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>> we will call to order, the meeting of the treasure island, mobility agency, and i am scott, the chair of the transportation authority and today we will be conducting the first meeting and adopting
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rules and also electing a chair and a vice chair. if i could, before we do roll call, and entertain a motion to elect a temporary chair to conduct the first portion of this meeting >> commissioner breed? >> i make a motion to elect scott weiner as the temporary chair. >> is there a second to that motion and could we take a roll call on that. >> a roll call on that motion. >> sorry? >> first and a second? okay. >> great, and so, we will proceed. and mr. clerk could you call the roll, for the meeting? >> on item one, roll call, avalos. >> here. >> breed. >> here. >> campos. >> absent. >> christensen. >> present. >> cohen? >> absent. >> farrell in
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>> absent. >> kim? >> kim, present. >> mar? >> mar, absent. >> commissioner tang. >> present. >> weiner? >> present. >> and commissioner yee. >> present. >> and we have a quorum. >> call item number two. >> item two, executive director's report this is an information item. >> miss chang? we will provide a brief overview of our treasure island meeting agency, meeting today as chair mentioned we will be setting up the administrative code and other rules for the agency and electing our chair, and vice chair. and for the members of the public the treasure island redevelopment plan has been under way for many years and so this is a culmination of ten years of of effort of the city family including the staff here at the timma from the beginning, the city's plans is to add 8,000 units of housing and development on the islands and recognize to avoid the
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congestion that is on the san francisco open bay bridge and so as a result, the treasure island called for a majority of trips to be taken by non-automobile modes and for the creation of a new regional transit system from the island to the east bay and the ferry here in san francisco. and that provides the backdrop and context and we have the slides to adopt the goals that were adopted by the early, treasure island authority board and the significant increase in transit service that is needed to support the island's development needs to be backed by a committed and permanent source of funds by tolling and pricing and for this reason, senator, passed and led ab, 981, with governor schwarzenegger support in 2008 in the transportation management act, that authorized the program and the transportation management options for supporting island services and the acts called for the agency to be designated
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to over see the toll operation and to manage, the provision of the new transit services and the transportation, authority has had a long time partnership, and with the organization and including the construction of the island ramps project that is happening sxhou in 2011, when you all adopted the treasure island development project, the plans were already in, and under way, to partner for the role here as timma and we were so designated in 2014, and the responsibilities of this agency is to insure that the program meets the transportation performance and the financial mandates of the original plan and for coordinating with the agencies that if necessary, to implement such a plan including the san francisco municipal transportation agency, and the cal trans, and the area toll fee, and the water agency that manages the ferries and the transit, the timma will over see the design and the
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construction and design from the contracting for the ferry bus and shuttle services for overseeing tolling and parking management and most of our work will be a three, person committee in terms of the governance with the chair and today, and with that we just want to make the introduction and pleased to be working with a great team to start the work, ra khel hyiat serves as the project manage and her her counter part, is the bob beck project director for tida and sherry is the principal engineer and the deputy for finance and administration, cynthia will support activities and also we have the assistance of tamala and neal advising us with legal matters and that concludes my remarks and i am happy to answer any questions. >> thank you, colleagues, any questions or comments on the executive director's report?
