pretty recently so i didn't ask them to come to present that. the other presenter is katie [inaudible] >> i'm katie [inaudible] director of administration and finance at racken park. racken park was awarded 3 separate projects in the 13, 14 budget process. the first is was for district 3. we received auththousand dollars to install security cam raws at the betty an [inaudible] senior center. [inaudible] supplemented the 8 thousand dollars with another 27.500 in order to make it viable funding for the project. we are in the process of working with our security camera contractor to identify

the right locations and camera types for the project. we expect we'll be able to begin installation in june >> [inaudible] we have combined that 23 thousand dollars with 100 thousand dollars that the mayors office put into the 14-15 budget and that 123 thousand dollars at the request of the golden gate heights neighborhood association will be used to replace one picnic table at the park and add a new picnic area with table and binchs. the 123 thousand dollars will fund the purchase of the new tables and benches as well as grading of the new picnic area and pooring

concreate pads for the installation of the furchture. any remaining money will be used for path way improvement at the park entrance. we'll use a contractor for this work. we rin the process of-we put our job order contracts out to bid next month and expect we'll have new contractors in place in the next month or so and that we can award thins june and work will start in july. the final project was 10 thousand dollars for early childhood urban agriculture programming in district 10. so, we actually partnered with a community based aurgz called, girls 2,000 to expand existing use development and urban agriculture program that they run. we will include

additional fieldtrips to head start facility, particularly in visitation vamy and engage the young person in the head start program in community gardening particularly along the [inaudible] green way which has spectacular gardens and the goal of the program is get kids bethrough the age of 5 interested in and engaged in growing vegetables and understanding where their food comes from >> supervisor christensen >> can we circle back to [inaudible] there seems to be a disconduct between the 8 thousand dollar budge squt the actual number needed of about 4 times >> there was >> they pay for cameras but not installation? >> there was a miscommunication, so when the budget opportunity came up, i

think the supervisors staff at the time started talking to facility staff and our facility staff didabout understand we had to use a established city contractor so she basically did googling to look around and see what it may cost for camera installation. city contractor and the soft cost volved planning-when we realized the money that was awarded in the participatory budget process wasn't enough we reconnected withstuff and supervisor chew supplemented >> are the result oz of these recording monitored in real time or only accessed if there is a problem >> these cameras are for the interior of the building. it isn't a building where staff can be in one place and see what is going on, so i think

what staff is hoping for is that they will be able to be in one place and keep a eye what is going on in-air yeahs of the building that is monitored. >> i believe there may be one more project i can think of. i thought it was sunnyside to put--no. there may be one more project >> i do have the list of projects as forwarded by the controllers office and there are only-according to that list the awardees only included one project per district >> i'll double check. i could be getting it confused with this year >> one of the compicating factors is there are different pots of funding we get so there may be fubdsing through

participatory budget or adbacks or funding through a supervisors district fund, so these in particular were specifically related to participatory budgeting >> got you. thank you very much >> thank you >> the next person is a resident that was able to secure one of the projects and this is harry prince. he is going to maybe shed some light on some of the issues we face when projects get approved. hopefully your presentation will be how we can learn from that. >> thank you very much. my name is harry prince and

residence of district 7. sthaunk supervisor christensen and yee for convening this meeting. i prepared a software presentation is that available for projection now? where would it be? student>> dd you plug in your flash drive? >> no, i e-mailed it to the office here. sorry, i'm having

difficulties here. let me try it one more time. i'm the author of the 14t avenue proposal. i must say i appreciated mr. [inaudible] presence from the sfmta, but her presentation implied the traffic [inaudible] was requested is approved and the sfmta is proceeding with installation and this simply isn't true. the sfmta looked at 14t avue and the humps they put in are some dist toons the south than what was in the proposal and the current status is sfmta will study the issue and give a response in 2015 whether the sfmta will move

forward with the installation. thank you very much. here sh the outline at the top as i planned it. while i'm here--i live at the indicated intersection. this is the time my flee year old son and turns 5 in april. it is my hope the hump will be installed before he enters high school. thank you. this is the pathway of interest. it is a path of over 3 quarter miles length. there is no interdeckz of any kind, a stop sign or speed bump. the box here represents the intersection in question which is clearly identified in the participatory budget proposal. people race up and down the street at high speed, it is of great concern to myself and my

neighbors and that is why the proposal passed quite successfully in the battle that took place last spring. here is a timeline of interactions between supervisor yee offices and the sfmta. 23 may 2014 i learned the proposal was approved with 306 votes. 26 of june and called [inaudible] contact in supervisor uoffices and they congratumented me and advised they would contact me in july. [inaudible] he contacted them and request that they reach out and look forward for a call. by the first of august i didn't hear.

