now like to turn it over to my colleague, sarah duffy. supervisor farrell: can i ask a quick question on the forty- niners? what is the solution here? >> we spoke with recreation and park department and they threw their hands up a little bit. the only solution is to put pressure on the forty-niners through the commission itself, perhaps. but there is not any way they can compel the 49ers into a naming rights agreement. supervisor farrell: so this was a bad deal entered into a while ago? >> we had some concerns at that time, yes. supervisor farrell: do you know they have not made any efforts? >> the recreation and parks department did not know the official reason why they did not make an effort, but there is speculation that trying to find a naming rights agreement is not one of their priorities at this time. supervisor farrell: again, the question is do you know they have not made any efforts or they'd have not succeeded? >> we do not know if they have made any efforts or not. one other thing -- when we talk about the policies, we did mak

now like to turn it over to my colleague, sarah duffy.upervisor farrell: can i ask a quick question on the forty- niners? what is the solution here? >> we spoke with recreation and park department and they threw their hands up a little bit. the only solution is to put pressure on the forty-niners through the commission itself, perhaps. but there is not any way they can compel the 49ers into a naming rights agreement. supervisor farrell: so this was a bad deal entered into a while ago? >> we had some concerns at that time, yes. supervisor farrell: do you know they have not made any efforts? >> the recreation and parks department did not know the official reason why ey

now like to turn it over to my colleague, sarah duffy.ervisor farrell: can i ask a quick question on the forty- niners? what is the solution here? >> we spoke with recreation and park department and they threw their hands up a little bit.

my name is sarah duffy. and going to go over the findings related to the mta advertising contracts. mta has three advertising agreements. the first is the transit shelter agreement between clear channel and outdoor, the second is for vehicles and parking garages and the third is a memorandum of understanding betweenmta and bart -- between mta and bart. this shows the revenues associated with those three agreements generated during a 10-year time frame through 2010. you can see over the past four years, the revenues have increased by $7.4 million. the increases are largely related to mta's success in negotiating a financial terms for contracts, which in part resulted from good economic climate in place when the contracts were negotiated. the transit advertising generates a majority of revenues for advertising on city property. as a result of the audit, we found mta has demonstrated a lack of success in monitoring some of these advertising terms. for example, advertising for five of the city parking garages under mta management, titan has not sold any advertisements in these parking g