Phones, pagers, any Electronic Devices are prohibited at the meeting. Any person responsible for one going off in the room may be asked to leave the meeting. Any person any cell phone that is set on vibrate does cause microphone interference so the board respectfully requests that they be turned off. Thank you. Item 4, approval of the minutes of the january 15th, 2013 regular meeting and the january 29th 2013 special meeting. Thank you. Is there a motion to approve the minutes . Motion to a preform. Second. Any discussion on it . Erctiontion all in favor say aye . Aye. So ordered. Okay, thank you. Item 5, communications. Mr. Chairman, i know of none. Well, i would just like to members of the board, like to mention the workshop we had on the 29th and it was thai day long event. We were in the Southeast Community center. It just was an excellent presentation. At the end of the meeting i commented and a number of people had already left at that point about how fortunate we were to have th
2013 regular meeting and the january 29th 2013 special meeting. Thank you. Is there a motion to approve the minutes . Motion to a preform. Second. Any discussion on it . Erctiontion all in favor say aye . Aye. So ordered. Okay, thank you. Item 5, communications. Mr. Chairman, i know of none. Well, i would just like to members of the board, like to mention the workshop we had on the 29th and it was thai day long event. We were in the Southeast Community center. It just was an excellent presentation. At the end of the meeting i commented and a number of people had already left at that point about how fortunate we were to have the caliber of staff we have here in this agency. Throughout the agency, the people who presented did an excellent job. A wonderful overview. Wish all the people of San Francisco could have had an opportunity to see that. It just seemed like a very well worthwhile day. So, other members have communications or anything . Yeah, i just wanted to say i thought the works
Among everyone at the retreat that we probably should address it as soon as possible if thats all right with the chair. If the members consent well ask mr. Rifkin if we can get a report back on that at some time in the near future. Sure. I guess what i would say, and i may have mentioned this at the workshop, we have gotten to a point where were now developing good cost estimates at least at a high level of what the needs would be. Were not entering into a new fiscal cycle for another year now. So that maybe we may be somewhat limited in terms of what we can substantively be able to bring to you in the next month or two. We are i am beginning to discuss with the Mayors Office the scoping of the task force that he announced at the state of the city address and hopeful that we can bring the necessary funding to implement the recommendations that came out of the bike strategy into that process. But i dont think well have real tangible results from that probably till later in the year. So,
Throughout the agency, the people who presented did an excellent job. A wonderful overview. Wish all the people of San Francisco could have had an opportunity to see that. It just seemed like a very well worthwhile day. So, other members have communications or anything . Yeah, i just wanted to say i thought the workshop was great. It was a good overview in terms of connecting the dots. And i thought the ta did an excellent job and really showing us the big picture. The other thing i wanted to do was to thank the department for their work with the chinatown flower festival. It was last weekend and it was a fabulous event. There was some moments of nervous us in that we knew we were going to get the [speaker not understood] for the flower festival. Department did a great job in that [speaker not understood]. Thank you very much. Thank you. Director burgess. [speaker not understood]. I just wanted to offer my congratulations to chairman nolan for being reappointed by mayor lee to serve an