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seeing none s there there any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> call you call, 3 and 4 together. >> adopt the administrative code and adopt the rules of order, fiscal policy and procurement policy and travel and conference and training and business expense reimbursement policy. >> any questions or comments on three and four, did you have a presentation. >> good morning, deputy director for finance and administration, just it is best to take any questions for any of the policies that we have before you. >> great, any questions? >> okay. seeing none, we will open up ilt em three and four for public comment, is there any public comment on three and or four? seeing none, public comment is closed. and mr. clerk could you please call the roll on items 3 and 4
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together? >> avalos some >> aye. >> breed. >> aye. >> campos. >> absent. >> christensen. >> aye. >> cohen? >> absent. >> farrell. >> aye. >> kim. >> aye. >> mar. >> absent. >> tang. >> aye. >> weiner. >> aye. >> commissioner yee? >> aye. >> the item is passed. >> okay, thank you, could you call item number five. >> item five, election of chair and vice chair. this is an action item. >> okay, colleagues, this is our first meeting, and the authority will elect a chair and a vice chair of treasure island mobility agency, i will hand it over to him or her and i will begin preceding and after that the newly elected chair will preside over the election of the vice chair and
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for the remainder of aagain day and we will open up it for the nominations and as soon as one receives the vote that person will be declared the chair. >> mr. clerk nominations are in order for the office of chair, any nominations? commissioner avalos. >> i nominate kim to serve as the chair for timma. >> okay. >> and are there any, and i should say is there a second for that nomination? seconded by yee. >> commissioner breed. >> i would like to nominate julie christensen for vice chair. >> we are just entertaining nominations for chair and vice chair will be after. >> okay, mr. clerk am i doing that directly. >> because both items were called. >> right, but we will do one,
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in succession. >> okay. >> any additional nominations for the position of chair of the authority? or of the agency not the authority? seeing none, nominations are closed. okay, is there any public comment on the election of the chair? seeing none, public comment is closed. and are there any comments colleagues? anything else? okay. then we will proceed to a vote and i think that we can just take this same house same call? >> same house came call, without objection, the motion is adopted and commissioner kim, is elected the chair. >>
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>> good morning and, thank you colleagues, for your support, i look forward to chairing this body. and as treasure island is in the district that i represent, but i also think that this project poses really an exciting ground on which we can really experiment with a lot of different types of traffic and congestion management and other ways to encourage people to get out of their cars and use public transit and other modes and i think that this will certainly be an exciting project both for the transportation authority and the city at this time, our nominations are now in order for the office of the vice chair. are there any nominations before us? >> commissioner breed? >> thank you, i would like to nominate supervisor julie christensen to serve as vice chair. >> okay. >> commissioner julie christensen is nominated is there a second to ta. >> seconded by commissioner weiner, and are there any further nominations? >> if not, nominations are
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closed. at this time, he will take public comment on this item, please step up if you would like to speak on this item? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. mr. clerk, could we take that same house, same call. >> congratulations vice chair christensen i look forward to working with you and this is a part of our city that abuts both of our districts and i look forward to working with you on this object mr. clerk could you call the next item. >> adopt, the proposele fiscal year annual budget and work program, this is an action item. >> good morning, commissioners, rachel, the prans pal transportation planner, the annual budget this year is $750,000. and $650,000 is provided by the treasure island development
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authority, and matched by our prop k, sales tax dollars and this supports our work in three main areas, program management, and the stake holder out reach, and it is including working with all of the many partner agencies, and planning work, and engineering. and happy to take any questions. >> any questions? >> on the presentation. >> seeing none, thank you very much. >> we will now take the public comment on item number 6. >> seeing, no public comment, public comment is closed, mr. clerk, could we please call the next item? >> my apologies. before we go this item number 7, we need to pass item number 6. okay? and can we do that same house same call. >> same house same call. mr. clerk, item number 7. >> item 7, introduction of new items this is an information
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item. >> do any of our commissioners have any comments? or introduction of new items? >> seeing none, we will take public comment on this item. seeing, no public comment, public comment is now closed. mr. clerk, could you please call the next item. >> item 8, public comment. >> at this time we are open for general public comment. >> seeing no general public comment, public comment is now closed. mr. clerk, next item, 9, adjournment. >> before we return i would like to recognize sfgtv for recording this meeting and transcribing them to make them available for the public, seeing no further items, the meeting is now adjourned.
