizen advisory committee. so, congratulations >> thank you very much. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. >> and i very much appreciate that. i was going to mention this at the end of my presentation but i will mention it now. and yes, it is true i have advised my colleagues and i will not seek reelection to the fourth term, the personal and career obligations make it difficult for me at this point to put in the amount of time

that the job requires. and i have been the sheriff for eleven years and so it is not exactly like i am leaving before i have had a chance to do whatever i can with the job. as i mentioned i have been involved with the agency from its conception as a co-author of the william form charter amendment which became prop e. and i will continue to be involved with the agency. you are not completely rid of me just yet. and i have told my colleagues about, i would be interested in continuing as ac ac liaison to the dap and the bond oversight committee and i will continue, at least for a time as a member of the cac itself. and to the whatever, help that i can be to whoever my

colleagues choose to succeed me. i am confident that they will choose someone to chair the cac that can build on the things that i did well and improve on the things that i did not so well, and keep moving forward with making cac a keep part of the sfmta. >> it has been a great privilege to work with the people of the mta and by naming names i run the risk of leaving some people out. and i have injoyed working with all three executive directors under my tenure, michael burns, matt ford and now ed riskin. and i have had the great privilege of working with our two longest term staff liaisons who were or had a very broad knowledge of the agency which is helpful to us in our work.

paul, and your own roberta and that has been a great privilege. i also want to single out another member of the staff. as you may know, the under the charter the only thing that the cac must do, is to review the sfmta budget. everything else that we do in terms of providing advice to the mta board is what we think we ought to do. and reviewing a budget is the one thing that we must do. and so to thaend, we always engage in a lot of strutny and it is a privilege of working with (inaudible) and who i, used to single out every year, at the end of the budget process, but now, every two years, because we have moved the two year budgets which was something that the cac advocated for, i believe as far as back as 2002.

and i am appreciative of the three people who served long tenure as secretaries to the cac. and vincent done lap and deborah reid and tores and all who have done a lot to make me look more confident that i actually am. during my time on the cac, i made a... i decided when i took the job at the cac, there were a couple of things that i ought to do and one of those was when i i thought that i had to write every line of the system because i live where i live and it is easy for your vision of muni to be the 43 1k3 the 6 and the things that run through my neighborhood and so every year i have gone out and ridden each

line and it is eye opening and i would suggest to people, not only is there more of the city that you think that you have seen and haven't, but that there is a way in which it makes the system more than lines on a map. by which i really mean, that it makes you understand how this connects in particular neighborhoods to the rest of the city and not just as, well there is a neighborhood here, and we are running service every x minutes, it gets you passed and i find that helpful and i have done that every year i have been chair of the cac, except for this last one because of time obligations. so, it has been a great privilege to serve, and hopefully it will not be too long before white smoke comes

from the chimney and i will be introducing a new chair to you. and so that is entirely enough about me. i wanted to bring to your attention, the recommendation of the cac has made. this regards the recommendations in the report from the accessible parking and policy, accessible parking advisory committee. we recommend that you adopt the recommendations in that report, that are aimed at the blue ada plaqards in the city. and we recommend the steps not taken in the report. for one, we want the agency to

work to improve the recovery of the plaquered from deceased holders tha. is probably something that the agency would need to work with state with, a lot of the people are using the plaqarded of the deceased members of their family or not from mare family and that is obviously not okay. and we also think that getting the lowering expense of the technology and the police and whatnot that the enforcement actions to recover misused plaqared be video recorded in order to prosecute people engaged in personnel altercations, it is