[inaudible] i should respect a response by the end of the day. on the 4 of septstill not having heard i called mr. mooreeeno again and he said he would call sfmta again and should expect a response on the 4about oaf 5. in midoctober i called mr. merino again advising of the inaction and providing the name and number of the [inaudible] public liaison [inaudible] i called mr. putell on the 28 of october and reached him and had a extended conversation. i'm grateful for his time and attention. he advised all proposals are under review. he said we see this as a 2 year process which came as a surprise to me burkts he said he would check the status of the program and call the follow day. on the 29 of october and

there after i received no response from mr. putell. on the 8 of december 2014 supervisor yee kicked off the 2015 budget process and held a public meeting. i attended that meeting as a interested person. mr. putell also ateneded and i met him face to face at the meeting. he said he was sorry he wasn't able to chat has he promised, offered an apology for not calling me back and said he would assign a project manager by the end of jan 2015. the follow day i did receive a e-mail from mr. putell, it included draft criteria for the snaugz of the speed bump and said these are not final criteria. i waited for the assignment of the project manager. on the thirt of jan 2015 i received a e-mail

from charles green and said the sfmta is planning to install bumps elts where on 14th avenue and should expect action and final decision in may 2015. i must take exception this is a approved project and sfmta is moving forward. it appears it will be a full year before i hear information about when they plan to? stall a speed hump at the indicated nrbt section. a few observations, the sfmta doesn't operate with normal courtesy. there were pneums promises to contact constituents and thereert no action. mr. putell said directly he would call me tomorrow and there was no such call. the sfmta makes and

changes rules at will. i received draft material for speed hump instullation, why not send the kunt one. [inaudible] i received no appointment of a project manager. finally there is a lack of urgency and the sfmta operates on a evast time scale. i understand approval of the projects, but don't understand why it takes 2 years to pile asphalt on a roadway. i do have some suggestions. i may point out the representative from sfmta made her presentation and departed and doesn't seem interested in hearing comment from the public. i remind they are here to serve the public and not themselves i ask the leadership of sfmta attempt to create a culture of accomplishment. at a minimum when you say you will

do something, do it. finally, please put in the hump. elected officials, i may suggest make the sfmta a issue. you will find many sympathetic ears among the voters, i'm sure. i have my own idea which is one of competitive government >> can we wrap it up, please? >> very good. thank you for your time and appreciate your attention >> any public comments on this item? mark christensen and [inaudible] >> good morning supervisors. first of all to [inaudible] thank you very much and to the other supervisor frz the participatory budget process to give individuals and community organizations a vehicle to bring needed projects to their

districts. i'm hoping that all supervisors will avail themselves of this to give residence a opportunity to be part of the process. one of the projects that i was involved with was the radar speed signs on allah meanie bull vrd. we waited 6 months to hear and then on jan 30, i received a e-mail from livable street subdivision stating that we have started conducting field works and reviewing information about the location in relationship to your request to verify the extent of speeding at this location and recommended location of the speed radar signs. the letder goes on to state, the sfmta will be contacting you when the study is complete to let you know of our recommendations. i

have been connected from the livable streets division and assures in the next month or so they'll meet with me to discuss this. i hope with will be better than the last comment i heard in regard to a time frame. i did hear mrs. surelsay the target date is july 2015 for the sign and hope that is the case. i cu-mind supervisor yee for district 7. i would like to if i may for the listeners and people watching this, let you know district 7 participatory budget this year will be participating the voting from march 31-april 10 so please look for that and vote. thank you >> thank you very much. >> my name is frank [inaudible] goden gates heights neighborhood. i want to thank

supervisor yee for putting this on the ajendsa and for visor christensen for being here. [inaudible] as she mentioned we had the park benches and picnic tables approved last year. i agree with supervisor yee and hope everyone will take this as a learning experience because there were a number of delays. i'm not going to bore and recount the same type of problems that mr. prince talked about. it seems to me one thing that may be useful is to have each department put in writing what their plan is and what the timeline will be and have that accomplished by may or june. that wouldn't seem to be to [inaudible] a schedule to do that. they also could

assign staff in advance. in our case it took at least 5 months perhaps 6 before they assigned a project manager. finally, as noted there is a job contractor that is awarded next month so nothing can start until then and the first thing will be to put together a cost estimate. we did a cost estimate on this very project last year, so they can just take that and save money. again, i thank you for your time >> thank you, frank. >> good morning. [inaudible] i'm here to speak to the the experience that we went through with the first one last year and hopefully now that we are still in the early stages of

the 2015 maybe we have learned a few things. the project we were awarded in my neighborhood which sh the boarder between sunnyside and mare loma park is sunnyside. now that we have gone through ren ovations in the park we have no idea we would be so loved and have so many people coming to our park by the hundreds every week. probably the busiest in the community. this safety of the entrance to the park has been studied to death for at least 20 years. we have been through every agency you can think of trying to the think of what we can do while the city figures who has jurisdiction of this space. we figer yd the best thing we can do is try to

separate vehicles from people and a simple inexpensive way and if you come up with a bigger better plan later we can rip it out and wouldn't have lost a dime in the process. as it is now we found out this project is being sent to the sfmta and still dobet know if they will do real things or that there is money to do anything about it. in the mean time we hundreds of people coming and going from this park every day and there is no assurance there is safety any time in the near future and i think that the worst part about this is that we were not communicated that and still to this day have not been communicated that and we need some sort of clear delineation of knhunication with these agencies. thank you >> thank you. any other public comments on this item?

