>> we reject the mou. >> rejects the mou. that sounds like something close to a motion. >> second. >> we have a second. is it clear to the city attorney what we are doing? >> the resolution that before you has to clauses. the sec one remain because it accepts the watershed report. -- the second one remains. if we amend that to say it authorizes the general manager to assume management of the rod and gun club blaze, that we are done and we don't have to resolve to reject the mou. unless you want to provide direction about what we do about the underlying status quo, we could draft a resolution because the status quo is the boat house will remain with rec & park under the 1950 resolution. >> maybe after we finish this, we can address that because i prefer we are not rejecting the mou, because i believe we have this relationship with rec & park and we have these recreational activities and the mou needs work. maybe we can do a separate resolution that can come up at the next meeting at talks about specific deliverable we need to

onto the mou. it has already been mentioned that you ought to look at the tracking document and you'll see how insignificant the changes are. there are not responsive to the board of supervisors resolution, not responsive to your commission questions or to stakeholder concerns. take it on. it is your property. just moments ago, you had somebody talking about the community benefits activities of the puc. you can do it if you want to have rec & park do something other than natural areas, go to it. the other issue i support is the lake manager position. they can monitor and mou and monitor the boathouse and work on the gun club site, managing it if it is approved. there are so many activities about there. reject the mou and accept the watershed report. >> mr. allen? >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is dick allen. i aa roller at lake merced and have been for the last 20 years. i would like to focus on a memorandum prepared by staff last month addressed to the rec and park commission. for 62 ye

onto the mou. it has already been mentioned that you ought to look at the tracking document and you'll see how insignificant the changes are. there are not responsive to the board of supervisors resolution, not responsive to your commission questions or to stakeholder concerns. take it on. it is your property. just moments ago, you had somebody talking about the community benefits activities of the puc. you can do it if you want to have rec & park do something other than natural areas, go to it. the other issue i support is the lake manager position. they can monitor and mou and monitor the boathouse and work on the gun club site, managing it if it is approved. there are so many activities about there. reject the mou and accept the watershed report. >> mr. allen? >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is dick allen. i am a roller at lake merced and have been for the last 20 years. i would like to focus on a memorandum prepared by staff last month addressed to the rec and park commission. for 62

the gifts are outlined in mou as well. the friend, acting through parks alive as its fiscal agent, shall provide funding and services harry to implement the conceptual plan, and that budget of the playground is about $832,000. they will also contribute a cash gift toward the cost of services for 1 rec and park project manager, and that value is 37,005 under dollars. i presented this mou and gift exceptions at the operations committee on may 3, and during that meeting there were meetings -- questions about this item. i believe, at this point, rec and parks that has answer those questions. last may, i would beg to say one of the founding members, bill, is not able to be here today, but he will be the signing member of this mou. his daughter is graduating from nursing school in new york. so congratulations to hurt. he has submitted a letter that i would like to read out loud. commissioners, as founder and managing manager of the friends of the playground, i wholeheartedly support the memo of understanding that has been crafte

looking for agreement on the mou. the rec and park operations committee heard the last week britta is going to their commission on may 17 geared we want to increase puc oversight and management of the lake, pursue water level management, and address the john muir site issues. happy to answer questions. rec and park staff are here as well. commissioner moran: thank you. commissioners? we do have public comment. i have three people who submitted cards. mr. murphy is the first. he will be followed by mr. catagan. two of them are the same. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i represent the golden gate audubon society and its 10,000 members. i recommend that you approve the lake merced watershed report and reject the mou. i made a case previously for revising the mou, but i i am convinced it is necessary for the puc to assume full management control of lake merced. a couple examples why. around the end of january, i got a call from the puc staff member who wanted to get my it is about cutting bulrush at the lake and make ac

the current mou expires in fiscal year 2013. >> [inaudible] >> thank you for that. these recommendations were recommendation #three and four in the original report. there are closely related. these findings were presented again in committee in october of last year. what we did, we tested 13 of 63 retiree payouts for the year and found one instance where the retiree was paid out for more sick leave them was permitted by the cap. the department stated that the exception could be explained by a settlement related to a mou provision from 1995 that resulted in certain employees being permitted to exceed the sick leave cap due to pre- existing the accrual. the department could not produce the settlement at the time of the audit and does not been provided -- and we have not received it. a copy of the settlement, or we have not received any type of documentation since the audit. the retiree was paid a wellness incentives, a bonus that was increased by the excess hours. from this analysis, we determined the department did not consistently applied the sick leave cap. for this

