This most districts are champions and Community Leaders, mayor rogers. [applause] she is the executive director of youth outside and on the go state Advisory Board, tim bailey. [applause] where did she go . We have camp david executive director of the haas fun is here. First person from the hertz foundation, Peter Whitley and nicky souter best for the Tony Hawk Foundation are mickey and peter here or are you over there . Thank you. I wasnt sure whether you would be here or there. At Skateboard Park is amazing and by the way a little bit of history did this with upper Skateboard Park in San Francisco. The very first. Now it is absolutely positively the very best. Weve got park and rec cat anderson is a good cat, you should be up with us. [applause] representing the parts all lines and Bayview Community leaders leah kim et al. But i want tomy last thank you and this is my way of starting off your witnessed some introductions is to the trust for public land. The trust for public land [app
For chair . I thought we were doing both at the same time. We are just doing the chair. Any members care to address the board . Seeing nonenominating cheryl to do it this she is dedicated and knowledgeable person. The agency and staff and colleagueerize very fortunate to have sheryl step in. She is knowledgeable about mta and transit agencies around the country and world. She is very artechulate advocate for the goals of the agency and spend Many Community meetings during the year so will be a outstanding member of the board. All in favor of Cheryl Brickman say aye . Opposed . Thank you. [applause]. Call for election of the vice chair. We have a nomination . I know this is surprising but like to nominate Malcolm Heinicke. Any other nominations . Members of the public have comments . Seeing none. I like to say we are very fortunate malcolm stepping into the position. So knowledgeable and dedicated and thoughtful and not afraid to take on hard issues. That is the bft benefit of the agenc
Public access. Over 2,000 pages of the documents the eir never addresses the impact of confining the public to trails. There are lots of comments about this during consultation on the draft but no response from planning. Eve inen in the response memoes they never address this ground of our appeal. Small. Rpd smalled the signs in the natural areas in 2015. Do they mean we cant walk off trail . The ramp says off trail access isnt allowed in ma 1 and 2. The signs indicate this applies to all the natural areas and last weekend i had the opportunity to watch lisa wayne leading a Walking Group in mclaren park and fielding questions from a grup of 30 people. When asked of the intent of the sign the least sensitive areas will be off limits. This means the plan asks us to give a quarter of our park land in the city to this program instead of parks wealver a few trails to walk through the areas where we used to play, picnic and explore. These maps show two things, they show trail closures and fe
In 2007 when i retired for my 35 year career in Investment Real Estate i met my friend phil tang saying i want to get more involved in Government Services oh was initially appointed in the fall of 07. From that point on it was a complete roller coaster. As you know we entered the initial downturn and the number of appeals went from 1000 to less than 2000 year at the assessment appeal board one by dan to ran up to 5000 appeals in 21 201011 could swipe witnessed the actions of the board and don durrant and the Assessors Office under phil tang and no carmen chu and chief appraiser matt thomas as well as the board and the additional board three to accommodate the dominantly homeowners in the evening with their appeals and all of us about to make dramatic changes in how we became more efficient, more knowledgeable andcapable particularly at the Assessors Office coming before the board. Im an opportunity to do that as well as interpret the revenue and taxation codes board of equalization, as