commissioner levitan: aye. president buell: aye. >> we are on item 2c. do we have a motion? >> yes. i would move to recollect -- a resolution recommending the planning commission finds eight net new shadow cast by the proposed project at eight washington street will not be adverse. >> second. vice president harrison: aye. commissioner bonilla: aye. commissioner lee: aye. commissioner levitan: aye. president buell: aye. >> with that, the recreation and parks commission will adjourn if we have a motion to adjourn. >> so moved. >> second. >> we are now adjourned. >> mr. president, the commission has asked for a few moments to allow this to break down. president yee: -- president fong: we will take a two-minute recess.

commissioner levitan: aye. president buell: aye. >> we are on item 2c. do we have a motion? >> yes. i would move to recollect -- a resolution recommending the planning commission finds eight net new shadow cast by the proposed project at eight washington street will not be adverse. >> second. vice president harrison: aye. commissioner bonilla: aye. commissioner lee: aye. commissioner levitan: aye. president buell: aye. >> with that, the recreation and parks commission will adjourn if we have a motion to adjourn. >> so moved. >> sese >> ok. we're back in session. i think this is the last third of this session. the planning commission is by itself to finish off the other entitlements for 8 washington. commissioners, we are just -- rec park has adjourned following their action. and now the planning commission will consider all of the rest of the items on this agenda. item 2-d for 8 washington is a request to consider whether the net new will be adverse and to authorize the allocation of a cumulative through river

commissioner lee and levitan are on their way. ok? ever so quickly, reminding everyone to please turn off any electronic sounding devices that may go off during the proceedings. and we would ask that you please take any secondary conversations outside in order for the meeting to proceed as efficiently as possible. commissioner, how many minutes a day on public comment? commissioner buell: let's get a raise of hands of how many people think there will testify. not too many. three minutes is fine. how many will say nice things? [laughter] never mind. >> that is not fair. >> ok, three minutes. each person will have three today. please address your comments to the item that is being heard. if you want to speak on general public comment, that is item four and continued down on item 13. last, please address your comments during public comment to the commission in order to allow equal time, neither the commission nor staff will respond to any questions during public comment. the commission may ask questions of staff after public comment is c

commissioner levitan. commissioner levitan: high want to commend you for your work and for the staff people who came up with the idea potentially for us to save with a garbage collection. i know that was an idea thrown out by the general manager a while ago tried to solicit ideas from our staff. those are the books on the front line, our eyes and ears, and we should be encouraging them to give us ideas. thank you. commissioner buell: commissioner harrison. commissioner harrison: what you gave to us talk about reducing the general fund budget by six full-time employees. in your report, that is not going to happen? >> no, that will not be a part of the budget we submit to the mayor's office. commissioner buell: commissioner molniya -- bonilla. commissioner bonilla: the reductions for 2012-13, 2013- 14, are those hard and fast? could there be some down more upward adjustments in these? i think there is always the possibility, of course, that there could be new revenues generated. the projections of the city i