now yerba buena gardens. yerba buena gardens, i'm going to remind everybody what the property means. there is 3 blocks. what i'm talking about this as a single group of properties. they cover 3 blocks, the first one central block one closest to market street. on that block, we own the plaza and then we lease a bunch of parcels to millennium, these are properties operating at yerba buena gardens, the hotel and four seasons and underground passage ways near market street and we also lease to the marriott and the land under the marriott and these are large revenue generating properties that all the money goes into operating the public uses on central block two. most of it goes on central block two. then central block two is the map -- main block where the central block area is except the metro building. we lease the land under the met troin and that's another revenue generating use. then central block 3, is children's focus block. he we don't own any improvements, but we lease the land. we lease all the land in

(calling names). >> good morning i'm speaking on the yerba buena gardeners transfer.he yerba buena alliance is provided in previous meetings the community principles the 5 principles that make up the ways of continuing the operating entity that provides the oversight for all the garden uses. i'm not going to go over those but want to speak to the management model. for over 20 years the gardens have attracted visitors. the oversight provided by agency has enabled those to function as a whole. the agencies compounds have been doing an analysis that suggests 3 types of oversight. the city may wish to consider in providing for the future of y b g. those 3 models are first one that the board of supervisors that's similar to the one that the board of supervisors just approved for the market where the city has ownership of the property and formed a nonprofit board that's made up of merchants and policymakers. second one is an example of a market also where the city opposes the land in seattle and they have a nonprofit that owns the land and operates it. the third would have

buena. they have heard us for everyone's desire to maintain the gardens in the future. i'm optimistic that the final decision will be made by the mayor's and board of supervisors next year will be a good one. what i want to draw your attention to right now, as staff noted you will still be the policy body for the gardens until the transfer is done perhaps in 2015. by then, major redesign of parts of a gardens for the expansion project will have been finished. it will be done. it won't matter what any success or entity thinks about it. there are major changes being proposed by the master project in the children's garden and parts of cb 2. as far as i can tell the date they have acted as if you don't exist. community people, even though it your property and you are the body for the gardens for what should and shouldn't be there and what should or shouldn't change. we really want to draw your attention to this. you should have equal role with the city with regard to the expansion project designed impacts on the gardens. your job is protecting integrity of the gardens, the

we forward to having the principles outlined by the yerba buena alliance for the yerba buena gardens applied also in mission bay so we have transparency and openness very much desired involvement in this community >> i'm the special director at the heritage center. the premise was to restore the pride in the fillmore community to inform and educate the youth and 2ki89s swimming pool how it serves it's community we had african-american artists displaying their work and we had families mustache come in. the various programs were the harlem of the west the district was known as that where mustache played in families clubs after their downtown gigs and people came to see them. the jazz on the barry coast gave the history where it started and jazz was coincide in san francisco. then we/had lectures and froifrt david george was the first african-american photographer to be brought ♪ the art snooty lived with dan sell adams the first african-american student and he chronic called the community we have his exhibits and donny a famous mutual interviewed by denny bucking stone. we had the grea

we've had special meetings in yerba buena gardens every other week and special meetings at the request of the stakeholders. we had - we met with people out at shore view park open october 31st and out at south beach harbor on other 27 and in the heritage district section on november 9th. you've received several letters with concerns about the future with the mission parks and the fillmore heritage center and you'll hear from many of them speaking on those property. again, just the timing we're here before you to seek our recommendation to the oversight board and going to the oversight board on monday november 25th and we'll submit this to the department of finance and that concludes the presentation if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them. thank you very much. two members of the public and other groups have submitted comments those railroad included in our packets and we'll be sure to read and review them and take into account any commentary you have. i see a number of speaker cards i'll be limiting the speaking to 2 minutes to get to everyone. if there's any public com

i have also worked with the former redevelopment agencies on the yerba buena gardens and the children's center. i would like to introduce some of my colleagues that have been involved on blocks 50-51. i would ask them to stand as i call their name and stay standing. cheryl smith is the director of community affairs, she is ably assisted by her project manager terry mitchell and patrick banks is our site development manager for blocks 50 and 51 which is a subject of our discussion today. thank you. robert sub she has been selected as the correct county -- contractor for blocks 51, 50, and 54. the blocks are being awarded to 84 percent. there is still some contracting to be done. 53, 54 has just been bid and has 0 awarded yet. in spite of complying with our good efforts, we have not yet met those goals as outlined. we take the responsibility very seriously and evidences with our commitment on our professional hiring that we had a 78 percent grade bond. we are committed to improving the vertical construction participation goad forward, but we must learn from block 50 and 51 because what we

shipyard parcels and the shipyard community parcels and the mission bay park parcels and the yerba buena gardens and we'll go through timeline because we are in the homestretch of this plan. so just briefly just to review what the alternatives are the 1st that we can retain. if we have an asset that has a governmental purpose of some sort, then in that case we need to transfer it to the city or whatever the relevant public entity is to own it and operate it in the future. or no. 2, we can retain some property, but only if we are to fulfill a first obligation and we have terminated -- interpret that to mean an obligation. the state department of finances has indicated to us in other conversations that they this i that we should transfer other obligations like property management obligation of the city. when i'm talking about retaining something, i'm talking about a development obligation. then the third, if the property doesn't fall into those two then it has to be sold. there is only an exception to that and the law which is that if it's a property that it's a very narrow exception if it was a p

buena alliance. we are for the future of the gardens and would have that submitted in the report. i would like to take a minute to acknowledge many people here in the room, michael from the children's creativity museum and scott from ybca resident, activist rick smith and from the garden festival. they are all on board with the principals and very concerned. i will take this moment as well to acknowledge comments from john oeb leng, i would like to call to your attention our principals and remind you with a we are advocating for. thank you. >> good afternoon. i want to echo on -- johnson comment and about the community schools and keeping us abreast of the process you are going through. i'm speaking as a board member on behalf of the yerba buena alliance as community as guidance for the way forward for yerba buena's future. we really em implore that you use these principals for your consideration of yerba buena's future. a brief subscription of these principles that all these buildings remain so. and that any displacement of these uses should be prohibited. secondly that all sourc