. >> director sartipi is in route, you do have ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the san francisco playground's history dates 1927 when the area where the present playground and center is today was purchased by the city for $27,000. in the 1950s, the center was expanded by then mayor robinson and the old gym was built. thanks to the passage of the 2008 clean and safe neighborhood parks bond, the sunset playground has undergone extensive renovation to its four acres of fields, courts, play grounds, community rooms, and historic gymnasium. >> here we are. 60 years and $14 million later, and we have got this beautiful, brand-new rec center completely accessible to the entire neighborhood. >> the new rec center houses multi-purpose rooms for all kinds of activities, including basketball, line dancing, playing ping-pong, and arts and crafts. >> use it for whatever you want to do, you can do it here. >> on friday, november 16th, the dedication and ribbon cutting took place at the sunset playground and recreation center celebrating its renovation. it was raining, but the rain clearly did not dampen the spirits of t

>>> good morning and welcome to the special meeting for today march 25, 2013 directors sartipi is not available to attend. metcalf present, reiskin, kim present as well. madam chair you do have a quorum? >> thank you, is there any new business? seeing none we move on to the directors report. >> good morning everyone. we have a full agenda today. i'm going to report on one item, preparatory school in palo alto shadowing us and they are from grades 6-12. all of these students graduate and go to college. i want to thank you for attending. that concludes my report. >> thank you. at this time we'll move to item # 6, which is a public comment. >> we don't have anyone who wishes to comment on this item. thank you, patrick from san francisco. i know you are looking for areas to save money, i think you can save money in position decisions which include buildings that is right going to attach to the dooept. a policy decision that could be made easily. thank you very much. >> thank you, mr. part patrick. any other m members for public comment? thank you no comment. item is closed. next comment?

. >> director sartipi is in route, you do have a quorum. >> first israel em, community indication? s >> i am not aware of any. >> executive director's report. >> i will note that the board of directors of business that i am not aware of any either. >> okay. >> good morning, good morning, everyone. this week, we reached a couple of great milestones, the first one is we started the geo thermal piping on monday of this week and we are starting to put in the permanent structures and second we finished the baoel street bridge over the weekend with no complaints and 0 problems and we received a thank you note for 119 freemont thanking us for the great work that we did, and another thing that i wanted to refer to the board as you know last month you gave us authorization to attempt to enter into negotiations to reach a fair and reasonable price. engaged in that with our team, for some time, and however, they would not provide a fair and reasonable price, so on april third, a formal letter to scanko rejecting their bid. what we are going to do now is web corp is going to repackage everythi