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week. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ the san francisco. the reporter: has many opportunities to get out and placing play a 4 thousand acres of play rec and park has a place win the high sincerely the place to remove user from the upper life and transform into one of mother nachdz place go into the rec and park camp mather located one hundred and 80
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square miles from the bay bridge past the oakland bridge and on and on camp mather the city owned sierra nevada camping facility is outings outside the gate of yosemite park it dates back before the area became is a popular vacation it i sites it was home to indians who made the camp where the coral now stands up and artifacts are found sometimes arrest this was the tree that the native people calm for the ac accordions that had a high food value the acorns were fatally off the trees in september but they would come up prosecute the foothills and were recipe the same as the people that came to camp
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camp is celebrating it's 90th year and the indians were up here for 4 thousand we see every day of them in the grinding rocks around the camp we have about 15 grinding sites in came so it was a major summer report area for the 92 hawks. >> through there are signs that prosperity were in the area it was not until the early part of the century with the 76 began the construction of damn in helpfully a say mill was billed open the left hand of the math for the construction by which lake was used to float logs needed for the project
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at the same time the yosemite park and company used the other side of the camp to house tourists interesting in seeing the national park and the constructions of damn when the u son damn was completed many of the facilities were not needed then the city of san francisco donated the property it was named camp mather the first director it was named after him tuesday morning away amongst the pine the giant sequoia is the giants inventories first name if our title is camp means there's going to be dirt and bugs and so long as you can get past that part this place it pretty awesome
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i see i see . >> with a little taste of freedom from the city life you can soak up the country life with swimming and volley ball and swimming and horseback riding there you go buddy. >> we do offer and really good amount of programming and give a sample p of san francisco rec and park department has to offer hopefully we've been here 90 years my camp name is falcon i'm a
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recession he leader i've been leading the bill clinton and anarchy and have had sometimes arts and crafts a lot of our guests have been coming for many years and have almost glutin up, up here he activity or children activity or parent activity here at camp mather you are experiencing as a family without having to get into a car and drive somewhere fill your day with with what can to back fun at the majestic life
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the essence of camp mather one thing a that's been interesting i think as it evolves there's no representation here oh, there's no representation so all the adults are engine i you know disconnected so there's more connection the adults and parents are really friendly but i think in our modern culture i you know everyone's is used to be on their phones and people are eager to engagement and talk they don't have their social
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media so here they are at camp mather how are i doing. >> how are you doing it has over one hundred hundred cabins those rustic structures gives camp mather the old atmosphere that enhances the total wilderness experience and old woolen dressers and poaches and rug i do lay out people want to decorate the front of thaifr their cabins and front poefrnz their living room is outside in this awesome environment they're not inviting their guests inside where the berms are people get
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creative with the latin-american and the bull frogs start the trees grow and camp mather is seen in a different light we're approaching dinner time in the construction of the hetch hetchy damn the yosemite park built jackson diane hauling hall to serve the guests it does was it dbe does best service s serve the food. >> i'm the executive chef i served over 15 hundred meals a day for the camp mather folks breakfasts are pancakes and french toast and skranld eggs and hash brown's our meal formulate is we have
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roost lion it's reflecting of the audience we have people love our meals and love the idea they can pick up a meal and do worry about doing the dishes can have a great time at camp mather after camp people indulge themselves everyone racks go in a place that's crisis that i air after the crackinging of a campfire a campfire. >> the evening is kept up with a tenant show a longed tradition
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it features music i tried this trick and - this talent show is famous for traditional things but we have new things ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ the first 7, 8, 9 being on stage and being embarrassed and doing random things >> unlike my anothers twinkling stars are an unforcible memory ♪ ♪
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♪ admission to camp mather is through a lottery it includes meals and camp programs remember all applicant registration on line into a lottery and have a rec and park department family account to register registration typically begins the first week of january and ends the first week in february this hey sierra oasis is a great place to enjoy lifeiest outside of the hustle and bustle and kickback and enjoy and a half >> everything is so huge and beautiful. >> the children grew up her playing around and riding their bites e bicycles it's a great place to let the children see
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what's outside of the city common experience is a this unique camp when you get lost in the high sierra wilderness camp mather is waiting and we look forward to city manager's office you here soon ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪
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