supervisor avalos: a few questions on the mou. is that just does that exist currently to govern that relationship? >> no. it does not exist. it has expired. supervisor avalos: there has been something in the past. >> there has been something in the past. it is a matter of the lawyers coming together and talked -- talk. supervisor avalos: are there other pressing issues that need to get resolved to move forward? >> i am not too clear on what the issues may be but the pressing issue would be for a system to get in place on how arrests will be made on campus. i know there is somewhat of a non clear -- a not clear agreement on who has the responsibility for that. supervisor avalos: even though the mou has expired, is it still in effect? >> megacap and can answer that. thank you. >> we did have an mou with the school department or the school organization up until 2009. that was regarding activities of school resource officers on their campuses. andi believe -- i believe the mou expired and those grant funds went away. i know that chief

looking for agreement on the mou. the rec and park operations committee heard the last week britta is going to their commission on may 17 geared we want to increase puc oversight and management of the lake, pursue water level management, and address the john muir site issues. happy to answer questions. rec and park staff are here as well. commissioner moran: thank you. commissioners? we do have public comment. i have three people who submitted cards. mr. murphy is the first. he will be followed by mr. catagan. two of them are the same. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i represent the golden gate audubon society and its 10,000 members. i recommend that you approve the lake merced watershed report and reject the mou. i made a case previously for revising the mou, but i i am convinced it is necessary for the puc to assume full management control of lake merced. a couple examples why. around the end of january, i got a call from the puc staff member who wanted to get my it is about cutting bulrush at

so i think you in advance for working with us on this mou, and we look forward to remain an active partner on this project and insuring we deliver a gift in time to the department that you can to prop them and can be well maintained and that meets the hopes and dreams of the parents and kids and grandparents and everyone who will enjoy this playground. thank you. >> thank you. >> run the land. >> good morning, i am with friends of the waterfront playground. i want to thank all of you for your ongoing support of our efforts to bring a playground to our neighborhood. since the march commission meeting, when all of the unanimous approved the plan drawn cause of design as well as our donor recognition plan, the community has been harder work raising the funds for this project, and in addition, we have been moving forward on -- documentation, construction documentation, so we can get bids for the construction of this project. things are moving fast. the mou is a great document that lays out all of our roles and responsibilities for all parties involved. i urge you to approve it, and thank you a

miller. >> this is similar to the previous item which is once again the mou. we thought the program would be launched by this time so the mou had a term date which we're beyond now so we want to extend it until june 2013. chairperson campos: great. thank you. another one-year extension. any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. motion by commissioner avalos, seconded by commissioner olague. if we can take that without objection? item 8. madam clerk: item no. 8 is public comment. chairperson campos: any member of the public who would like to speak on any item within the jurisdiction of lafco not otherwise on the agenda. seeing none, public comment is done. item 9. madam clerk: item no. 9 is future agenda items. chairperson campos: colleagues, any future agenda items? any member of the public would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. last item. madam clerk: last item isa, jowrnt. chairperson campos: meeting adjourned. thank you, everyone, and have a good weekend. thank you to staff and to the clerk for their good w

the future of the mou is there was a hearing that was held before the mtc planning committee in april. it will go to the full commission two weeks from now with the final being brought for adoption in mid-2013. that would establish the position in the new starts stream. that concludes my portion of the presentation. i will be here for questions that you might have. >> thank you. >> i will walk you through the actions before you today. a high-level overview of what is contained in the documents. again, today, we are initiating a general plan amendment, planning code amendments, with the exception of those that were initiated yesterday. the zoning map amendments, with the exception of the preservation act amendment initiated yesterday. there are two other items that do not require a initiations, but will be before you on the 24. administrative code amendments. today, it is just the general plan. in terms of the general plan amendment, what it contains is the new transit center district said area plan of the downtown plan. it is a distillation of the draft plan document which has been a