>> i'll be brief, my name is bill wilson and want to ditto everything mr. prince said t. is extremely frustrating to be told something will happen and you wait. it is like we are the problem. if we just don't ask it will go away and we don't want our projects to just go away. an dray is correct when she said part of the frustration is that we don't need a study to tell us the obvious and we don't even need money waisted on a study, we just need to know that whatever is decide will be implemented and that is the problem is we can study it to death and there will be a death-that is the way the city operates in terms of getting pedestrian safety, it is theory until we have a person killed in front of city

hall and then it gets done and that is a harbl way of doing things. we want more communication. we want someone who may have stayed until the ends of the meeting so i can say this is the person that will contact us in a week or 2 to go forward. i'll wait for that call. i don't expect it, but i'll wait for it. >> any other? come on up quickly. we are running out of time. >> good afternoon supervisors. just a point of clarification, i'm roger [inaudible] home sogz. we put in an approved project for speed bumps [inaudible] i want to clarify whether all or any part of that project had been approved because when the sfmta person spoke she went through it quickly of what is approved

or not. is the person here >> she left. it is a problem. >> so do we know whether the bal bowa terrace speed bumps have been approved or not? >> my office will follow up >> okay >> she went through it real quickly >> very good. thank you supervisor >> any other public comments. seeing none, public comment is closed. appreciate the public for coming out and the presenters. the common theme here is we are trying to get things done and my hope is to participatory budget process will speed up some of the process and what i'm hearing from all the speakers here is that the main issue here that we can easily take care of is the communication part. if the departments were willing to do the communication. when there

is a lack of communication it is frustrating to know where things are at. the suggestion of the timeline and having sort of a project manager assigned seems fair ly reasonable to me and i'll look into it. i think we are pushing in particular sfmta to do that and they admitted they had a lack of staffing to get this done. supposedly they are getting more staff at this point. i want to again appreciate everyone for coming out. the purpose of this particular hearing is just to look at updates and how to improve things. i'm very anxious to improve it because we have 44-we had 44 proposals come in for this year and not all 44 will go to a vote, but it is a lot of interest in the community with the participatory budget and i

don't want to dampen them by having our departments not respond. thank you very much. i guess we'll continue at this time to call the chair. >> thank you very much. can you go to the next item >> iletm 4 is ordinance to amendment [inaudible] bal bowa reservoir advicery committee to advice the board of supervisors, mayor and sit a department >> thank you supervisor christensen to listen. in recent months i heard from many constituents concerning the sit a process with the development of baloa reservoir site and everyone tells me we need more information on the process. i appreciate the effort that have

gone into the out reach of neighbors to date, i believe we need to do a better job. i believe it is very important that residence, business andogeication institutions get information from the sate about the project every step of the way and our given a opportunity to way in the decisions being made. i envision citizens advicery committee to be a place where everyone can get the most updated information that the city has and have the necessary conversations about the development of the site. the [inaudible] will be tasked to advice the planning department and the office of economic and work force development on issues around transportation and parking, open smais and other community benefits, housing options and affordability, interaction of

the project with city college, good neighbor policy to serve existing residence, small business around the site. today i'll also introduce parts of the legislation and insure residence of the district which will be the most effected and impacted are represented on this cack. so, is there any comment? what i'll do now is have public comment at this point and i have a few cards. [inaudible] alice [inaudible] roger [inaudible] >> good afternoon. my name is tim imert and i'm the vice president of the westward

association. the association was incorporate in 1917 and serves 685 properties to the west of the bal bowa site. the western boundary of the site is contick tig ws to westward park. with the accelerated time frame for the ordinance we had informal discussion of neighborhood associations and decide westward park decided over the signature [inaudible] our presidents to draft a letter to clarify the membership of the committee. we look at these more as clarification, consistent with the proposed ord nns. looking at section 2, we use that to

look at the key passages and if i may read section 2 b. insure success of development of the site city agencies must receive input from the individuals and communities that will be most directly effected, impacted by the project including residence, business and institution surroundsing the site. the 3 suggested amendments we make regarding seat 5 assigned to baloa park advicery committee, if the [inaudible] district 7 gets that saved. 6 clarification that the business owner on oceanarve new be in district 7. similarly for seats 8 and 9 [inaudible]