. >> chair borden: director heminger? >> director heminger: jeff, i want to congratulate you on your leadership about j.f.k. it's not always the best idea to volunteer to help somebody out who's in the middle of a barroom brawl. you did effectively that with the recreation the part department. the partnership that you established will be the start of of beautiful friendship. there's a lot that our two agencies and departments need to do. just given the prominent profile of golden gate park and the city, there's still plenty of work to do. i was out walking on j.f.k. yesterday. i noticed a couple of things. one of them is, we got a lot of four-hour parking signs we need to take down. you mentioned couple of instances of improvements like the parking lot behind the band shell. it sort of struck me walking around there yesterday that we've got is an auto road that is used by all kinds of other users now. in fact, what we have out there now is sort of a super wide bike and pedestrian path. we don't have the road marked that w

thank you. >> chair borden: director heminger? >> director heminger: thank you. just two questions. both of them touching on subjects director hinze introduced. my own view is that the train control system is the linchpin for improving the subway in general and the system in general. we can have a whole fleet of brand new cars which we will have. if we can't plug them in the system, that portions of those cars makes the system work, we really wasted lot of money. i thought i heard you say today that the r.f.p. might be coming to us in the summer. i thought you might have told us the spring few months ago when i asked the last time. just a question about the health of the respective process and are we slipping and can we recover the slippage? >> we did slip a little bit on the grounds that we have to get it right. it's really complicated and it needs a lot of different people eyes and expertise on it. i had hopes to bring it late spring in may. i think we're going to be closer to the end of the summer. i believe that the time that we're spending now is going to save us delays in the

on that motion, do >> director heminger: aye. >> director hinze: aye. the minutes are approved 7-0. places you on item number 5, communications. next item. item 6, introduction of new or unfinished business by board members. >> i understand this is not new business, but i would like to let the board know i was in berlin on a democracy fellowship and moderate feelings of jealousy as their public transportation system. it was amazing taking their below and above ground tram. it was really eye opening. they've opened up a bunch of new stations in the last few years. i sent an e-mail internally how the wi-fi was. the purpose of the trip was not transit-related, but i was able to experience their transit system and learned a lot about it. i'm going to bring that experience back to the bay. >> did you learn how to restore democracy in the united states? >> i'm working on it. >> any directors with unfinished business >> i do, chair. i just want, first of all, it was nice -- hope you had a good vacation and productive. new business, i wanted to bring up was sort of increases in people aroun