i would like to go to the slides for the lake or said mou and various -- lake merced mou and various activities. this is the map. these are all owned by the public utilities commission. back in 1950, the commission delegated all the recreational responsibility to the recreation and park department for those recreational activities. we have been working recently to try to improve the relationship and come up with real benefits to the lake merced tract. you're this in november where we talked about the mou. since that time, we have received a number of comments. we have made some changes to the mou. we have met extensively with rec and park and talk about the amounts of funding for the needs of the land out there, which is an important issue to them and to us. we have met with folks from the gun club to deal with a looming issue at lake merced. i will go over those things today. first, the resolution updates the 1950 resolution. does not totally replace it. it defines relative puc and rec and port facilities -- responsibilities. -- rec and park bank responsibilities. we have recognized

as part of that mou -- the parties include tjpa, the city and county of san francisco, high speed rail authority, and the city of san jose. the benefits and importance is that it reaffirms some existing commitments, the designation of the dtx in resolution 3434. it commits all the parties to the mou to develop and implement a regional strategy is used to fund these priority projects. one of those is -- one of those is to designate the dtx as a new starts project. it will put it in line for participation in the federal new starts program, one of the most significant potential funding sources for transit-related projects. it adopts, for the first time, a regional strategy to fully fund the dtx. the future of the mou is there was a hearing that was held before the mtc planning committee in april. it will go to the full commission two weeks from now with the final being brought for adoption in mid-2013. that would establish the position in the new starts stream. that concludes my portion of the presentation. i will be here for questions that you might have. >> thank you. >> i will walk you

we urge you to support the mou and i urge immediate implementation of the project. i want to commend ports that for the excellent work they've done. thank you for keeping us informed as the project moves forward. commissioner moran: thank you very much. any other comment? do we have a motion? >> i move it. >> second. >> all those in favor? >> aye. commissioner moran: oppose? the motion carries. item 20, new business. do we have any new business? seeing none, this meeting is adjourned. >> there are kids and families ever were. it is really an extraordinary playground. it has got a little something for everyone. it is aesthetically billion. it is completely accessible. you can see how excited people are for this playground. it is very special. >> on opening day in the brand- new helen diller playground at north park, children can be seen swinging, gliding, swinging, exploring, digging, hanging, jumping, and even making drumming sounds. this major renovation was possible with the generous donation of more than $1.5 million from the mercer fund in honor of san francisco

it is part of the mou and is required to

the foundation and though you does not mention the golden gate park at all -- mou does not mention the golden gate park at all. this has not been done before the beach chalet sote. -- site. it is part of the mou and is required to use on used funds to be carried forward to the next fiscal year. we have time to do the right thing with an alternative. another point i wantwith the co- the product is inconsistent with the local coastal plan, because it fails to protect the naturalist the quality of the park, and because it will have negative effects on other resources in coastal zones but said the project boundaries. this point is definitely appealable to the california coastal commission. you need to hear that. please do not approve this permit. thank you for your time, and hang in there. >> please do not certify the eir. i am beth lewis. it is flawed. it is inadequate. the eir claims the only adverse effect is it will impair the historical significance of a very small portion of the park. i really do not think that cutting down 55 trees and paving over 7 acres near a beautiful ocean, ess

supervisor olague, the departments are oewd and mou, correct? -- chairperson chu: >> kelly pretzer. office of workforce development. i am here to give background on the parcels and detailed information on the overall sources and uses for the project, as well as a preview of what tasks we have yet to complete. for a brief overview of what i will be covering, octavia boulevard is a complex project which draws on many departments. the mayor's office of housing, and dpw, and planning. this has been divided into a conceptual part -- conceptual pockets. we will begin by looking at contracts, then what is contained in those contracts. then, we will discuss the sale of parcels. we will then extract those items which will be coming before you in the future. not long ago, the central freeway was a double decker structure. it extended across market street, headed north. the central freeway was badly damaged in the 1989 earthquake. the form of its replacements the dish reduced structure took many years and a ballot measures to decide. we will start by discussing the various voter initiatives, o

