Most of the previous speakers. Im not saying it was wrong to stop and look at this. Thats okay. And its also okay to see if it particularly talk about getting it into a broader realm then it was. Now by taking this on, you are looking like youre going to be the leaders. I mean, thats theres 11 of you. And none of you have executive office, but thats the way its being presented. I dont think thats going to happen, partly because this is much bigger than the city and county of San Francisco. Always has been. And one of the speakers talked about connectivity. Connectivity to bart, connectivity to caltrain, connectivity to 40 bus lines in the east bay. Connectivity to five muni lines. These are not just putting it downtown, its much bigger than that. So in these leaderships, somebody already said that, it really needs some kind of political push. Theres been a lot of us here who have been pushing this i hate to tell you how long since ive been pushing this idea, a long time. Peskin will remember norm rolf died in 2005 and dreamed of this back in 1973. So this is nothing new. I hate the idea of reconstituting. I think patrick made a very good point. [bell ringing] the idea of reconstituting whats there is okay. But you got to make sure you dont slow the project down in the process. Thank you. Chair peskin thank you. Seeing no other members of the public, well close Public Comment. [gavel] i think there is a misunderstanding that needs to be corrected, relative to delays and funding. So why dont i turn that over to our executive director, who may bring folks up from the expert panel. Ms. Chang. Thank you so much, chair. Thanks again to our panel. Please do elaborate on what i have heard from you today and respect to some of the questions that were raised, i heard a question and a concern about delay and does this twoyear work plan represent even more work on top of existing work and will represent a delay. In fact, i believe its the panels believe that the twoyear work program is an oxoriented work program, that has to be undertaken for efficiency and effectiveness in project development, regardless of who undertakes the work. This is a road map to getting the project reinstated and to reenergize it and take the decisions in a very strategic way as you have laid out. I believe its actually to the contrary of delaying, its actually to expedite project development. Ill light you guys perhaps elaborate on that. To mr. Coughlins point that he just made about localizing versus regionalizing. I heard a strong recommendation to regionalize this project and to strengthen its regional participation and to really focus on funding and project definition decisions that could lead up to a procurement decision, that means a contracting decision to construct the project. Its not to say that were getting the full Funding Grant agreement in two years. That would be a miracle, that would be amazing. Lets try to get that level of funding definition and funding strength to the project within the next two years. Its only going to come from advancing project decisions around development, phasing together with the operators and stakeholders. Thats what i heard. Chair peskin geoff. Chair peskin and madam director, i think youre right. What our objective is to accelerate this project and break it from some of the tasks that we feel are holding itself back. So our hope is our objective here is to see Caltrain Service into the Transit Center as early as possible. So i think when you see the final report, youll see multiple things targeted toward achieving that goal. And im sure there are other members of the panel who would speak to this. Chair peskin john. Thank you, chair. Geoffs right. The idea is this upfront time is can and should be used very fruitfully with some of the Technical Work that needs to be done. The alternative, and ive personally had the opportunity, and prior to that at the federal level, to see projects nationwide. And if you dont get your act together up front, if this if the work that we describe is not done, the context is this project will is going to be looked at against other projects around the country, especially for federal funding. And its not going to compete well. The reality is you have to do this work. You can do sequentially, you can frontload it and what were actually suggesting is the frontload as much as possible. Chair peskin ignacios no, anything you want to add . Mr. John fisher . Thank you, mr. Chairman. First, id like to clarify for the speaker who asked what procurement means. Procurement means the contrast starting a process for contracting for the beginning of construction. So when we talk about procurement, start of procurement in 2021, in fact, summer of 2021, carrying to the plan, what we mean is a process that is actually comparable to the schedule that is currently published for the project. , that schedule called for a start of activities in 2018, leading up to advertising for award of construction in 2021 and beginning of construction in 2022. So the plan that we worked was effectively to deliver that similar schedule, as was already on the table. Chair peskin thank you, sir. Mr. Fisher, anything you want to add . And then lets wrap this up. Just final comment on the speaker who mentioned waiting for california highspeed rail. I think to the contrary there, i think part of the early activities are to sit with the operators and get a sense of the capacity they need to bring services as soon as possible. And that is likely caltrain first. So i think its more trying to address the reality of where that project timeline is. But also where there are potential funding contributions will be. And thats critical activity that needs to happen, as we move forward in the program. Chair peskin thank you, sir. And i would finally like to acknowledge our former executive director of this body, mr. Jose, who was also one of the expert panelists and with that, we will see you all on july 23rd. Thank you for your work. Mr. Clerk, could you please read the next item. Clerk item 12. Given the late hour and the pending timma meeting, i would like to continue this item. Are there any members of the public who want to speak to item number 12 in seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Is there a motion to continue to the next meeting, made by every single commissioner here. Well give it to commissioner safe, seconded by commissioner fewer and take that without objection. Is there any introduction of new items . Seeing none, is there any general Public Comment . Chair peskin, members, alita dupree for the record. With general Public Comment, i enjoyed my meeting with you last time. So i thought id come back. Im looking