lee present director ram on director ram on the scene director please be advised that director heinickel be absence during today's meeting. please be advised that the ringing of cell phones and pagers

lee present director ram on director ram on the scene director please be advised that director heinicke will be absence during today's meeting. please be advised that the ringing of cell phones and pagers are prohibited. anyone responsible for one going off may be asked to leave the rom so please turn your cell phones off because if you turn them on to vibrate it may cause microphone interference. thank you. the regular meeting. approved? seconded. >> any further discussion. they are approved. thank you. >> item 10.2 e regarding california street had been removed from the agenda at the request of staff. item 6 introduction of new or un finished business by board members. >> no new business. congratulations to everybody on b and l that was a big day. thank you. >> item 7 directors report. >> good afternoon members of the staff and public. a couple of things to just touch on today i think you just referenced one i was going to reference that as well obviously we had a pretty strong support from the voters on prop a well over 70 percent that will give us 500 $500 million to invest and appr

. >> there's a lot that we went through and since director heinicke is not here i'll remind them that we that we set policy and we have to make really difficult decisions and i think we're at a really difficult decision points we're getting a lot of public feedback on the one hand we have an insatiable appetite we need to move as many people as we can safely and comfortable ly as we can and i think this project is going to go a long way to doing that. can we just address a few of these things? i really want to talk about the the issue the merchants brought up. do you think we'll be able to address the loading zone issues? >> yes. so we've been able to identify any loading zone that we are i guess it's going to be replaced so within the same block on haight street there will be loading zones for whatever we take away. >> for the place making group i think the merchant group is engaged in i know i've seen this do our changes preclude the work? >> yeah so working with alexis as well as some as some of the merchants this work is ongoing i mentioned we still have a lot of work to do on the