we urge you to support the mou and i urge immediate implementation of the project. i want to commend ports that for the excellent work they've done. thank you for keeping us informed as the project moves forward. commissioner moran: thank you very much. any other comment? do we have a motion? >> i move it. >> second. >> all those in favor? >> aye. commissioner moran: oppose? the motion carries. item 20, new business. do we have any new business? seeing none, this meeting is adjourned. >> good afternoon, everyone. welcome to the regular meeting of the government audits and oversight committee. my name is supervisor farrell. i'm also joined by supervisor elsbernd. i would like to thank the members of sfgtv for the broadcast. do we have any announcements? >> please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. items at the upon today will appear on the may 22 agenda. during on the department's progress on implementation of audit recommendations by the comptroller -- controller. supervisor farrell: we have only one item on the agenda today. >> good aftern

we urge you to support the mou and i urge immediate implementation of the project. i want to commend ports that for the excellent work they've done. thank you for keeping us informed as the project moves forward. commissioner moran: thank you very much. any other comment? do we have a motion? >> i move it. >> second. >> all those in favor? >> aye. commissioner moran: oppose? the motion carries. item 20, new business. do we have any new business? seeing none, this meeting is adjourned. >> let's call the meeting to order. >> [roll call] item to -- approval of minutes for the april 4, 2012 meeting. >> so moved. it all in favor. >> item 3, public comment on executive session. no one here. item number four, executive session. so moved. >> conference with legal counsel and real property negotiator. >> i move that we disclose the commission unanimously approved the settlement of the existing litigation matter described in four4a on the terms described ie settlement agreement filed secretary the commission. >> second. >> all in favor? reconvene in open session. >> please be

and the ntc will have the mou that captures the regional agreement. supervisor cohen: also in this meeting, there was opportunity for contractors to learn more information on how to bid, where to bid on projects, particularly related to caltrain. >> that is a feature of our website as well. supervisor cohen: thank you very much. supervisor campos: thank you, commissioner. thank you to staff. we have a question from supervisor mar. supervisor mar: thank you for the presentation. i wanted to ask about the van ness brt in the geary corridor bus rapid transit as well. looks like the transportation authority is suggesting the center running brt and working with the mta to bring that forward on may 15 and to the ta on may 22 as well. my district, richmond, but i think district 5 are a justly awaiting the geary brt as well. i am wondering if you can reiterate the planning and the public outreach and the stakeholder outreach meetings and the public open houses that are coming up very soon with in district 5 and district one? >> absolutely, supervisor mar. tha

august 11th of last year, i signed the mou with commissioner burlison. i can assure you that we have taken every step to work closely in a number of my offices i have cbpi agents working closely jointly with us on cases. there is absolutely no turf battle. oig, cbp and i.c.e., we're all working together because this is not just a dhs problem. this is a problem for the entire nation. we want to make sure that we address each investigation effectively and in a timely manner. >> just a couple of comments. i agree with mr. edwards that the mou i believe has done a good job of really laying out the path forward as mrs. moynihan had indicated, cases are being transferred from the ig over to i.c.e. and cbp is part of that process. so i think we've come a long way since former commissioner about your son's testimony. >> just a couple of questions too that came to mind. if it's possible to give us a generalization. the bulk of the people that have been involved in this corruption, unethical conduct, what's their salary range? i know, you know, i just want to give

august 11th of last year, i signed the mou with commissioner burson. i can assure you that we have taken every step to work closely in a number of my offices i have cbpi agents working closely jointly with us on cases. there is absolutely no turf battle. oig, cbp and i.c.e., we're all working together because this is not just a dhs problem. this is a problem for the entire nation. we want to make sure that we address each investigation effectively and in a timely manner. >> just a couple of comments. i agree with mr. edwards that the mou i believe has done a good job of really laying out the path forward as mr. moynihan had indicated. cases are being transferred from the ig over to i.c.e., and cbp is part of that process. so i think we've come a long way since former commissioner burson's testimony. >> just a couple of questions, too, that came to mind. if it's possible to give us a generalization, the bulk of the people that have been involved in this corruption, unethical conduct, what's their salary range? i know, you know, i just want to give a gen