for a lot ir feel that i feel that this agency can do more. As i think about new ideas of navigating this challenging landscape in San Francisco, and i see things in other cities that are helpful. Id like to have here in San Francisco. First, i speak in the importance and i feel the need to a veterans medical transportation network, a system that will help veterans to get to and from their medical appointments. And some say why veterans . Well, with the recent enactment of the mission act and more places where veterans can go for medical care, and the challenging landscape of hills in San Francisco, which can have many impediments of reaching public transportation, the fact that there are about 4 million veterans that are receiving servicedisabled compensation. I want to see this city become a place that will be welcoming to veterans, especially those with disabilities. We are very fortunate that any veteran with a Service Disability rating of greater than 50 is able to get a reduced fare clipper card. But we can do more. And i do use some shared mobility devices today on my way in, probably will use some later. So they are helpful to me. We just need more of them, because they help to add to the quality of life here. Please remember those of us who served. And who are disabled especially in memory of those who have fallen. Thank you. Thank you. Any other members with general Public Comment . Yes, very briefly. I would like to do supervisor peskin the last tjpa cost review committee, which essentially exposes a potential clawback from the administration in washington. We need to go back to the agreement the agreement signed in 2008. And transbay used to be a basically followed the same alignment as the old terminal. But they made two conditions. Number one, the tracks had to be straight. They could not be curved. Second, they had to have a minimum length of 1,312 feet. Thats the amount in the agreement. Now everybody, when they designed the station, know its 1400 feet. And once you go back and revisit and ask your engineering staff to review the drawings, youre going to start seeing the issues with how you can possibly connect that to a new transbay tube. So i just thought that id put it out there. I want everybody to be aware of this. Look at it carefully and this is why for the last couple of years i have recommended to absolutely integrate the transbay with the d. T. X. And the pennsylvania and everything else. Thank you very much. Pes thank you, sir. Seeing no other members of the public for general Public Comment, Public Comment is closed. And we are adjourned. [gavel] roll call, commissioner [roll call taken] we have quorum. Thank you, mr. Clerk. Please call the next item. Item 2, chair report. Information item. I just have one thing that i want to announce in my chairs report, that im very excited to share and some of you may have heard this, that the Treasure IslandDevelopment Authority and mercy housing assisted by our timma staff have won a 20 million grant from the state Affordable Housing and sustainable communities grant program. The Strategic Growth Council awarded the full amount to Fund Construction on the island and transportation improvements. It includes construction of a bicycle pedestrian path connection between the bay bridge east span, touchdown on Yerba Buena Island and the ferry terminal, and electric busses to a. C. Transit to operate the new east bay transit service. Congratulations and thank you to the team who worked on this. And thank the staff for their work doing the first phase of outreach to businesses on the island, talking about the potential, or the needs of the businesses as well as some of the questions around a potential future toll. With that, i believe we are actually going to skip item number three. Public comment for item 2. Any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, next item. Directors report, information item. Public comment on this item n seeing none, next item. Item 4, approve the january 29, 2019, an action item. Any comments on the minutes . Seeing none lets open to Public Comment. Public comment on the minutes . We have a motion and a second to approve the minutes of january 29, 2019. Motion by commissioner peskin and second by commissioner walton. Mr. Clerk, call the roll, please. [roll call vote taken] final approval. Thank you. I think we are going to call items 5 and 6 together. Approve the proposed fiscal year 201819 Budget Amendment. Item 6, adopt proposed fiscal year 201920 annual work program, action items. Miss cynthia fong, director of finance and administration. Deputy director of finance administration. Timma Committee Heard april 4th the suggested Budget Amendment proposal. We are shifting 1. 3 million from 3. 5 million budget to a new budget amount of 2. 2 million to Carry Forward the work of the timma program. In relation to the proposed budget for fiscal year 1920, proposing a budget of 2. 7 million, which is approximately 500,000 increase, to continue the governance and administration, the program delivery, toll Service Delivery and outreach and communication efforts on the timma program. With that, more than happy to answer any questions on the proposed budget for the fiscal year 1920 and for the amended budget for 1819 amended. Move approval. We have a motion for approval. Any Public Comment on this item . Can we take items 5 and 6 without objection, same house, same call. All right. Mr. Clerk, please call the next item. Item 7, 2019, timma outreach program, information item. I believe we are going to continue this item. Without objection, any Public Comment on this item . All right. Seeing none, next item. Item 8, introduction of new items. 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The second one means youre at time. So with that, this is the june 20th meeting of the recreation and park commission. I ask that you turn off any sound or devices that may go off during the meeting and you take any secondary conversations outside. If you would like to speak on an item today as i said earlier, we request, but do not require that you complete a blue card and commissioner how many minute . How many people want to testify . That helps me make this next decision. Lets do 2 minutes. Okay. Each person will have 2 minutes on each item of Public Comment today. If there is an item of interest to you not on the agenda is under the jurisdiction of the commission, you may speak under item 4 and continued again on item 10. When you address your comments to the commission, please address they want them to the commission. Neither the commission nor staff will respond to any questions during Public Comment. The commission may ask questions of staff after <