>> commissioner levitan: yes, i am. i do want to make sure that the city attorney gets back to me or staff about that information just to double check that we are covered on all that legal language. i'm comfortable with the refinement. and just to reiterate that, that is -- i think you -- did you write it down? >> i'd be happy to. the amendment to the lease would be if after nine months of operating at union square or any point there after, the commission determines in its soul discretion that the bike rental presents a significant safety hazard to park wide oar members of the general public, the commission should be permitted to revoke park wide's ability to operate at union square. commissioner levitan: so moved. president buell: is there a second? moved and seconded. any questions, comments? seeing none, all those in favor. >> aye. president buell: opposed? hearing none, it's unanimous. thank you. >> we are now on item number 12, which is recreation and park department budget. president buell: i've had a couple of co

commissioner levitan: and maybe take a harder look at it.ppreciate if there was a standard review of this, but i don't know that this is necessarily something that rises to just a standard. >> the good news is this was reviewed by one of our real estate lawyers in terms of the lease. i'd be happy to look at that and also look at the -- i assume that the provider, the lessee, has waivers that they ask. commissioner levitan: ok. so if you could do that. so i'm satisfied that virginia will do that. if there's anything that is cause for -- that we need to do to discuss further, we can do that. what i'm going to propose is approving this, but with contingent on making sure that everything passes with risk management and your team, ok? but the last part of this is you would propose a six-month review, and i would propose that we do a nine-month review of this so that we get through the high season of tourist season. and that, in fact, margaret, if we could put that on the calendar for a september meeting. i originally was thinking october 20. i do

commissioner levitan. and commissioner martin. congratulations. commissioner harrison: thank you very much. >> any comment? commissioner buell: he is overwhelmed with emotion. >> we are on items seven, the san francisco zoo. >> good afternoon, and congratulations to both gentlemen on your reappointment. i did want to get some good news on attendance, particularly with the three-day martin luther king holiday. we have over 12 dozen visitors. that brings our total month attendance to january. thus far, we would only project 21,000, so off to a good start for 2011. with that, i thought i would briefly give you an update on capital projects. we are contemplating at the zoo. before that, i have to show you our handsome head of -- hippo, and i want to thank the commissioner who assisted with that. lastly, fedex kindly donated the air transport, which diminished the time we had to travel. that was about a $90,000 gift from fedex, thanks to our friends at fedex for that generous gift. also, we have a baby anteater going on. this is on display today. this

commissioner levitan: the reason we pushed this over to the full commission is because we don't know what the full impact will be of having bikes if union square. i don't think there's anything else they can do. i think it would behoove all of us to let it go and see what happens. maybe it's great, maybe it's not. >> very tentative about it. that's why we ask that it be brought to the full commission. >> it had to do really with the union square issue, and from my standpoint, to be able to go down there and look at it. i'm persuaded by the idea that fisherman's wharf is equally congested and that you have equally irresponsible drivers in all these places and they haven't even had bike paths down on jefferson or in fisherman's wharf. the key issue for me is that you can take these bike riders and you can guide them physically half a block and put them on a bike path. and then they're on their own. but one would assume that it's not an unusual situation. you're just really putting them in a safe place, at least as safe as it can be. the congestion is a timing issue. and my thought on t

i noticed that commissioner levitan touched upon it a little bit. i look at the security, and i looked at maintenance. there is going to be hundreds of kids at small facilities that is going to splash a lot of water, use a lot of paper towels, and it is going to be a big mess, and they might police the area when they finish, but it will still have a maintenance costs. that was not included in the fiduciaries. i'm not sure i heard correctly. i was trying to attentively listened. but anyway, thank you. i am still in support of this issue. >> good afternoon, commissioners. good to see you again. i am our recreation and park chapter vice president. three years ago, we were here with this question, and with these decisions that need to be made, and it was not a light decision to have to do this because this program was put in to actually be a good thing, to go and make sure kids have things to do when our department faced some extremely tough choices. and we have choices again. i hear the words "partnership." partnerships are good things. what i want to

commissioner levitan: what efforts if any were made with hanc to relocate? a couple of speakers have raised that. president buell: could we ask you to leave the room if you want to yell in the chambers? thank you. >> commissioner sarah ballard, commissioner of public affairs with the department. since we began having conversations about this process, we have brought in the department of the environment, as well as the mayor's office, to look at the possibility. not only that, but the director of the department of the environment is here as well to answer that question. >> as sarah said, we did do some work working with san francisco real-estate department to see if there was any suitable city land within the convenience own where hank -- hanc could be relocated. there is actually a limited area in which we can look to relocate hanc to meet the requirements of state law. following our inquiry, we were not successful in finding city land within that convenience zone that would keep compliance with state law. we have not pursued private options. president buell

that i ask commissioner levitan, as chair of the commission that heard this, to weigh in on this. >> while in theory, we are certainly in support of this contract, and we think it is wonderful to encourage by writing in the city, and obviously, we need the revenue, there were some concerns about safety related to union square. the consensus among members of the operation committee was that it is a highly dense area, and they are about to start construction on the underground subway there. just concerns about safety. we wanted to -- i know commissioner buell had talked about going to the site to do an inspection himself. we want to get feedback from union square merchants association, and we just wanted to get a little more data, so that is why we are here today. >> thank you. commissioner lee: i walked by the area almost weekly, and i was wondering, with regard to the subway construction, the central subway construction is likely going to start. what impact does this have on the operation of the union square bicycle? you've got it running 7 days a week 9:00 to 5:00. how are you going

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